According to the routine in the novel, Fang Yun and Paimeng would be severely slapped in the face by her after she mocked her like this.
Don’t bully a girl into being poor!
Considering that Fang Yun is a very capable guy and is improving faster than her, you should never bully her because she is poor!
To take a step back, don't bully a young woman because she is poor!
Having regained her confidence, Yingmei hugged Paimeng with both hands and rubbed him hard for a while... The little guy seemed to have covered his eyes just now, unable to bear to see himself being transformed by Fang Yun, but in fact, the gaps between his fingers were as if they were not covered. Ying even saw her gloating expression.
idiot!
If I can’t cure Fang Yun, can’t I cure you?
Pinching Paimon's little face, Ying thought about the mistakes in the previous battle and her understanding of the Lannaro chains when Fang Yun tied her up. At the same time, she followed Fang Yun to move forward and find a new gathering point for monsters to try her hand.
The two were now on the east side of Heguan and were already in the fog. Their vision was very poor and they could only see the scenery about five meters around them. Ying himself could not distinguish the road at all.
Hmm? Fog!
But Heguan is so shady.
According to the information she learned from the Inazuma Adventurer's Association, many adventurers who came to Heguan got lost in the fog. Even the holder of the Eye of God could not disperse the fog. The difficulty of the adventure was even considered to be higher than Mondstadt's Dragon Back Snow Mountain in the association, and second only to the life forbidden zone such as the Cinders Sea.
"The fog here is so strange. No wonder Kitsai Palace said it was a trick played by Heaven." Ying was amazed. Her physique as an adventer was not immune to the influence of the fog.
Throughout her adventures, she discovered that she seemed to show resistance only when facing the power of the abyss, and at other times she was no different from the people of Teyvatian.
Paimon was also full of curiosity. She stretched out her little foot to probe into the mist, but the timid girl immediately shrank back as if she had been electrocuted.
There was a small treasury of money deducted from Ying's salary hidden under her feet, and her feet didn't have any smell anyway.
Paimon, I love money the most.
She flew to Fang Yun and asked curiously, "Fang Yun, you said there was a civilization in Heguan before, so how did they move around in the fog? It seems that only the area around the Seven Heavenly Statue is fog-free as we walked along the way?"
"Probably because of the Thunderbird." Fang Yun replied, pointing to a row of peculiarly shaped stone pestles on a nearby road.
Ying and Paimon looked in the direction he pointed. The stone pestle seemed to be the product of a sacrificial ceremony. Some meaningless patterns were engraved on it, and there was a hole in the center.
These stone pestles were not unfamiliar to them. From the time they entered Heguan until now, they had seen several of them every time they walked a distance, but they had never known their specific uses.
However, Ying had rich experience in adventures, so she had a guess in her mind after Fang Yun's suggestion. Purple lightning appeared in her palm, and then she threw it towards the stone pestles.
The next second, the stone pestle that was hit trembled slightly, and in the surprised eyes of Ying and Paimon, a purple ball of light appeared in the hole in the center of the stone pestle.
"Wow, the fog seems to have been dispelled." Paimon exclaimed in surprise, but after looking around, he found a problem: "These stone pestles seem to only illuminate the nearby roads, not farther away, and it seems that they will become ineffective after the light ball dissipates."
Ying felt that the effect was quite good. Even the power of the Eye of God was powerless against the fog in Heguan. With these stone pestles, at least the people of Heguan would be guaranteed to explore the island.
But she couldn't help but be curious. She blinked and looked at Fang Yun: "Wait, Fang Yun, how do you know the direction? Is it also because of divine power?"
"That's right. In fact, these fogs are only for ordinary people. They are not very troublesome for demons or elemental creatures who can control the laws." Fang Yun explained.
Not to mention Fang Yun, the people of Heguan offer feathers to the thunderbird that once stayed there, and the "roost" with its scent can dispel the fog on the island.
But the means of heaven are not simple. It is similar to the principles of the desert and the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain. The local earth veins will change the climate due to the intervention of the power of heaven. Even if the fog is dispelled, it will only be temporary, unless the power of the laws arranged by heaven in the earth veins can be eradicated.
"Then why don't you disperse the fog first?"
"Isn't this just to train you?"
Fang Yun answered in a normal tone, but Ying's eyes widened in shock...she almost missed a word.
Having witnessed Fang Yun's "secretary doing the work when there is work to do, and secretary doing the work when there is nothing to do", Ying now feels that she is in a dangerous period, and she dare not take the opportunity to get promoted at this time.
Although she has already thought of a name for her daughter Alicia, she doesn't want her daughter to be born so soon!
While speaking, Ying found that the scenery in front of him had changed. It was no longer a winding mountain road, but a group of houses with a style similar to that of a shrine. Not far away there was also a square with many sacrificial utensils. Strangely, there was no one around.
"Is this the shrine of Heguan?" Ying looked at the props of the shrine in front of her. She also found some unfamiliar words at the gate, but after just a little thought, she realized something was wrong.
