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"When Master Xueyue Zhuyang left Jueyunjian a few days ago, he seemed to have said that if Xizai suddenly became agitated, it would mean that my 'fate' had come and I should go down the mountain to Liyue Harbor. Whether I sever this earthly bond or step into the mortal world due to fate is up to me..."

The fairy opened her red lips and expressionlessly put away her spear, which was gradually regaining its composure. She stood up and jumped off the cliff: "I should find a way to ask Master what to do!"

With a wave of her robe sleeves, the morning mist in the mountains gradually dissipated, and the fairy's figure floated on the water. In a moment, she arrived at the center of the lotus pond on the top of Aozang Mountain.

Standing by the water, the fairy lowered her head and began to wash herself. Her beautiful and cold face was reflected in the slightly rippling water.

Her pale blue eyes drooped slightly, her expression was cold and indifferent, her beautiful face was as pale as snow, and there was no trace of emotion.

Her long hair gradually fades from gray to white and falls from the corner of her eyes, half covering her right eye. The gray part of her hair behind her head is tied into a ponytail and fastened with a red rope connected to the ice-blue Eye of God. She wears a glass lily-style hair accessory on the right side and swastika earrings on both ears.

The top is a high-collar cheongsam design that only covers the front and back. The bottom is a black bodysuit with a hollow design at the waist.

The red rope on the shoulder goes around the back, crosses at the lower waist, and connects to the hollow at the waist. There is a piece of decorative clothing shaped like a crane's tail at the coccyx, and the wide feather sleeves connected to the golden shoulder ornaments have ink-colored patterns.

As the morning breeze blows, her clothes flutter and her crystal hair dances, accompanied by the falling leaves around her. She is like a fairy who is isolated from the world, noble and cold, like a flower on a high mountain, which can be admired from afar but not played with.

“Is it fate…” A faint voice rang out beside the pool, and ripples appeared on the water. Unknowingly, the fairy figure in the pool had disappeared without a trace.

Unaware of what was happening in Jueyunjian, at this moment, in the Azure Wish, Yu Qi had already put away the disaster relief. Looking at the figure being led in by Alicia, he greeted them with a look of joy on his face.

"Mr. Albedo, welcome!"

"Hey, big brother, big brother, there's Klee! Klee is here to play with you too!"

Chapter 197: Will it be the same in the next millennium?

"Although alchemy uses the power of elements, it is very different from elemental reactions in terms of composition and formation principles. The latter is the natural evolution of elemental power, while the former has a more profound source..."

"As you know, there is more than one type of elemental alchemy. From the most basic [Structural Alchemy], the [Biological Alchemy] for the purpose of transformation, to the [Creative Alchemy] that I am best at... all of them are inseparable from the four stages of black soil, chalk, red, and gold."

Standing in front of a blackboard, Albedo spoke calmly about his knowledge of alchemy: "The origin of the art of creation is ancient. It comes from the extinct ancient underground country of Kanria. It is also known as the [Black Earth Art] that breeds life."

"Black Earth Technique..." Yu Qi, who was writing furiously, muttered to himself. He couldn't help but look up at Albedo with a hint of realization in his eyes.

"Unlike normal alchemy, which kills matter and then extracts and creates another substance, the art of creation is the art of seeking life through death, just like this..."

As he spoke, Albedo took out a withered branch, and a tender bud slowly poked its head out from the branch, then quickly grew and bloomed, turning into a young sapling.

“The art of creation is the art of nurturing life, so both the appearance and essence of life need to be observed and understood in great detail. When I study the topic of “life”, I usually like to do it in the form of sketching.”

A paintbrush appeared in his hand, and Albedo turned around and began to paint on the blackboard. With just a few strokes, he drew a large area of ​​colorful flowers, and then spread his palms: "The ashes of life between the universe and the earth will grant you new life!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a wonderful light flashed on the flowers that were originally just a painting, and then they grew out of thin air on the blackboard. Albedo picked all the flowers with a wave of his hand, and with dancing fingers, he weaved them into a small wreath and put it on the head of Klee who was playing nearby.

"Hehe, thank you brother Albedo. Klee will go play with the older sisters first..." With cheerful laughter, Klee trotted out of the room that was temporarily used as a classroom.

Obviously, as a child, she was lively and active by nature and had long been unable to hold back her desire to go out and play. She couldn't bear to listen to Albedo explaining alchemy or something.

"Alchemy is the art of touching the mysteries of all things. So, have you learned it?"

"Uh..." Yu Qi opened his mouth and looked at Albedo helplessly: "I think my talent in alchemy may not be as talented as you think, to the point where I can learn the art of creation just by looking at it."

"Speaking of which, shouldn't normal teaching be to first give me some teaching materials on [Creation Alchemy], and then teach me step by step?"

