Genshin Impact: Legend of the Emperor

As Ningguang told the story, Shadow's conspiracy finally came to light before everyone.

Ningguang and Ye Lan discovered that the Jade Pavilion had been occupied by the Seed of Shadow, and had become a huge source of pollution. This monster, which grew from the corpse of the Jade Pavilion, fed on the evil thoughts of all the people in Liyue and had grown into a powerful force.

After discovering this, Ningguang and Ye Lan immediately went to Changsheng Hall to seek the help of the Emperor and tried their best to prevent the situation from getting worse.

However, both Ningguang and Ye Lan had already been under the control of the shadow, and their minds had been blinded by the power of the shadow.

Whether it was the previous notification to the immortals to be careful of the power of shadow, or the discovery of the abnormality in the Qun Yu Pavilion now, it was all for the purpose of controlling the two puppets Ningguang and Ye Lan to wipe out the backbone of the Qun Yu Pavilion.

Everything went according to the Taoist's plan.

As Tianquanxing, Ningguang and Ye Lan successfully entered the underground base of Wangsheng Hall. The offspring of Shadow Seed with enhanced concealment ability was hidden in Ningguang's body. Even the two Armor Warriors Feiying Xingqiu and King Kong Chongyun did not notice anything unusual.

Just like ordinary plants spread pollen, the offspring shadow seeds hidden in Ningguang's body secretly spread the third generation shadow seeds that can stimulate people's inner desires and evil thoughts.

Under the influence of the offspring shadow seeds, Ningguang and Ye Lan, who originally came to ask for help, actually forgot about this matter and only remembered that they came to attend the banquet.

Under the influence of the Shadow Seed, the desires in everyone's hearts were aroused. When they sank into the sea of ​​desire and lost all their sanity, that was the moment they became shadow puppets.

The power of shadow is so terrifying!

After Ningguang's detailed explanation, everyone present understood that they were now affected by the power of shadow, just like they were infected by a virus without knowing it.

Although there is no change on the surface, the inner health of the body has actually been destroyed by the virus and has become dilapidated.

Zhongli has been the God of Rock for thousands of years, and has been guarding Liyue despite the wear and tear imposed by the laws of nature. He has excellent resistance to mental attacks, which is why he can quickly discover that something is wrong with his mental state.

In order to fight against wear and tear, the gods of Teyvat have also made a lot of efforts. Although they were not successful in the end, they have accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with mental attacks.

Recalling the mental defense techniques he had discussed with other gods at the Seven Gods Banquet, Zhongli closed his eyes and mobilized the power of light in the Earth Tiger Armor to gather in his eyes.

The people present seemed to see a huge tiger shadow roaring behind Zhongli in a trance. The roaring sound seemed to strike directly into their hearts, causing ripples in the lifeless sea of ​​their souls.

Zhongli, who had his eyes closed, opened them reluctantly. From his perspective, there was a black seedling taking root in the sea of ​​​​heart of everyone. Among these people, Ningguang's situation was the most serious. The black seedling had grown into a small tree half a person's height.

Just now, Zhongli wanted to use the light power of the Earth Tiger Armor to uproot the seeds of darkness in the sea of ​​​​mind of several people, but after several efforts, the seeds of darkness in the sea of ​​​​mind were shaky, as if they would be destroyed in the next second, but they still survived tenaciously.

Although the Earth Tiger Armor still has plenty of light power, increasing the power may harm the spiritual sea of ​​​​the people present, which would not be worth it.

The sea of ​​​​mind is the place where people's spiritual thoughts are concentrated. It is the concrete manifestation of a person's soul. If you make a mistake in this important place, you will become an idiot.

Fortunately, Zhongli's own mind was strong enough, and with the protection of the power of light of the Earth Tiger Armor, the third-generation shadow seeds died inside the seed shell before they could sprout, and became the nourishment for Zhongli's sea of ​​​​mind, compensating for the damage caused by wear and tear. It was a blessing in disguise.

Under normal circumstances, Zhongli might be very happy if he could find a way to reduce the wear and tear. However, when he saw the shadow seeds growing vigorously in the sea of ​​​​hearts of the people in front of him, he just couldn't be happy.

Among these people, Xingqiu and Chongyun were protected by the second generation of light and shadow armor, so the shadow seeds in their souls were still in their infancy, so Zhongli was not surprised. After all, he had already understood the power of shadow, so it was normal for the light power that could compete with the shadow power to have such an effect.

On the contrary, three of them left Zhongli a little confused.

