Lumine originally wanted to run to a familiar place, but on second thought, it wasn't good to bring the officials to Xiangling's house. There didn't seem to be any other very familiar places in Liyue.
She hadn't expected that after a month in Liyue, she still didn't have a base of operations.
Finally, Tartaglia caught up and brought Lumine to the Northland Bank.
"So the Northland Bank is run by the Fatui?"
At the entrance of the bank, Lumine and Paimon stood in a daze.
At this moment, Childe, who had stabilized his emotions, also walked over. He was ready to properly reintroduce himself.
"Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is..."
"You're Tartaglia."
"...Ah, yes, um... You can also call me..."
"The Eleventh Harbinger, Childe?"
Tartaglia:...If you've said it all, what's left for me to say?
This Traveler is not to be underestimated. Is her intelligence network really that powerful?
The key is that so many Fatui underlings have never reported the Traveler inquiring about the Fatui Harbinger. How did she know?
Skirk: Hi, hi, hi.
But even so, Childe still bit the bullet and continued with what he had to say.
To summarize the general meaning: The Rex Lapis's incident cannot be entirely controlled by the Liyue Qixing. Who knows if they staged it themselves? You must let the Adeptuss of Jueyun Karst know too!
Lumine listened to Paimon, and thought, 'Hey! That makes some sense.'
Then Childe pulled out the core item—the Sigil of Permission.
"This talisman is called the'Sigil of Permission.' It symbolizes the Adeptuss' freedom from taboos in their actions and is a talisman said to have been given by Adeptuss to fated individuals during the Archon War."
Lumine took the talisman, while Paimon exclaimed, "So Adeptuss really exist..."
"Of course they do," Childe said. "Besides being the Rex Lapis and the God of War, the Rex Lapis also holds the title 'Ancestor of a Thousand Adeptuss.' Legends say that many Adeptuss were personally promoted by the Rex Lapis. Now that the Chief of Adeptuss has been assassinated, how could those Adeptuss possibly sit still?"
Lumine and Paimon nodded silently, it seemed to make some sense.
At this moment, Skirk's voice came from their ears: "Heh, just playing little tricks."
Lumine, Paimon:...The two subtly took two steps back.
Finally, after Lumine and Paimon truly set off to find the Adeptuss, Childe sighed, arms crossed.
"She truly lives up to her reputation as a Descender. I didn't expect her to maintain such vigilance, never fully opening up to me until the very last moment!" Childe smiled, "But it's good, only such an opponent is worth fighting!"
He couldn't help but recall Dainsleif; their battle was over in an instant.
One touch, and Childe's limbs were separated.
Very boring, no thrill of constantly getting stronger through clashing blades.
He also thought of the battle with that consultant, over in an instant!
As soon as the two touched, Zhongli immediately cast a shield, separating them.
No joy in battle, very boring!
This time, if he could befriend this Traveler, then surely there would be a chance to invite her to a battle later. If they couldn't become friends... then a battle between them was inevitable nonetheless!
"It's just that..." Childe watched Lumine's retreating figure, his brows gradually furrowing.
Why does this person's movement technique... feel like an old acquaintance returning?
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"Is the Rex Lapis still the Chief of Adeptuss?" In the Prodigy Hall, Yunli asked Orion.
The Xianzhou and Liyue cultures share a common origin; their beliefs lean towards "pragmatism" and "grace greater than heaven," showing very clear traces from the Eastern continent.
It's like, if I worship you today and it rains tomorrow, then offerings are plentiful. If it doesn't rain, you'll see if I tear down your temple or not!
After the Xianzhou people's faith in the Aeon of Abundance, Yaoshi, collapsed, they once sought to worship many other deities, such as the Aeon of Preservation, the Heaven-Mending Arbiter. However, they eventually returned their faith to the Reignbow Arbiter, who was very partial to the Xianzhou, which is the Aeon of The Hunt, Lan.
Subsequently, various myths and legends were attributed to Lan by the common folk, as if all good deeds were done by Them (though followers of other deities do this too, even more so). For example, the local Xianzhou figure "Di Gong" was rumored to be Lan's mortal form before ascension. This has no actual documented proof to this day, at least not before Orion's transmigration.
Facing Liyue, with its similar cultural background, Yunli couldn't help but suspect that many myths and legends were actually performed by others but were forcibly attributed to Morax by the people of Liyue.
Orion nodded. This statement was indeed correct. For example, the popular rumor that Morax is the Kitchen God is false; the Kitchen God is truly another deity.
Shenhe interjected, saying, "The Chief of Adeptuss is real. My master told me that all Adeptuss respect the Rex Lapis very much."
"In a sense, what you said isn't wrong, but the Chief of Adeptuss is indeed a real thing," Orion agreed. "The biological evolution in Teyvat is actually quite bizarre. Unlike latecomers like humans, the batch of elemental creatures born from the planet itself have very high elemental affinity, unlike humans who need an external magic organ like a Vision to use Elemental Power.
In his early years, the Rex Lapis personally nurtured a group of exceptionally talented mountain spirits using adeptal energy, and these later became the Adeptuss."
Don't be fooled by the internet rumors that 'Honkai can do anything, elements are powerless.' In reality, Elemental Power is quite extraordinary.
Or rather, even if Elemental Power might not be as powerful in terms of rank as Honkai Energy—since Honkai Energy is essentially imaginary internal energy, a power at the cosmic fundamental code level—within its specific framework, that is, within the planet, the native creatures nurtured by Elemental Power are one more bizarre than the last.
Orion vaguely remembered someone in the early days of the game saying that 'Young Geovishap, Geovishap, Primo Geovishap, and Azhdaha' looked like an evolution chain from Pokémon or Digimon. This statement is actually correct; elemental creatures indeed possess an evolutionary ability comparable to Digimon, because Teyvat creatures can choose their evolutionary path through 'I think therefore I am,' discarding evolutionary elements they dislike.
Evolution that takes tens of thousands or millions of years to achieve through iterative deaths on Earth can be accomplished within a single individual's lifetime in Teyvat.
For example, there's a Jadeplume Terrorshroom in Sumeru, nicknamed 'Brother Chicken,' which is a Fungus that thought the beautiful feathers of a large bird looked good, and thus 'thought' itself into that form.
Such examples are numerous. The long-legged seahorses in Fontaine also operate on a similar principle; it's said they heard some local poet's legend and 'thought' themselves four legs.
Seen this way, isn't it amazing? Elemental Power.
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