Genshin Impact: Demon God of Shura

[The ley lines... are actually connected to my Divine Heart?]

Lan Tian looked at the earth veins in his consciousness with some disbelief and murmured aloud.

Looking at the ley lines beneath the Teyvat continent that resembled white streams, Lantian couldn't help but touch one of the nearby ley lines with his divine sense.

Ok?

As soon as he touched the earth's veins, several indistinct voices appeared in Lan Tian's mind. Judging from the voices... they seemed to be human voices, and there were men, women, young and old among them, and they were strangely familiar...

"...Hey bro, one 3 Mora, right? Okay, here's fifteen Mora for you..."

"...Okay, ma'am, here you go, five potato pancakes in total..."

"...With Mora...things are so much more convenient, all thanks to...the Emperor and the God of War..."

"...The bank teller said...the name 'Mora' comes from the Emperor's divine name...and Mora was forged by...the Emperor and the God of War using their own power..."

"...No one can replicate Mora!"

P.S.: Please see Chapter 55 for the detailed dialogue.

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"This is……"

Upon hearing these sounds, a distant yet familiar scene flashed through Lan Tian's mind, and a look of reminiscence appeared on his face.

[That was... shortly after I and Morax created Mora, I was sitting on a rooftop with Gui Zhong watching a conversation between a stall owner and a customer below... It seems it was recorded by the ley lines...]

Thinking this, Lan Tian used his divine sense to touch another ley line, and immediately several familiar voices rang in Lan Tian's mind, but this time they were somewhat different...

"...You came all this way just to tell me this... No matter how well you put it... why don't you go and see for yourself the place you've been eyeing for the Rock Demon's territory for so long..."

"...Hehehe...Why? It's because..."

"...You mean...the Rock Demon God, the Asura Demon God, and the Dust Demon God have formed an alliance..."

"...Okay! Let's do it this way... But what about the God of Dust..."

"...That's easy. I'll just find a few fanatical followers to lure the nearby monster horde over there...but you'll have to give me a portion of your territory, Mountain Demon God..."

"...If you can kill the God of Asura, perhaps I can give you a portion of my territory...The Demon God of Gale...After all..."

"...Heh, after all, that bloodthirsty and ferocious Asura God was killed by the combined efforts of us demon gods..."

"...Heh, so you knew too..."

"...Nonsense...I participated back then...I still remember...when that Asura God was dying...the sword in his hand was still stuck in the head of a recently deceased high-level demon god...He killed four high-level demon gods, and even...severed several high-level demon gods and countless mid-level demon gods to serious injury...among them..."

"...Unexpectedly, there's a long, narrow blade mark on the back of the Gale Demon God, slashed by the Asura God across a demon god..."

"...How dare you say that to me? What happened to that knife wound that went right through your chest...?"

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"Ah... I see..."

Lan Tian immediately recognized the owners of the two voices and couldn't help but sneer.

"Just a defeated foe from back then, but... before I was born, was there a God of Asura on Teyvat? Hmm..."

As Lan Tian murmured to himself, he realized that he had been focusing his divine sense on the earth's veins for quite some time. Just as he was about to withdraw his divine sense, he discovered that someone was looking for him.

A semi-transparent hand materialized from the earth's veins, stretching out towards the blue sky and gesturing wildly, seemingly trying to express something urgently, urging the observer not to withdraw their divine sense.

Seeing that the other party seemed very anxious, Lan Tian abandoned the idea of ​​withdrawing his divine sense and instead looked at the gesturing hand in front of him with some curiosity, and began to speculate on the other party's thoughts.

"You mean you have a message to convey to me?"

Lan Tian thought for a moment, then tentatively said this.

Upon hearing this, the hand paused for a moment, then immediately gave Lan Tian a thumbs-up and waved it up and down.

"Pfft!"

Blue Sky was clearly surprised that the earth's reaction was so anthropomorphic, even mimicking the gesture, which amused Blue Sky.

"Ahem, so what message do you want to convey to me?"

