In a dazzling starry sky, a series of shouts suddenly rang out.
"Wow wow wow! Is the Abyss of this world so beautiful?" Yu Jin looked at everything before him, almost thinking he had flown into the space of The Lands Between.
"Look at you, why are you so ugly?" Yu Jin pulled a puddle of mud from his body.
"Lord, You Sui is the part that settled down in the Abyss," You Sui said weakly. And this Abyss is not that Abyss, okay? The two are completely incomparable.
The Abyss of Dark Souls is a convergence of humanity, and the darkest, most terrifying parts of humanity settle down to become You Sui. Although for so many years, this darkness of his had long been beaten into submission by Yu Jin.
As for the Abyss of this world, You Sui flowed on Yu Jin's hand. He looked at the starry sky not far away and curled his lips in disdain (though he had no lips). A power composed of forbidden knowledge that corrodes worlds, the two were simply not on the same wavelength.
Yu Jin felt the forbidden knowledge, which was the Abyss's power in this world, constantly seeping from outside the world into it.
He said to You Sui, "Can it be dealt with?"
"Does Lord mean outside the world or inside the world?" You Sui detached from Yu Jin's hand, slowly wriggled, and eventually transformed into an existence identical to Yu Jin.
"Do you think our power is that strong right now?" Yu Jin tapped You Sui's head a few times, thinking he had some issues.
Doesn't he know his own strength right now? Even if he wanted to save the world, he would have to wait until his power recovered.
"Oh," You Sui offered no rebuttal; whatever Yu Jin said, went.
"They're here!" Yu Jin suddenly felt as if his patch of starry sky had been isolated, and large swathes of pitch black began to corrode the starry sky's boundary.
Seeing this, Yu Jin lowered his head slightly.
The Abyss at the world's boundary was originally silent, but now it had a sound. It was the sound of flames igniting.
The crackling sound of Burning kindling was so jarring, echoing in the starry sky for a long time.
At this moment, Yu Jin was the same as he was in Dragonspine; his entire armor showed signs of melting, and with every breath he took, large amounts of sparks erupted.
"I see everything." So Yu Jin saw many things.
"I can see everything I want to see." His head hurt a bit, so Yu Jin changed the conditions.
Then he saw the Black Knives.
"Gods shall not defile those I see," Yu Jin said, and then the Black Knives gathered around him and stopped moving.
Next was You Sui's time; he was very uniquely shaped, and Yu Jin didn't want others to see him.
Anyone who saw You Sui's true form would be swallowed by darkness.
Even though You Sui and he were both much weaker now, Yu Jin dared not gamble.
"Recess time!" You Sui shouted excitedly. Then his body suddenly exploded.
The murmurs and roars of countless people suddenly filled the starry sky, overpowering the sound of the fire. They were accompanied by [fear] and [despair], forming You Sui's unique gnawing sound.
Putrid mud began to corrode the pitch black. If the Abyss of this world was the tangible manifestation of knowledge from outside the world, then You Sui was the collection of humanity's darkness from another world.
The suffering of life does not disappear; it gathers and settles in the world, eventually materializing.
When the power of fire is strong, these damp, rotten muds gather in places where the firelight cannot reach, quietly waiting for the day the fire weakens.
When the flame is about to extinguish, You Sui, born from the precipitation of humanity, gushes out from all corners of the world, submerging the entire world and plunging it into an era of lightless deep sea.
Of course, this was You Sui's own fantasy; now, after being beaten by Yu Jin, he had given up on this idea.
This is truly... wonderful!
Who made him conscious? If he had still been muddled like before, he might really have been fooled by the mission to destroy the world.
After devouring the world, under the impact of the world's laws and the souls of all living beings, his consciousness would probably dissipate directly.
That First Flame guy is still an idiot!
And although he was imprisoned inside Yu Jin, Yu Jin's internal space was large enough.
When he got bored sitting in the Initial Fire Pit, he could go out for a walk and vent his little emotions.
Anyway, those guys imprisoned with him were all 'people' who couldn't withstand the forging and eventually turned into pure malice. Killing them wouldn't kill them, and Yu Jin wouldn't care about them either.
Yu Jin was surrounded by Black Knives at this moment; they knelt on the ground, unable to smell, hear, or see.
