Original God's Dark Priest

"Sir..." Xiao came behind Saphir, his eyes full of worry.

Saphir knew what he was worried about. To Xiao, Lodia was not trustworthy, and he could not rashly drink this drop of water of unknown origin.

But Saphir had no choice. If she gave up and gave the primordial water to Ying, letting her solve the problem of the sea of ​​nectar flowers, it would be feasible, but she still could not solve her biggest problem: the resistance and erosion of the abyss.

Saphir has always had a feeling that the abyss seems to be targeting her, especially since she returned from the abyss. The poison of the abyss has penetrated deep into her bones, like a maggot in her tarsal bones, and cannot be dispelled.

The abyss had been staring at her, trying to assimilate and devour her.

She took a deep breath and made up her mind: "Xiao, we have not had many choices so far."

"At least let the Emperor know about this." Xiao wanted to inform Zhongli.

But Saphir raised his hand to interrupt him: "If Zhongli knew, he wouldn't let me take the risk."

After hearing this, Xiao lowered his head slightly and clenched his fists. Saphir was right. Not only Zhongli, but all the immortals in Liyue were actually not very clear about this matter. Zhongli had noticed it, but only a little.

Because Kong had indeed met him, but this was not enough to make Zhongli associate Saphir with the relationship between the Abyss. What's more, Zhongli has always been very clear about one thing: the Abyss is the Abyss, and the Abyss Cult is the Abyss Cult, and the two are not the same thing.

Safir opened the bottle in his hand and, under Xiao's extremely nervous eyes, drank all the primordial water in the bottle.

As the primordial water entered her throat, her body shook violently and she unconsciously let go of the glass bottle in her hand.

The glass bottle broke free and fell into the water under the influence of gravity, splashing water. Under the lake, Lotia, who had been paying attention to all this, sighed barely perceptible and murmured to herself: "Goodbye, Lady Egolia... May you rest in peace on the other side of the Lethe River."

She personally destroyed Egolia's last chance of waking up. At this moment, Egolia's awakening became a complete illusion and would never happen again.

Above the water, Saphir felt a ball of blazing fire burning in his heart, and along with the burning heat came a pain so intense that it almost drove him crazy.

She lost control of her body almost instantly, fell to her knees on the water, and began to sink. Xiao was quick-witted and immediately squatted down to pull Saphir out of the water.

"Lottia, what is going on?" Realizing that something was wrong, Xiao directed his anger at Lottia who was hiding under the water. He believed that this was because Lottia had deceived Saphir.

But Lotia was not surprised at all. She just said calmly: "The transformation has already begun. Let's see if she can withstand it."

"If anything happens to her, I will never forgive you." After saying this harshly, Xiao helped the unconscious Saphir up and left quickly.

After they left, Lotia poked her head out of the water and looked in the direction they left in a daze: "The poison of the abyss has penetrated deep into my bones. How can it be easily washed away?"

Xiao carried Saphir on his back to a safe place. At this time, a gentle female voice sounded in Saphir's spiritual space: "The primordial water has the effect of purifying filth, but the price is severe pain and a very low survival rate. If you can wake up safely after drinking this drop of dew, your body will no longer be troubled by filth.

Before everything ends, I hope you can answer three questions for me. The first question is: Who are you? "

“…■…■■…■■■” Saphir moved his lips unconsciously, as if giving an answer.

But no one could hear the answer clearly, not even the woman who asked the question. But she didn't care and continued, "Second question: What is justice in your heart?"

"Justice..." Saphir felt his eyelids were heavy, and he muttered subconsciously, "It's just a high-sounding rhetoric... a tool to cover up ambitions."

The female voice paused for a second, then continued, "One last question, justice, or judgment, is there absolute good and evil?"

"Good and evil..." Saphir smiled bitterly, "I don't even know if I am kind... Good... This word has been so far away from me for a long time... So far away."

Her state was very strange. Her consciousness was still confused and hazy, but she would respond to the voice in her head.

Xiao felt that Saphir was mumbling unconsciously behind him. He couldn't hear what he said. He shook him gently to try to wake Saphir up: "Wake up, how are you?"

Saphir didn't respond, and even his breathing was so weak that it was almost inaudible.

