This MC is so original

"I clearly blocked it, but why am I still hurt? Could it be an attack using internal energy like the ones in Liyue's legend?"

Tartaglia was a little confused, but he had no time to think. He could only swing the long knife in his hand and chop at the Enderman again and again.

But the Enderman in front of him was like a fearless warrior, allowing the double-edged sword in Tartaglia's hand to chop at him. Every time he chopped, the Enderman would counter the blow and punch Tartaglia twice.

Within three breaths, the demon armor on Tartaglia's body was full of cracks caused by the Enderman, and a big hole was broken in his breastplate. Many fragments of armor pierced into his chest, and blood flowed out.

While fighting with the Enderman, Tartaglia's brain was also working rapidly. He examined the current situation of both sides.

The opponent has taken so many attacks from me, but from the performance, he doesn't show any signs of exhaustion. On the other hand, I am already at the end of my strength. If I continue to exchange injuries like this, I will definitely be the one to die.

"Give it a try, and the raging waves will stop flowing!"

Tartaglia removed all the armor on his body and poured all the elemental power provided by the Evil Eye into the double-edged sword. The sword emitted a dazzling deep purple light and chopped down at the Enderman's head with all his strength.

The Enderman who took the knife screamed and punched Tartaglia at the same time.

Without the protection of the Demon King's armor, Tartaglia was hit in the chest. His eyes widened and blood spurted out uncontrollably. He was knocked to the ground. His right hand had no strength to hold the double-edged sword, and it fell to the ground and exploded into starlight.

Tartaglia fell to the ground, looking up at the dome formed by the netherworld rock above, a wry smile on his face.

"Oh, did you lose?"

"No, you won."

The doctor's voice came from the side. Tartaglia tried hard to look up, but he was so seriously injured that he didn't even have the strength to do so.

The doctor came over, holding a dark green 'glass bead' in his hand, and squatted down beside Tartaglia.

"You won."

"is it?"

Tartaglia smiled easily, but accidentally injured himself, grimacing in pain. After a while, he looked at the dark green glass bead in the doctor's hand.

"What's that in your hand?"

The doctor shook his head. "I don't know. After you killed the monster, this bead fell from it, and its body disappeared with it. It seems this should be its core."

The doctor stared at the 'glass bead' in his hand with curiosity.

In a trance, he seemed to see through the glass beads a huge, pitch-black dragon flying in a void.

Chapter 68 Osel: My kidney is dripping~~

"What is this? Do you recognize it?"

After lying on the ground for a while, Tartaglia regained some strength and sat up with difficulty, supporting himself with his arms. Looking at the emerald green glass bead in the doctor's hand, he always had a bad feeling in his heart.

The doctor did not answer Tartaglia's words. He seemed to be deeply attracted by the bead. He reached out and gently stroked its surface, his eyes full of madness.

"Nothingness... a nothingness that defies common sense. The Dragon King who controls nothingness... a power that even the Nibelungen never mastered..."

"Hey, Doc, what are you mumbling about?"

Seeing the doctor with a crazy look on his face, Tartaglia felt a little uneasy. Could it be that the glass bead in his hand had affected his mind?

"Hmm? Tartaglia, did you just call me?"

The doctor suddenly came to his senses at this moment, but the madness in his eyes still did not subside. He straightened the half mask on his face and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"I'm fine, let's go quickly. I've found something more interesting to do now. Let's finish your business quickly. I have other things to do."

As he spoke, the doctor looked down at the dark green glass bead in his hand and murmured.

"Power enough to kill gods... If I could control this power, wouldn't I be able to surpass the gods?"

Tartaglia didn't hear the doctor's whispers clearly, but his intuition told him that he couldn't get involved in this matter, otherwise his life would be in danger.

Many times in the past, his intuition had saved him from danger. This time, Tartaglia chose to trust his intuition.

"If you want to leave, leave now. I need treatment..."

Tartaglia forced himself to stand up from the ground with his broken body with many bones broken, and walked towards the hell portal with difficulty.

The doctor put the "bead" in his arms, followed Tartaglia, looked at his miserable state, and asked a question.

