Modern Teyvat, bound to the Abyss Spiral

"Then who owns this skeleton?"

"Her story goes that she knew some secrets and was silenced, but she was eventually left with her body intact by a very powerful god."

A flash of understanding flashed in Lei Dianzhen's eyes: "It should be the one who controls time."

"You know this too!" Li Qingping was shocked, but then he was relieved. After all, it was the encyclopedia he had personally approved, so it was normal for him to know more.

"It should be Yi-Si--" Lei Dianzhen deliberately stretched out her words, turning around midway to see Li Qingping's reaction. Seeing him rushing over in panic to cover her mouth, she immediately laughed, "Just don't say it. How could I not know the reason behind this?"

"My dear Miss, please stop scaring me."

"The eldest lady has already found someone else. I don't dare to take on the responsibility." Lei Dianzhen asked again, "Did she tell you the secret?"

"No, he said he was afraid that I would die too." Li Qingping didn't dare to continue with the previous words. He had already started thinking about how to compliment Lei Dianzhen if they had a conflict in the future.

Old woman? He didn't want to die yet.

Real sister? This is no different from seeking death.

I can’t think of it at all. If there is a conflict in the future, I will solve it physically!

If you can shut your mouth, shut it up. If you can’t, find another way to shut it up!

"You're right not to have heard. I've only seen Sky Island use the Frost Nail against the Abyss. Sedna is a special case."

This secret seems to be extremely big!

Li Qingping thought about it and decided that he should tell Lei Dianzhen what was going on inside: "Sedna said that she would tell me the secret when I could defeat her or obtain her power."

"Then she is a nice person." Lei Dianzhen joked.

If he didn't like spitting water so much, he would really be worthy of Lei Dianzhen's praise.

But now...

Haha, this woman is so bad!

Li Qingping stood up and felt the current situation.

The Fang of Osel can be used, the two powers are functioning normally, and the influence of the Frost Nail on this area has been basically eliminated.

"Wait, before we leave, maybe we can collect the body of this Wave Demon."

Lei Dianzhen called out to Li Qingping who was about to leave along the vortex.

"Wait until our sister comes before we deal with Sedna?" Li Qingping asked doubtfully.

Sedna had specifically warned him not to touch anything here, and having witnessed the power of the Frost Sky Nail, he knew just how terrifying it was.

"She can't do it either. You have to do this, and you must wear the Fontaine Heart."

Li Qingping looked at the Fontaine Heart on his left hand, and all the doubts that had been accumulating in his heart disappeared.

The pale blue light inside the Heart of Fontaine is exactly the same color as the barrier surrounding the Frost Sky Nail next to it!

"Could it be that Sky Island also takes a cut of this 2.2 million watch?" Li Qingping was shocked.

Of course, what he said was nonsense. Sky Island looked down on Mora in the secular world, and it was even more impossible for it to do anything to take a cut.

But compared to Li Qingping's absurd remarks, it is normal that the power of the person from Sky Island is hidden in the secular watch?

Comparing the two, the commission-based approach might be more reliable!

"I only discovered the abnormality of the Fontaine Heart when you entered the Abyss Spiral." Lei Dianzhen spread his hands towards Li Qingping with an innocent look.

"Is there someone's power up there?"

Lei Dianzhen nodded slowly: "Indeed."

Li Qingping originally thought that the Fontainebleau Heart was too expensive at 2.2 million, but now it seems like a great deal!

Who is so capable as to stuff something like this into a watch!

The Heart of Fontainebleau has a transparent watch body. Li Qingping took it off, held it in his hand and looked at it repeatedly. He found that the light blue light was emitted from the position of the watch core, which was an hour hand.

"How about you go find the young lady and ask her to give you this watch? Or maybe it was damaged in the battle with Ba Che?"

"..." Li Qingping admitted that he was tempted for a moment, but that was all. "Let's just send it back. Getting it against my conscience would damage my Daoist integrity."

