Genshin Impact: Learning makes me stronger

boom! ! !

That pillar of light, pure to the extreme, carried Fucaros's resolute will to sacrifice, and all the law-compensation, mixed energy, and divine origin that she had accumulated over the past five hundred years.

Like a sword of judgment tearing the sky apart, it pierced straight above the dome of the Opiclay Opera House.

The core of the huge golden gear phantom composed of the law-compensation mixed energy - the Water Throne that floats high in the sky, symbolizing the connection between the Water God's authority and the laws of nature!

At this moment, time was subjectively stretched by countless pairs of frightened, desperate and confused eyes.

Furninna's heart-wrenching cry seemed to be frozen deep in her throat, turning into a silent wail.

Villette's gilded vertical pupils shrank violently, and the water-shaped emblem on top of the scepter let out a wail as it was overwhelmed. The authority derived from the bloodline of the Water Dragon King instinctively felt the impact of this force that was directed at the core of the world's rules!

The expressions of the people in the audience were frozen in extreme shock and fear, as if it were a doomsday picture.

However, beyond the "time dilation" perceived by everyone, on the scale of physical laws, the speed of the light beam is faster than one can think.

Its goal is clear and unique: to destroy the throne of God, complete the last link of deceiving the will of heaven, and completely annihilate its own divinity in exchange for a new life for Fontaine.

Just before the beam of light was about to touch the throne, the figure of Fukaros was about to completely disappear in the light of sacrifice, and the huge guillotine that symbolized the end began to twist and disintegrate unstably due to the shift of its core target.

"Congeal."

A voice, neither high nor low, as calm as the night breeze blowing through Liyue Harbor, but it clearly penetrated the roar of the light column, penetrated all the solidified wails and chaotic energy noises in the Inquisition, and resounded accurately in the depths of Fukaros's consciousness that was about to dissipate, and also resounded in Su Xun's own soul.

This is not a sound that travels through the air, but a declaration that acts directly on the rules.

Su Xun moved.

At the moment when Funina's body collapsed completely due to despair, and at the moment when everyone's vision and perception were still stuck on the previous frame, Su Xun's figure had disappeared from the spot.

There was no afterimage, no ripples in space, and even the fluctuations in energy were extremely weak, as if he had never existed.

The power of time - time freezes!

Om-!

An invisible, absolutely silent realm instantly enveloped the entire space inside the Opiquelée Opera House at a speed faster than light, even slightly penetrating the protective barrier of Villette, isolating the inside and the outside.

In this realm, time in the physical sense has not completely stopped - the heart is still beating extremely slowly, the blood is still flowing at a snail's pace, and the mind is still operating at one billionth of the speed.

But compared to the outside world, compared to the beam of light shooting towards the throne of God, the flow of time here was forcibly compressed and stretched to an incredible proportion!

A moment was stretched into eternity.

In this stretched "moment", Su Xun's figure appeared in the center of the stage, next to Fucaros.

He did not teleport physically, but the power of time acted on himself, allowing him to obtain almost "infinite" reaction and action time in this stagnant time domain.

His movements were so fast that they could not be captured by the naked eye, yet they were accompanied by a strange, controlling calmness.

The index finger and middle finger of his right hand were put together like a sword, and countless tiny, indescribably precise silver-white gear phantoms lingered on the fingertips, which were the embodiment of the power of time.

His fingertips gently pointed toward the core of the sacrificial light column that was about to devour Fucaros.

"Countercurrent·Tracing Light."

The fingertips touched the light of pure destruction and sublimation.

There was no earth-shattering collision, only a silent struggle at the level of rules.

The power of time - local time reversal!

It acts on an extremely tiny "point" at the core of Fucaros' sacrificial light column.

The timeline of this "point" was forcibly moved back a tiny moment by Su Xun's powerful will and power - just before the critical point when Fucaros's divine core completely burned and was irreversibly transformed into energy to impact the throne of God!

It was this moment of being pushed against the current, as if an invisible reef was forcibly embedded in the rushing torrent, causing an imperceptible and fatal "jam" in the resolute sacrificial process.