"Do you need me to help you?"

"Goodbye, I can walk on my own."

"That's fine."

The two passed through the hell portal and returned to the underground of Northland Bank.

As soon as he returned to Teyvat, Tartaglia, who had been on high alert for the appearance of other monsters, was the first to sit down on the ground. Although he looked embarrassed, he looked relaxed.

"Huh, I've never liked Liyue so much. Compared to that weird world just now, this place is so much safer!"

The doctor standing next to him couldn't help but chuckle.

"As much as I hate to admit it, if I had to choose a place to build a laboratory, I would probably choose Liyue. As long as it doesn't conflict with Liyue, no one will come to disturb my experiments. But, unfortunately, my experiments will never get the permission of the six nations."

After expressing his feelings, the doctor glanced down at Tartaglia, who was sitting on the ground breathing heavily. "Alright, you go and recover first. I'll go make preparations. We'll go to Bazhe tomorrow."

"So fast?" Tartaglia couldn't help but marvel at the doctor's efficiency. "Alright, call a doctor for me before you leave. I really don't want to move anymore."

The doctor didn't reply, just waved his hand and left.

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"You're really too crazy! You dug all night and all you found was iron ore, coal, and a small amount of gold. You couldn't find any rare minerals at all."

On the way back to Keqing's residence, Lu Xiu glared at Osel who was following him with a look of disappointment on his face.

Osel, however, looked innocent, crossed his arms, and retorted unconvincedly, "I've already dug very hard. Besides, the place you chose doesn't have any mineral veins, so isn't it normal that you can't dig other minerals? Just tell me what minerals you want. I know some mineral locations in Liyue. If all else fails, we can dig at the bottom of the sea."

Lu Xiu thought about it and felt that what Osel said made sense, because this world was not the MC world, and it was still very difficult to dig the ore you needed in a place where there were no mineral veins.

"Forget it. It won't be too late to collect those minerals after I've dealt with Bache's world. My permissions haven't been unlocked yet anyway. I'll go back and rest for a while, and then go find Bache."

"Yeah, I agree."

Osel suppressed his excitement about seeing his wife and nodded calmly.

"Okay, go back to the ball first and let me absorb some energy."

Lu Xiu took out a Poké Ball from his backpack, raised his hand and shot a red light at Osel. Seeing this, Osel quickly dodged to the side, and the red light from the Poké Ball missed.

"What are you doing?"

Lu Xiu was a little confused.

Osel glanced at the Poké Ball with some fear, supporting his lower back with his right hand and said, "Boss, although I am a demon god and not a human, demon gods also enjoy demonic power. This is my most basic right. I've been staying in that ball for too long. My kidneys hurt, and it will actually slow down my recovery. How about waiting until I'm fully recovered before going in?"

In addition to the reasons mentioned by Osel and Lu Xiu, there is another crucial reason.

He hasn't had meat for a thousand years!

Of course, this meat is not the meat in the food, but the meat in spring.

He finally escaped from the predicament and would be able to see his wife soon. Now he just wanted to take good care of his kidneys and spend some time with his wife in their world after being reunited.

If she reunited with Ba Che and found out that her kidneys were not in good condition, she would be looked down upon.

"You are the only one who has many things to do."

Lu Xiu replied speechlessly and pretended to put the Poké Ball away.

Osel heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing this, and a delighted smile appeared on his face: "Thank you, boss."

However, just as he finished speaking, a red light fell on him, and Oser followed the red light into the Poké Ball.

"I'm still a little bit inexperienced. Let me suck it for a while. Besides, we're going to someone else's house. I'm already embarrassed to stay at someone else's house. If I bring you along, what will others think of me?"

Lu Xiu explained to the Poké Ball before stuffing it into his travel backpack.

Returning to the gate of Keqing's mansion, Lu Xiu did not see Lao Feng at the gate this time, but the gate was open, so he thought Lao Feng should be inside.

When he arrived at the door of the hall, before Lu Xiu walked in, he could see that the hall was very lively. Ningguang, who had not been seen for a long time, was chatting with Keqing and Lao Feng. Judging from the troubled expressions on the three people's faces, it was obvious that they had not encountered anything good.

