As a skill that touches the realm of the gods, the "Glowing Sword God" summoned by the "Glowing Sword God" is naturally much stronger than before.

Under the more powerful "Determination" characteristic, no matter how hard the Relic Giant Serpent is, it can only be cut!

However, the Relic Serpent was not easily defeated because of this.

It raised its head, and the gears in its head spun wildly, as if it were looking up to the sky and roaring.

Countless black mud then spread up along the tail of the giant snake of the ruins, forming a strange black pattern that forcibly glued the severed steel body.

"That's all right, is it so outrageous to be able to use black mud!" Li Qiuzhi spoke in surprise.

"Compared to that relic serpent, I think you're even more outrageous."

Seeing that Li Qiuzhi only controlled the sword intent incarnation and slashed out a sword qi with his hand, he easily caused serious injuries to the strong enemy that even she had to find help to barely deal with.

Yelan's heart was slightly complicated.

You must know that when he first met this guy more than half a year ago, he was still a weak adventurer who could only be tied up by himself.

Are people from other worlds so talented?

"Haha, there's nothing left."

Li Qiuzhi smiled, and then continued:

"Alright, you guys hurry up and help restrain the relic serpent, and we'll cut it a few more swords later, and see if it can stick up!"

"Okay."

Ganyu was also a little stunned.

It felt like they didn't need to make a move at all, and Li Qiuzhi himself would be able to defeat the Relic Giant Serpent.

Of course, if you take action, it will be much easier and you can solve the problem quickly.

She held the longbow and raised her arms at shoulder level.

The backless black silk bodysuit and short cheongsam did not cover the shoulders, slightly revealing the snow-white skin under the armpits.

Ganyu's delicate fingers pinched the bowstring and pulled it away gently.

A delicate arrow made entirely of ice rests on the bowstring.

She aimed at the ruins serpent on the other side of the dark canyon, and with a slight loosening of her fingers, the arrow flew out with a "boom".

The intense ice elemental froze the air, leaving a trail of frost in its path.

Li Qiuzhi manipulated the "Glowing Sword Gods" and restrained the relic giant snake, making it impossible for it to leave its current location.

"Smack!"

The frost-colored meteor unexpectedly hit the body of the relic serpent, and countless ice elementals began to spread across its body.

"Miss Yelan!" Ganyu turned her fair face sideways and looked at the tall lady on the side.

"Hmm!"

Yelan also aimed her bow and arrow at the Relic Serpent, looking forward from her white back.

Looking through the raised arm, you can get a good glimpse of the side chest wrapped in a blue leather coat.

Suddenly, the arm was released to block the view, and the arrows made of the condensed water element on the bowstring were also fired.

In less than a second, Yelan's arrow also hit the relic serpent.

Although the strength of the Relic Serpent is very strong, and it is a body of steel, it is also highly resistant to elemental power.

If it's someone weaker than it, trying to freeze it may be difficult to do so.

But Ganyu's strength is stronger than it, and Yelan's strength is not weak, so when the elemental power they used collided, the freezing reaction was triggered.

The Relic Serpent was completely defenseless and frozen into ice, even if it was blessed with the power of black mud, it was useless.

However, even if it is frozen, it may not be able to freeze for long, and Li Qiuzhi did not waste this opportunity.

He picked up his bow and arrow and replenished a wind elemental arrow, spreading the elemental power to make the two elements of water and ice that had not yet reacted continue to react at the same time.

Controlling the two "Glowing Sword Gods", he slashed out golden sword qi at the head of the relic giant snake.

The moment he sliced through the ice, he also sliced through the steel body of the Relic Serpent, and took its energy core directly!

"Bang!"

There was a sound like glass cracking, followed by a loud bang.

The relict giant snake, which had just lifted the freezing reaction, burst out of its body with golden lightning and jumped irregularly.

It's clear that it's paralyzed...... As soon as he thought of this, Li Qiuzhi saw the ruin giant snake smashing to the ground.

[Defeat strong enemies and gain 134512 XP.] 】

The People panel pops up at the right time to get experience points.

This shows that the Relic Serpent has been successfully defeated, and there will be no ability to resist at all.

"Whew, it's done, it's really not easy!" Li Qiuzhi put away his bow and arrows and sighed slightly.

Yelan glanced at him, didn't want to answer his words at all, and turned to look at Ganyu:

"Let's go check on the relic serpent and see if we can find anything out of the ordinary!"