Let's not talk about the fact that Albedo started with a series of theories, and after performing the 'Art of Creation' twice, he asked himself whether he had learned the 'Creation' alchemy. The key is... you have to give me two textbooks first, right? !

If there were teaching materials, Yu Qi wouldn't mind showing Albedo what it meant to be a genius alchemist who "mastered something in one second."

"Textbooks..." Albedo was obviously stunned for a moment, raised his hand and pinched his chin in thought for a moment, then nodded suddenly: "This is indeed my oversight, but the textbooks required for the 'Art of Creation' are not available on the market. The textbooks used by Sucrose were written by me personally."

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly reached out from his clothes and took out a few thick notebooks and handed them to Yu Qi: "I didn't bring those textbooks with me when I came to Liyue this time. These are my notes on alchemy research. Among them are research records on the art of creation. You can take a look at them. I think you can learn something from them."

"Notes..." Reaching out to take the notebook, Yu Qi flipped through it casually. What he saw was a long section of professional names, data, and patterns. Moreover, because it was information that was casually recorded, it was particularly messy. Sometimes it was even incoherent, which gave Yu Qi a headache.

Subconsciously, he raised his hand and began to carve an alchemy array on the alchemy table beside him. Just as he was about to put the notebooks on the alchemy table, he paused.

"Um, will you still need these notes later?" Turning his head to look at Albedo, Yu Qi asked: "I can use a special alchemy to quickly learn and master the knowledge recorded in them, but as a price, these notes will be destroyed by alchemy. If you still need them..."

"No, that's not necessary. These are just some random notes. Please feel free to do as you please." With burning eyes, Albedo quickly walked to Yu Qi's side. His gaze was fixed on the alchemy table. Looking at the extremely gorgeous alchemy formation that Yu Qi had just carved out, his breathing couldn't help but become a little rapid.

It was an alchemy system he had never seen before, and it was so different from all the alchemy on the continent of Teyvat.

If Albedo had not suppressed his desire to explore with reason, he would have lost control of his impulse and would have rushed over to touch them with his own hands.

"Well, that's good." Seeing that Albedo really didn't care about these notes, Yu Qi didn't hesitate and threw them on the alchemy table. As the alchemy array was activated, a faint black smoke dissipated. In just a moment, a spiritual crystal emitting an amber color appeared in front of the two.

Reaching out and pinching the crystal, Yu Qi opened his mouth and swallowed it under Albedo's gaze. As a slightly bloated and painful feeling came from his head, unfamiliar knowledge kept emerging in his mind.

"The art of creation... So that's it..." He raised his hand and rubbed his temple, and the Eye of Truth with golden light quietly opened. A vague outline of a door appeared in his eyes, and countless pieces of knowledge flowed out from the gap in the door and merged into Yu Qi's mind.

Yu Qi murmured something, reached out to pick up the paper and pen beside him, and began to draw quickly.

The tip of the pen rubbed against the white paper, making a rustling sound. In a blink of an eye, a picture of a butterfly appeared in Yu Qi's hand.

Opening his palms like Albedo, Yu Qi whispered: "The ashes of life between the universe and the earth will grant you a new life!"

There was a flash of light, and the image of the butterfly on the paper seemed to shake, and then... nothing happened!

Stunned for a moment, Yu Qi frowned and looked at his palm, then looked at the portrait, with countless information flowing in his mind. After a moment, he nodded suddenly: "No, it should be like this."

"In my name, I grant you a new life!"

He placed his palm on the picture, and as Yu Qi's voice sounded sacred and solemn for some reason, a delicate butterfly slowly flew out from his palm.

"...It seems that you have indeed mastered the [Art of Creation]!" Looking at Yu Qi with a little surprise, Albedo recalled his own experience of studying, and the fact that Sucrose has not yet fully mastered the art of creation, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

'Converting matter into spirit out of thin air, extracting the knowledge recorded on the carrier in the form of 'information', absorbing it through the spiritual crystal as a carrier, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly learning and mastering the corresponding knowledge... Alchemy from another world, it's really magical! '

"Not really, Mr. Albedo, you are too kind!" Shaking his head with a smile, Yu Qi glanced at the butterfly dancing in front of him, waved it and let it fly out the window: "I just took a shortcut, and I only have a superficial grasp of a lot of alchemy knowledge, and I can't apply it in practice at all."

But having said that, Yu Qi can now be said to be an alchemist whose theoretical knowledge of the [Art of Creation] is incomparably close to that of a master like Albedo.

Even so, this theoretical knowledge must be transformed into real alchemical ability through a lot of practice.

Hearing this, Albedo shook his head: "The so-called 'shortcut' is ultimately something you take with your own abilities. There's nothing wrong with taking a shortcut."

