Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

"..."

Su Feng didn't respond to Wendy's complaints. Unlike Wendy, who was already very familiar with the situation, Su Feng, who was being introduced to a purely energy-based perspective for the first time, needed to devote all his energy to this aspect.

Understanding the existence of these energies, then analyzing their flow, and deciphering their impact on the material world—this is an analysis of the most fundamental nature of the world, and it is everything Su Feng must understand.

He can gradually gain control of the Herrscher core—if everything goes smoothly, Su Feng will eventually be able to make everything in the 'cocoon' his own, but simply possessing power is not enough.

Su Feng still needs to understand and master this power, otherwise everything he has is no different from a castle in the air.

Or rather, he could use the Herrscher core to simply and brutally control everything in the world, but he could never understand all the secrets of the world just by 'seeing' like Venti.

He surpasses Wendy in absolute power, but he is far inferior to this ancient wind god in the breadth and depth of his use of certain powers.

What Wendy is doing now is helping Su Feng understand what wind is, what the flow of matter and energy is, and even to see for himself how the world works.

All of this is extremely important to Su Feng.

"Okay, looks like you don't have time to talk to me right now."

Wendy wasn't surprised that Su Feng didn't have time to pay attention to him right now. He knew very well how difficult and troublesome it was to understand this perspective, and how rare it was to understand this way of observing the world.

There are many daemons and even elemental beings who wield the 'wind', but very few who truly understand what the wind is. So far, the only one Venti has ever met who understands this is the former tyrant of Mondstadt.

The so-called wind wall that isolates everything is essentially blocking the flow and interaction of internal and external energy; otherwise, it would be almost impossible to maintain it for a long time with just pure earthly wind.

But apart from the tyrant who poured all his power into him, neither the other demon god Andreus nor Dvalin, who had not yet become the new generation of the Wind Dragon King, could understand this power.

In fact, Wendy always felt quite annoyed and frustrated whenever he saw that Dvalin and his group were simply and crudely controlling the Thousand Winds of the mortal realm.

What frustrated him even more was that when he tried to teach the two guys, he was completely ignored.

Honestly, don't they know that without understanding the 'Winds of Energy,' they can never truly control the winds of the world? Do they really think that his ability to bring the high winds of Mondstadt for thousands of years is simply due to the authority of the Lord of the Thousand Winds?

If that were the case, even he would be completely drained.

That kind of simple and crude control and manipulation is not the essence of 'wind'. The free wind only needs understanding and guidance. After understanding these things, it can do things that are unimaginable to ordinary people with just a little force.

It is not the wind's intention to forcibly bind itself by using its power and authority.

Fortunately, Su Feng was quite good at this. After realizing the problem, he decisively delved into it to understand how to truly utilize the wind.

Wendy nodded in satisfaction, realizing that there were indeed more people in the world than just those who knew how to manipulate the wind with violence.

In fact, Wendy was mistaken. In reality, Dvalin and Andreus did not not want to learn, but rather they simply could not learn. When all the energy flows in the mortal world were presented to them in ways that mortals could not understand, what it brought was not only an understanding of everything in the world, but also more of a exploitation and oppression of themselves.

Especially when an almost endless stream of information rushes towards you, even a being of the level of a demon god cannot withstand it.

Let alone understanding the truth contained in these messages, simply accepting them is impossible for most demons.

After all, not every demon god can completely control their own power—those who can do so are already among the strongest demon gods.

Su Feng was able to withstand this flood of information mainly because, as a Herrscher core that had become sentient, he possessed an instinct for it that was unimaginable to others.

The power possessed by the 'Cocoon' is unimaginable. Even a side of the 'Cocoon' and the Herrscher core of its projection contain unimaginable knowledge and power. The authority of the core is formed by the combination of this knowledge and the power of the Imaginary Tree.

As the core of the system, Su Feng naturally had this knowledge etched into his body's instincts. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to replace Venti in managing the Thousand Winds or even permanently transform the environment of Mondstadt so that Venti wouldn't have to maintain the High Winds forever.

He did it on instinct at that time.