Lei Dianzhen pursed his lips but said nothing more.

Li Qingping put his watch back on and slowly stretched out his hand towards the Frost Sky Nail that was suppressing Sedna's skeleton.

As the distance got closer, the light blue color on the Heart of Fontaine gradually deepened and became holy blue.

Just as it was about to touch the barrier surrounding the Frost Sky Nail, the barrier actually opened a hole on its own and let Li Qingping in.

It really has the power of Istaru!

Li Qingping entered the barrier and came to Sedna's skeleton.

This Frost Sky Nail was more than half broken, and still emitted bursts of chill. Istaru's power resided in the Heart of Fontaine, protecting Li Qingping from the cold, but he still felt uncomfortable all over.

"We can't stay here for long, we have to leave quickly." Lei Dianzhen urged, she didn't like staying with the Frost Sky Nail either.

Li Qingping nodded and summoned the Fang of Osel.

He originally planned to use the water flow to carry away Sedna's bones, but changed his mind and took it back.

Sedna hates Osel very much, so it might not be appropriate for her to use this thing. If her memory is read out the next time she goes in, who knows what kind of trouble she will cause!

"I've collected your bones this time, but next time you have to be more polite when you talk to me!"

Li Qingping reached out to take the bones.

However, the moment his fingertips touched the bones, a strange phenomenon occurred.

Sedna's skeleton seemed to be awakened by a warm force, gradually becoming transparent and turning into fluorescent spots, shining like stars.

Those light spots slowly rose up, as if being pulled by some invisible force, and quietly merged into Li Qingping's body.

[Detection of hidden conditions being met]

【Trigger hidden challenge】

[Importing Teyvat official history]

[The fourth layer of the Abyss Spiral (fake) true name dissolves]

[The kingdom that fell into the abyss, the secret that the origin tried to hide]

[Do you want to enter the hidden challenge?]

[Detected that the fourth level of the Abyss Spiral has not been successfully challenged, unable to enter the hidden challenge]

【Trigger Challenge Retention】

The fourth level of the Abyss will be permanently open.

The fifth level of the Abyss will be open in 240 hours. All challenges can be carried out normally during this period.

Li Qingping was stunned. This was the first time that a hidden challenge was triggered in the Abyss before the original challenge was passed. Moreover, the fourth floor was opened permanently and the fifth floor was about to be opened in ten days!

"Are you okay?" Lei Dianzhen saw Sedna's skeleton merge into Li Qingping's body with his own eyes. "What happened?"

"It's complicated, but it's not a bad thing." Li Qingping felt that this was not the right place to talk. "Let's go out first."

At this moment, the barrier around the Frost Sky Nail closed, trapping Li Qingping inside.

"No way, could this thing have a self-detection function and detect that the person it suppressed in the past has disappeared?"

Li Qingping, who was talking nonsense, found that he could not move. The cracks on the surface of the damaged Frost Sky Nail were expanding, the gravel was peeling off, and the terrifying coldness turned into a white cold mist and slowly spread out.

Li Qingping wanted to use the power of shrinking the earth into an inch to escape, but found that the power had no response at all.

This is bad luck!

Or was it the lightning that really supported the lightning barrier for him to resist the erosion of the white fog.

"Use elemental power to activate the Heart of Fontaine!"

After being reminded by Lei Dianzhen, Li Qingping finally reacted and injected elemental power into the Fontaine Heart on his hand.

Thousands of winds blew through the enclosed barrier, and time seemed to have been paused by a playful goddess, and then moved in the opposite direction along the pointer.

In a trance, Li Qingping saw the flashing light and the echo of time.

"Sedna, you found that incident in Oropus's memory, right?" A woman was speaking.

"So what! Istaru, I will take full responsibility for this matter. Please don't affect the mortals in the abyss!" It was Sedna's voice. It lacked the straightforwardness that Li Qingping was familiar with, and was more hysterical.