"That's right." Nodding, Yu Qi did not argue. After all, he was just being humble just now.

"Okay, now you have roughly mastered the [Art of Creation]. Next, you can study the application of the [Art of Creation] on your own. I will leave first..."

"Wait a minute!" Hearing that Albedo was about to leave, Yu Qi suddenly called him and said, "Teacher Albedo, I have something else I want to trouble you with. I would like you to study something with me."

"Oh, what is it?" With a hint of curiosity in his eyes, Albedo couldn't help but ask, "Your current alchemy level is not much inferior to mine in theory. What is it that makes you feel the need to study with me?"

"Come with me." Yu Qi stood up and walked out of the room, bringing Albedo to his alchemy workshop, and took out the 'Nature's Reality' that he had been unable to study before.

"Teacher Albedo, look..."

"Eh~ this fruit..." Reaching out to take the Fruit of Nature, Albedo looked at it carefully, his brows gradually furrowed: "What a wonderful fruit, it seems to contain the transformation of nature, and... the transformation of life?!"

"Yes, Mr. Albedo, this thing is called 'Nature's Truth'. It is a rare item I accidentally obtained. The specific effect is..."

After explaining the effect of 'Nature's Fact' to Albedo, Yu Qi took it again and demonstrated the cyclic evolution of 'Nature's Fact' to Albedo through the power of grass element.

"That's right. I want to extract the power that can regenerate matter from this natural fruit, and then implant it into another magical object."

"However, due to my limited ability, I cannot accomplish this task by myself. Wendy and I recommended you, Mr. Albedo, to me before, but due to various reasons, I had to give up. Originally, I was planning to ask for your help when I go to Mondstadt for the 'Fine Brew Festival' in a while."

Yu Qi couldn't help but shrugged as he spoke: "Unexpectedly, Albedo, you happened to be on the mission to Liyue this time, so I wanted to ask you to help me study the truth of nature."

With a flick of his wrist, Yu Qi took out a spiritual crystal and handed it to Albedo: "Of course, I'm not the kind of person who takes advantage of others for free. This spiritual crystal contains the basic knowledge of the 'Alchemy of Truth' that I have mastered."

"I originally intended to use it as tuition for Albedo-sensei's teaching me, but now... hehe, I'll take advantage of you a little bit and use it as a reward for asking you to help me, how about that?!"

"Okay!" Nodding without hesitation, Albedo took the spirit crystal and put it away carefully.

In fact, even if Yu Qi did not give the so-called reward, facing a miracle like the 'Fact of Nature', which involves the transformation of life, Albedo would agree to help without hesitation.

"Help me prepare some alchemical equipment..."

"Ok."

In this way, the two of them immersed themselves in the alchemy workshop, obsessed with analyzing the truth of nature, and they were so obsessed that they almost forgot about time.

It was not until Alicia suddenly burst in and asked them to attend the "Ceremony of Inviting the Immortals" that Yu Qi came back to his senses and found that two whole days had passed.

"Hiss~ I was so obsessed with analyzing the truth of nature that I forgot about the time!" Raising his hand and patting his forehead, Yu Qi shook his head helplessly.

In fact, the ceremony of inviting the immortals had already begun at this time. When Alicia and the others left before, they also called him. It was a pity that Yu Qi himself was too obsessed with studying the truth of nature, so he just replied casually and forgot about it.

If it weren't for Alicia and the others who were at Yujing Terrace, who waited and waited but didn't see Yu Qi arrive, and had come back to call him, he would have probably missed the ceremony of summoning the immortal completely.

"Fortunately, it's not a loss!" Yu Qi muttered, and when his eyes fell on the mixed orange, yellow, gray, and green liquid on the alchemy table in front of him, his expression became surprised again.

The pool of liquid in front of him was the final result of his and Albedo's two-day battle: "I have made some adjustments to the ability to transform life. If I try to combine it with the unit chip, perhaps I can achieve what I need."

The principle is not difficult to explain. Without changing the essence of the Rubik's Cube energy in the unit chip, the chip itself can be transformed into a "plant-like" creature by fusing this pool of liquid made of "nature's essence".

Then, by feeding it with various energies, the 'magic cube energy' within the chip can grow naturally like plant tissue.

"Unfortunately, we have not yet figured out what kind of energy the chip must absorb to produce Rubik's Cube Energy. In the simulation, whether it is elemental force, faith force or other energy, they are all inferior in nature and cannot be converted into 'Rubik's Cube Energy'."

"Ah~ I hope I can get enough energy from the card pool later!"

With a sigh, Yu Qi hurriedly washed up at Alicia's urging, took some food to replenish his energy, and then rushed to the Yujingtai Immortal Summoning Ceremony.

