The Liyue Harbor docks.
Bai Hao had rented a small boat and set out to sea.
He couldn't exactly drop a Heavenly Earthquake right inside Liyue Harbor, and Mt. Tianheng was too far away—not to mention too much damn climbing.
So Guyun Stone Forest was the perfect spot!
The night wind swept across the waters, and the little boat drifted like a fallen leaf on the endless sea.
Rowing furiously just to cast a spell like Heavenly Earthquake? That had zero style.
And Bai Hao was a born show-off—no way he'd do something so low-class.
So instead, he stood at the bow, calmly playing Yasuo's signature flute, letting the melody carry into the night.
"No paddles to row, no sails to steer—
my life drifts only where the waves will take me…"
(A chorus of question marks descended above his head.)
With the waves doing most of the work, he drifted lazily for over an hour before finally arriving at his destination—Guyun Stone Forest.
Towering peaks rose high into the clouds, stretching for dozens of kilometers.
Waves crashed against cliffs and reefs, and the mist-shrouded air was thick with the aura of ancient gods—enough to make one's heart tremble.
Legend had it that Guyun Stone Forest was once a cemetery of gods—to put it bluntly, a mass grave where Morax dumped the defeated demon gods.
Even Osial, the Vortex Sovereign himself, lay sealed beneath these waters.
There couldn't be a better place to test Heavenly Earthquake!
His goal was obvious:
He was going to fire one straight at Osial!
"Heavenly Earthquake!"
"The World Shall Tremble!"
Wearing the Geo Archon's divine robes, Bai Hao tilted the Kunwu—The Rainbow Severing Sword across his back.
He raised his left hand toward the distant cliffs of Guyun Stone Forest, focusing all his might into a single command.
HUMMMMM——!!!
Golden light erupted, illuminating all of Liyue's night sky.
Hundreds—no, thousands—of massive meteors burned through the clouds,
followed by titanic spears of golden stone, each one as tall as a hundred-meter tower, plunging from the heavens above!
The storm of meteors and spears rained down upon Guyun Stone Forest,
a symphony of destruction—
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The deafening shockwaves rolled across the ocean like a tsunami.
Even in distant Liyue Harbor, countless people looked up in alarm.
Meanwhile, the Teyvat Fan-Creation Livestream System exploded with comments:
[Xu Liushi: Holy shit, what did I just see?! Lord Morax Himself has descended!]
[Dongsheng: If the Geo Lord's acting personally, does that mean the sea demon's breaking free again?!]
[Shitou: Please, no wars… if trade shuts down, my Jade Chamber delivery business is doomed!]
[Tiantiezui: Calm yourselves! This technique—Heavenly Earthquake—is the very move Lord Morax once used to suppress the demon god Osial!]
[Borlai: Geo Lord protect us! Geo Lord protect us! Geo Lord protect us!]
[Mao Caigong: With the Lord of Geo watching over us, what demon would dare cause chaos? No need to panic!]
[Blade Chen: That's right—if anything dares to invade, we'll send it packing!]
[Fengyan: All Millelith, Level-One alert! Move to the docks immediately and evacuate civilians!]
[Jinzhong: Understood! A thousand Rocks hold firm, the mountains shall not move!]
[Tieshan: Understood! A thousand Rocks hold firm, the mountains shall not move!]
[Yongan: Understood! A thousand Rocks hold firm, the mountains shall not move!]
Liyue Harbor was in full mobilization mode.
Meanwhile, in the VIP livestream room, chatter flared up again:
[Hu Tao: Hoo~! Everyone in Liyue, did you see that? Lord Morax just dropped a divine miracle!]
[Xingqiu: I saw it! If only I could witness it up close—such grandeur could inspire an entire novel!]
[Ying'er: Is there a replay? I need a replay!]
[Arataki Itto: Yeah! I, the one and only Arataki Numero Uno Itto, live for this kinda action!]
[Kuki Shinobu: Boss, stop watching and go to sleep already!]
[Qiqi: Did… did war start? Qiqi… can help.]
[Ganyu: Don't worry, Qiqi. With Lord Morax acting, everything will be fine.]
[Cloud Retainer: Quite right, child. Just leave all to the Lord of Geo!]
[Keqing: Must everything always rely on the Archon? When will the people of Liyue learn to stand on their own?!]
[Kujou Sara: On behalf of the Inazuma Shogunate, we pray for Liyue's safety!]
[Alhaitham: On behalf of the Sumeru Akademiya, we extend our hopes as well.]
[Pucinella: On behalf of the Fatui of Snezhnaya, we hope Liyue weathers this storm!]
At the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, Zhongli watched the chat flood with messages, his brows furrowing slightly.
Who… exactly… is out there pretending to be me?
While the internet boiled over with speculation and reverence,
the real Guyun Stone Forest was a maelstrom of chaos.
Bai Hao's tiny boat tossed violently in the monstrous waves, on the verge of capsizing at any moment.
From the roiling sea, a bright, excited laugh echoed:
"Hahaha—爽!(So damn satisfying!)"
Bai Hao gripped the thousand-pound Kunwu—The Rainbow Severing Sword like an anchor to keep the boat steady, grinning madly.
This—this—was the ecstasy of power!
With a single motion, he could change the color of the heavens and shatter the earth beneath!
Of course, there was a downside.
Even as a one-star Dou Fighter, unleashing Heavenly Earthquake at full strength had drained him utterly.
"Ugh… I feel kinda empty inside…"
Bai Hao sighed.
He'd need to raise his strength soon—otherwise, he'd end up like Megumin, only able to cast one explosion a day!
That wouldn't do at all.
At the very least, he needed to reach "Seven Rounds in One Night" standard!
Sure, he could tone down the spell's power to cast it more often,
but that defeated the whole point.
An ultimate skill had to be grand, earth-shaking, awe-inspiring!
One move to decide the battle—one hammer strike to end it all!
If he couldn't flatten all of Liyue Harbor with a single cast,
could he even call it Heavenly Earthquake?
That was Bai Hao's sacred creed as a professional show-off—
a bottom line he would never compromise!