The figure of Fucaros, who was about to completely turn into light and disappear, strangely stopped for a moment at the moment of "freeze", revealing an extremely blurry and transparent outline that was almost non-existent!

opportunity!

Deep in the pupil of Su Xun's left eye, a dark vortex so deep that it swallowed all light suddenly spun.

That is the core of the power of darkness.

"Eternal Night - Return to the Ruins!"

The silent declaration once again sounded at the soul level.

An invisible and absolutely silent dark force did not devour the light, but directly acted on Fukalos's divine origin that was temporarily "solidified" due to the reversal of time, and was between existence and annihilation!

The power of darkness—conceptual concealment and silence!

This force did not attack Fucaros, but accurately wrapped around her extremely fragile, burning divine core, forming a cocoon of absolute darkness that isolated her from all detection, all energy interactions, and even the perception of her own existence!

This layer of dark cocoon forcibly cut off all connections between Fucaros's divine core and the outside world - including the sacrificial light column, the Water Throne, and the laws of nature, and forcibly "frozen" its state at the moment "before the critical point" achieved by the reversal of time!

The operation was extremely delicate, like using the thinnest silk thread to catch a pearl that was about to fall from the edge of a cliff, and instantly sealing it into black jade that isolated it from everything.

At the same time, Su Xun's right hand did not stop moving.

After completing the "freezing" of Fucaros' core, the two fingers put together turned into a brush, and with the lingering sound of the power of time, they gently brushed across the huge column of light that had lost its core drive but was still shooting towards the throne due to inertia, or the causal traction at the level of world rules.

"Vientiane, exterior!"

The power of space combined with the art of exterior scenery - space cutting and storage!

The front end of the huge sacrificial light column had already touched the edge of the throne, causing the throne to flash violently and ripples at the level of rules.

However, just when it was about to burst out all its destructive energy to complete its mission, the front part that was in contact with the throne, along with most of the energy torrent that followed behind, was precisely "cut" apart by an invisible force of space!

It was as if an invisible sharp blade in space "cut" the beam of light into two.

The cut-off front light column, which carried the core causal connection and most of the energy, still slammed heavily onto the Water Throne according to its original trajectory and will!

Boom——! ! !

This loud noise is infinitely stretched and weakened in the stagnant time domain, but in the outside world's perception, it will suddenly explode later.

An indescribably bright light burst out from the throne. The magnificent throne that symbolized the authority of the God of Water shattered under the violent energy impact. Countless cracks containing divinity instantly covered its base and backrest!

The golden gear phantom made of law-compensated mixed energy was like an ice cube thrown into lava, twisting and boiling violently, and then exploded into a golden rain of light that flew all over the sky!

The throne of God, at the level of rules, was "destroyed"!

The huge second half of the energy that was "cut off" from the light column and had lost its core drive and causal connection was pulled by Su Xun's fingertips and collapsed and gathered silently. It was instantly absorbed into a microscopic space "pocket" that he had temporarily opened up with the technique of exterior scenery and attached to his own sea of ​​consciousness.

This pocket is reinforced by spatial power, and inside it is filled with vortexes formed by devouring power. It greedily and efficiently digests this ownerless and chaotic huge energy, transforms it into pure Yuan Qi, and absorbs it into Su Xun's body without a drop left. There is no waste or leakage, and it perfectly avoids any energy leakage that may alarm the laws of nature.

The entire process is completed in a flash in the stagnant time domain.

Su Xun's movements were smooth and his use of power was precise, efficient, and effortless, perfectly demonstrating his terrifying control as a demon-level being with multiple powers.

When all this was done, the palm of Su Xun's left hand was already holding the absolutely silent dark cocoon that enveloped the final divine core of Fucaros.

It was only the size of a fist and as black as ink, as if it could even swallow up light and perception. It floated quietly above his palm without any breath leaking out.

In the center of the stage, the sacrificial beam of light that pierced through the sky and earth had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the golden light fragments scattered by the shattered throne, like golden dust suspended in the stagnant time domain.

And the huge guillotine, whose structure had collapsed due to the transfer of its energy core, was disintegrating into dots of azure and dark gold light.

The place where Fucaros had originally stood was empty.

It was as if she had never existed, as if she had been completely sublimated and annihilated along with that beam of light.