The Heguan civilization was destroyed thousands of years ago. How could these houses and items be preserved so intact?
Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly heard Paimon exclaim: "Ying, be careful, the big black dog is coming again!"
The two beast hounds wandering in the fog roared. They locked onto everyone with their powerful sense of smell. One pounced towards Fang Yun, while the other targeted Ying.
But Fang Yun had no intention of intervening. The attack of the Beast Realm Hound penetrated him as soon as it landed on him, as if it had only hit an illusion.
Perfect blur!
Although the Beast Realm Hound has the ability to tear apart space, it is far from being a powerful ability, and it is still far from enough to break Fang Yun's "divine power".
Of course, even if there is an enemy that can break into Fang Yun’s mental world, Fang Yun can also let the “sacred tree” Daci Tree King take action, use her massive divine power to slap it down, and eliminate the enemy with miracles.
However, in this way, the Beast Realm Hound gave up attacking Fang Yun and turned to deal with Yingmei and Paimeng, and Ying felt a little stressed.
According to Fang Yun's teaching task, she needs to use the Lanaro chain to deal with the enemy instead of swordsmanship. In this case, she also has to overcome the influence of the fog and protect Paimon, which is very difficult even for her.
Ying lifted Paimeng by the scruff of the neck to avoid the sharp claws of the beast hound. As she moved quickly backwards, emerald green grass elemental power suddenly condensed in her hands... This was the divine power bestowed upon her by Fang Yun, specifically used to cast the Lanaro Chain. Once she had mastered this skill and could use other elemental powers to cast it, she would withdraw the divine power.
But no matter what, Ying has now turned into a grass attribute.
Unfortunately, her speed in condensing the chains was not fast enough. When she finished casting the spell and threw out the chains, the two beast hounds felt the threat and tore through space to avoid the attack, and attacked Ying again from behind.
Paimon was so frightened that his body trembled, but he managed to hold back from screaming and affecting Ying's battle.
But she just discovered that Ying had a grass element chain in her hand, and she predicted the enemy's actions, and caught a beast hound that was stiff after it shuttled through space and tied it up tightly.
Afterwards, Yingmei followed the same method and captured another beast hound.
Looking at the two black hounds with hideous faces and constantly roaring and snarling, Paimon patted his chest in fear and said, "That was a close call. I thought I was doomed."
"Hmph, a piece of cake." Ying's expression remained unchanged. The battle just now was under her control.
She knew that her spellcasting was slow, so she condensed two chains at the same time and intentionally left a flaw, which really fooled the Beast Realm Hound.
Your combat experience is far behind mine!
Fang Yun nodded slightly upon seeing this. Ying's ability to respond is still very strong.
Seeing that he didn't care about her at all, Ying was a little dissatisfied: "Fang Yun, if you don't want to help, at least you can cheer me up by my side."
Really, with such an attitude, how could she be willing to give up?
"I trust you. Besides, it's not like I can't protect you." Fang Yun shook his head.
Yingmei still puffed up her little face and asked: "What if it's not protected?"
"No chance of that happening." Fang Yun tapped the back of her head, "I won't let anything happen to my female secretary."
"Just a female secretary?"
"If you want to be a concubine, I'd be happy to give you a promotion."
Ying was choked by his words, her pretty face slightly red, she turned her head and snorted.
But she was basically satisfied with Fang Yun's attitude. If there was any shortcoming, it was that Fang Yun did not hug her and answer: "Ying, I want to create a world with you."
After finishing this topic, Ying turned her attention back to her previous discovery.
Since even the sacrificial site has been occupied by monsters, it is even more impossible for the buildings here to be preserved intact.
"Is this an illusion?" Ying discovered the blind spot. She called upon the power of grass element which was closely related to her mind, and the scene before her eyes changed immediately.
Although it was still in the sacrificial square, the house had become a ruin, with only broken walls remaining, and the sacrificial props were also in a dilapidated state.
In addition, she also discovered several blue shadows in human shape but transparent all over. However, they seemed to be frightened by Fang Yun, and were trembling and hiding in the distance.
"Finally realized it? That's right, they are the former residents of Heguan, but because they were cursed by the Thunderbird, their souls cannot flow into the earth veins." Fang Yun explained, "If I didn't exist, you would see them repeating their past lives when you entered Heguan."
Normally, when the two arrived at this sacrificial site, Aru's mission should have been triggered, but Fang Yun didn't want to run back and forth in Heguan three or four times like in the original plot, so he directly used his mental power to break the illusion.
To be honest, Thunderbird is quite powerful. Its destructive power is not inferior to that of Orobas. At the same time, it has the power to interfere with the earth veins, which has caused the reincarnation of Heguan to repeat for thousands of years. According to the dialogue in the game, Thunderbird once met Tevarin when he was wandering outside. I think there is some story behind it.
Unfortunately, the person he met was Fang Yun, whose power over the element of thunder and authority over the earth veins were far superior to his.
Whether it is reality or illusion, you have already lost!
