Chapter 615

"During my research, I had a thought — if you were to have offspring with a creature of this world, what kind of offspring would be born?"

"And would that offspring be able to inherit your abilities?"

"So that is the reason why I gave birth to Klee."

Jiang Yan listened very attentively to Ailisi's explanation.

So that's how it is.

He had been saying, how could Ailisi have just given him a child out of nowhere.

"So you're saying, you used a child as your test subject?"

Jiang Yan's tone was like a blade — extremely sharp.

It stabbed straight into Ailisi's heart.

But the moment those words left Jiang Yan's mouth, he regretted it.

After all, for a mother, words like these were undoubtedly the most insulting of all!

But Jiang Yan was also probing.

He wanted to know exactly what attitude Ailisi held toward Klee.

After all, if Ailisi didn't care about Klee, then Jiang Yan wouldn't need to bother being polite with her.

"No! Klee is not my test subject!"

Ailisi said angrily to Jiang Yan.

"Klee is the daughter I carried for several years before giving birth to her. Perhaps at the very beginning I did have the idea of an experiment, but after I gave birth to Klee, I never had that thought again!"

"Whether you believe it or not, I will stand by this statement!"

Jiang Yan nodded — Ailisi was not lying about this.

After all, his Mind Stone was no mere decoration; if Ailisi had merely spoken those words in a lofty, self-righteous manner, his Mind Stone would have warned him.

Whether in the storyline or now, Ailisi cared deeply for Klee.

After all, who would be willing to use an entire island just to give a little child a happy summer?

"Alright, on this point, I believe you."

Jiang Yan nodded. Now that his questions were mostly answered, Jiang Yan naturally wouldn't press Ailisi on other matters any further.

He only needed to resolve his own doubts, and that was enough.

Just then, the World Barrier suddenly began to tremble violently.

Ailisi's expression changed drastically, and even Jiang Yan's face grew Solemn, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Ailisi hurriedly walked to the side of the World Barrier and pressed both hands against it.

A faint crimson glow kept lighting up along the World Tree's barrier.

Before long, the trembling of the World Barrier gradually faded, and finally returned to calm.

Seeing this, Ailisi immediately let out a sigh of relief.

"What's going on? What was that just now?"

Jiang Yan came to Ailisi's side, his face bearing a Somewhat Solemn Expression as he spoke.

"That is the Quantum Sea."

Ailisi sighed and said to Jiang Yan.

"I think, given your strength, you must already know a fair bit about certain things in the Teyvat World, right?"

"Mm, I know a little."

Jiang Yan nodded and said to Ailisi.

"Mm, then that makes things much easier to explain."

Ailisi gazed at the black river outside the World Barrier, ceaselessly surging and crashing against it, and said quietly.

"Ten thousand years ago, after winning the Wang Zuo War, the Heavenly Principles used the Frost Nail to repair the continent, and then fixed the Teyvat continent to the roots of the Imaginary Tree through anchor points."

"This was what prevented Teyvat from sinking completely into the Quantum Sea and losing all the energy needed to sustain itself."

Jiang Yan listened to Ailisi's explanation and nodded as well.

"So that's how it is....."

"But even so, the Quantum Sea has not given up on devouring the Teyvat continent."

Ailisi continued, speaking to Jiang Yan.

"Do you see that black river?"

Ailisi pointed at the pitch-black river outside the World Barrier.

Jiang Yan nodded and said to Ailisi:

"I've seen this before."

"You've seen it?!"

Ailisi said, her face full of astonishment.

"Where did you see it?!"

One had to understand, the pitch-black river before them was a product of the Quantum Sea — unless Jiang Yan had left the Teyvat World, if he had seen this kind of black river within the Teyvat World, then things would be very bad.

That would prove that the black river had already begun invading the Teyvat World through other places.

"Mm, I really have seen it."

After carefully confirming it once more, Jiang Yan ultimately confirmed it.

It was that black river he had seen when he was in the Abyss.

Afterwards, Jiang Yan gave Ailisi a detailed account of what he had encountered in the Abyss.

How the Tide-Calling Ritual was used to let the Abyss masses undergo evolution and growth, and how his great battle with the Lord of the Abyss had caused the river to pour into the Abyss.

After hearing this, Alice fell into silence.

Faced with this situation, Alice truly hadn't expected it either.

If that's the case, then it proves that the Abyss's purpose is not merely to overthrow Celestia.

Those should all be products condensed from the black mist floating atop the black rivers that evolved from the Quantum Sea.

The true purpose of these things is to drag the entire Teyvat continent into the Quantum Sea, and ultimately be devoured by it!

This is the Quantum Sea's method — the least labor-intensive way for it to deal with a small world.

Jiang Yan knew, and Alice now knew it too.

"Then what should we do?"

Alice immediately became somewhat dejected.

For all these years, she had been answering Celestia's summons and guarding the borders of Teyvat.

But now, the thing she had been resisting with all her might had actually already appeared within the Teyvat World!

This made Alice feel a great sense of failure.

"The Abyss Sovereign — I've fought him for over two thousand years, and only managed to beat him into a state where he couldn't restore his form.

Jiang Yan said to Alice.

"Because of this, I slept for a full five hundred years."

"However, I now have a much deeper understanding of my own power."

Jiang Yan raised his hand, looking at the five Infinity Stones on the back of it, and said lightly.

"As long as I find a method that can make Teyvat completely unable to sink into the Quantum Sea, the Abyss Sovereign will have no reason to exist."

That's right — Jiang Yan did possess the power to kill the Abyss Sovereign.

All of this was power he had come to understand during those five hundred years, through his continuous study of the Infinity Stones in his hand.

Twenty years ago, during the Black Rock Forge incident, Jiang Yan encountered the Abyss Sovereign.

However, both at that time and now, Jiang Yan had never had the Idea of Dropping to erase the Abyss Sovereign.

Since he could erase the other party at any time, he might as well leave this fellow be for now.

What if he erased the Abyss Sovereign, and then the Quantum Sea sent someone even harder to erase? Then Jiang Yan would have to find a new method all over again to erase them.

Rather than that, it was better to leave the Abyss Sovereign be.

Once he found a method to let the Teyvat continent completely escape the Quantum Sea, he would settle it once and for all.

That way, he could live comfortably with the people around him on the Teyvat continent!

"You mean, you can kill the Abyss Sovereign directly right now?"

Alice looked at Jiang Yan.

"Put that way, it's not exactly wrong."