"I am also following orders. As for the mortals in the abyss, I don't want to disturb their lives."

"Pretentious! I know..."

"Don't involve more people, Sedna. Some secrets are better kept in your heart."

"Let's go to another place. I want to see how powerful the Time Ruler Istaru is!"

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Owe 1.8

Volume 1: 99. I, Li Qingping

Floating lights danced and flickered in the frozen barrier, like fireflies dotted on a black curtain late in the summer night, piecing together a corner of time and the terror of the rule of time in front of Li Qingping.

Istaru did have some mercy in him, and chose the battlefield in the boundless ocean, which seemed to be right at the current place of worship.

Sedna attacked with all her strength. The sea, which was calm just a second ago, suddenly rolled up into huge waves. The tide was surging, the sea breeze was howling, and she rushed towards the glowing shadow with a tremendous force.

The light was too dazzling, and Li Qingping couldn't see what Istaru looked like.

But facing Sedna's full-strength attack, Istaru simply stretched out her finger and lightly tapped it.

Everything was silent, and the noisy sea surface returned to calm in an instant. The myriad waves were nowhere to be found, as if nothing had happened. Only Sedna was left floating on the water, gasping for breath, with despair and powerlessness growing in her heart.

"I'm also in a lot of trouble. Today, I'd like to borrow your help to eliminate the monsters wreaking havoc on Guiliyuan." Istaru said in a calm tone, "In exchange, is there anything else I can help you with?"

"..." Sedna's power was to read minds, which was ineffective against Istaru. But she could still sense the kindness he conveyed—Istaru only wanted her life, nothing more.

It made sense, the fragments in Oropas's memory were too shocking. She had been terrified when she first learned about them, and had a premonition that disaster would befall her in the near future.

"It was you who caused the White Night Nation to fall into the abyss. Can you allow the people there to return to live on land?"

Istaru, who was surrounded by the light, was surprised for a moment. She didn't expect that Sedna's wish before her death would be this, and her tone became softer.

"Orobus has already paid the price for this. Perhaps you can think of something else."

Sedna was relieved, and a smile appeared on her beautiful but bleak face for the first time in a long time, like a squirrel that could not survive the wind and snow, and saw the first ray of warm sunshine that penetrated the thick clouds and fell on the tree branches before dying. Perhaps she had no regrets anymore.

"Orobus is quick enough, so that's all. Go ahead, Istaru."

The Frost Nail fell, and the vast sea, frozen for thousands of miles, was instantly wiped away. The seawater rushed back, forming a massive whirlpool that no one dared to tread. The sky cleared, and a beam of light shot straight into the depths of the sea, directly to Sedna's burial place, and shone upon her.

Istaru let out a long breath and turned to leave when her gaze somehow fell on an empty sea area. A thousand years passed before her eyes met Li Qingping's. He had an undisguised murderous intent that wished to eat her alive.

"Don't act like I killed your girl."

Istaru gently raised her hand, and Qianfeng responded to the call, playing the prelude to the homecoming song.

"Forget it, I owe her that."

A thousand winds cannot blow away the young man's murderous intent, but they can extinguish the flickering light.

The floating light was dim, like a kerosene lamp that was about to use up its last bit of fuel. The weak flame flickered and eventually returned to darkness.

Li Qingping in the barrier was swept up by the thousand winds and flew to a farther place.

The Frost Sky Nail, which had suppressed this place for millennia, finally collapsed under the weight. Without the divine power to sustain it, the whirlpool quietly dissipated, and the perennially dry seabed was moistened, and the sea water erased all traces of its existence.

After a while, a purple figure emerged from the waves.

Lei Dianying looked around and could only feel the afterglow of the Frost Sky Nail's fall, but no trace of living people.

……

……

……

When he opened his eyes, Li Qingping found that the ground under his feet was no longer the swaying deck or the soft sea surface, but solid ground.