Genshin Impact: Learning makes me stronger

The hustle and bustle of Liyue Harbor settled into a warm tranquility within the high walls of the Su Mansion.

The afterglow of the joy of celebrating Nilu and Ningguang's pregnancy and Su Xun's successful proposal to Ganyu has not yet faded, and the fragrance of the colorful flowers in the courtyard seems to have been tainted with this sweetness.

The two children were taken to a nap by their respective mothers. The mechanical dolls silently cleaned up the traces of the celebration, leaving only a faint smell of fireworks and the fragrance of desserts in the air.

Su Xun stood alone in front of the study window, looking at the vast Yunlai Sea outside Liyue Harbor with deep eyes.

Every time he saw Nashida, her eyes, as pure as a newly born rainforest, always reminded him of his unfinished "past".

"No need for too much preparation..." Su Xun whispered to himself. The power of time flowed quietly in his body like a gentle stream, but it contained the power to change the world.

Once you fully master this power, crossing the barrier of time is not easy, but it is by no means out of reach.

The key lies in "anchor point" and "disturbance".

His "anchor point" was extremely clear - at the end of the Kanreya War five hundred years ago, the critical moment when the Great Compassion Tree King was about to be completely contaminated by forbidden knowledge and had to choose self-sacrifice.

It was a node in the long river of history with violent shocks and complex cause and effect entanglements. Its chaos and the outburst of powerful energy provided a gap for his intervention that would not easily attract excessive attention from "natural law" or the world's rules themselves.

As for the disturbance...

Su Xun's eyes swept across the silhouette of Lei Dian Meiyi who was carefully taking care of the neon flower in the courtyard, Lei Dian Zhenzhen and Gui Zhong were discussing something, and Yu Yu Chiyo, Ningguang, Yae Shenzi, Lei Dianying and the girls from Kitsai Palace were sipping tea elegantly.

Gan Yu was quietly sorting books aside, with a blush and a happy glow on her face that had not yet completely faded.

Nilu leaned on the couch, her hand gently covering her belly, her eyes gentle, and she chatted softly with Eula and Funina.

"I must make sure that my actions will not change the consequences of their existence." Su Xun muttered to himself.

He saved the Mahabodhi tree king in order to bring her back, not to create a parallel world without Nashida or to change the trajectory of his encounters with his wives.

This requires that his intervention must be precise and efficient, just like turning a key gear inside a precision clock, which must not only achieve the goal but also make the operation of the entire system appear to be "normal."

The door of the study was gently pushed open, and Gan Yu walked in holding a cup of refreshing flower tea.

She was wearing the simple long dress that Su Xun had given her. Her long blue-purple hair fell softly behind her, and her whole body exuded a calm and contented beauty.

She saw Su Xun's back standing by the window and walked even more lightly.

"Junior brother," Gan Yu's voice was like a clear mountain stream, "Would you like a cup of tea? It's freshly brewed."

Su Xun turned around, a gentle smile naturally appeared on his face, and he took the warm cup of tea.

The wall of the cup transmitted the warmth of Ganyu's fingertips, as well as her silent concern.

"Thinking about something?" Gan Yu keenly noticed a hint of solemnity in the depths of Su Xun's eyes.

Su Xun did not hide anything and gently held her hand: "Well, I'm thinking about something I must do. About... the other side of time."

Ganyu opened her eyes slightly.

As a half-immortal beast, and having experienced the war between demons and gods, she has an understanding of the mysteries of time and cause and effect that far exceeds that of ordinary people.

She immediately understood what Su Xun meant.

"Is it... for the 'Tree King'?" Ganyu's voice was very soft, with a hint of understanding.

She had heard Su Xun briefly mention the relationship between the Great Mercy Tree King and Nashida.

"Yes." Su Xun nodded with a frank look in his eyes. "I must go back to that moment and take her out of the abyss. This is my promise to her five hundred years ago, and also to Nashida. Besides, now is the time."

What he meant, of course, was the complete control over the power of time.

Ganyu's grip tightened slightly, and a hint of worry flashed across her eyes.

Traveling through time and interfering with important historical events is unimaginably dangerous.

But when she looked at Su Xun's firm and calm eyes, her worry gradually turned into trust and support.

"What do you need me to do?" she asked softly.

Su Xun shook his head, took her into his arms, and rested his chin on her forehead: "You are here, take good care of everyone, take good care of our home, that is the greatest support for me. Wait for me to come back. This time... it won't be too long, at least in your perception of time, maybe it's just the time of a long dream."

What he meant was using the power of time to control the flow rate and minimize the impact of his departure on the present world.

Ganyu nodded quietly in his arms: "Yes. We will all wait for you. Come back safely, Xun."

For the first time when she was awake, she called out this affectionate name with infinite attachment.