Now all he needs to do is to realize this knowledge engraved in his instincts and turn it into the skills he has mastered. Compared to learning and understanding, this process of turning instincts into skills is naturally much easier.

Regardless, Wendy did indeed do Su Feng a huge favor; otherwise, he wouldn't know how long it would have taken him to achieve this.

Once the real winds begin to blow, everything will change dramatically.

Chapter Seventeen: Will We Meet Again?

Once everything is reverted to the energy level, the elaborate disguises are easily ignored.

Even though Liyue itself was incredibly chaotic, Su Feng and Venti quickly found a rather suspicious place—when everything around them was dominated by elemental power, the massive abyssal power gathered in a certain place was enough to make anyone with eyes take notice.

Especially considering the relationship between the Abyss and that Dragon King, it deserves even more attention.

"So, it's possible that the people from the Abyss are behind this again? Are these guys really never stopping? Don't they ever take a break?"

"Or do they not feel tired?"

Su Feng wanted to protest and complain about the Abyss's relentless meddling. The people of the Abyss Order might not need to rest or care about the blood and tears of their subordinates, but they still wanted to rest and slack off!

Unfortunately, it seems that neither the Abyss Order nor the Abyss itself has opened a complaint hotline yet, so even if Su Feng wanted to complain, there was nowhere to do so.

More importantly, they couldn't ignore the actions of the Abyss Order, and in the end, they had no choice but to get involved along with these guys!

It's no wonder the Abyss Order is so universally hated in Teyvat.

"That's obviously the case. Those guys have gone crazy now. They were clearly here before... Anyway, we've only found this one place so far. Let's go check it out anyway. I don't think they're here for tourism."

"Even if they weren't the ones who did it, it's definitely right to sabotage their actions."

Wendy seemed to want to say something, but after thinking about it carefully for a while, he gave up on considering anything else. Anyway, it was definitely the right thing to do to go straight to their door and see what the Abyss Order was planning to do.

Then, when Su Feng and Wendy followed the aura of the abyss to the Azurewater Plains, they saw several unexpected people—Luminous and a powerful Kanrian!

"Ying, how did you end up hanging out with this guy?"

After seeing the Kanriyan, Wendy paused for a moment, then asked him curiously how they had managed to work together, since this Kanriyan was no ordinary person.

"Hey? Wendy, you know Dain?"

Ying was also surprised to see the two of them here, and she almost subconsciously glanced at Dain.

When Ying was working with Dain before, Dain clearly expressed his aversion to gods and the church. If possible, Ying didn't want her friend to have too much conflict with Dain, who seemed to know a lot.

Fortunately, whether it was because Dain didn't recognize Wendy or for some other reason, Dain didn't show any obvious changes in expression when he encountered Wendy, and he didn't pay much attention even when Wendy showed him wariness and curiosity.

After all, he had been wandering the mortal world for many years and hunting down the Abyss Order. He was registered in many countries, and five hundred years was enough to prove that he had not yet fallen to the point of associating with the Abyss.

They may dislike each other, but it hasn't come to the point of a fight.

Meanwhile, after confirming that her friends wouldn't have any serious conflicts, Ying breathed a sigh of relief. Then she began to explain to Wendy what had happened to her—after all, there was still a corrupted Statue of the Seven belonging to Wendy in the Abyss Order's base down there, so theoretically, Wendy was the biggest victim.

Hmm... I think so?

But I always felt that Wendy didn't seem to care much about her idol?

"You mean the Abyss Order desecrated a Seven-Star Statue of the Wind God? And it seems they're planning to do something with that statue?"

Wendy herself was somewhat surprised and uncertain after hearing this.

He did remember that he was missing a Seven Statues, but that thing was both important and unimportant, so Wendy hadn't really noticed it—besides, it wasn't so easy to steal; he had initially thought it would cause a big problem for the Order of the Abyss.

It turns out that the Abyss Order actually succeeded?

As expected, those guys in the sky are unreliable. How many times has this happened already?

Tsk!

After listening to Luminous's explanation of the situation regarding the Abyss Order, Venti once again expressed his disdain for the guy in the sky. He was indeed unreliable. If he hadn't had no other choice, he probably would have been replaced long ago.

