There was one thing Su Xuan did not mention in the diary.
Namely, how Weiling could be passed on.
Aside from authority-type abilities that couldn't be shared, skills that ignore space itself like Teleportation and Flying Raijin couldn't be transferred either.
The sword art "Light That Illuminates All Rivers"could be passed to others.
Even Weiling itself, just like Limit Break, didn't need to go through Good Teacher & Helpful Friend to be given away; he could hand it over directly.
Unfortunately, the girls were not the same as Su Xuan. These powers wouldn't directly raise their overall level; they only scaled with their own strength.
So even if he gave them these abilities, most of them wouldn't be able to fully use them.
"Plenty of time. No need to rush this," Su Xuan muttered.
What really surprised him was that Weiling was even transferrable at all.
Teyvat's own little Hunt Path?
He grumbled that to himself, then his figure blinked and vanished. By the time he reappeared, he was already in the wild mountains of Liyue.
A Geovishap felt danger, lowered its head, and was just about to slam him with a headbutt—
But the moment it saw Su Xuan's face, the Geovishap froze on the spot, then suddenly dropped to the ground and bowed its head like it was kowtowing.
Staring at the lizard smashing its forehead to the dirt, Su Xuan paused for a second.
Then he remembered what Keqing and the others had mentioned when they talked about changes in Liyue: lately, Geovishaps were acting… different.
The Geovishaps seemed to have awakened some kind of intelligence, taking up the role of "off-site Millelith."
They would actively protect legitimate merchants and Liyue citizens traveling at night…
…and ruthlessly beat up any Treasure Hoarders moving around after dark.
These days, it wasn't uncommon for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to wake up in the morning and find a pile of half-dead Treasure Hoarders dumped on their front steps, ready to be thrown in a cell.
"I'm guessing this has something to do with Azhdaha," Su Xuan chuckled.
Geovishaps were originally Azhdaha's brood, after all. Azhdaha had absolute control over all Geovishaps.
As for why this one was kneeling like it was worshipping him? Most likely Azhdaha had carved Su pretty-boy's image straight into their instincts…
…and given some special orders along with it.
The girls who didn't know the context were all amused by the sudden scene.
The pink-haired fox shook her head in mock exasperation. "Tsk. Even the monsters in Liyue know they have to bow and scrape to him now?"
"Why don't the monsters in Inazuma have this kind of enlightened attitude?"
"Ei, I'm guessing this is something to do with the Geo Archon. You're also an Archon, aren't you? Shouldn't you figure out a way to make our Inazuman monsters behave like that lizard?"
Raiden Ei: "?"
She had never heard of any Archon who could directly command monsters.
Strictly speaking, those elemental creature-type monsters were the real native lifeforms of Teyvat. Why would they obey a ruler appointed by Celestia?
"Ugh, forget it, can't rely on you," Yae Miko rubbed her temples in fake misery.
Liyue really was the most cutthroat place in Teyvat.
They didn't just compete with outsiders. When they got serious, they competed with their own people, and when that wasn't enough, they competed with themselves.
For a lazy fox like Yae Miko, this was exhausting.
"If it really doesn't work out, once Dreaming Moon comes back to Inazuma, I'll just gift her to Su Xuan as a little monster girl."
The fox was plotting in her heart—
Then suddenly frowned. "Huh?"
A telekinetic barrier abruptly wrapped around her body, and Miko's heart jolted.
Not just her—Raiden Ei standing beside her was also suddenly surrounded and protected by a layer of psychic force.
"What is he trying to do?"
Miko looked back to the diary screen in a rush.
At that moment, high in the desolate mountains of Liyue—
Su Xuan slowly opened his eyes.
Just now, he had used telepathy to lock onto the location of every diary copy holder.
Really, these diary holders didn't need to hold up their books and flash them at him to prove their identity.
As the original owner, Su Xuan could sense the subtle differences in spiritual waves between diary copy holders and ordinary people.
Even if they were thousands of miles apart, as long as his telepathic range could reach them, he could lock onto any diary holder instantly.
Once he'd finished his prep—
Su Xuan brought his hands together, and a small orb of deep blue light gathered between his palms.
Yae Miko's eyes trembled fiercely at the familiar motion and familiar color.
"Maha Vairochana!" Cloud Retainer couldn't help blurting it out.
Guizhong's pupils shrank.
Earlier diary entries had mentioned this move.
She remembered Su Xuan once used it in Mondstadt to satisfy a request from a mage named Lisa, freezing all of Mondstadt in time.
"What is he going to do?"
"Is he planning to freeze Liyue this time?"
Freezing Mondstadt in Mondstadt, freezing Liyue Harbor in Liyue—this guess wasn't unreasonable.