First of all, Ying, one of the twins, is a traveler from another world. Originally, she should be the protagonist of this era in the Teyvat script. But after the great scientist Lu Ming appeared, the fate of Teyvat became unpredictable. Especially after the appearance of Shadow Emperor and Heavenly Emperor, even Teyvat's most experienced and powerful fortune teller no longer believed what he had shown.

For powerful beings like the Heavenly Dao Emperor and the Shadow Emperor who transcended the constraints of their own world and ruled over many worlds, the fate of a world was just a toy in their hands. The seemingly irreversible fate in the past was only because they were not strong enough as fortune tellers.

Even though the Upholder of Heaven's Law, who was high in the sky, away from the world for hundreds of years, was still feared by people and people dared not call his name, he trembled like a poor little quail in front of those two.

The fortune teller's rules that were once regarded as truth were broken. With the encouragement of her master, Mona packed her bags and headed for a new starting point - Mond.

Although the traveler, surrounded by Ningguang and Ye Lan, looked like an old pervert who was in a state of sedition and seemed to have been influenced by the Shadow Seed and had his desires magnified, Zhongli looked left and right, and after repeated careful observations, he still did not find any Shadow Seed hidden in Ying's golden soul sea.

Although it was a little hard to imagine, Zhongli finally came to the conclusion that Ying's appearance of being manipulated by a bad woman was completely true to himself.

Next is Paimeng, who is, uh, an unknown creature of some kind, whose origin is mysterious, and Zhongli can't even see into her mind. It can't be that Paimeng is actually stronger than Zhongli!

Finally, there is Lu Changsheng, who first worships three foreign gods as his teachers, and then learns science from the great scientist Lu Ming. As expected, Zhongli's observation is blocked.

But thinking about how calm Lu Changsheng had been before, he didn't seem to be affected.

After thinking for a while, Zhongli decided to tell the truth about the situation, hoping to gather everyone's wisdom to come up with a solution. If it really didn't work, he could only ask the Emperor of Heaven for help.

After obtaining the Earth Tiger Armor and upgrading it with his own power, Zhongli found that he could contact the Emperor of Heaven who was in a stalemate with the Shadow Emperor in another world.

If the situation had not reached a point where it could not be resolved, Zhongli would not want to ask the Heavenly Emperor for help. Breaking the rules would mean giving the Shadow Emperor an excuse to intervene, which he did not want to see. Moreover, as native creatures of Teyvat, they naturally had to do their best to protect Teyvat.

When they heard Zhongli say that the seeds of shadow had been planted in their sea of ​​​​heart and that even the emperor was helpless, they couldn't help but turn their eyes to Lu Changsheng.

As a famous scientist in Teyvat, Lu Ming is almost like the omnipotent Doraemon in the eyes of the people of Teyvat, especially the people of Mond. As Lu Ming's disciple, in the eyes of the people of Liyue, Lu Changsheng also has some of the demeanor of Doraemon.

"Help us, Mr. Lu Changsheng!!!"

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Lu Changsheng silently but expectantly. Although no one said a word, Lu Changsheng seemed to see a large group of cute little girls with white hair and red eyes looking at him with tears in their eyes.

Lu Changsheng: "..."

As a statement in advance, Lu Changsheng made it clear that he is definitely not a loli complex, he just cannot refuse any request from this loli who grows on his XP.

Carrying everyone's expectations, Lu Changsheng was full of fighting spirit and walked into the underground base of the Wangsheng Hall with full confidence.

Lu Changsheng, who burst out with all his strength, was so powerful that it was terribly powerful. Carrying the will of everyone on his back and using his full power of thinking, he returned carrying a strange machine in less than ten minutes.

This also takes into account the time it took Lu Changsheng to travel back and forth from Wanmin Hall to Wangsheng Hall.

Snap, snap, snap...

Continuous applause rang out, and Lu Changsheng proudly introduced the new machine he developed like a victorious rooster.

Lu Changsheng pointed at the strange square machine in front of him that looked like a modified coffin and introduced it: "This is my new research and development, the Shadow Seed Separator!"

"Everyone knows that the Shadow Seed feeds on negative emotions. The more negative emotions there are in the Sea of ​​​​Mind, the faster the Shadow Seed grows."

"Although the Shadow Seed is difficult to remove, that's because your Sea of ​​​​Mind regards the Shadow Seed that has absorbed your negative emotions as its own. The external force of the outsider will be regarded as an invader and rise up to resist, and the Shadow Seed is also under the protection of the Sea of ​​​​Mind."

