Genshin Impact: A Mortal's Ascension to Godhood

At the same time, in Guiliyuan, in the ruins.

"It's really a mess and it goes on and on. Oh, Chongyun, I don't know how to describe our exploration of the ruins."

Xingqiu lay on the ground in the ruins cave without caring about his image, covered in dust and looking exhausted.

Chongyun didn’t look much better—his white clothes were still dirty, and his sky-blue hair had become dull and messy.

He shook his head and said to Xingqiu: "No one knew that we would encounter such things here..."

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Time goes back to one month ago.

In order to help Li Tao, the two of them decided to find a secret place to explore and see what treasures were inside.

The two found some clues in the books of the Adventurer's Association, and thus deduced the specific location of the Guiliyuan Secret Realm [The Place Where Xu Sanren Left].

After finding the secret realm, the two set out to search for it with great interest. Soon, the next day, they found the entrance to the secret realm. After another round of decryption, the two entered the secret realm.

However, they had never expected that the Fatui from Solstice had been following them in ambush. After they entered the secret realm, the Fatui also broke in openly and announced to them arrogantly: It was you who killed our Fire Debtor? Don't underestimate our Fatui's intelligence network!

Not wanting to complain about these intelligence dogs at all, Xingqiu and Chongyun wanted to rush out immediately.

But what they didn't expect was that the fighting power of this army was unexpectedly strong. Not only did some of them possess the Eye of God, but others also had similar alchemical equipment that could use elemental power to fight.

What was even more strange was that some people, although they were not holders of the Eye of God, still had black beads similar to the Eye of God hanging on their bodies. And they could also absorb elemental power to fight.

Generally speaking, the minions are so difficult to deal with, and their leader, the Fatui, the Firefly Warlock, is even more adept at using elemental forces. Neither Xingqiu nor Chongyun can withstand her attacks head-on.

Because both the superconducting reaction and the electrostatic reaction made them feel uncomfortable.

A group of people started a fierce battle at the entrance of the secret realm. Originally, Xingqiu and Chongyun were completely at a disadvantage. If they continued to fight, they would be captured and then suffer a miserable death.

As a result, something no one expected happened at this time - a large number of elemental reactions caused the secret realm itself to begin to collapse.

Normally, this kind of situation would not happen in the secret realm, because the secret realm itself is the product of [abnormal ground veins]. But this time, for some unknown reason, the elemental power in the entire secret realm became as violent as boiling water.

This manifestation in the secret realm turned into a huge vibration from the inside out.

However, the secret realm did not collapse after all, and its most solid core was still intact. It was only "injured" now. But this earthquake gave Xingqiu and Chongyun a chance to escape - the two took advantage of the chaos to flee, but the Fatui were unable to chase them due to their large numbers.

After all, running around during an earthquake is dangerous in itself, and there were also falling rocks and ground cracks inside the secret realm, and some of the Fatui happened to be injured by them. So the Thunder Firefly Warlock chose to play it safe and wait until the shaking was over before slowly sending the lieutenant of the advance team to chase after them.

But... after this shock, the secret realm activated a stricter self-defense procedure.

Many secret realm guards crawled out from nowhere and attacked all visitors to the secret realm.

These secret realm guards, similar to the Ruins Guardians, come in many varieties - powerful ones, like the Little Treasure (the giant Ruins Guardian), are several meters tall, agile, and can do a "death spin"; weaker ones, like the Ruins Patroller, are small and cute, and can fire three elemental shells at a time.

Of course, compared to humans who can use elemental power, the ruins mechanism is too bulky. Even if it is powerful and has extraordinary combat power, it is not impossible to defeat it.

However, these secret agencies are fearless and will attack the invaders even at the risk of self-destruction, as if they are determined to fight to the death.

This caused great headaches for both the Fatui and Xingqiu and Chongyun - the emergence of these secret realm self-regulatory agencies slowed down the actions of both parties. The Fatui could not search the secret realm quickly, and Xingqiu and Chongyun could not circle around in the secret realm with the Fatui. Both parties could only crawl slowly in the secret realm like two extremely slow and relatively still snails.

This kind of days lasted for four whole weeks.

Over the past twenty days, no matter how frugal Xingqiu and Chongyun had been, they had already eaten all the dry food they brought with them. Fortunately, there were still some wild vegetables growing in the secret realm, and there was also an underground river flowing through it, so they could cook some wild vegetables to eat and still survive.

They also thought about sneaking out of the secret realm gate - but they found that the Fatui had stopped searching for them since the third week, and instead all crowded in front of the secret realm gate.

It turned out that the food that the Fatui had brought with them had already been eaten up. They wanted to leave this damn secret realm even more than Xingqiu Chongyun did. However, because of the previous battle, the secret realm closed the entrance to the interior on its own!

In other words, the secret realm has now become a closed space that can only be opened from the outside but not from the inside.

Now everyone inside was dumbfounded.

Moreover, the secret realm itself is constantly generating secret realm guards, vowing to kill intruders, which will only make the Fatui and Xingqiu Chongyun weaker.

Originally, the best solution at this time would be to temporarily stop fighting and think together about how to escape from the secret realm, but the Fatui refused.

They chose the worst possible strategy.

At the end of the fourth week, they killed the weakest of their companions, skinned and boned him, cut him into thin strips, and roasted and ate him.

When Chongyun was trying to find out about the other party's situation, he smelled an unusual aroma of barbecue. When he was wondering about the source of their meat, he saw the corpse that had not been cleaned clean.

After he rushed back to Xingqiu, he vomited out all the wild vegetables he had eaten in the past few days.

"He's not even a human being! He's a beast!" Chongyun spat and cursed.

Xingqiu felt disgusted and complicated when he heard this. Although the laws of Liyue also stipulate that people can take this plan to escape danger in extreme circumstances, it is not that there are no plants growing and no water flowing in this secret realm. How could they kill people and take their flesh like this?

But this also made Xingqiu ask himself: If I were really so hungry that I couldn't stand it, would I choose to do this?

Xingqiu did not answer the question he had asked himself. Because he also knew that human nature could not withstand torture. The best way to solve this problem is to never test your bottom line.

.......

It is now the fifth week.

Xingqiu and Chongyun, who always ate wild vegetables, were already extremely weak even with the protection of elemental power. Their bodies were eager for meat and protein, but their minds were still clear.

In the past few days, the "well-fed and well-drinking" Fatui no longer huddled at the entrance of the secret realm, but took the initiative to look for them - Chongyun even suspected that if they caught them, they might want to skin them and eat them right away.

Xingqiu didn't have the energy or the energy to imagine what would happen if he was caught. He just gritted his teeth and kept moving with Chongyun, while also guarding against the self-discipline agency that might pop up at any time...

At this moment, the door to the secret realm suddenly opened——