Xiao's heart sank immediately, this was a clear sign of imminent death. Gritting his teeth, he leaped up and was about to fly towards Liyue Harbor, but the next second he saw Zhongli rushing over from Liyue Harbor.

Seeing Saphir being carried by Xiao and with his vital signs declining sharply, Zhongli's pupils suddenly contracted: "Boss Phil, what is this..."

"She drank the primordial water." Xiao said in a low voice, blaming himself, thinking that he had failed to stop the other party.

Hearing this answer, Zhongli frowned. He knew what the Primordial Water was, and he had heard of the story of the divine bird Ximoge even though he was far away in Liyue.

At the beginning, it was not only Ximoge's own will that transformed into hundreds of spiritual lights, but also because it had lost hope of survival in the battle with filth and made a desperate choice.

The result was obvious. It could not withstand the violent purification method of the Original Water. Its body and consciousness completely collapsed and turned into hundreds of spiritual lights, which continued to guard the sea of ​​nectar flowers on its behalf.

What exactly made Safire make the same choice?

Zhongli looked at Saphir, whose face was so pale that it looked bloodless, and his breathing became a little rapid: "Xiao, go back to Liyuan."

“Don’t you want to find a doctor for treatment?” Xiao didn’t understand Zhongli’s order.

Zhongli shook his head and said firmly: "Go to Guiliyuan, now, right now!"

Seeing this, Xiao swallowed his saliva and still carried out the order.

The two of them brought Saphir to the wilderness of Guiliyuan quickly. As soon as they landed, Zhongli spoke: "Leave immediately and inform the immortals to prevent anyone from approaching this place."

"But!" Xiao wanted to say something, but when he met Zhongli's serious eyes with a hint of panic, he swallowed all his words.

At this moment, even if he was slow-witted, he realized that the so-called purification of filth was never about dissolving and decomposing, but about washing and excreting.

Once entering Liyue Harbor, no matter whether Saphir can survive in the end, the filth discharged from her body will be a disaster enough to destroy the entire Yunlai Sea.

Zhongli knew very well that Saphir was not a person who acted impulsively. If she had not really had no other choice, she would not have chosen to take the risk of drinking that drop of morning dew.

How serious is the poison of the abyss that even Saphir, who has reached the level of a god, has no choice but to fight to the death?

Zhongli didn't know, but he was sure that it was definitely not something that an ordinary person, no, not an ordinary demon god could resist.

He even suspected that the filth in Saphir's body might have been serious enough to cause the complete depravity of a non-first-generation god.

"I still know too little about you, Boss Phil. No, perhaps, I have never really understood you." Placing Saphir on a flat stone covered with a straw mat, Zhongli tried with trembling hands to help her smooth her already messy bangs.

He thought he would be angry when he found out that Safir had concealed something, but now, apart from nervousness and worry, there was no other emotion in his heart.

"You must hold on. Jiangli just said she wanted to perform a gun dance for you. She has made great progress. You will be happy to see her. She is really working hard."

"Yesterday Vlad was asking around about the wedding process of the Liyue people. It seems that he and Nadia are getting married soon. You were the one who secretly brought them together. You must want to see them get married, right? It's a pity that I'm a guest official of the Wangsheng Hall. He asked everyone but me, even though I know this kind of thing best. Do you think that Zhidong will also be averse to weddings and funerals?"

"The hall master caught a rabbit yesterday and said he wanted to roast it, but Miss Mona stopped him, saying that rabbits are cute and should be kept. But today I saw the rabbit on the dining table. Xiangling did it. Now Miss Mona is sulking. I think you will be interested in her sulking look."

"Ruo Tuo opened a blacksmith shop. Kun Feng now goes there to help him every day. He still refuses to tell you, saying that he is afraid that if you know, you will scold him for not doing his job properly. But isn't the main job of a blacksmith to forge weapons and equipment? I really don't know what he is worried about..."

"I didn't pay much attention to Guiliyuan before, but now I realize that there are already many glazed lilies blooming. What you did during the Lantern Festival two years ago has begun to pay off. In a few years, it will be full of glazed lilies like it was back then... No, it seems unlikely. After this incident, a large area of ​​glazed lilies will be destroyed again."

"Miss Beidou has cooperated with Baqi. Now the Southern Cross Fleet has a great helper. I think your original approach was correct. Liyue should be tolerant. It's a pity that Osel is not the type who can understand people talking nicely, otherwise he would not have been suppressed until today."

