Chapter 1162 The Story of the Golden Apple Islands That Year, 1 Era

About four or five hundred years ago, the three Kagemukai actors studied under Kagemukai Tengu on Kagemukai Mountain.

During this period, I met Kitsunayagū, the chief priest of Narujin Taisha Shrine.

Asase Hibiki was a shrine maiden who was also an apprentice at the shrine while studying at the Kage and Tengu.

Until the dark disaster came.

Among the three shadow actors, Korekami Harunosuke crossed the sea to Liyue, Goryo Chojo went to Tadosa, and Asase Hibiki returned to Seiraishi Island.

In the disaster, Kitsusaigumi died, and at the same time, Asase Hibiki's lover, Kirikiri Takamine, nicknamed "Kombu Maru", followed the general to the battle and finally disappeared in the dark army.

Kirigiri Takamine is the owner of the "Kirigiri's Return of Light" that Jiang Yi gave to Kamisato Ayaka.

A world-famous gambler, swordsman, and archer.

At the end of his life, he actually returned to the sacred forest where the two had met in the past because of his obsession to see Asase Hibiki, and spent a long and lonely time there.

But when the dark, filthy and twisted figure opened its eyes and regained its spirit, it attracted the flashing hook arrow.

Asase Hibiki, who did not recognize his lover, shot him to death with the "Flying Thunder String Vibration" bestowed by the general.

At this time, Hibiki Asase was no longer young.

She kept an old cat named "Nenko" at the Asase Shrine and met a pirate named "Ako Hyakumeki", Zaemon.

She watched him grow from a child to an adult, and become a pirate leader entrenched in Qinglai Island, owning dozens of ships and riding around Inazuma under the name of "Qinglai's Immortal Ghost".

I can recall his huge appetite when he was a child, and I can see him helping to prune branches at the shrine.

"If the person who taught me archery had not followed the general into the war, our son would be Saemon's age now, and I might have been named Takamine, or he would have been named Asase..." She often recalled Kirikiri Takamine.

The child who came to chat with her unknowingly carried a lot of her thoughts.

They discussed their ideal of "wanting to see the world" and... her former friends "Koishin and Kombumaru".

The ship set sail, decades after the dark disaster ended.

The pirates and the shogunate were at loggerheads, so the shogunate sent a fleet to destroy them.

The pirates suffered repeated defeats and retreated to Qinglai Island.

Prepare for a life-and-death fight.

Asase Hibiki looked at the way "Ako Hyakomeki" deliberately turned his back and the tone of his voice, which was very similar to that of Kirikiri Takamine who left and never came back.

She looked at the ships fighting in the sea.

"Even if I have to be an enemy of the flag of 'Thunder Triple Tomoe'... this time, I will never let this person die." She put down the bow given by the general and apologized to her former Tengu teacher.

With the real "magic" that he secretly learned from Ying Xiangshan, he untied the great barrier that had been maintained by the Asase Shrine for a thousand years, released the resentment of the Thunder Bird when it died, and let the purple thunderstorm rage across the battlefield.

The shogunate and the pirates suffered countless casualties.

She herself was destroyed in the thunderstorm.

But according to her calculations, "Ako Hyakome Demon" successfully escaped, and the shogunate was forced to withdraw and reorganize.

The current files of Narukami Taisha Shrine do not clearly record the cause and effect. "Ako Hyakome-dono" was also classified as missing, and although the occurrence of the thunderstorm was suspicious, it was determined to be an accident and the case was closed.

Asase Hibiki's name was only mentioned in a few words.

"Meow, what are you looking at?" Qi Liangliang came to Jiang Yi's side, "Qingzi prepared cat food for us. It's amazing that a cat can cook."

"I am looking at an era, a history of five hundred years ago, a history of mankind's joys and sorrows..." In Jiang Yi's eyes, the footprints of time and the long river of history span from Inazuma to Mondstadt.

The remaining fleet of "Ako Hyakomeki" came to the "Mist Sea Islands", also known as the "Golden Apple Islands", with the stolen puppet mechanisms.

Lost in the fog, but with the help of the islanders, they discovered the patterns of the fog, walked out of the archipelago, and set sail again.

They came back here.

What I saw was a ruin. All the familiar people were gone, only my bed was still on this land.

Four or five hundred years.

"Konbumaru, I'm calling you to eat." Qinzi shouted to the cat that ran by mischievously.

The cat turned around and disappeared into the corner of the shrine, perhaps went into the hole above the cherry tree, perhaps went to the torii gate, or perhaps ran to the seaside.

Jiang Yi looked dazed.

This kelp ball is of course not a real kelp ball, it is just a symbol of Asase Hibiki.

He walked over and tasted the cat rice that the chief priest of Asase Shrine prepared for the guests together with Kirara.

From a cat's perspective, this cat meal is really delicious.

What happened back then, what happened back then.

Someone knew it after all.

The inheritance of the Asase Shrine will be cut off because of the sin. Asase Hibiki is the last chief priest, and this place will be abandoned.

Will the "Ako Hyakome Demon", who sets sail again to see the end of the world, often recall the time he spent at the Asase Shrine?

In the sky, the thunder from the other side brings a "clear" sound.

Qi Liangliang scratched his ears, and the white cat next to him seemed to be thinking about complicated things that cats didn't need to know.

What era, what history, what human joys and sorrows...

"Hmm! Didn't you say you were here for a trip? This trip is too heavy, meow?"

"Isn't watching history the purpose of traveling?" Jiang Yi smiled. "Of course, eating, drinking and having fun are also the purpose of traveling!"

