Genshin Impact: Learning makes me stronger

Five hundred years ago, on the edge of the Kanreya battlefield.

The cracks in time tore apart silently, and a ray of pure silver light, like a sharp blade piercing a decayed painting, suddenly descended upon the wasteland filled with despair and filth.

The light dissipated, and Su Xun's figure solidified in the void, stepping onto this cursed land.

Underfoot were cracked and charred rock formations, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur, metal rust, and some indescribable decay, mixing into a disgusting miasma.

The sky was a depressing lead-gray color, torn apart by twisted purple-black energy flows like a festering wound.

In the distance, the huge broken mechanical creations were like the skeletons of giant beasts, emitting billowing black smoke. The roars of abyss monsters and the roars of energy explosions could be heard faintly, forming the background sound of this doomsday battlefield.

The foul aura wrapped around him like a living thing, trying to erode his protective Qi.

Su Xun frowned slightly, and the devouring power in his body quietly started to operate, forming an invisible vortex on the surface of his body. The filthy energy was swallowed up and purified as soon as it touched him, turning into nutrients for pure Yuan Qi.

"This is... the dark disaster caused by Kanriya..." He whispered to himself, his voice swallowed by the dead wind.

His eyes scanned the surroundings like an eagle, penetrating through layers of dirty energy fog, and looked towards the core of the battlefield, which was also the most polluted and had the most terrifying energy fluctuations.

There, he felt it.

A will that is grand, compassionate, yet madly pulled by deep pain and filth, like a lighthouse about to capsize in the dark ocean - the Great Compassionate Tree King!

Without any hesitation, Su Xun's figure turned into a stream of light that was difficult to capture with the naked eye. He ignored the twisted abyss rifts and wandering low-level monsters along the way and rushed towards the source of that will.

Time was compressed and space was folded under his feet, and every step he took spanned a distance that was unimaginable for ordinary people.

The closer you get to the core, the more shocking the changes in the environment become.

The earth is no longer charred, but covered with a layer of sticky, wriggling "living moss" that emits an ominous black and purple light. They devour all matter as if they have life, converting it into more filthy nutrients.

There were tiny black geometric fragments floating in the air, constantly multiplying and dividing. They were concrete fragments of forbidden knowledge. Just by making eye contact, one could feel the crazy whispers trying to get into one's mind.

"Get out of here!" Su Xun snorted coldly, and the power of darkness spread silently, forming an area of ​​absolute silence around him that was isolated from all spiritual pollution.

Those black fragments hit the field, as if crashing into nothingness, and were instantly annihilated and swallowed up.

Finally, he broke through the last layer of the thick "curtain" formed by filthy energy.

The scene before him made Su Xun, who was already used to the storms, feel suffocated by shock and heartache.

In the center of a huge basin that has been completely eroded by foul energy, stands the shadow of a towering tree.

That is the manifestation of the will of the Great Compassionate Tree King, the symbol of the source of wisdom and life in Teyvat - the World Tree!

However, at this moment, this sacred tree, which should be radiating the emerald light of life and flowing with the nectar of wisdom, presents a heartbreaking scene.

Its trunk still emits a faint, pure green light, like the last spark struggling in the endless darkness.

But starting from the roots of the trees, large areas have been dyed into a dirty purple-black color!

The thick roots seemed to be soaked in thick asphalt, and the sticky, foul-smelling black mud was spreading and eroding upward along the roots madly.

On the tree trunk, the intricate patterns that originally symbolized wisdom and vitality were twisted into blasphemous symbols, and what flowed was no longer nectar, but a sticky black liquid that seemed to have life.

The tree crowns are even more horrible to look at. Most of the leaves that were once as green as jade and full of vitality have now withered, rotted, and turned into ashes and scattered.

The remaining leaves also appear a sickly dark green or purple-black color, with curled edges, as if they had been corroded by strong acid.

What’s even more terrifying is that countless black vines made of pure filthy energy with twisted and grotesque shapes are like countless greedy poisonous snakes, entwining and tightening the tree trunk from all directions!

They squirmed, and every time they tightened, they tore off large tracts of pure green light from the shadow of the World Tree, transforming it into a part of themselves, while injecting more turbulent filthy black mud into the tree body!

The World Tree was shaking violently, each tremor accompanied by a silent wail of pain. The pure green light was like a candle in the wind, flickering unsteadily, resisting the pervasive erosion.

Its branches and leaves unconsciously whipped the black vines, but to little effect, and instead more vines entangled it.

In the core area of ​​the tree canopy, which symbolizes the origin of the tree king's consciousness, the green light is most concentrated, but it is also under the most violent siege.

Several of the thickest black vines with blasphemous runes flowing on their surfaces were tightly wrapped around there like giant pythons, constantly squeezing and penetrating inwards, trying to completely pollute the final pure core!

"Great Compassionate Tree King..." Su Xun's eyes flashed with cold light, and a huge rage surged in his chest.

He could clearly sense that, although the will at her core was still strong, resisting the erosion of madness and pollution like a rock, her strength was rapidly fading, and her consciousness seemed to be trapped in an endless quagmire. Every time she woke up, it was accompanied by great pain and struggle.

That pure green light is already at its end!

Can't wait any longer!

Su Xun did not hold back at all, and the power in his body was instantly stimulated to the extreme!

Time - stands still!

hum!

With Su Xun as the center, an invisible area suddenly expanded!

Within the area, the black vines that were frantically wriggling, tearing, and injecting filth suddenly became extremely slow, as if they were thrown into ten thousand years of black ice!

The light of the profane runes flowing on the surface of the vines also became dim and sluggish.

