Chapter 1174 Golden City, Black Gaoque

"Thus I have heard, the world is a pure land of lapis lazuli, a kingdom of wisdom..."

Even after a long time, Xumi scholars will still remember this scene.

"You are a man of great wisdom, great compassion, and great courage..." Haidifu said respectfully, "It is a blessing for me and them to meet His Excellency Jiang Yi."

As a scholar, he understood better than anyone else how precious this amulet was to mortals.

Although his main research areas are minerals and biology.

"Sir, are you going to look for Zhiqiong next?" He remembered what Jiang Yi had said before, "Miss Zhiqiong must have had close contact with those dirty black substances before, so she was the only one in the entire exploration team who had a very serious adverse reaction."

"During the exploration, she coughed from time to time, showing signs of physical discomfort, but she always said that it was just a case of acclimatization, which was nothing for an adventurer and that she could handle it. Then, she continued to explore the surrounding area and draw maps."

"Before, I advised her to return to the ground to rest, but she didn't listen. At that time, maybe she could still have received treatment and recovered, but now I don't know."

"I've seen people who have had close contact with black mud start coughing, then coughing up blood, and finally coughing up their own lung tissue. The rate of deterioration will get faster and faster."

"I don't have the medicine to treat him, and the people around me don't take it seriously enough."

"She herself doesn't value her own life."

"It's unreasonable and I won't listen to anything."

Although his words were cold and angry, this Xumi scholar had actually been paying attention to the other person's physical condition and was worried about it.

"I hope she will regret it and seek help before she can no longer be saved, but she seems to be different from those young people who will learn from their mistakes."

"She values ​​the Abyss more than her own life, even though the Abyss wants her life."

"The dirty black substance has seriously affected her mind and body."

At this time, Jinwu heard the conversation between the two and sighed.

"Those things... are the black mud that gushed out like lava. They are very similar to the description of the dark disaster by the locals five hundred years ago in the legend..."

“Although it has been temporarily alleviated due to the previous actions, it is still worrying.”

“I don’t know if the Seven Stars will make more arrangements to prevent disasters.”

"Zhiqiong is always stubborn... Haidifu, Zhiqiong fainted before, and you saved her. Her complexion has obviously improved. So it's not working? Your medicine... I have a feeling that once the large-scale mining of the Layered Abyss is resumed, more people like this will be affected."

"We really should find Zhiqiong, otherwise she will continue to be so willful."

Under the influence of Heini, she was more annoyed and confused about Zhiqiong's refusal to listen to advice. Since she was an adult, she should be responsible for her own choices. Now, after her mood calmed down, the worry resurfaced.

Haidifu said helplessly: "You also said that it might be the power of the great catastrophe."

He guessed that the agreement between the Order and the Seven Stars was likely related to these catastrophic forces. In theory, the Winter Fools and Mond people should have come for similar reasons.

He was the primary person responsible for providing scientific and financial support to keep the exploration process going.

"Our scholars have studied the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain..."

"The abnormal environment under the Layered Abyss is essentially similar to the abnormality in the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain. Their sources do not belong to the world we are familiar with... It is a struggle between two forces."

"For ordinary people like me who don't have the Eye of God and are unable to manipulate elemental energy, this mutation is harmful or even fatal..."

Therefore, they looked for Ying, who was able to control elemental forces and had great strength.

With Ying's help, their exploration team successfully arrived here and conducted research on the source of the mutation and the two forces.

These things are much more terrifying than the remnants of the demon god. The remnants of the demon god can be used to forge steel like Inazuma did, but the things here are not easy to touch... There are many dead zones in their Xumi, which may be related to these things.

"People who get close to the source of the mutation will either slowly lose their knowledge of the normal world, or quickly become weak to the point of..." There is no need to say more about the rest of the story, of course, the final result is death.

"Before, when the crystal fragment returned to the larger fragment below, I saw that the energy waveform was completely wrong. Although the energy readings tended to be stable, the waveform..."

"How should I put it? Two powerful forces are fighting each other, and the creatures in the abyss are like beans on a millstone. On a larger time scale, they are being rapidly ground into soy milk by the two forces from above and below!"

"Later, Miss Ying did something to the crystal stone below, and the activity of the elemental leylines became much more stable... The expansion speed of the pollutants slowed down."

Although it seems a bit off topic, telling the "tall man" about this matter is as important as saving "Zhi Qiong".

Khediv himself is unable to solve this disaster and explore the deeper secrets.

"An apt description..." Jiang Yi sighed in his heart. The opposing forces were like the rotation of yin and yang, the supreme millstone, crushing the existence at the center of the struggle.

Jin Wu glanced at Jiang Yi.

Today, most of the Yakshas who solved the disaster in the past have disappeared, and Lord Yan has also left. Although Liyue has begun to be ruled by people, its power is not stronger than it was five hundred years ago.

The more we understand this "abyss", the more we worry about the safety of mortals.

Lord Jiang Yi, who once saved Pu Shi Guiliyuan, is he capable of resolving the disaster that may break out here?

