Genshin Impact: A Traveler with Only Two Skills

"Great Wasteland? Didn't they say that the road leading to this place has been cut off?" Ying asked in confusion, "And you also said that Great Wasteland is very desolate. It is a barren place for both ordinary people and cultivators."

Ying thought of the big blue bird she had seen before. This creature didn't seem like something that could be raised in a barren land, especially since the entire Tianya Island had changed a lot. It was no longer floating on the sea but in the air. Although this kind of thing should not be uncommon in the world of cultivating immortals, it was still a little surprising to see it with one's own eyes.

"I always feel like I should have seen something similar, but why can't I remember it?" Ying was puzzled, but soon heard Mingruo continue:

"Fellow Daoist Ying, we have discussed before that the road to the immortals has been cut off, and the road to the Great Wilderness has also been cut off. So are these two things related? I did not give you a clear answer at the time, but I can tell you now that it is because the road to the immortals has been cut off that the road to the Great Wilderness has been cut off. Today's Great Wilderness is the blessed land that leads to the last step of the road to the immortals."

Ying thought for a moment and asked, "Is it related to that Ancient Saint Tianhuang?"

"That's right," Ming Ruo said without hiding anything, "In fact, you already knew it a long time ago. To be called by Taoist Mingyang like this and to be respected by him like this, the Ancient Sage of Tianhuang must be an existence that transcends the Earthly Immortal Realm, which is the ultimate that cultivators desire - the Heavenly Immortal Realm."

The word "fairyland" also made Ying feel excited.

She was not a cultivator, but she knew from the Immortal Zhenyuan that the existence of the Heavenly Fairyland could help her break through the shackles of this world and return to the continent of Teyvat.

It has been at least half a year since Ying came to this world. It's not that she has no feelings for this world, but she still has things she must do in the continent of Teyvat.

Although Ying always says "Don't worry about my brother", Kong is her only relative after all. The two of them travel together between different worlds, and their feelings for each other are naturally deep. Ying still hopes to complete the trip in Teyvat and witness the end of the journey.

"From the look of you, you should have known what Taoist Mingyang meant by those words at that time." Ying asked.

"Let me tell a story for Fellow Daoist Ying." Ming Ruo summoned out a bench again, sat down, and looked at Ying at the same time.

It seemed that this was not going to be a brief conversation. Ying looked at the chair next to her and sat down as well.

"I'm going to tell you the story of the owner of Tianya Island," Ming Ruo smiled mysteriously, "At that time, the owner of Tianya Island had just entered the Earthly Immortal Realm, but because of his amazing talent, he was valued by the previous owner and was able to follow the previous owner to the outer sea."

"There was a lot of demonic energy in the outer sea. Without the protection of the Sea Edge Stone, ordinary immortals would soon be possessed by demons. This made the Tianya Island owner very nervous at the time. Fortunately, things went surprisingly smoothly. She easily met the world-famous Mingyang Taoist. But unlike the previous island owner, the Tianya Island owner at that time not only saw an immortal who could only sit on the reef, but also saw a prosperous world."

"Prosperous Age? Do you mean the Great Wilderness?" Ying couldn't help asking, muttering in her heart: "I saw a figure at that time, and she saw a prosperous age, and it was all related to Taoist Mingyang. From this point of view, Taoist Mingyang might be the guide, but the age doesn't match."

Taoist Mingyang looked old and seemed to have not much time left. He spoke incoherently and his words did not make sense, giving people a feeling that he was crazy.

But the guide seemed to be full of vigor and dignity, and even gave Ying the feeling that he was much stronger than the Taoist Mingyang who was sitting there alone.

Whether in terms of appearance or the feeling they give, the two are very different.

"Yes, the owner of Tianya Island at that time saw the Great Desolation. As for you, I think the figure you saw was the Ancient Saint Tianhuang."

"The Great Wasteland is now in a prosperous era. The path to immortality is intact, demonic energy is not raging, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment. As the only celestial immortal in the world today, the Ancient Saint of the Great Wasteland is capable of dealing with most threats, even that Guiyi Taoist."

"Most of them, but not all." Ying said, "Stop the Celestial Immortals - this sentence by Taoist Mingyang was actually said by the Ancient Saint Tianhuang, right?"

Ming Ruo nodded and said, "That's another story. The island owner saw that prosperous era through Taoist Ming Yang. After she became the island owner, she began to explore that prosperous era."