Zhongli sat leaning against a rock, recounting the interesting stories that had happened in Liyue Harbor recently, one sentence at a time. He didn't know what else he could do now, so he just kept talking to himself. But what he didn't see was that with every sentence he spoke, Saphir's fingers would twitch slightly.

Every word he said stimulated Safir's will to survive. With her consciousness in a daze, Safir vaguely heard someone saying something important in her ear, but she couldn't hear it clearly, so she tried hard to listen and unconsciously concentrated a lot.

It accidentally helped her to keep her self-awareness, which was like a small boat in the turbulent sea of ​​consciousness.

The most painful stage has passed. After getting through this stage, the most important thing is to concentrate your mind. If your mind is completely scattered and your consciousness is allowed to sink, you will never wake up again. You will become a living dead, breathing and having a heartbeat, but no response to the outside world.

Zhongli didn't know all this. He just held Saphir's hand and kept talking to her about all this and that. Ever since Saphir realized her own identity and accepted her sense of belonging to Liyue, they rarely had the chance to sit together and chat.

Every time, either Saphir had to leave for some temporary mission, or other immortals or even people from Liyue Harbor had something to ask them.

In short, they are together less and apart more.

Zhongli had a lot to say, but he always closed his mouth subconsciously after seeing Saphir's lively eyes. He thought to himself that this was good, and no matter how much he said, it would not be as good as the peaceful time.

Now, he put down everything he was doing. Safir was in the most dangerous situation, which gave him time to talk about those little things that he would not mention specifically on weekdays.

"Her consciousness is gathering. Hurry, say more and don't stop." Veronica's voice came from Saphir's body.

Hearing this, Zhongli tightened his grip on Saphir's hand and nodded quickly: "Okay, let me think about it, let me think about it..."

At this moment, he even forgot to maintain his dignity and racked his brains to think of what to say.

It's strange, I feel like I have a lot to say in my heart, but when it comes to this point I don't know where to start. Fortunately, Zhongli is calm enough. He just says everything he wants to say, no matter if it's good or bad.

"A few days ago, the pub hired a new... cashier. I remember you called her that. Haha... She's obviously a waiter, but you have to use this new term. But that girl seems a little stupid...

Someone wanted to book a banquet for three months later and hoped that we could provide the drinks. The girl actually asked whether it was a wedding or a funeral, which really left me speechless.

In the end, the girl was severely scolded by Xianyun and cried in grievance. Maybe you are right, stupidity is a chronic disease and it is extremely difficult to cure it.

It was also the first time for me to experience this kind of angry and funny feeling. It was very novel, but...she didn't make any big mistakes."

This time, Zhongli clearly felt the touch of Saphir's fingers twitching in his palm. He was really excited. If there was a reaction, it meant that there was a possibility of waking up. No, it should be said that as long as he kept talking, Saphir would definitely wake up.

With this hope, Zhongli began to talk about other interesting things, including Yunjin's new song, Xiangling's new recipe, and the new useless things that Xianyun had tinkered with.

"Hou Zhang was beaten a while ago by Xianyun because when he was chatting with Jie Hu, he described Xianyun's invention as turning a bunch of materials that could have been put to good use into garbage with nowhere to go. Xianyun heard this.

The scene was quite chaotic that day. They fought all the way from Minlin to Chenyu Valley. Xianyun said that she would bury him in that cave and let him accompany Mi Nu... Xianyun was really furious and said such inappropriate words. Alas..."

Having said this, Zhongli paused. He clearly saw a tear slide down the corner of Saphir's eye.

"..." After a moment of silence, Zhongli forced a smile, "Why are you crying... It's been so long, let the past be the past. At least, Fushe is back, and we still have many friends. Let's go drink together in a few days. This time I won't stop you. Drink as much as you want."

"You can also call Barbatos, or find a time to hold another Seven Gods gathering, it would be nice for everyone to have some fun together." Zhongli stretched out his hand and gently wiped away the tears from Saphir's eyes, and smiled bitterly with some helplessness, "On weekdays, he is as stubborn as a donkey, and he buries any grievance in his heart.

You are so vulnerable right now, you can't let Xianyun see you, or she will tell everyone about it, and then you will lose face."