Genshin Impact: A Mortal's Ascension to Godhood

Chapter 1 How can I forget my old friends?

A few days later, the Southern Cross Fleet arrived at Liyue Port. Wan Ye Wuxia said goodbye to Li Tao and other members of the Haiyuan Team one by one, left some letters, and then set sail again to continue writing his story on the sea. As for Li Tao, he returned to his daily adventurous life, but his life now has many more interesting embellishments that he has never had before -

One day, I returned to my hometown.

This day is a holiday agreed upon by all merchants in Liyue. Most merchants will give their employees a day off today, and the shopkeepers will go out with their families. Although it is not the spring season with birds singing and flowers blooming, which is suitable for outings, it is not the hottest time of summer. People can enjoy their rare free time and plan some activities such as hiking and playing in the stream.

Li Tao also received an invitation from a friend, and went to a stream near Guiliyuan for a picnic with Xingqiu and Chongyun. A few days ago, they had already gathered at Wanmin Hall, and after that, they agreed to come out together today to make friends through martial arts. The reason for making friends through martial arts is that Li Tao's cultural level cannot be said to be burning books and burying scholars, but at least he is not very knowledgeable - you can't expect an ordinary science boy who has been confused for four years in college to have any literary literacy.

In order to take care of Li Tao, Xingqiu and Chongyun usually did not talk about literature and poetry when they went on an outing with Li Tao. At most, they would chat about popular novels that ordinary people also read. As for martial arts cultivation and elemental force perception, these were things that all three of them could and needed to communicate about.

However, this time, everyone had something new to talk about besides their martial arts insights—

"Hey, Brother Li, do you think this paragraph is talking about you?'..... Suddenly, several fist-sized holes appeared on the rock wall in the cave, and a huge number of arrows shot out from them. The troops in the front were horrified, and screamed and bled from the arrows in the pirate trap. At this moment, a knight from the combat team stepped forward and shouted: [Don't lose your composure!] Then he waved his hand and sprinkled a puff of water mist with water elemental power. The cool water element temporarily healed people's injuries, and the panic of the team was reduced a little. Seeing the knight walk to the front in an orderly manner and calmly command everyone to retreat, people felt more confident.'"

Xingqiu sat on a picnic blanket, holding a book with "Fu Hai Chu Mo Lu" written on the cover. He read the whole passage with great interest, and then looked at Li Tao with curious eyes, which clearly asked: Really? Really? At the same time, Chongyun was also drinking a refreshing drink while glancing at Li Tao, his ears perked up, eavesdropping on Li Tao's answer.

"If you want to ask, just ask directly. There's no need to beat around the bush." ​​Li Tao sighed and said, "At that time, I was indeed responsible for protecting the members of the surveying and mapping team, and I also helped a lot of people... But I really didn't expect that they would record these things and compile them into a book. It's only been less than a week, right? When did the bookstore print books so quickly?"

That's right, the book in Xingqiu's hand, titled "Records of the Demons of the Sea", is the popular short martial arts novel that has been sold in various bookstores in Liyue recently. At the same time, as Xingqiu said, the prototypes of the stories in this book all come from the mission of the Haiyuan Team this time, and Li Tao is of course fortunate to have a role with a considerable plot in the book. Although the character based on him in the book died in the fight with the demons on the island, this made him remembered instead - now, the name of the Wave Rider [Xiang Tao] is more famous than the adventurer Li Tao.

"That's great. I also want to be written into a book. Maybe I can be remembered forever." Xingqiu pinched the spine of the book and said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Li Tao didn't know what to say, so he could only laugh at himself, "I don't know any martial arts moves like [Flexible], [Light Foam Flying], [Go with the Flow], [Birth of the Sea], etc. Although I did gain something from this mission, it's not like what's written in the book."

"Then... let me learn from you first, how about that?" Chongyun, who had been listening, stood up with high fighting spirit, picked up his sword with his backhand, and said, "Come on, Brother Li, let's fight a few rounds first!"

"Then I have to thank you for your sparring!" Li Tao showed a serious smile on his face, and drew out the long sword he carried with him, pointing the sword forward with a high momentum.

Xingqiu sat cross-legged on the picnic blanket, picked up a snack and put it in his mouth, saying vaguely: "Then I will just watch the battle from the sidelines."

The two stood at a distance from each other. After Xingqiu shouted "Start", Li Tao and Chongyun started fighting again.

Needless to say, Li Tao shouted in his heart "Fight your mother", then stepped forward, drew his sword and slashed!