That was exactly what Guizhong thought.
She couldn't quite understand, and asked, "Why would he want to freeze Liyue?"
Cloud Retainer shook her head. "It might not be as simple as you think. If my guess is right, this time he's not just freezing Liyue."
"I suspect he's going to freeze the entire world."
Guizhong: "!?"
The blue orb shot out from between Su Xuan's hands, its light spreading in all directions.
In the span of a millisecond, a faint blue sheen flashed across Teyvat's sky, and then the entire world sank into a deep, still blue silence.
[This time, I want to use my new power to break open the false sky.]
[The commotion might be a lot bigger than when I used the railgun.]
[So for now, I'm freezing the whole world in place.]
[Also, the power I'm summoning… if it swings its staff down on Teyvat, it could smash the entire planet to pieces.]
The girls: "!?"
Excuse you—
One staff swing to shatter a planet?
"Eh!?" Paimon's eyes popped.
Lumine was stunned.
Su Xuan had said before: once he had enough strength to shatter a planet, he wouldn't need to care about Celestia at all.
But he had also repeated several times that thanks to Limit Break, he wasn't afraid of a Heavenly Principle that would only awaken years later.
And then suddenly, just like that, he could blow up planets now?
On the diary screen—
Golden aura surged in Su Xuan's hand, forming a golden staff.
The moment his fingers tightened around it—
The golden aura flared, brilliant light blazing as a colossal golden giant, a hundred meters tall, loomed into existence behind him.
They couldn't see its face clearly, but the giant wore a feathered golden crown, a coat of linked golden mail, and lotus-silk cloud boots.
It held a golden pillar of light in its hand, an overwhelming presence radiating from its entire body.
The golden giant stood behind Su Xuan, its towering frame lighting up all the skies above Mondstadt and Liyue in shimmering gold.
[Weiling: Qitian]
[How should I explain this ability?]
[In essence, it's more like a summoning-type power.]
[I can summon a Weiling and control it via my will and movements to assist in battle.]
[The Weiling behind me right now is only in its initial form.]
[It can grow even larger, and even manifest three heads and six arms.]
[But since all I want to do is poke a hole in the false sky, this starter form is more than enough.]
After writing those last lines—
Su Xuan raised his arm, and the colossal figure behind him raised its own arm in sync, lifting the golden pillar straight toward the heavens.
The golden beam abruptly stretched skyward, racing upward at unimaginable speed until it reached the firmament. The moment it touched the false sky—
The false sky proved as fragile as paper. Without even the slightest resistance, the golden pillar punched straight through.
The golden staff in Weiling's hands now spanned from the ground all the way through that shell, a literal bridge connecting heaven and earth.
In the Palais Mermonia in Fontaine—
Furina pressed a hand over her lips and stared toward Liyue.
"No wonder Su Xuan said the commotion would be much bigger this time."
"Even here in Fontaine, I can see that golden pillar stretching between heaven and earth…"
On the roof of Tenshukaku in Inazuma—
Yae Miko and Raiden Ei stood side by side, staring in stunned silence at the spectacle across the sea.
"That pillar still hasn't vanished?" Yae Miko couldn't help but sigh.
"I remember when Su Xuan used the electromagnetic railgun, the beam exploded on impact and the light dispersed after the blast."
"But this golden pillar in Weiling's hands—when it touched the false sky, there wasn't any explosion at all."
"It's just… hanging there between heaven and earth."
"It really doesn't feel like pure energy. More like a weapon formed from energy."
No wonder Su Xuan had frozen the whole world in place first.
With a move like this, never mind Liyue and Mondstadt. No matter where you stood in Teyvat, as long as you looked up, you'd absolutely see that impossible spectacle in the sky.
The leaders of the seven nations would've been scrambling themselves half to death trying to calm down the panic.
"Yeah… Su Xuan is absolutely the boss of Teyvat now."
Good thing the Heavenly Principle was still asleep.
If it found out the false sky was getting poked full of holes every few days by Su Xuan, it would probably develop depression.
"Gods—look, Miko!"
Raiden Ei's sudden shout snapped the fox out of her trance.
"Look!"
Following Ei's pointing finger—
Yae Miko turned her gaze back to the diary screen.
Then she finally noticed that the golden pillar that had pierced the false sky now extended into the darkness beyond.
"So this is what the world outside looks like?"
"Or… is this the cosmic void?"
"It's completely black…"
The next second, black strokes of light began to crawl across the golden pillar.
Those black lines spread along the beam where it passed through the shell, rapidly tracing across the entire surface of the false sky.
They were on track to cover the whole shell.
"This is—" Raiden Ei's voice was shaking.