Forget it, now is not the time to think about this.

Although he was filled with disdain for the one in the sky, Wendy knew very well that if anyone else had gone up there, Teyvat probably wouldn't have lasted this long. Besides, there was no point in thinking about it anymore. He should focus on how to solve the problem at hand.

"So why are Wendy and Su Feng here? Weren't you in Mondstadt before?"

Because she didn't know whether Wendy and Su Feng knew their identities or if Dyne did, Ying was very careful when asking questions, but Wendy didn't seem to care much about her caution.

“Something big might be going to happen in Liyue soon, so we’re here to help.”

"That Kanriyan over there, although I know you're probably not from the Abyss faction, you should still be careful in Liyue lately, or you might suffer another undeserved disaster."

"After all, the old man has been in a very bad mood lately. If you accidentally bump into him, you're likely to get hit by a rock spear."

While Venti didn't particularly like the people of Kerria, he didn't have much prejudice against those Kerria who hadn't been thrown into the Abyss. Otherwise, Kaeya would never have been able to grow up in Mondstadt and become a member of the Knights of Favonius.

"Ok?"

"You seem to know exactly what the Abyss Order did? And what's the current situation in Liyue?"

"Wind God, although I don't know why you're willing to ignore me, who deserves to be treated as a sinner, I still hope you'll answer my question!"

Wendy's reminder naturally made Din suddenly raise her head.

He casually pointed out Wendy's identity—at first he wanted to ignore the other's divine status, but now that the other had warned him so openly, Din could no longer pretend to be ignorant.

"Recently, someone caused a major incident right under the nose of the old man of Liyue, the kind that could blow the entire Liyue to smithereens if we're not careful!"

"More importantly, this matter is very likely related to the Abyss. What do you think the old man's opinion is now regarding the Abyss Cult, which has a history of such behavior?"

Venti wasn't surprised that Dain had revealed his identity. He simply mentioned something about the current situation in Liyue, and after hearing that, Dain understood exactly what was going on.

Touching the forbidden possession of that war god among the demon gods would naturally provoke that god's frenzied counterattack—regardless of whether the Abyss Order did it or not, since it's related to the Abyss, the Abyss Order would be beaten for nothing.

Recalling the terrifying power of the former God of War, Dain fell silent for a long time.

"I understand. No matter what those lunatics did, I will be involved in this to the end. Their mistakes must be stopped and corrected."

"Besides, this is something I wanted to do and should do."

Dain said this without hesitation. After all, this wasn't the first time he had stopped the Abyss Order's plans, so it was only right that he contribute again this time. Under these circumstances, even going so far as to seek divine assistance was not unacceptable.

"Let's get started. Let's see what those guys are up there and then smash their plans to smithereens!"

Through Dain and Wendy's conversation, Ying had a general idea of ​​the current situation. She was surprised that Liyue was facing such a big problem, so she immediately cheered up and prepared to work hard.

After all, she still wanted to ask the Geo Archon of Liyue if he knew about the deity who had once blocked her way. And if she had the merit of saving Liyue, then the other party probably wouldn't play coy with her, right?

Brother, I will find you soon, and then we will leave this world together.

Chapter 18 Ying: Brother's being disobedient? Give him a beating!

Because this place had already been traversed by Ying Sha, although the Abyss Order quickly sent another batch of people to replenish their ranks, their strength was still somewhat inferior to that at the beginning, not to mention that they were now joined by Dain, Wendy, and Su Feng.

Faced with such a formidable force, the Abyss Order was naturally even more vulnerable. After all, putting everything else aside, simply expecting them to halt the advance of the god and his retinue was an impossible task.

So soon everyone arrived at the location of the reversed statue deep within the secret realm.

"How dare they defile the statues of the Seven Gods like this? What are those guys trying to do?"

Wendy's pupils contracted slightly upon seeing the somewhat familiar scene.

He never imagined the Abyss Order would be so audacious; the reversed idol surrounded by filth was simply too...

However, this is something that members of the Abyss Order might do. These guys' minds have generally been messed up by the Abyss, so Venti wouldn't find it strange no matter what they do.