I picked up this little grass god.

"Goddess, mother! Please accept my greetings!"

Since she was Nashida's stepmother, she was his stepmother, so Liu Bai immediately approached her.

"Humph."

Looking at Liu Bai who came up to him and clasped his hands together in greeting, Apepu folded his hands over his chest and snorted, ignoring him.

It was such a stupid guy who kidnapped my daughter!

It was obvious that Apep had gotten into the mood and was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with Liu Bai.

"?"

Apep's reaction made Liu Bai scratch his head and turn back to whisper in Nashida's ear.

"Girl, your godmother doesn't seem to like me, what should I do...?"

"Well, how about you try to say something nicer?"

Hearing Liu Bai's doubts, Nashida looked at Apep and made a suggestion.

"nice words……"

Liu Bai scratched his head.

After thinking for a moment, Liu Bai straightened his collar, then stepped forward and knelt on one knee with his hands clasped.

"Bai, I have been wandering for half my life, and I only regret that I have never met my mother. If you don't abandon me, Bai is willing to be your stepmother."

Liu Bai spoke to Apepu seriously.

"..."

Apep always felt that there was something strange about Liu Bai's words, and he felt a little scared.

"Who wants your son? I don't want him..."

Then Apep said with disdain.

"Buyer, keep busy, I have to go collect the pollution from the power plant."

After saying something disdainful about Liu Bai, Apep turned around and spoke to the Great Tree King and Nashida.

Although Nashida asked her to deal with the pollution from the power plant, she herself was very concerned about the matter.

The reason is very simple. Since she moved from the desert to the forest, she rarely felt the lush and green Sumeru in ancient times, instead of the endless sea of ​​sand today.

So she cherishes the plants here very much. When there is pollution that harms the forest, she will definitely be the first to rush to the front, and the same goes for pollution from power plants.

In fact, some time ago, the dead zones in the entire Xumi territory were basically cleared out by her alone.

Although the forbidden knowledge has disappeared, the scars and sequelae caused by the forbidden knowledge will not disappear with it. The Death Tumor at the source of the Death Zone is the result of the elemental life infected by the forbidden knowledge suffering torture and dying.

Even if the forbidden knowledge has disappeared, their forms have long been distorted, so the dead zone will not disappear, and someone needs to clean it up.

After speaking to the Great Tree King and Nashida, Apep left first.

"I'm going back to the Palace of Wisdom too. You guys should decorate the wedding room well."

After Apep left, the Great Tree King chuckled, gave some instructions to Liu Bai and Nashida, and then left as well.

Nashida nodded, then took Liu Bai's arm.

"Don't run around from today until the wedding. In addition to the wedding room, we need to arrange the wedding venue and the wedding process. There will probably be several wedding rehearsals by then."

Nashida said to Liu Bai after taking his arm.

"Okay, I get it girl."

Liu Bai had no choice but to nod his head and temporarily gave up the idea of ​​going out to handle daily commissions.

Then the two of them began to discuss how to decorate the wedding room in Jingshan Palace.

……

In this way, for the next half month, Liu Bai followed Nashida closely and decorated the wedding room with her.

At this time, the wedding venue had also been decided, so the wedding was held directly in Jingshan Palace. After all, Jingshan Palace was the highest-standard palace in Xumi City.

And there is no way for the wedding to involve everyone in Xumi City like the Flower God’s Birthday Festival. After all, participating in the Flower God’s Birthday Festival is a spontaneous act and does not require the Ministry of Education to provide food and drink.

But if all the people in Xumi City were to be invited to the wedding, it would be impossible to hold just the banquet.

So according to Nashida's idea, the wedding will be held in Jingshan Palace, and only those who are invited and hold invitations can attend.

But in addition to this, some moras were allocated from the House of Worship to major restaurants so that everyone could be offered a certain discount on the day's meals, which can be considered a certain degree of participation.

Finally, she also planned to use the void to project a projection above Mount Sumeru so that all the people in Mount Sumeru could see the entire wedding process in Jingshan Palace.

After deciding these, all that’s left is to decorate the wedding venue.

Liu Bai followed Nashida closely and did whatever she asked him to do, such as blowing up a hundred balloons in one breath.

Occasionally, Nashida would go to the Palace of Wisdom to discuss something with the Great Compassionate Tree King.

At this time, Liu Bai would wisely walk to the sofa next to him and lie down, pick up the book on the table and cover his face with it, and fall asleep after a few seconds.

……

After returning to Liyue, Ying, Paimon and the others went to the Chasm as soon as possible.

They planned to explore the Layered Abyss and then go to the neighboring country of Xumi through the passage here.

However, the depth of the Layered Abyss was beyond their expectations, and they encountered some dark filth at the bottom of the abyss. Fortunately, these filth could be purified with Lumen Stone, which did not hinder their progress.

They should have been completely in the dark about the depths of the Abyss, but a newly met adventurer risked his life to draw a map of the bottom of the Abyss, allowing them to explore the entire Abyss. In the end, they encountered the [Seventh Heir Worm], a giant excavation mechanism left behind by Kanreya, also known as the Ruins Serpent.

While they were fighting the giant relic snake, the giant spikes floating in the air that were similar to the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain were hit by something and suddenly fell down and hit the giant relic snake, helping them end the battle.

After that, Ying and the others returned to Liyue Harbor to rest for two days.

But today, they received another commission from a miner, coming to investigate the strange hillbillies at the bottom of the abyss.

In this way, they came to the strangest place under the abyss, a ruined city hanging upside down.

"Speaking of which, the last time I followed Zhiqiong here, I wanted to ask you, looking at this upside-down city, what do you think of, traveler?"

Looking at the upside-down city ruins above, Paimon suddenly turned around and asked Ying.

"Hanging upside down... Do you mean the reversed statue of filth?"

After hearing what Paimon said, Ying quickly remembered something.

"What is that?"

Krevy looked at the two of them curiously.

The last time they met with Dain, Krevie was not present, so she didn't know about the Defiled Reversed Idol.

"Anyway, it's something very weird, and it's related to the Abyss Cult."

Paimon simply explained to Krevy.

At this moment, a portal to the abyss suddenly opened beside the three of them.

The next moment, a blond man wearing a half eyepatch walked out.

"……what?"

"..."

After seeing the man named Dainsreb, Paimon was stunned for a moment, and Dainsreb also fell silent.

Krevy tilted her head and looked at Dainsreb in confusion. From their reactions, she could confirm that Ying and Paimon knew the man who suddenly appeared, but she always felt that their reactions were weird.

"Could it be that..."

"Dain, have you reached the point where you will be summoned as soon as someone says the words 'Abyss Cult'?"

Paimon scratched his head, and then couldn't help but say this to Dainsleb.

……