"Everyone in the world says that Taoist Mingyang spends all day sitting on a rock in the outer sea, but few people know that he will lead people into a peaceful and prosperous world in the outer sea."

"The island owner was the second cultivator to enter the Great Wilderness after Taoist Mingyang. She saw the power of the Great Wilderness and the hope of becoming an immortal. She also knew the truth about why the world became what it is now."

"Because becoming a celestial being is not enough to completely detach from the world. If you want to travel the universe, you also need to seize the [future] of the world."

"What do you mean?" Ying asked. She thought she had a certain understanding of immortals, but that was only her understanding of ordinary cultivators and ordinary immortals. When it came to the level of Yun Guijun, Ming Ruo, and Ye Ping, it was not something Ying could figure out in a short period of time.

"Becoming an immortal can influence time and space to a certain extent. The higher the level of cultivation, the more far-reaching the influence. Not to mention Yun Guijun of the Ten Thousand Immortals Pavilion, even the deceased demon cultivator Ye Ping can travel through time and space at a specific time and interfere with the past and future of the world."

“So what happens after you go one step further than the Earthly Immortal Realm and become a Heavenly Immortal?” Ming Ruo suddenly asked when he got to this point.

Ying thought for a moment and said, "Can you freely travel through time and space, influence the past and the future at will, and change cause and effect?"

Although what Ying said was powerful enough, Ying still felt that these abilities were a little bit inferior to seizing the [future], so she added: "The seizing [future] you mentioned should be a conceptual thing again."

"That's right," Ming Ruo nodded, "The immortals in the Heavenly Fairyland have a deeper influence on the world. The abilities they possess can even directly affect the origin of this world."

"When the [future] is taken away, the world will gradually decline, and the specific manifestation is the evil energy."

"The evil energy corrodes everything in the world and leads the world towards destruction. The more [future] is taken away, the stronger the evil energy will be, and the faster the world will fall into destruction."

"Those celestial beings, in order to transcend the world themselves, constantly seized the world's [future], which eventually led to the world becoming what it is today. This is why the Ancient Sage Tianhuang said that he wanted to 'stop the celestial beings'."

"Doesn't he want to seize the future of the world and transcend the world?" Ying asked.

"If he wanted to, how could the Great Wilderness exist now?" Ming Ruo asked in return, which could be considered an answer to this question.

Ying did not answer. After all, she had never seen the Ancient Saint Tianhuang. Or was the giant hand she saw in the illusion in the outer sea the Ancient Saint Tianhuang's? Ying was not sure, and did not dare to jump to conclusions.

She also did not ask why the Ancient Sage Tianhuang wanted to save the world but cut off the connection between Dahuang and the world. The reason was obvious. The Ancient Sage Tianhuang could not save so many people and could only make a choice.

"Okay, I roughly understand, but I still have a few questions." Ying looked straight at Ming Ruo and asked: "First of all, you are not the owner of Tianya Island, right? Who is the real owner?"

Ming Ruo was not surprised by Ying's question. Ying continued, "Just now, Palace Master Bai and Palace Master Jiang said that the island owner was refining pills. I should come to the side hall to find Ming Ruo. This statement made me feel a little strange. Then I really found the island owner I thought was, but he was not the island owner who was refining pills as they said."

"In the story you just told me, you always referred to the protagonist as the island owner of Tianya Island instead of 'I'. At least in my opinion, this change of address has no meaning. Combining these two points, I think you are not the real island owner."

"In the original Tianya Island, this was a fact that was not spread to outsiders. In the current Tianya Island, this is no longer a secret. Even if Fellow Daoist Ying didn't ask, I was going to tell you."

After Ming Ruo finished speaking, she turned to look behind Ying with tenderness and deep love.

Ying suddenly felt horrified, which meant that there was someone behind her, but she couldn't detect it.

"My lovely fellow Daoist Ying, it's a good thing you just discovered it now, otherwise I would really hope you would 'see through it but not say it'."

Ying turned around after hearing the other party's voice, and saw Xiao Ying standing behind her, holding a brush in one hand and the word "幻" (illusion) suspended in the air.

"Life is like a dream." Xiao Ying said with a smile. Ying found that the words floating in the air became more solid and profound, as if they were about to be imprinted in her mind.