Chapter 171

Immediately after, all the image slices before their eyes began to shatter and vanish.

"What is happening?"

Su Bai froze on the spot.

"How can a new world exhibit phenomena of shattering and disintegration?"

"Wait..."

He looked toward where the voice came from; the slice was merely a blank.

But that vocal tone made Su Bai feel quite familiar.

It was the voice of that little creature named Paimon who appeared in Nahida's dream.

"This is the conversation between me and Paimon when we first began our journey..."

Lumine stood shocked, her mouth agape.

"If we follow the changes in the new world, then me and Paimon..."

"Could it be that I returned to Mondstadt and met Paimon again?"

"That doesn't make sense; my consciousness is still here, and the World Tree has no information about me, so how could a situation concerning me appear?"

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"Is it incorporating your situation from someone else's perspective?" Su Bai pondered for a few seconds and shook his head.

"I don't quite understand the specific details, but the World Tree seems controlled by some force, and all information has returned to the old world's path."

"Self-repair?"

"That shouldn't be..."

The blank slice continued to emit sound.

Paimon's voice echoed leisurely throughout the entire consciousness space.

"When you and your brother wanted to leave Teyvat, were you blocked by some unfamiliar deity and sealed away?"

"This is!" Lumine exclaimed in surprise: "It is exactly the same as the situation when I met Paimon; her lines and tone haven't changed at all."

"Is it that coincidental?" Su Bai racked his brains, unable to figure out what exactly was happening.

Since this slice appeared, all slices of the new world began to shatter, and all reformed into a timeline composed of past slices.

And the endpoint of this timeline was precisely that blank slice capable of emitting only Paimon's voice.

All subsequent records simply vanished.

"I don't think I told you about my story."

"At that time, my brother and I wanted to leave Teyvat, but were ultimately blocked by the deity of the Sky Island, who sealed us away; when I woke up again, my memories became very vague."

"Moreover, during my journey, the Anemo Archon and the Geo Archon both warned me of the importance of traveling."

"They told me to remember every scenery and every person in Teyvat, claiming that this is the true meaning of the journey."

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"And, the Geo Archon also said something I still don't understand, saying that as long as they are all in my memory."

"No matter where I go, it can guarantee their existence, or something like that..."

Lumine's explanation made Su Bai suddenly freeze.

He had roughly learned about the Sky Island from Buer's words; there are deities above who govern everything in Teyvat.

But he did not expect that Lumine had met the one above, and that she seemed to have been forcibly kept in Teyvat by that one above.

"If it is like this..."

Su Bai suddenly realized the truth.

He stared fixedly at the Lumine before him.

Impossible...

Lumine's clear gaze was made to flinch by Su Bai's stare.

The way the other party looked at her was as if seeing a very terrifying existence.

"I see now, I see now..."

Su Bai shook his head repeatedly with a bitter smile.

"You are the one who can completely change Teyvat and ensure Teyvat's stability."

Combining Lumine's statement, the whole truth came to light.

The one above who forcibly detained Lumine was likely acting for the same purpose.

"Me?"

Lumine was stunned.

At this critical moment, Su Bai's consciousness also began to crack, looking as if it would collapse at any moment.

"Pity, I should have no time to explain to you."

"Perhaps when you return to Teyvat, the situation that appears will be the scene in that slice; I think your previous memories will be slightly adjusted by that deity."

"The World Tree recorded your existence using other people's perspectives, and your future memories are the key to creating a new Teyvat in the future."

"As for the method, it should be related to the one above, and my actions merely extended their five-hundred-year new life once more."

"But I..." Lumine listened, completely confused, unable to understand what Su Bai was saying at all.

However, the Su Bai before her seemed to truly have no time to give her more detailed explanations.

Even if explained, as the other party said, if her memories were corrected by someone, she would equally remember nothing.

Just like the dream cycle she experienced in Sumeru.

Lumine simply stopped thinking and said calmly instead: "In any case, we will never meet again, right?"

"Mm." Su Bai nodded in understanding.

"What a pity. You are the most mad person I have ever seen for the one you love."

Lumine smiled, but suddenly she called out urgently to Su Bai: "Su Bai, turn around quickly and take a look..."

Hearing this, Su Bai curiously turned his head.

In the sliced image.

Nahida's gaze happened to meet Su Bai's eyes.

Nahida's beautiful eyes blinked lightly, as if she had something to say.

It was as if she were facing a camera, wanting to tell Su Bai something.

In the void.

The sliced images kept shattering, replaced by the original slices.

And just as Nahida's slice was about to shatter, her thin lips moved slightly.

Although you took many detours, you have truly worked hard all this time.

Thank you."

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"Hehehe..."

Su Bai lowered his head and smiled calmly.

The cracks on his body grew increasingly severe.

In the final moment before he vanished, he smiled and looked at Lumine.

"Lumine..."

"Teyvat, I leave it to you..."

Leaving those final words, Su Bai's consciousness shattered completely, turning into points of starlight and dissipating into the void.

The live broadcast room.

Paimon: "What did Nahida say at the end? Wasn't she speaking to Su Bai? Did Su Bai just disappear like that? This is too cruel; he got nothing in the end."

Zhong Li: "The fusion and restart of Teyvat; as natives of Teyvat, we seem to have no special sensation. Nahida's sliced image was likely a glance back from her in the real world. Who she was speaking to specifically remains unknown."

Hu Tao: "Mr. Guest is always so universally rational, truly lacking in romance. That was clearly what Nahida wanted to say to Mr. Su Bai. Didn't you see where her gaze was directed? It was exactly on Mr. Su Bai in the void."

Yae Miko: "Crossing the long river of time and space, the two finally aligned across different dimensions. This ending can only be considered a comfort given to Su Bai. Sigh... this is what it means to be a Reincarnator; the experience is indeed too cruel..."

Yousen: "Judging by the lip reading, the last words of Greater Lord Rukkkhadevata were: 'Although you took many detours, you have truly worked hard all this time. Thank you.'"

Keqing: "Is this considered comfort? This feeling makes one even sadder."

Tianquan Ningguang: "Indeed. Nahida's final words summarized Mr. Su Bai's entire life. Even if Mr. Su Bai could calculate that he changed the World Tree and changed Teyvat, he overlooked the order of the Celestial Court, or rather, the order of the Celestial Court does not allow itself to be broken so easily."