"Time, flow."

Su Xun's calm voice sounded again, as if unlocking an invisible shackle.

hum!

The stagnant time domain that enveloped the entire court was instantly lifted!

Time returned to its normal flow.

Boom boom boom——!!!

In the outside world, the deafening sound of the throne being destroyed was like a belated thunder, which finally exploded violently in the sky above Fontaine, shaking the entire Opiclay Opera House!

The destructive energy shock wave spread in the sky, tearing huge holes in the clouds, and golden light rain fell like the ashes of divine punishment.

"what!!!"

"My God!"

"The throne... the throne is broken!"

Inside the courtroom, the crowd was once again shocked by the sudden loud noise and the horrifying scene outside, causing chaotic exclamations and screams.

They only saw Villette pronounce the death sentence, the guillotine fell, and then a column of light shot up into the sky, and then the throne collapsed with a loud bang!

As for what happened in between? Where did Fukaros go? They knew nothing!

Everything that happens in the realm where time is frozen does not exist in their perception at all.

“Fukaros——!!!”

Furninna's cries finally broke out, filled with heart-wrenching despair.

She watched the guillotine fall, watched Fucaros disappear in the light, watched the throne collapse... The huge grief instantly overwhelmed her, making her eyes go black, her body completely lost strength, and she fell limply into Su Xun's arms that were extended in time.

Tears flowed out like pearls from a broken string, wetting Su Xun's clothes.

She tightly grasped the clothes on Su Xun's chest, her nails almost digging into it, as if it was the only floating wood she had when she was drowning. Only unconscious cries came out of her mouth: "She's gone... She's gone... She died for us..."

Villette's gilded vertical pupils were filled with unprecedented surprise and shock!

He sensed it!

At the moment when the guillotine fell and the beam of light burst out, he clearly felt a force beyond his understanding intervening!

That force did not directly confront his judgment, but forcibly distorted the continuity of time and space in a way that he could not understand!

He felt that the energy of the magic circle and judgment guillotine he had constructed had an extremely strange and short-lived "fault" and "dislocation" at a certain moment, as if a fragment that did not belong to the original timeline was forcibly inserted!

Immediately afterwards, Fucaros's aura completely disappeared in an absolutely unreasonable way - not annihilation, not sublimation, but... was forcibly "erased" by some higher-level existence?

Then, the Guillotine of Judgment, having lost its core target, collapsed on its own, and the sacrificial light column completed its impact on the throne.

who is it? !

What power is this?!

His eyes swept across the entire audience as sharply as an eagle, and finally fixed on the center of the stage - Su Xun was holding Funina, who had fainted from grief.

Su Xun's expression was just the right amount of heavy and contained a hint of worry for Funina, as if he was also immersed in the sadness of "witnessing" Fukaros' sacrifice.

But in that strange moment just now, Villette was extremely certain that the source of the power that twisted time and space and obscured everything was in Su Xun!

Although there was no evidence, and although there was no abnormal energy fluctuation on Su Xun's body at the moment, the instinctive intuition from the Water Dragon King was frantically warning him!

This man...what did he do?!

Su Ying hugged Funina, feeling the girl's body twitching slightly due to excessive sadness, and sighed slightly in his heart.

He gently stroked Funina's back, and a trace of pure Qi with healing and purifying properties quietly flowed into her body, soothing her mind that was on the verge of collapse.

His eyes seemed heavy as he looked at the dissipating fragments of the throne and the golden rain of light in the sky, as if he was mourning for Fucaros.

However, only he himself knew that the palm of his hand that was loosely supporting Finina's back was firmly supporting the absolutely silent cocoon of darkness through the clothes.

Inside is Fucaros's final divine core, frozen in time at the moment before annihilation, and perfectly sealed and obscured by the power of darkness.

The conspiracy has been accomplished.

The next question is how to make this "dead" water god "return" at the right time and in a reasonable way.

And...how to comfort the heartbroken person in my arms.

Su Xun lowered his eyes and fell on Funina's pale, tear-soaked little face. A hint of tenderness and determination flashed in the depths of his eyes.

"Don't be afraid, Furninna." He said to himself, "I saved the other you. Your sacrifice ends here."