His movements were concise and effective, and he quickly seized the position, forcing Chongyun to be unable to accumulate strength to swing, and could only thrust his sword to cut, trying to force Li Tao back. But after many battles, Li Tao was already familiar with the weaknesses of greatsword users like Chongyun - they were generally afraid of fast-paced attacks. It was not that fast attacks could completely restrain them, but that greatsword users placed more emphasis on the rhythm of their attacks, and fast attacks could easily disrupt their original rhythm.

Therefore, Li Tao used a quick attack this time. The [Water Entanglement] on his side continuously released scattered water blades to attack Chongyun, and the long sword in his hand also attached water elements to stab at high speed. The reason why stabbing was used as the main sword technique was that the basic sword techniques such as swinging, hitting, pulling, intercepting, and wiping had a large range, which made it easy for Chongyun to find a flaw and break it with force.

Under the continuous stabbing, Li Tao's wrist not only did not feel numb, but he danced the sword more vigorously. The powerful water element began to gather on the blade, which frightened Xingqiu, who had been suppressed.

If I don't use my full strength, I will definitely lose! I can't hold back any longer!

Chongyun sensed the danger and unleashed his elemental power with all his might, activating his first constellation - Release Lingyongbing. He also released an ice blade condensed from the ice elemental force while performing the [Four Evil-Exterminating Styles], trying to force Li Tao back.

The two swords - a one-handed sword and a large sword - collided fiercely again. At the same time, the elemental power spells released by the two also collided, annihilated, and produced elemental reactions. For a moment, Li Tao and Chongyun were evenly matched!

You know, Chongyun is a genius in the family of exorcists. It is already very remarkable that Li Tao could force him to open his life seat in just over a month. Before the bandit suppression mission, Li Tao could hardly withstand the heavy blow of the [Four Evil Extermination Styles].

Li Tao didn't want to get into a stalemate with Chongyun at this time. His strength and elemental power reserves were not comparable to Chongyun's, so he had to find a way to break the deadlock. However, now the two of them were equally powerful, how could Li Tao ensure that he would not be crushed by Chongyun's sword, or frozen by Chongyun's stronger ice elemental power?

Chongyun, who was in the confrontation, and Xingqiu, who had been watching carefully, both wanted to know this, and Li Tao quickly gave them the answer.

If you open your constellation, I will open your constellation too! If you explode your elemental power, I will explode it too!

But seeing colorful streams of light suddenly attached to Li Tao's sword blade, Chongyun's powerful sword force suddenly paused - this was not because his sword was blocked, but because his strength, his ice elemental power was broken!

"What? The ice elemental force was actually broken by the water elemental force?!"

Even Xingqiu, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but exclaim when he saw this scene. This was too strange and didn't conform to common sense at all. But Li Tao wanted to tell them that common sense was meant to be broken!

"Great! Exquisite fighting skills, powerful constellation, Brother Li has made such progress in just a few months!" Chongyun was extremely excited, full of heroic spirit, and interrupted the conversation during the battle, "You can try to see if you can take this move of mine! [Spirit Blade·Chonghua Dieshuang]!"

In an instant, it was like snow in June, the cold wind blew up from the ground, and crystal-clear ice flowers appeared around the greatsword in Chongyun's hand. After casually throwing out the last slash of [Four Evil-Exterminating Styles], Chongyun used the huge inertia of the sword blade to twist his waist and flip sideways, soaring into the air, and slashed down with a strange force like the [True Charged Slash] of the Monster Hunter Great Swordsman!

exploded!

When Chongyun released the ice element with all his strength, the space around Li Tao's body was completely frozen. At the same time, a large amount of ice elements kept "crackling". As soon as [Chonghua Dieshuang] was chopped down, all the ice elements would explode completely. With the power of this sword, the enemy would be blasted into pieces.

Facing this blow that seemed to be able to cut the enemy in two, Li Tao simply held the sword upright in front of him, his lower body as steady as a mountain. At his side, the surging water elemental force continued to resist the erosion of the ice elemental force until a vibrant water vortex was formed again.

He was focused and skillfully covered the sword blade with the vortex of flowing water. It seemed as if he had turned into a water tornado that stretched from sky to earth.

With the full power of the constellation, Li Tao has no reservations in this move! He took a step to the side and used his backhanded sword to block [Chonghua Dieshuang]——

"Let's see if my [Hard Vortex Water Blade] can break your [Chonghua Diehuang]! Brother Chongyun!"