Su Xun felt warm in his heart and hugged her tightly: "Definitely."

……

As night falls, the lights of thousands of homes in Liyue Harbor are like a galaxy falling into the mortal world.

There was peace in the Su Mansion. The children had already fallen asleep and the wives had returned to their rooms to rest.

Su Xun quietly came to a quiet room in the mansion that was specially opened and engraved with complex runes.

This place was arranged by Gui Zhong and him personally, which can isolate internal and external interference to the greatest extent and reduce energy fluctuations during travel.

He sat cross-legged on the cushion in the center of the quiet room and slowly closed his eyes.

His mind sank deep into the sea of ​​consciousness, and the power as vast as the sea of ​​stars began to boil.

The power of time was awakened first.

It is no longer a stream, but a rushing river of stars!

Countless phantoms of gears that were condensed from the pure laws of time and flashed with silver-white light appeared, rotated, and meshed around him, making a low and grand hum, as if an extremely precise cosmic clock was starting up.

The rotation of each gear represents the precise movement of a scale in the time dimension.

His consciousness was like a stone thrown into the river of time, causing ripples.

The powerful will penetrated the layers of time curtains and extended firmly towards the predetermined "anchor point" - the final battlefield of Kanreya, which was tainted by war and forbidden knowledge. He "saw" the burning sky, the cracked earth, and the twisted abyss monsters.

And... the huge phantom of the World Tree standing in the center of the battlefield, whose branches and leaves are being madly corroded by the filthy black air, and which radiates the light of compassion and wisdom - the true form of the Great Compassionate Tree King!

The dark power resonates with it.

It is not used for attack, but turns into a deep, silent "curtain" like the background of the universe, gently wrapping the "timeline" that Su Xun is about to cross, temporarily and subtly "peeling off" and "shielding" it from the main time stream.

This layer of darkness was not meant to swallow up the light, but to hide it - to hide the "ripples" that might be caused by his travel through time on the present timeline, just like opening up an imperceptible tributary in a turbulent river for a small fish swimming upstream.

The devouring power slowly rotates at the core, like an invisible vortex, not for plunder, but for stability.

It firmly binds and harmonizes Su Xun's own powerful life source with the time and space energy required for the crossing, forming a highly condensed and non-disintegrating energy core, ensuring that when he crosses the time barrier, his own existence will not be damaged or dissipated by the turbulence of time and space.

The power of dust turned into the finest and most flexible "silk thread", one end of which was connected to Su Xun's body in the quiet room, and the other end was deeply and invisibly anchored in the land of Liyue Harbor, in the Su Mansion, and in the breath of his wife and children.

These are his coordinates for returning home, and they are the beacon that will ensure that he will never get lost in the long river of time. These earthly threads are also his guarantee for resisting the erosion of the long river of time and maintaining his "present existence" from being completely assimilated by the past.

The preparations were completed in a silent symphony of power.

Su Xun slowly opened his eyes, and in the depths of his pupils it seemed as if countless stars were born and annihilated, with the trajectory of time flowing clearly in them.

He took a deep breath, and that breath seemed to suck away all the light and sound in the quiet room, leaving only the roar of the gears of time echoing deep in his soul.

"Anchor point locked... Disturbance shielding ready... Energy core stable... Return coordinates secure..."

He murmured softly, and every word seemed to carry the weight of time.

"Great Kindness Tree King..." Su Xun's gaze penetrated the wall of the quiet room, penetrated the dust of five hundred years of time, and fell on the battlefield shrouded in despair, "I'm here."

The moment the words fell, a bright silver light appeared in the quiet room!

The phantoms of countless time gears suddenly accelerated their rotation, transforming into a dazzling beam of light that spanned the past and present, completely engulfing Su Xun's figure!

The column of light did not explode outward, but collapsed inward rapidly, like an elongated point of light, and eventually disappeared above the cushion, leaving only tiny spatial ripples in the air and time fluctuations that had not yet completely subsided.

The quiet room returned to silence, as if nothing had happened.

Only the breath of time and space that remained in the air and that was beyond ordinary comprehension, as well as the runes engraved on the ground that were flickering with a faint afterglow, proved that everything that had just happened was not an illusion.

The night in Liyue Harbor is still deep and peaceful.

In the Su Mansion, the wives might have sensed something in their dreams, or they might have sensed nothing.

Only Ganyu couldn't help but clench the empty corner of the quilt beside her, with her bright eyes open, her brows slightly furrowed, and a feeling of worry rising in her heart.

And upstream of the long river of time, on the land ravaged by evil five hundred years ago, a silver light that did not belong to that era quietly descended like a sword piercing the clouds of despair.

The story of the Great Compassionate Tree King is about to be completely rewritten in the "history" that has long been predetermined!