Paimon: "Uh… these three passages are so hard to read. Liyue's legends are all so difficult to understand!"
Yiya: "Yiya yiya…"
Paimon: "You mean this text refers to a kind of stone nearby? One that looks different from normal stones? And there are three in total?"
Lumine: "Since there are three, and we have three people."
Lumine: "Then next, let's split up."
The dialogue ended. The quest marker gave a search area, requiring the player to find the dialogue targets based on the quest clues.
Stelle silently put down her keyboard and looked at March 7th.
March 7th clenched her fist: "Enough, do it yourself!"
Stelle acted cute: "But quests without markers are really troublesome, pretty please~"
"You think I'm a pushover?!"
March 7th immediately launched an attack. Since Firefly wasn't here, little March wasn't going to spoil this increasingly outrageous girl.
Though called an attack, little March couldn't actually catch Stelle. The two started chasing each other around in the livestream room.
[Suddenly feel so full.]
[Glad Firefly isn't here, otherwise no need to think about dinner or midnight snacks tonight—just watching the stream is enough.]
[It's really important for the three of them to live well.]
[Oh? So this part of the plot has a skip method?]
Because the player was currently engaged in a real-life battle royale, the story was temporarily paused.
But clearly, Yiya didn't want it that way.
So after Yiya activated the statue mechanism in her direction, she came to where the player was, found the statue mechanism for the player, and activated it.
Once all three statue mechanisms were activated, a chest appeared.
The three opened the chest and obtained a fragment from inside.
[Yiya, good baby.]
[With Yiya, no accidents!]
[Now it's hard to tell who's really in charge of this household—Yiya is sometimes more useful than us.]
The three carefully examined the fragment in the chest.
Paimon: "At least the earlier parts were readable. This one—I can't even understand the characters."
Paimon: "Yiya, can you read it?"
Yiya: "Yiya…" (I can't read it)
Lumine: "Should we let Jun Bai take a look?"
Qingyuan: "You three, may I take a look?"
Lumine handed the fragment to Qingyuan. After carefully examining it, the archaeologist concluded that what was on the fragment wasn't writing—it was a painting.
Only by piecing together the complete picture could the information on it be deciphered.
The problem now was that this fragment was only about one-third. How to find the other two?
Fortunately, Qingyuan was an archaeologist specializing in this field.
Qingyuan informed the three about the other two ruins related to Chi and said he would stay here. Once they collected all the fragments, they could bring them to him for interpretation.
The three left the ruin.
Yiya: "Yiya, yiya ya, yiya yi…"
Paimon: "Lumine, Yiya contacted Jun Bai just now. Jun Bai said our line of thinking is correct."
Paimon: "Jun Bai has already confirmed that the reappeared god is indeed Chi. But right now he's clearing out the monsters controlled by Chi."
Paimon: "Jun Bai asked Yiya to tell us—just keep collecting clues and searching for Chi's remains. He'll appear at the right time."
Lumine: "Got it. Then let's go find the other two fragments."
Paimon: "Okay!"
Yiya: "Yiya!" (Okay!)
[Thought when it couldn't be deciphered we'd have to run around like in world quests collecting info. Didn't expect the solution to be within five steps.]
[Still have to go to two more places—kind of troublesome.]
[Wait, isn't this Jun Bai's story quest? Feels like he's been gone for a while.]
At this time the operating character was March 7th, because after Stelle was caught she got tormented for a while and was now lying on the bed resting.
Little March steadied her breathing before continuing to play. Following the quest marker she teleported, then used Yiya to explore and easily reached the destination.
Then got stuck because she couldn't solve the puzzle…
[Matches my impression of March.]
[This puzzle has me completely lost too—so it's normal that little March can't do it.]
In the end, it was only after Firefly came back and helped that they obtained the fragment needed for the quest.
[Switching to Jun Bai's perspective…]
After the Traveler perspective collected the three fragments, the plot switched to Jun Bai's perspective.
"I only just remembered this is Jun Bai's story quest." Little March sat to the side and said.
"So this is Jun Bai's story quest?" Firefly, who had just returned, said. She had only just come back and didn't know what had happened earlier.
[Firefly took over midway and only then realized something was wrong.]
[Jun Bai—finally seeing my Jun Bai again!]
—Teyvat
Time rewound to shortly after they split up. On the road, Jun Bai encountered a group of monsters tainted with god remnants.
"Heh, this aura—sure enough, it's Chi."
Jun Bai sneered, flipped his hand to draw Phoenix Perches, and began a massacre. This group of monsters had no chance to resist and were all sent back to the ley lines by Jun Bai alone.
After dealing with the monsters, Jun Bai sensed the lingering aura in the air, trying to locate Chi this way.
Soon, Jun Bai opened his eyes again:
"Just old lingering thoughts—and quite cautious too. Looks like I can't find Him through these monsters."
"No matter. As long as I clear out all these monsters you're controlling, you'll eventually show a flaw."
Because Chi's remnant soul had been jointly slain by Jun Bai and Jun Mo Li and sent into the ley lines.
Now that Chi had reappeared from the ley lines and retained memories from before, He would definitely want to find Jun Bai for revenge. For that, He needed power.
Therefore, Chi would definitely want to revive himself.
But before that, He needed to satisfy two conditions: first, find his own remains; second, ensure the reappeared remnant soul wasn't discovered by Jun Bai.
These monsters were being manipulated by Chi to mislead outsiders and ensure He wouldn't be discovered.
Unfortunately for Chi, He didn't expect Havria to be living in seclusion in Qingce Village, and she had even vaguely sensed Chi's existence.
She had also informed Jun Bai about it.
Now Jun Bai was tracing backward along these controlled monsters to track Chi's whereabouts.
Although Chi had taken some anti-tracking measures, He wasn't particularly skilled at it.
The only reason He even thought of anti-tracking was because He had absorbed remnants of the Dream God's thoughts—otherwise He really wouldn't have considered it.
[The Marshal's perspective is just pure slaughter all the way—using the trial feels so satisfying.]
[Perspective locked to activity range—if you don't slaughter through all of Qingce Village you can't trigger the next plot, but it really is satisfying.]
[The satisfying part isn't because Stelle Baby's account is full constellations plus signature weapon?]
Jun Bai carried Phoenix Perches and kept killing all the way until he reached the cemetery of Qingce Village, where a large number of monsters lurked, waiting for an opportunity.
"The revenge target isn't just me—includes Second Brother too?"
The corner of Jun Bai's mouth rose, but it sent a chill down the spine.
Flame wings spread, full armament activated, Phoenix Perches – Phoenix Perches on Demon Subjugation transformed into Fangtian Huaji. The fully committed Sky Phoenix Marshal raised his slaughtering blade toward the monsters.