Their thoughts became incredibly slow, so slow that they couldn't generate any ideas.
At the same time, a faint light began to appear on the Black Knives' bodies; that was Yu Jin's blessing silently protecting them.
"Hehehe! What excellent sustenance," the overlapping roars of countless people echoed from every corner of this space.
The starlight vanished, and the entire space was left with only pure black; everything was swallowed, and only faint flickers of light surrounded Yu Jin and the Black Knives in the space.
Suddenly, the space beneath Yu Jin's feet began to tremble violently! Cracks also appeared in the endless darkness, and an eerie blue light spilled into this space from the cracks.
"Don't run! What kind of hero slices off a piece of space? If you're so brave, let's keep fighting!" You Sui's roaring contained a rationality completely contrary to his aura.
"Hey, hey, hey! Stop it! What's going on?" Yu Jin, glowing brightly, ran into the darkness and dragged out the cursing You Sui.
The darkness disappeared, and You Sui reverted to Yu Jin's appearance. Only then did Yu Jin realize that the space they were in had begun to gradually disintegrate, the starry sky, as if etched on glass, was being cracked by an unknown entity.
"Damn it! Someone threw us out of the Abyss!" You Sui said angrily, looking at the scene before him.
He had just been enjoying his meal when, unexpectedly, the scattered Abyss power was suddenly controlled. After gathering his strength, that guy decisively cut open this space and casually threw them out of the Abyss.
Yu Jin breathed a sigh of relief after hearing You Sui's words. It was a minor matter; he was only afraid that this guy would throw them out of Teyvat. If that were the case, it would be interesting.
As it seemed now, it was just a change of travel destination. Speaking of which, the people of this world should not be underestimated; they could skillfully use the Abyss's power of this world.
Presumably, the Abyss Heralds' spatial traversal ability was also a manifestation of their control over the Abyss's power.
"They're awake! They're awake!" Yu Jin looked at the still lifeless Black Knives, and while stuffing You Sui back into his body, he also began to awaken them.
Sleeping within crumbling space fragments was very dangerous.
"Ugh... King, be careful!" The Black Knives awoke from their slumber, and seeing the crumbling scene before them, they immediately surrounded Yu Jin.
"Alright, don't crowd me, I can't see the world outside this space!" Yu Jin squeezed out from among the Black Knives, complaining.
Then he focused his attention on the Akasha outside this space; he could see Teyvat beyond the Akasha.
"Get ready, we're jumping out of the car!" Yu Jin seemed to have spotted a good landing spot and instructed the Black Knives behind him.
Then a spatial rift appeared before him. In this world's chaotic boundary, opening a spatial rift was not a difficult task.
"King, please step back!" Before Yu Jin could say anything, Alecto was the first to jump into the spatial rift. Close behind were Three, Six, and Nine.
"How sensitive, the place I chose is definitely safe!" Yu Jin shook his head helplessly, and surrounded by the other Black Knives, he also jumped in... Guyun Stone Forest, located on the outskirts of Liyue's Sea of Clouds. To ordinary people, it was Liyue's furthest offshore territory, isolated overseas and teeming with monsters.
But to the knowledgeable, Guyun Stone Forest was both a place to suppress Gods and a barrier to protect Liyue.
Its immense Geo element power was enough to make any evil God from the Dark Sea tremble in fear. It was precisely because of this that the people of Liyue could fish, hunt, and sail peacefully in the Sea of Clouds.
Guyun Stone Forest was formed in ancient times by the petrified Geo spears thrown by Lord Rex Lapis. Peaks rose into the clouds above it, and below, it pierced through the sea, deeply embedded in the earth.
Beneath Guyun Stone Forest, in a deep, unknown sea, stood a jade shield, its height and length also unknown.
Within the jade shield, a five-headed beast rested with its eyes closed — Osial, the Vortex God, one of the Geo Archon's defeated foes in the past, now only able to linger beneath Guyun Stone Forest.
Everything within the jade shield was monotonous; there was nothing, and nothing ever happened.
Osial had endured such a lonely prisoner's life for thousands of years, and he would probably have to endure it for several more millennia.
But now, the monotonous prisoner's life seemed to have a slight ripple.
Osial opened his house-sized eyes, and his hundreds of meters long body rose. He curiously looked at the fellow before him, who had just returned from the world's boundary.