Genshin Impact: Dionysus reigns supreme, all demons retreat!

Chapter 664 Long-Known Secrets

Xu Ning's incredibly rustic opening remarks sent a chill down Ying's spine.

Ying coughed lightly, seemingly a little uncomfortable. "Um, what do you feel... uh, I mean, what are you doing here?"

Xu Ning chuckled. "It's all because of that guy Dain. He said he found some clues about the 'Loom of Fate' that your Abyss Order was involved in, so I just joined in the fun. Haha, I'm not interested in that at all, I just thought there might be some clues about you..."

Xu Ning observed Ying's expression as he spoke.

Seeing that she didn't react at all to his talk about "the loom of fate" and seemed rather absent-minded, he moved closer to Ying.

By the time Ying realized what was happening, Xu Ning was practically right next to her shoulder.

Then, as if she had seen a poisonous snake, Ying suddenly took several steps back.

Xu Ning was stunned. "Are you serious about taking several steps back?"

Should we treat me like I'm avoiding a snake or scorpion?

Ying seemed to realize that her actions had been a bit too rough, and said somewhat embarrassedly, "I... I thought you were going to touch me inappropriately..."

Xu Ning immediately cried out in protest, "What kind of person do you take me for? When we were sleeping together in the cave, I don't think I did anything wrong all night..."

Ying suddenly flew into a rage, his hand landing on the hilt of his sword at his waist.

"She...she...you...you explain yourself clearly, how did you end up sleeping together...sleeping together?"

Seeing that Ying's face was flushed red, and that she seemed genuinely angry, Xu Ning quickly smiled apologetically and explained.

"I was wrong, I used the wrong words. We're just in the same space, you sleep in your tent, I sleep on my grass, we don't sleep next to each other..."

Hearing Xu Ning say that, Ying's expression gradually improved. Seeing that Xu Ning wanted to move closer again, Ying said, "Just stand there, don't get so close!"

Xu Ning gave a wry smile. "Hey, we're friends, aren't we? Is it appropriate to keep such a distance when we're talking?"

Ying tilted her head and thought seriously for a while before saying, "That makes sense. You seemed to have said that as long as you got close to me, you would drag me into your Hidden Dust Cave and never let me out again, right?"

Uh, I did say that.

But didn't you leave then? Or did you never leave at all and were still eavesdropping on me?

"Alright, alright, it's this far then. By the way, didn't you see Kong when you came? He and Paimon just came out of there."

Ying shook her head, seemingly a little embarrassed. "I didn't see her."

"Then he probably went into the forest with Little White Hair to look for Dain."

Xu Ning said nonchalantly, "Since I've met you, why don't you just tell me what exactly the loom of fate is?"

Ying slowly shook her head. "I don't know."

Xu Ning was somewhat surprised, "You're the leader of the Abyss Order, and you don't know... oh, I guess you can't say."

Xu Ning suspected that this "Weaving of Fate" plan might be a core secret within the Abyss Order.

As their leader, Ying naturally couldn't easily reveal this plan to others.

"It's okay, I understand."

Xu Ning waved his hand and sat down casually.

"Even if you don't tell me, I can guess the general idea."

Xu Ning pulled a notebook out of his pocket and waved it. "This is a notebook I got from the leader of the debate group. The author seems to be a little boy named René."

"His book contains many strange and unusual phrases. But there are two particularly interesting ones. Want to know them? Come and sit down if you do."

Ying's face showed a conflicted expression of wanting to know, but she still firmly shook her head, "Tell me if you want to."

Xu Ning took a sip of wine helplessly. "It's just about sitting down and having a chat... Okay, okay, I'll get to it."

Seeing that Ying seemed to be getting angry again, Xu Ning quickly said, "He said that on the side of the Jiaolun Group, which is actually the Flower Sea, they discovered the power of spiritual light. They believe that the spiritual light can clear away and even reverse the influence of the abyss. He thinks that the two are actually a kind of annihilation phenomenon."

"The two sides that can annihilate each other should belong to the same level in terms of power."

Ying tilted her head, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "So what?"

Xu Ning loved seeing her naive and simple-minded look, and laughed, "You know better than I do, right?"

"The power of the abyss can easily distort and corrupt the elements controlled by the gods. Therefore, according to the hierarchical system, the power of the abyss is a higher level of existence, and the spiritual power that can contend with it is naturally also a higher level of existence."

"He wrote in his notes that both Kanria's modification of the power of the abyss and the local people's understanding and use of aura were very primitive."

"It merely remains in an unconscious state of being influenced and rewritten by it, rather than truly utilizing the power of this level to rewrite the rules in return."

Listening to Xu Ning's astonishing account, Ying murmured, "Is it really possible to do something like this?"

Xu Ning smiled, "Logically speaking, it should be possible. Didn't the spiritual light also use the power of the dew to create hundreds of types of spiritual light, and then even intelligent creatures like flower spirits were created? So what about the power of the abyss..."

Xu Ning glanced at Ying and, seeing that she still didn't seem interested in discussing her Abyss Order's plans, continued speaking.

"So, from the name 'The Loom of Fate' in your plan, we know that you have already figured out some ways to rewrite the rules and want to rewrite the tragic fate of Kanria and its people, and reweave the trajectory of destiny, right?"

Ying looked at Xu Ning with complicated emotions.

"I had no idea... I had no idea you already knew so much."

Xu Ning smiled. "Ying, in places you can't see, everyone is trying to preserve the beauty of this world in their own ways. You can totally join us..."

Who are you? What are you doing here?

A middle-aged man, his clothes covered in mud, ran out of the forest and quickly reached the two men, shouting and cursing loudly.

"Whatever you see here is not what you imagine, and don't try to meddle in other people's business. Get out of here now."

Xu Ning was interrupted by this guy when he was getting to the crucial point, and now that he heard him saying he was going to kick people out, he was furious.

"What? This is your home, and you're trying to kick people out?"

As Xu Ning got closer, he could see clearly that although the middle-aged man looked somewhat disheveled, his clothes were quite luxurious.

The middle-aged man seemed very angry. He rushed straight to the door, opened it, and quickly glanced inside before turning back to Xu Ning and the other uninvited guests.

"I don't know what you saw, but it's not what you think, and it has nothing to do with you. After all, judging from your appearance, you're neither forest rangers nor members of the Order of the Instruction..."

Xu Ning waved his hand, "Of course not those guys. Didn't you see that our clothes don't belong to locals? By the way, have you been living in this dilapidated... cough, house all this time?"

Xu Ning almost blurted out the words "dilapidated house".

However, as he raised his hand, he saw that the wooden house, which had been rotten, was now solid and clean, with no signs of damage whatsoever. Even the surrounding land seemed to have been leveled.

"...We are just lodging here. We will leave after my companions and I meet up here."

The middle-aged man didn't seem to fully believe Xu Ning's words, but he didn't say anything more.

After all, this place wasn't originally his; he just found it by chance.

The man muttered something, said nothing more, and turned to go straight into the house.

"Ying, please listen carefully to what I'm about to say. Our current environment may have been changed without our knowledge, or perhaps we've entered a memory."

Upon hearing Xu Ning's words, Ying fell into deep thought and began to examine the objects around her.

Xu Ning breathed a slight sigh of relief upon seeing her like this.

Thankfully, it wasn't in Ying's memories; at least Ying is a real person.

Xu Ning's gaze returned to the small house.

I've already been inside that dilapidated house once.

Now that it's completely new, what new things might be inside that I haven't seen before?