Genshin Impact, it's you who rejected me, why are you all in such a hurry if I just give up?

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After a long while, she seemed to have made up her mind and held the bottle of poison in her arms as if it were a precious treasure.

"Mother, Linghua misses you so much, Linghua misses you so much."

Ayaka Kamisato murmured to herself, then suddenly burst into tears.

Then, Ayaka Kamisato revealed a stunning smile: "Wait for me, Mother."

"Ayaka will be able to be with you soon."

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After leaving the Kamisato family.

Lin Jiu'an walked straight toward the castle tower.

along the way.

Whether it was the night watchman, the patrolling soldiers of the Heavenly Territory, or even the soldiers guarding the Heavenly Tower, they all seemed to ignore him, allowing him to walk into the Heavenly Tower without any hindrance.

Pushed open the door.

Lin Jiu'an then saw the purple figure standing quietly at the deepest part of the Sky Keep.

General Thunder and Lightning.

The other person looked up the moment he opened the door.

Amber eyes and purple eyes met.

Unlike Lin Jiu'an's smiling eyes, General Lei Dian's expression was very calm.

I don't know if they were unsurprised by his arrival.

It's still for her.

The 'variables' brought about by humans, such a weak existence as ants, are not enough to affect her.

The variables that affect "eternity" should be eliminated.

Seeing Lin Jiu'an walk into the castle tower and approach her step by step, General Raiden raised his naginata.

Just as the gate to the castle tower was about to close, all that could be seen through the crack was the lightning flashing on the blade, about to strike Lin Jiu'an.

Chapter Seventeen: Balzeb/Fire/Sword (6k)

The world cracked open like a painting, and the darkness receded like the tide.

Upon regaining his composure, Lin Jiu'an found himself in a circular place that resembled both a gladiator arena and the entrance to a shrine.

The edge is an endless void, a blood moon, like a lonely island in the void.

"A Pure Land of One Heart".

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Looking at Balzeb, who was sitting cross-legged in the void with his eyes closed in meditation, Lin Jiu'an greeted him with a smile, as if he were seeing an old friend.

"meet again."

Balzebu slowly landed, her beautiful legs encased in purple stockings standing still. She opened her beautiful eyes, which seemed to hold a thousand thunderbolts, and looked at Lin Jiu'an indifferently.

"Let me think, what is it that has brought you back to me once again?"

"Is this revenge against me for what they did?"

"Or perhaps you want to continue your 'reforms'?"

"It's not that complicated. I just wanted to do it, so I did it."

"Humans are like that; they are always changing."

Lin Jiu'an didn't seem to be confronting the enemy on the battlefield; rather, he seemed to be chatting with a long-lost friend.

"It's like a past life."

"I have been holding on to those meaningless moral principles and ideals in my heart, but after exhausting all my efforts, I found that everything is gradually drifting away from me."

"Having been given a second life, when I first laid down everything and became a 'demon' wielding a butcher's knife against unarmed humans, I suddenly realized how simple it was to obtain everything I wanted."

"Just like you."

“You clearly lack the talent to be a ruler, and the people under your rule are clearly living in misery, but because you have absolute power, Inazuma can continue to exist. Even if you do all the wrong things in the world, as long as you show the willingness to repent, they can forgive you.”

"Because they have to forgive you."

"Because Inazuma is Inazuma only when you exist."

"This is your 'eternity'."

"The well-being of ordinary people is not important at this time."

"No matter what kind of people we are, a hundred years from now we will all be just the same skeletons. It doesn't matter how people live now. As long as there are still people here a hundred years from now, as long as you are still here a hundred years from now, Inazuma will live on forever."

While speaking.

Lin Jiu'an had already taken a step toward Balzebu.

With this one step, he crossed half the distance of the arena and stood in front of Balzeb, a longsword made of elements suddenly appearing in his hand.

'Bang!'

Swords clashed.

Beneath the lightning, which scattered like a spiderweb upon impact.

Balzeb's emotionless eyes reflected Lin Jiu'an's face, which seemed to be laughing wildly.

"Pure Land of the Heart" is Balzebu's spiritual space.

Individual strength is not important here.

The important thing is the "spirit".

It is "will".

simply put.

The competition here is not about the level of individual martial arts skills, but about the contest of each other's "will".

This is why the Traveler was able to defeat Balzeb here.

although.