Yae Miko's own voice was trembling with excitement. "Flying… Flying Raijin runes…"
"It's the Flying Raijin Conductive Thunder Barrier."
"Su Xuan is engraving a spacetime teleportation barrier onto the shell of the false sky."
At that moment, every diary copy holder was entirely focused, eyes pinned on the glowing screen.
Flying Raijin Conductive Thunder Barrier—
A spacetime barrier.
This was the method Su Xuan had proposed before as the optimal solution to stop the Abyss from corroding the shell of the false sky.
Use a spacetime teleportation barrier to alter the Abyss's motion path—
Cutting it off entirely from the shell.
"He… he actually just went and did it?" Miko murmured.
Su Xuan had mentioned the method.
But he'd only brought it up as a way to prevent an Abyssal incursion. He'd never said clearly that he would definitely go through with it himself.
And even if he planned to, none of the girls had expected the world-saving to arrive this suddenly.
In an instant, everyone's hearts were lodged firmly in their throats.
Time passed second by second.
No one knew how long it took—
Until at last, the golden pillar that connected heaven and earth vanished.
Su Xuan's figure now stood outside Teyvat.
Gazing at the shell he had punched a hole through—
Su Xuan moved his thoughts, and the Mirror of Heaven and Earth appeared in his hand. A heartbeat later, the mirror expanded several times over.
The damaged section of the shell was fully reflected in its surface.
In the blink of an eye, the hole was repaired completely.
[The Flying Raijin Conductive Thunder Barrier has been fully deployed.]
[I can feel the Abyssal energies that had been clinging to the false sky disappear.]
[Those corrosive Abyssal energies seeped out at the other spacetime exit I set up.]
[Roughly speaking, the trajectory is like this…]
Focusing his mind, Su Xuan waited.
Before long, a meteor larger than the moon came screaming in from deep space toward Teyvat.
The girls: "!?"
The moment it looked like the meteor was about to collide with the world—
Everyone unconsciously held their breath, hearts drawn tight.
But as soon as the meteor touched the shell enclosing Teyvat, it was "swallowed" by it, its entire mass slowly sinking into the shell and vanishing.
The next second, the meteor reappeared thousands of kilometers away from Teyvat, still in the void—
Flying onward in the same straight line, as if nothing had ever happened.
[From the meteor's perspective, its trajectory never actually changed.]
[It was always flying in a straight line in the same direction.]
[It just passed "through" the world—entering at one point on the shell, and exiting from another.]
[The Abyss works the same way.]
[And speaking of the Abyss…]
[The key to the disasters it brings—the most fundamental key—is its hosts.]
[Every disaster in Teyvat that's tied to the Abyss originates from within the world itself.]
[For example: the Golden Wolflord and Rift Hounds, Dvalin's corruption, or Erinus…]
[All of these were created by people in Teyvat, using Abyssal power to spawn Abyssal monsters.]
[Take Natlan, the land most heavily eroded by the Abyss.]
[Most of the Abyssal monsters there are Abyssal power manifested into forms of its own.]
[Those Abyssal manifestations are born from the Abyss reading and corrupting the memories in the ley lines.]
[Low-tier stuff like hilichurls and Whopperflowers don't even need to be mentioned.]
[The final Abyss boss Natlan will face is the dragon king Skuctal, slain long ago by the first Pyro Archon, Xibarak.]
Mavika: "?"
[The Abyss corroded Natlan's ley lines, and after harvesting the information in those memories, learned how powerful Skuctal was.]
[Then it mimicked him, creating the "Lord of Devouring Primordial Flame, Skuctal."]
[The Abyssal incursion in Nordecle, on the other hand, is unlike any other region.]
[There, the Abyss isn't corroding ley lines—it's corroding living bodies. Even corpses will do.]
[By infesting flesh and blood, it creates monsters similar to zombies, or shadowy soldiers.]
[If the Abyss wants to raise disasters, it must have hosts to corrupt.]
[But unfortunately for it, space itself is not a valid host for Abyssal energy.]
[So as long as the Flying Raijin Conductive Thunder Barrier exists, the Abyss outside the world can only enter through the shell and slip out through the far exit, endlessly looping like this.]
[From this moment on, Teyvat only needs to clean up its leftover internal Abyss problems—there will be no more world-ending calamities.]
[Nothing else to do out here.]
[Next on the list: I'll go pick up the ancient dragon empire's schematics for their planetary-ring orbital weapons, and then head home for a bath and bed.]
[After that, I'll be able to hand-craft my own planetary orbital cannon.]
[Feels like the number of ways I can destroy the world just keeps going up.]
The girls: "…"
As expected of their dear big brother—
Once again, he'd added another world-ending option to his personal collection. How… reassuring.
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