Ying nodded thoughtfully. Fang Yun had only told her that the thunderbird had destroyed Heguan and then flew to Qinglai Island, but she didn't expect that the people of Heguan were actually cursed.
Paimeng was shocked: "If that's the case, if we come to Heguan by ourselves, then don't we have to communicate with these people... uh, these ghosts? This is too hellish!"
"That's right, and here in Heguan..." Fang Yun paused, but still told the truth: "Heguan is very poor, you can forget about finding anything good."
He remembered that Heguan was probably the most searchable map. He happily spent a long time searching it, but later he found that they were all furniture design drawings, which could only be said to be very consistent with the background of Heguan.
As soon as he finished speaking, Paimon's eyes went dark. She had just thought that since Heguan was deserted, there might be some treasure, but she got such bad news.
Who did it?
Fang Yun could have answered her, "It must have been miHoYo who did it," but he couldn't say it out loud.
Ying felt it was okay. She was not greedy for money. What mattered more was completing various tasks and leaving behind [sedimentation] to digest the power obtained from the Seven Days Statue.
After fighting with Fang Yun on Qinglai Island, she has now advanced from the peak of the middle stage of the three elements to the late stage of the three elements.
But Ying also had some doubts.
"They believed in Thunderbird but were destroyed by it. Was it because they did something wrong?" Ying touched his chin. "And there are these stone pestles on every road. It seems that the people of Heguan should have mastered the ability to pass through the fog. Why don't they go to communicate with Mingshen Island?"
She didn't understand that Thunderbird was not a demon and had never competed with General Thunder for the right to rule. The people of Heguan could completely survive on Mingshen Island.
"Because the people of Heguan think that the outside world is very dangerous, they believe that the fog is protecting them." Fang Yun explained, "As for what they did wrong... forget it, there is no need to delve into the past."
He thought about it and decided not to tell Ying about the beastly incident in which the people of Heguan performed a blood sacrifice on Aru.
Although he knew that the Heguan civilization was very backward and had such a custom of blood sacrifice, and Aru herself was willing to do it, this only highlighted its cruelty.
Ying was smart and guessed that there might be some inside story, but since Fang Yun didn't say it, she believed there must be some reasons, so she tacitly didn't ask any further questions.
Paimon was easy to fool, and knowing that there was no treasure in Heguan, he had no intention of exploring it. He sat on Ying's shoulder with a look of despair on his face.
Next, Fang Yun was planning to take Ying to the Golden King Beast to continue leveling up, but suddenly he discovered some strange murals in a remote corner of the sacrificial square.
He brought Ying and Paimon over to take a closer look.
"This seems to be a mural involving Heguan beliefs? But the god on the mural is not the Thunderbird, nor is it the Thunder General... Hmm, why are there three gods? And there is also a moon symbol next to them?" Ying scratched his head in confusion.
But at this moment, she found that Paimon, who seemed to have lost hope in life just now, was staring at the mural intently with an unusually serious expression, as if he was thinking about something.
"Paimon?"
"what?"
Paimon seemed to have just woken up from a dream.
Ying asked with concern: "Paimeng, are you okay?"
"No, I just feel that the god in this mural is very familiar..." Paimon thought distressedly, but soon let go of his worries, "Forget it, I don't want to think so much, it's good enough to have food and drink now!"
She had a vague feeling that the gods in the mural seemed to be connected to herself, but so what?
She doesn't want to become a god. She is Ying's best friend and just wants to stay by Ying's side forever.
"Ying, we will never, ever be separated, right?" Paimon flew in front of Ying and looked at her with wide eyes.
Ying nodded vigorously: "Yeah."
Fang Yun next to him smiled.
"Okay, it's almost time to send you to deal with the Golden King Beast. After that, I will study the geomantic veins of Heguan, and we can almost go back to Mingshen Island." Fang Yun said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ying cooperated by stretching out her little hand and took his hand.
Fang Yun took her and Paimeng and turned into lightning. They ignored the obstruction of fog and flew towards the southernmost island of Heguan Island. There were fluctuations of space cracks there, which had always been the stronghold of the Golden King Beast.
however.
After he and Yingmei landed on the island holding hands, although they also saw the space crack that was almost tens of meters high, what was even more spectacular was the corpse of the golden king beast in front of them.
Kong walked out from behind the corpse of the Golden King Beast with an expressionless face. As he walked, the body of the Golden King Beast collapsed and disintegrated, turning into black mist and dissipating, leaving only fallen objects on the ground.
But Kong did not pay attention to the golden king beast that he had killed to vent his anger. His eyes were fixed on the hands of the two people who were still clasped together.
"Fuck!" Kong couldn't help but said again.
He let out a groundhog-like scream in his heart.
idiot!
At first, when he saw Ying being tied up with chains and spanked by Fang Yun, he almost couldn't bear it anymore and exploded with Fang Yun.
Even though he could tell from their behavior that Fang Yun was urging Ying to practice, Kong couldn't stand it.
Fang Yun, how could you do this? How could you hurt Ying?
You hurt her!