The fact that the traveler could 'defeat' Balzeb, a god who had lived for thousands of years, by relying on the will of the owner of the hundred 'eyes of God' attached to the Thousand Hands and Hundred Eyes was laughable to Lin Jiu'an.

You are a god who has persisted in "eternity" for so long, and who knows how many years you have lived.

How could the will of a mere hundred people be shaken?

Let alone gods, or leaders who have left a deep mark on history, even the will of some ordinary people with strong wills would not be so 'fragile'.

to be honest.

In Lin Jiu'an's view, who had died once before.

To put it bluntly, Balzeb is nothing more than an immature little girl who is arguing with herself, still immersed in her sister's protection, and unable to accept the reality.

And then there was her duel with General Thunder.

It is a duel between her current "will" and her past "will" after being persuaded by the traveler.

But can you say that she really made any changes?

"revenge?"

"reform?"

"Neither of your 'eternity' nonsense matters to me."

The stray lightning was destroying Lin Jiu'an's body, but he paid no attention to it.

In this space of consciousness, it doesn't matter if the body is destroyed a hundred times. As long as the "will" is there, you will never lose. On the contrary, if you feel that you have lost, then even if you have the power to destroy the world, there is nothing you can do.

My arm was severed by Balzeb's sharp sword, but it doesn't matter. It will grow back and I can hold the sword again.

Her chest was slashed open, but it didn't matter; she could restore it to its original state with a thought.

Even if your neck is cut off and your head falls to the ground, it doesn't matter. As long as you don't think you're dead, as long as you don't succumb to the excruciating pain and death, you will never die.

That being said, there are always limits to the human spirit.

When faced with pain that exceeds one's capacity to bear, the body's self-protective mechanism will cause people to 'retreat,' even if the price of 'retreat' is death, they will subconsciously try to avoid this pain.

but.

Looking at the person in front of me, it was as if they had gone mad.

No matter how badly he was injured, the man who only knew how to keep laughing and saying things that were neither understandable nor wanted to understand, attacking her relentlessly, finally caused a ripple to appear in Balzeb's calm and beautiful eyes.

"I just think you're in my way."

He seems to be getting stronger?

As Balzeb was thinking, he saw the other man raise his sword.

Normally, given her personality, she would have simply grabbed the empty space and killed it with her sword.

But facing this person, here, even if you cut his body, the sword will still come down.

After a brief moment of thought, Balzeb finally overcame the 'instinct' she had developed in her battle with Lin Jiu'an, and raised her sword to block the attack.

'Bang!'

The force above exceeded Balzeb's expectations.

She used that force to take two steps back and regain her balance.

This was a perfectly normal exchange; retreating doesn't signify weakness, it's simply the right choice when facing a force that doesn't need to be directly confronted. However...

“You’ve become weaker, Balzeb.”

Looking at Lin Jiu'an, who was smiling, she couldn't tell if he was deliberately mocking her or simply stating what he thought was the truth.

Barzeb's expression remained calm, but for the first time, she responded to his sarcastic remarks, which seemed meaningless to her.

"boring."

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Ying is annoying.

She's so incredibly annoying!

At first, Lin Jiu'an, who was going to Liyue, left me in Mondstadt, saying that he needed my help to keep things under control.

Let her be the boss then, since she's such a simp.

After things were settled in Liyue, Lin Jiu'an asked her to go to Liyue to help him.

She immediately abandoned her retirement life in Mondstadt and happily took Paimon to Liyue to find Lin Jiu'an. But when she arrived in Liyue, she found that Lin Jiu'an had actually returned to Mondstadt.

Then she heard the news that the Mondstadt Order, together with the Fools and the Mondstadt nobles, were causing a rebellion.

Ying knew perfectly well that Lin Jiu'an had deliberately transferred her away.

So that those people can 'make the most'.

Ying had no choice but to wait for a while before receiving a letter from Lin Jiu'an asking her to return to Mondstadt again.

When she returned to Mondstadt, she found that Lin Jiu'an had left again!

This time he ran off to Inazuma!?

Ying finally couldn't hold back anymore.

She felt like she had been turned into a dog, being dragged around by that scumbag Lin Jiu'an. Was it so hard for her to just see him and talk about their feelings?

It must be really hard for her to keep all those lewd thoughts bottled up inside, you know?

What's most infuriating is...

I've made so many trips back and forth.

Go to Liyue.

It turned out that Ningguang had slept with Lin Jiu'an.

After returning to Mondstadt from Liyue.