Even the surging speed of the filthy black air that was constantly rising was forcibly suppressed.

Time power-local time flow suppression!

Darkness——Return to the abyss!

Immediately afterwards, pure dark power turned into an invisible tide, silently washing over the black vines that were frozen in time!

This darkness does not swallow up the light, but is annihilation, nothingness, and the erasure of concepts!

Those filthy vines that were materialized by forbidden knowledge and filled with crazy gibberish, the moment they came into contact with this annihilation and darkness, the "concept" of their existence was forcibly stripped away and erased!

Like a hot knife cutting through solidified grease, the vines swept by the dark tide collapsed and dissipated silently, turning into the most primitive and harmless energy dust!

Their entanglement, tearing and pollution of the World Tree were forcibly interrupted!

Devouring——Refining the Void!

Su Xun raised his hands, palms facing each other, and a silver-white vortex so deep that it seemed to be able to swallow the starry sky suddenly formed!

The vortex burst out with a terrifying suction force, directly targeting the sticky black mud that was wriggling like a living thing and spreading madly upward along the roots of the World Tree, as well as the fragments of forbidden knowledge that were floating and multiplying in the air!

Devouring power——all things return to their origin!

The filthy black mud seemed to be grabbed by an invisible giant hand and rushed towards the whirlpool madly!

The black fragments floating in the air were like moths to a flame, being forcibly pulled in and sucked in!

The vortex spun wildly, instantly decomposing and refining the filthy energy that was swallowed up!

Those fragments of forbidden knowledge that were enough to pollute the devil and distort reality were like ice and snow thrown into a furnace in front of the devouring power controlled by Su Xun. They were forcibly restored to the purest and most original Yuan Qi and merged into Su Xun's body without a drop left. Not only did they not cause any burden, but instead became a supplement to his strength!

The three powers worked together seamlessly, like a precise scalpel, instantly cutting off most of the filthy tentacles wrapped around the trunk of the World Tree, curbing the spread of black mud, and clearing the source of pollution in the core of the battlefield!

The pure green light on the trunk of the World Tree suddenly felt less pressure, and the light seemed to become brighter.

The shaking of the tree trunk also slowed down a bit.

Su Xun did not pause, his body turned into a stream of light, ignoring the remaining scattered vines that were moving slowly due to the stagnation of time, and rushed straight to the core of the tree canopy - the area that was tightly entangled and almost completely wrapped by several of the thickest and most evil black vines!

He could clearly sense that the last consciousness of the Great Compassion Tree King was deep in the core, like a butterfly wrapped in layers of spider webs, struggling and sinking in pain under the erosion of filth!

"Open it!"

Su Xun's eyes flashed fiercely, and he clenched his right fist, absorbing the power condensed in the tip of his fist, forming a highly compressed silver-white vortex emitting destructive waves. Without hesitation, he slammed towards the thickest filthy vine that was entangled with the core!

boom--! ! !

The silver-white vortex of destruction collided violently with the filthy black vines!

A dazzling light burst out, accompanied by a teeth-grinding tearing sound!

The area where time was stagnant was forcibly torn apart and disintegrated by this violent energy impact!

The remaining vines resumed movement, making sharp and piercing hissing sounds, and bit towards Su Xun madly!

Su Xun didn't care and concentrated all his strength on that one punch!

The silver-white vortex was unstoppable, like a red-hot iron piercing into the snow, tearing, crushing, and devouring the tough and filthy vines layer by layer!

The last barrier surrounding the core was forcibly blasted open with a huge gap!

Through the torn gap, Su Xun finally saw the scene at the core——

A point of emerald green light that was pure to the extreme and contained endless wisdom and breath of life, like an imprisoned star, flickered faintly in the filthy black mud.

At the core of the light, one can vaguely see the silhouette of a curled-up woman made of pure light and consciousness.

She was wearing a long dress woven from leaves and vines. She had an elegant figure and a blurry face, but she exuded an indescribable compassion and fatigue.

At this moment, she closed her eyes tightly, frowned, and her body trembled slightly under the erosion of filth. The pure emerald green light was being madly devoured and polluted by the surrounding darkness, becoming dimmer and dimmer.

That is the final core of consciousness of the Great Compassionate Tree King!

"I found you!" Su Xun was certain in his heart, and without hesitation, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the emerald green core wrapped in filth!

Just when his fingertips were about to touch the emerald green light—

hum! ! !

A huge, chaotic will filled with endless malice, like a sleeping ancient beast that was completely awakened!

The filthy part of the entire World Tree, along with all the black mud and forbidden knowledge fragments in the basin, began to boil violently!

A terrifying head phantom made of pure filthy energy, extremely huge, covered with countless madly rotating eyeballs and twisted sharp teeth, suddenly condensed and took shape in the filthy sky above Su Xun's head!

The densely packed eyeballs on the head instantly locked onto Su Xun and the emerald green core that he was about to touch!

"How dare you, ants... to touch... my prey!!!"

A terrifying thought filled with madness and tyranny, enough to cause an ordinary demon god to suffer a mental breakdown in an instant, was like billions of red-hot steel needles, piercing fiercely into Su Xun's sea of ​​consciousness!

This is the counterattack of the source of forbidden knowledge pollution after being angered!

It is the ultimate malice that gathers the filth at the core of the Kanreya catastrophe!

At the same time, countless sharp black spikes composed of pure filthy energy suddenly burst out from the torn ends of the filthy vines below and from the black mud that wrapped the emerald green core!

Like a rainstorm, it stabbed at Su Xun and the core in front of him from all directions without any blind spots!

The target of the attack is not only Su Xun, but also to completely destroy the last divinity of the Great Compassion Tree King before he succeeds!