Lu Xiu walked in without thinking and raised his hand to greet the three people.

"Why is it so lively? Ningguang, Keqing, you two big shots don't have to go to work?"

Chapter 69: An unexpected surprise (Part 2)

"Lu Xiu?"

Seeing Lu Xiu coming back, Keqing showed a look of surprise on her face, but soon put on a smile: "I didn't expect you to come back so quickly this time. The previous times you came back after several days, but this time you came back after just one night."

"Yes, those apples haven't been sold yet, and you're back, sir."

Old Feng also echoed, stroking his beard.

Ningguang also nodded to Lu Xiu with a smile on her face, then raised her hand to signal.

"Mr. Lu Xiu is back just in time. We were just thinking about how to find you."

"Looking for me? What happened?"

Lu Xiu sat down on the empty seat next to Keqing, picked up the fruit on the table and took a bite to replenish the food he had consumed on the journey.

"Well, the miners back in the Chasm unearthed some unprecedented ores. We searched ancient texts and even consulted mineral experts, but couldn't find any useful information. But then Keqing suggested you might recognize it, so we came back to look for you. We couldn't find you at first, and we were just trying to figure out where to look when Mr. Lu Xiu came back on his own. We were so lucky."

"Oh? A mineral you've never seen before? Take it out and let me see."

When Ningguang mentioned ores, Lu Xiu also became interested. No one liked minerals more than him.

Ningguang nodded, moved sideways, picked up a package from a chair beside her, and placed it on the small table in front of the group. She opened the package to reveal some scattered minerals wrapped inside.

"For example, this stone, which appears red in appearance but becomes soft after being mined, do you recognize it, Mr. Lu Xiu?"

Ningguang took out one of the small bags and poured out the red mineral inside. As soon as she asked, Lu Xiu couldn't wait to tell her the name of the mineral.

"Redstone? You actually dug it up."

Lu Xiu couldn't help but admire the luck of those miners. He had been digging outside for so long and hadn't seen any redstone, but those miners had found it first.

"Redstone? What good is that?"

"Simply put, redstone is like circuits, cables connecting various devices. It's a very convenient thing."

Ningguang nodded slightly, then took out another small package and poured out the minerals inside.

"This mineral's color is the exact opposite of redstone, but it also has a softer texture. Similarly, we detected a strong energy reaction with it and redstone, while the energy reaction reflected by this bluish-blue stone is more like a mixture of seven elements."

"lapis lazuli?!"

Lu Xiu's eyes flashed with a fiery intensity. After calling out the name of lapis lazuli, he anxiously asked Ningguang, "Where did the miners find it? Is it scattered here and there, or is there a vein?"

Ningguang was startled by Lu Xiu's anxious look, but she quickly regained her composure.

"Well, according to the miners who reported, they have discovered veins of these two minerals. Because the output of these two veins is so large, it has affected their mining of other minerals."

"Where is the location?"

"It's in the lower level of the mine in the western part of the Layered Abyss. Is this mineral important to you, Mr. Lu Xiu?"

"Yes, these are the materials I need to enchant my equipment. Enchanting is like the way the immortals here engrave spell effects on equipment."

After Lu Xiu explained this, Ningguang and the others understood.

Ningguang smiled and pushed the package of redstone and lapis lazuli on the table towards Lu Xiu.

"Mr. Lu Xiu, since you need it, then these are for you."

"Really?"

Lu Xiu was a little surprised that Ningguang gave him the lapis lazuli. He had originally planned to take Osier with him to go mining in the Abyss.

But since Ningguang wanted to give him these ready-made ones, it saved Lu Xiu a lot of trouble.

"Thank you very much, Miss Ningguang."

Lu Xiu reached out and took the package on the small table into his arms and put it into his backpack. Then he put out the workbench and made an enchantment table with the materials that had been prepared long ago.

After finishing the enchanting table, Lu Xiu turned to Keqing and asked, "Is there a utility room here that's not used often?"