Did Qixing entrust the other party to come down in order to further investigate the changes in this place based on their progress in exploration?

Previously, the "Strata Chasm Mineral Report" said that Lumen Crystal itself is non-toxic and harmless, but during its formation process it will absorb nearby high-value ores and transform them... The area where it proliferates and spreads will cause the mineral deposits to depreciate sharply, and occasionally affect the output of other ores... This is why they studied the role of Lumen Crystal and transformed it into a lighting lamp and "catalyst".

Lumenstone catalyst and black mud are natural enemies, restraining each other's growth. In this way, the depreciation of mineral deposits may be the price that mankind must pay for partial peace.

In a sense, the value of these crystals far exceeds the valuable minerals that humans consider to be valuable.

……

After dinner, we finished chatting.

Jiang Yi, Ying and Paimeng go to look for Zhiqiong.

When everyone discovered each other, he was already covered in black mud. The blood coughed out from the corner of his mouth had stained the adventurer's clothes red. His reason and consciousness had become blurred.

"Wow! Jiang Yi, hurry up and save her..." Paimeng was shocked.

He Ying stepped forward, activated the Lumen Stone catalyst to purify the surrounding black mud, and pulled Zhi Qiong out.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Sister Jinwu… and… cough cough…” Zhiqiong covered her mouth, her face pale and bloodless.

"Please don't... ahem... ha... don't look at me like that... please don't be disappointed in us..." She was lost in her thoughts and struggled to stand up. "The golden city... the black tower... ahem! The messengers from heaven have left..."

Her eyes cleared, and then she passed out.

Jiang Yi looked at her silently.

“You… are the messengers of the gods in her heart… We… are mortals who have not obtained the Eye of God like her and are not chosen by God…” Zhen spoke in Jiang Yi’s sea of ​​consciousness, “Golden city, is this the abode of God in the eyes of mortals? The black tower… Black represents coldness, indifference, and majesty…”

"To prove myself to the gods, to prove myself to the mortals...?"

A soft and pure light appeared in Jiang Yi's palm. He stroked Zhiqiong's forehead, and the light spread over his body like ripples, washing away all the filth.

The pollution and distortion caused by the black mud on the body and soul were purified by a force, and the affected body and soul began to reconstruct, and the holes formed by the purification began to be filled.

Jiang Yi looked serious and withdrew his hand.

Microscopic manipulation can save a person, but facing such black mud, the black mud that pollutes the world, how can his power purify, reconstruct and restore an entire broken world?

Simply removing the black mud and leaving a hole will only lead to the death of life.

"I heard that... five hundred years ago, some of the creatures in Teyvat and the World Tree faced this..."

"The source of the black mud has been affecting us till now... It really feels like we are standing on a sick ship that could sink if we are not careful even if we are undergoing surgery!"

Jiang Yi looked at Zhiqiong, not intending to comment on her actions for the time being. Instead, he looked through her eyes at the world that also suffered from the same disease.

At the same time, he gained a deeper understanding of the danger and difficulty of the plan to go deep into the space below and carry out operations with Xiao.

The darkness within Du Lin's body, compared to the darkness below and the entire source of darkness, is like the darkness of a room compared to the darkness of the entire night sky.

Jiang Yi took out the amulet with the six-syllable mantra and hung it on the sleeping Zhiqiong, then asked Ying to hold Zhiqiong and rest nearby.

"Don't worry, you will wake up soon." Jiang Yi sat cross-legged on the side, reviewing the three steps of purification, reconstruction and recovery, and optimizing and improving them.

"Although Xumi's original Lord of Grass did not go to Kanreya, he still died while protecting the World Tree in the face of such pollution." Zhen was as solemn as Jiang Yi.

I couldn't help but talk about the God of Xumi.

"What are you going to do on your trip to Xumi?" Zhen suddenly asked.

Jiang Yi didn't answer.

After a while, Zhiqiong next to him opened his eyes in a daze.

Jiang Yicai said: "Take one step, watch one step, do one step, save... one person."

A person is a person and also a living being.

“I want to reverse the rules of this entire world and the entire universe. Whatever it destroys, I want to save... Before discussing Mount Sumeru, we still have a difficult hurdle to overcome.” Jiang Yi looked into the depths of the abyss.

Can I overcome the darkness before my eyes by running at full speed?

"I'm..." The woman covered her forehead and woke up, gradually waking up, "Senior Ying, Paimeng, and... His Highness Jiang Yi, who is known as the 'God of Man'."

She recognized the handsome man in feathered clothes and jade crown sitting next to her at a glance.

At the beginning, she had seen Jiang Yi's deification ceremony on Haizhi Island through the projection of the immortal treasure jade slip at Wangshu Inn.

"It was you who saved me?" She moved and found that her body seemed better than ever. Around her neck, there was an amulet with six-petal lotus. There was a spell on each petal, which gave her a sense of security.

"I'm so excited. It's the luck of my life to meet His Highness!"