In the crowded Yujingtai Square, a sacred and majestic dragon shadow was hovering in the sky. When Yu Qi and others hurried to the scene, before they could say anything, they heard Keqing's sonorous words from the main altar.

"The emperor has protected Liyue for a thousand years, but will it be the same in the next thousand years, ten thousand years, or one hundred thousand years?"

"..."In an instant, the huge square fell silent!

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Chapter 198: Keqing's Choice

"What the hell?!" Yu Qi had just squeezed through the special employee channel to the viewing seat that Keqing had reserved for them. Hearing the stubborn voice faintly echoing in his ears, he was confused and couldn't help but want to complain in his heart.

Good man, Keqing, Miss Keqing, do you mean to rebel against the Geo King or something?

Otherwise, you can count on yourself to take part in the fight, go to Jue Yunjian, chop off the head of the Rock King, seize his throne, and then Miss, can you become the Rock God?

"Hey~" After secretly teasing a few words in his heart, Yu Qi quietly walked to Lei Dianzhen and the others, stretched out his hand to find an arm and poked it casually, and asked softly: "What's wrong? Why would Keqing say such a thing? As far as I remember, hasn't she always admired Emperor Yanwang?"

Although he didn't spend much time with Keqing, whenever she mentioned the Rock King, Yu Qi could still clearly feel the irrepressible admiration in her heart.

Therefore, he found it a little difficult to understand what had happened that would make Keqing suddenly say this - in the eyes of normal Liyue people, these words were even extremely treasonous.

"Ah?" Xiang Ling, who was awakened from her shock by Yu Qi's action and invited by Alicia to watch the ceremony with Azurewish and others, came back to her senses. Seeing him, she couldn't help but feel a little surprised and whispered: "Brother Yu, you are here! This is actually the case..."

As the discussions of the people around them gradually became noisy, Xiangling quietly explained the cause and effect of the matter to Yu Qi.

"So that's how it is..." Nodding with a little realization, Yu Qi looked towards the altar with a strange expression. There was Keqing standing proudly, ignoring the whispers and accusations of the people around her, and staring intently at the majestic Rock King in the sky.

"That sounds like something Keqing would say."

The specific matters were not complicated. Just before that, the entire ceremony of inviting the immortals was carried out according to the previously prepared process.

Burning incense, firing cannons, giving speeches, offering gifts, and then came the opera starring Mr. Yun, written by Qixingbamen in collaboration with Wendy and Xueyue Zhuyang Zhenjun, to praise "the Kitchen God for injecting his own power into the earth, calming the surging earth veins, and guarding the peace of all households."

Under the witness of the Rock King, the sacrifice went on perfectly until...

After watching the opera, Emperor Geo, as usual, gave divine oracles to the people of Liyue, guiding Liyue’s trade policy for the coming year.

After this, according to the original process, the Rock King should have left after giving the oracle, but... this time it was different.

The old man lowered his head to look at Keqing, the main priest, and seemed to have discovered the emotions hidden in her heart. The Rock King took the initiative to ask Keqing what she wanted to say to him.

Then, Keqing took the initiative to ask such a question: "If there is another time when Liyue encounters a crisis like today, what should we mortals do?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone frowned. However, Keqing was unwilling to give up and continued, "Do we have to continue to rely on the help of the immortals and the power of the gods to survive the crisis under the protection of the Emperor like today?"

“So what? Hasn’t the Emperor protected us and Liyue over the past few thousand years? If we continue like this, there won’t be any problems, right?”

Then, Keqing said the words that Yu Qi had just heard, which were considered disrespectful to the people of Liyue: "The Emperor has protected Liyue for a thousand years, but will it be the same for the next thousand years, ten thousand years, or a hundred thousand years?"

As discussions continued to rise from all corners of the crowd, the people of Liyue, who were originally shocked by Keqing's words, came to their senses. The noise continued one after another, and if you listened carefully, you could see that they were all questioning and accusing the youngest Seven Star member on the altar; some even went so far as to start cursing at her directly.

The eyes of countless people all fell on the purple-haired girl, including the Seven Stars beside her, foreign tourists, immortals watching from afar, and even... the Rock King Emperor in the sky.

The anger of the people, the resentment of the believers, the doubts of outsiders, the doubts of colleagues... all the gazes mixed with the accusations around them pierced Keqing's body like knives, making the girl's face pale.

But even so, her body still stood tenaciously on the altar, staring straight at the sacred and majestic Rock King Emperor above with an unyielding gaze.

The dragon eyes with a gilded glow drooped slightly, and Morax looked at the stubborn figure below him. There was no anger in his eyes, but instead they were full of joy, satisfaction and kindness.