Suppressing his smile, Lan Tian looked at the hand in front of him and asked.

Upon hearing this, the hand immediately extended its index finger and pointed in a direction, then pointed to itself, indicating that Lan Tian should follow it.

"I see. Lead the way."

Lan Tian immediately understood and followed the hand in the direction he had just come from.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Lan Tian, ​​led by a hand conjured from the earth's veins, arrived at a special ley line. He immediately froze on the spot, his azure eyes staring blankly at the ley line before him.

As for why it's considered special... it's because this ley line is red, a scarlet red like fresh blood, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding pure white ley lines.

After a while, Lan Tian finally came to his senses and looked at the hand beside him that kept pointing at the ley lines in front of them, asking in confusion:

"You mean... let me touch it?"

Upon hearing this, the hand immediately gave a thumbs-up to the blue sky again.

Lan Tian nodded in agreement, then approached the crimson ley line and closed his eyes to carefully sense its energy.

[Hmm? Why does this feel so familiar? And this aura... it's so similar to mine... it seems to be a small fragment of memory preserved by the ley lines...]

At this moment, Lan Tian's expression was very strange, and he couldn't help but reach out and gently touch the scarlet ley line in front of him.

As soon as Lan Tian touched the earth's veins, he felt as if his consciousness was being forcibly pulled in by an inexplicable force, and he immediately felt a sense of weightlessness.

However, soon, a blurry scene that was extremely unfamiliar to Lan Tian appeared in his eyes. When the scene in front of him became clear, Lan Tian opened his mouth wide, his eyes filled with shock.

What...is going on?

All that could be seen in the blue sky's view was a bloody scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

A devastated ruin, ravaged by a great battle, with all sorts of severed limbs scattered on the ground, grotesque heads staring blankly into the distance, blood-stained weapons and armor, and several mountains of corpses piled up from bloodied and mutilated bodies, with a crimson river of blood flowing through them...

However, Lan Tian keenly noticed that there were several relatively intact corpses lying in one place, with a distinctive corpse kneeling in the center. The other corpses were arranged in a fan shape around the kneeling corpse, seemingly foreshadowing the fierce battle that had taken place here.

Lan Tian walked over and saw that the kneeling corpse was now looking down, its blood-red eyes fixed on a corpse at its feet, with a strong killing intent still lingering in its eyes; its head was full of white hair; its back was covered with all kinds of weapons, including a long spear that had pierced through the corpse's chest and was stuck straight in the ground in front of it; the corpse was missing its left shoulder and left arm, which seemed to have been cut off, and lay on the ground not far to the left of the corpse; and on its only remaining right arm, the right hand was still tightly gripping a sharp longsword that was entirely blood-red and white, the other end of which was stuck in the head of a corpse at its feet.

The aura emanating from that longsword was something even the Asura God, Lan Tian, ​​felt quite wary of. However, along with the wariness, Lan Tian also felt a sense of familiarity, even stronger than the original crimson ley line.

Judging from the situation... it seems these people were besieging the other side, but were killed by a last-ditch counterattack before they were about to die.

Judging from the wounds on each corpse, Lan Tian was certain that they were all caused by the same person and the same weapon, with no third party involved. Even the cuts on the surrounding limbs and severed limbs were the same. However, this was not the most shocking thing.

Most shockingly, upon closer inspection, Lan Tian was astonished to discover that the relatively intact corpses were all high-level demon gods! And the severed limbs were those of mid-level and low-level demon gods!

"This!!! Such terrifying combat power! No... could this be..."

Looking at the bloody scenes in his mind, and recalling the mention of the former Asura God in the conversation between the Mountain Demon God and the Gale Demon God in the earth veins, Lan Tian immediately guessed the identity of the white-haired corpse.

As if to verify Lan Tian's conjecture, the corpse suddenly raised its head, turned and stared straight at Lan Tian, ​​its blood-red eyes now radiating a strong, ominous red light!

"Oops!!!"

This was Lan Tian's last thought at the time.