Ye Lan nodded thoughtfully. Seeing that some people didn't seem to understand, he took the initiative to explain: "A person's mind is like a huge pasture. The Shadow Seed is like a wolf in sheep's clothing, sneaking in when the sheepdog is not paying attention."

"When hunters try to enter the ranch to kill, the sheepdogs guarding the ranch will treat them as intruders and fight back fiercely."

"Hunters who didn't want to hurt the sheepdogs were kept out of the ranch. The wolves in sheep's clothing ate the sheep inside and grew stronger until they took over the ranch and became the masters."

Zhongli nodded in agreement and said, "Ye Lan is right. Although I can forcibly pull out the shadow seeds from your sea of ​​​​heart, such a rude and reckless action will damage your sea of ​​​​heart."

At this time, God's Mouth Paimon finally remembered his duty as a substitute, and asked at the right time: "What will happen if the sea of ​​​​heart is injured?"

Zhongli: "At the very least, you'll become insane and have temporary amnesia, and at the worst, you'll become an idiot."

Paimon was shocked: "Ah!!! Is it that serious!?"

Lu Changsheng said: "Paimeng, what do you think? The name of the Sea of ​​​​Mind is not chosen casually."

"But don't worry. With my Shadow Seed Separator, you will be able to get rid of the Shadow Seed in the Sea of ​​Mind without getting hurt."

Lu Changsheng continued to explain his masterpiece: "Although external forces will provoke a counterattack from the sea of ​​​​heart, we can break it from the inside."

"In fact, if your will is strong enough, you can control the sea of ​​​​mind and completely destroy the seeds of darkness."

Chongyun shook his head and sighed, "That's too difficult. We in the alchemist family also have secret methods to train our spiritual power, but even the founder who has gone the furthest in training our spiritual power can only use the power of the sea of ​​​​mind. If you want to control the sea of ​​​​mind as freely as controlling your limbs, I'm afraid only immortals can do it."

Ganyu, who had been struggling with her appetite, also stood up when she heard Chongyun mention the immortals. As a half-immortal who had experienced the war between demons and gods, Ganyu's strength was not inferior to other three-eyed and five-manifested immortals. She was the person with the most say among those present except Zhongli.

Gan Yu said: "This level is unheard of even by immortals. Although Master and Uncle Master are honored as immortals, in fact, immortals are not omnipotent."

"The so-called immortals have only used elemental power to break through the limits of lifespan and strength, and their strength is only at the level of the demon god's followers."

"And the eyes of the sea of ​​mind are not mainstream in Teyvat. Perhaps only the God of Wisdom of Xumi can do what Changsheng said and freely control the power of the sea of ​​mind."

Seeing the disappointed expressions on everyone's faces, Lu Changsheng quickly said: "Since I said I am sure I can cure you, I am not bragging."

"Although your willpower is not enough to mobilize the power of the sea of ​​​​mind to destroy the shadow seed, we can [cheat]!"

"Cheating!?" everyone asked in unison.

Lu Changsheng said proudly: "That's right!"

"With the help of my Shadow Seed Separator, I can materialize the Shadow Seeds in your sea of ​​mind. As long as we destroy the object that the Shadow Seeds materialize, we can perfectly solve the problem of Shadow Seeds."

"Is this how it was done?" Everyone exclaimed in unison, but in fact they had the urge to complain. Did they think the difficult part was how to destroy the Shadow Seed? The most difficult part was obviously how to separate the Shadow Seed.

Seeing everyone cheering so much, Lu Changsheng happily opened the coffin-like lid of the Shadow Seed Separator and said, "Just lie down in it, and then let the whole machine spin at high speed, and the centrifugal force will be used to knock out the object that the Shadow Seed has materialized."

"Which of you comes first?"

"Throw it out!!!" In everyone's mind, these three words "Lu Changsheng" were like a bolt of thunder out of the blue.

With the help of high-speed rotating centrifugal force, let’s not talk about whether this symbol is in line with elemental science, but with such a high frequency of selection, will it really not be spit out in that small box that looks like a coffin?

Imagine that the vomit would evenly cover the whole body at high speed, especially since the people present had just attended Ying's welcoming banquet and had full stomachs, so the vomit would be even more colorful.

Alas--

Everyone involuntarily took a step back, not wanting to be the guinea pig.

In the end, Ningguang, who had no idea that she was recognized by Zhongli and considered herself a criminal, took the initiative to step forward and be the first guinea pig of this machine with a fearless attitude of death.