Qi Liangliang had a strange feeling that he was a carefree child and the other person was an unfathomable adult.

"What history? I don't understand." Qinzi said, "As cats, we don't need to care about so many strange things."

"Oh! Except for Xiang."

"A Xiang has never come back since he unlocked the seal here a long time ago. Could he be doing business somewhere?"

"Humans are such a hassle."

"We just watch the sun rise, the moon rise, and when we are in a bad mood, we take a nap. When we are in a good mood, we play with the little ones for a while and spend our days doing nothing."

"But should I leave home and look for Ah Xiang?"

"A Xiang said that she once stayed under a big, pink, and very tall tree for a while. The tree was shaped like a fox. Next to it, there was a very big 'shrine'."

"The tree is very high up, and it has a tingling sensation that can turn hair into a ball."

Qi Liangliang subconsciously said: "Isn't this the Narugami Grand Shrine?"

"You know?" Qinzi's eyes lit up.

Jiang Yi touched Qi Liangliang with his tail: "Follow me!"

Qi Liangliang didn't understand why and followed him.

"Asase Hibiki was a person who lived four or five hundred years ago. Ordinary humans cannot live that long." Jiang Yi looked at Qi Liangliang with his deep blue eyes.

Qi Liangliang was stunned for a moment: "That is to say..."

Jiang Yi nodded.

He didn't want to search for the ghost of the paranoid witch in the earth veins.

Qi Liangliang's face was tangled: "That is, I can't tell Neko that Xiang has... Alas! Even if we go to Mingjin Taisha, Neko can only return here disappointed!"

"You guys are back." Qinzi looked at the two cats that came back, "Did you tell me something?"

"Ahahahaha..." Qi Liangliang was not good at lying. He patted Jiang Yi on the shoulder and left the question to him.

"We just discussed how to take you to the big tree." Jiang Yi said, "But there is no Ah Xiang you are looking for there."

"Then I won't go. Asase Shrine must have its chief priest." Neko hesitated for a moment and said, "A Xiang said that she really likes the petals that fall from that very big tree. I don't know what the difference is between those petals and the petals of the pink tree next to it."

"Those petals have a special name, 'Red Cherry Hydrangea'." Petals of the sacred cherry tree appeared in Jiang Yi's cat claws, "That's it."

"These 'Hydrangea' are for you."

"Also...thank you, Daimiyaji-sama, for treating me and Kirara to a cat meal."

He handed the "Hyacinthus Hydrangea" to Neko, walked to the broken money box of the shrine and repaired it.

"I saw a lot of people coming to the island from Yueshi Village, which is in that direction. It's going to be lively here soon."

"Master Daimiyaji can find someone to repair the shrine, and they may come to pay their respects."

He threw some Mora in: "I'll just treat it as the first foreign cat to come here to pay homage."

"Let me do it too!" Qi Liangliang also took out some Mora and threw it in.

"Are there a lot of people over there?" Qinzi was a little happy. "I will keep all these round and shiny things of yours. When the box is full of these things, maybe Ah Xiang will come back!"

"Come on!" Qi Liangliang could only tell a white lie.

Jiang Yi nodded slightly. According to the Mora needed to repair the shrine, it would be a bit difficult to fill the money box.

He and Qi Liangliang said goodbye and left.

Walking along the Tianyun Pass of Qinglai Island and standing on the floating boulders, you will be at the top of the mountain and overlook all the other mountains.

"At the end of his life, Asase Hibiki hoped that Neko wouldn't run into the thunderstorm." At Qiliangliang's request, Jiang Yi told the story he had learned.

This caused Qi Liangliang to sigh.

The earth that the gaze overlooks.

It has pink and purple fruits swaying on the grass leaves.

Tianyun Grass is a magical herb that is resistant to thunderstorms and was born thousands of years ago when General Lei Dian shot the Thunderbird and the shadow of thunder forever shrouded this land.

The clouds and grass fruits in the sky are the fruits they bear.

If you put it close to your ear, you can hear a faint sound of electricity.

The human beings who once represented Yueshi Village were not afraid of thunderstorms and protected the spirit of the seal.

Jiang Yi swallowed a few fruits, adding new insights to his research on alchemy herbs.

The journey ends here!

He thought: "Qi Liangliang, I'm leaving."

"Ah! Where are you going?" Qi Liangliang didn't react for a moment. After a few seconds, she realized that Jiang Yi was saying goodbye to her.

“Of course I’m going to where I should go.” Jiang Yi’s white hair fluttered in the wind, his cat face was determined, and his eyes were looking towards Liyue.

"Did you go back to heaven?" Qi Liangliang smiled. "Remember last time, you told me that you were a cat in heaven?"

"The sky is usually where the gods live!"

"Are you the God of Cats?" she joked.

"Yes! That's right, I am God." Jiang Yi's eyebrows curved, "God is very busy... He has to save everything. God is troubled and afraid of being recognized because God is feared by people."

"On your way back, Qi Liangliang, I wish you a safe and happy return home, and a worry-free life every day."

His foot stepped to the edge of the floating stone.

“No crab dares to clamp your tail…” He laughed, and his whole body fell down, turning into a majestic purple lightning in the air. His body changed unpredictably, like a hazy mist, containing countless threads of cause and effect and fate.

When a cat lands on the ground, its paws always face the ground; a piece of toast with butter on one side always lands on the ground with the buttered side.

The back of the toast is placed on the cat's back.

So, which side will fall to the ground?

Destiny does not have a perpetual motion machine; it only distinguishes the highs and lows of one's destiny.

Find certainty in the midst of uncertainty!

I hope it's the cat that landed.

This is how you protect your buttered toast.