It was strange to think about the relic serpent that could control the black mud, and the relic serpent she had encountered elsewhere before did not have this ability.

"Well, let's go!" Ganyu nodded, summoned the Wings of the Wind and Yelan to fly across the canyon together.

“……”

Li Qiuzhi felt a little helpless, so he had to summon the Wind Wings to hurry up.

Looking at their snow-white backs, and their calves hanging in the air, wrapped in leather boots and black silk pantyhose, swaying slightly and naturally, suddenly there was no hurry to follow.

It's also good to take a slow pace and enjoy the beautiful scenery.

It's just that the environment is a little darker, and it is impossible to see the details in the blurred field under the hem of their fluttering skirts.

More than ten seconds passed, and several people landed on the platform on the opposite side of the canyon.

"When I looked at it from a distance, I thought it was just the same size, and when I got closer, I saw this ruin giant snake, and only the head was the size of a house!"

Li Qiuzhi moved his gaze to the body of the relic giant snake and said.

He had never seen such a huge steel structure, it was a drill machine researched by Kanriya, and the huge gear on its head was used to cut through the hard rock.

The specific purpose seems to be digging underground tunnels to transport troops or something.

If you bring this relic giant snake back, let Ningguang instruct the scholars to do reverse engineering and study the technology of the relic giant snake.

In the future, it can also be sold as a product of the "Sweet Flower Chamber of Commerce", and the efficiency of mining ore should be quite high.

As for whether the technology of studying Kanriya will be hostile to the "Heavenly Reason" and strike at it.

Li Qiuzhi felt that the possibility was very small, because the reason for the destruction of the country of Kanria had never been a problem with a relatively high level of science and technology.

Rather, they try to master the power that comes from outside the world, that is, the abyss.

They mainly tried to master the power of the Abyss, and lured the invader "Abyss" to Teyvat, causing a dark plague that affected the entire continent, which no one could bear.

As a result, they perished, and most of the remaining populace were cursed with immortality and turned into monsters like hilichurls.

Only a few powerful people can keep their sanity under the "immortal curse" and not turn into monsters.

But even so, the remnants of Kanria, who did not turn into monsters, are also suffering from the "curse of immortality".

Therefore, as long as he is blatantly like Kanria, researching the power of the abyss and causing harm to the world, it will basically be no problem.

Li Qiuzhi thought so.

"It's really big, do you have any thoughts on it?" Yelan clasped her hands under her chest, looked at Li Qiuzhi's contemplative appearance and asked with some curiosity.

Li Qiuzhi did not hide it and said his thoughts.

"Oh, that's a good idea, but don't you think anyone has done research on Kanria's machinery before?

"It's just an iron shell, and no country can't do it.

"A mechanical body made of pure steel and gears can be driven by a certain logic, even a rune and energy core.

"It's the real valuable place, and no one has been able to study it yet."

Yelan shook her head slightly, and her dark blue hair swept her cheeks and said.

She didn't think that Li Qiuzhi's idea was so easy to realize, after all, the previous cases were all failures.

"That's right." Li Qiuzhi sighed.

Naturally, Kanria's technology is not so easy to reproduce, and it seems that he has thought simply.

If you want to get the Kanria technology, you may have to find the information they left behind.

I can only have a chance to think about it again later.

"Generally speaking, the Relic Serpent doesn't have the ability to manipulate black mud, but since it has shown such power.

"It's likely that its energy core is contaminated, so let's take it apart and check it."

Yelan thought for a moment and said.

Now it is more important to investigate whether the relic giant snake is related to the black mud overflowing from the mining area.

"Okay, let me dismantle it," Li Qiuzhi nodded, and he controlled the "Glowing Sword God" to easily cut open the steel body of the relic giant snake.

Eventually, it was discovered that in addition to the head, the remaining three energy cores scattered throughout the body were discovered.

These power cores are the same as those guarded by the ruins, and they should all be bright yellow.

However, under Li Qiuzhi's observation, they found that these cores were bright yellow except for the surface, and the central positions were dyed with the same color as black mud.

In other words, the black mud invaded its energy core, and it is very likely that it was able to use the power of the black mud because of this.

"Are you going to destroy them, will they be able to stop the spread of black mud in the mining area?"

Ganyu pondered for a moment and said.

"It's not impossible, it's useless to keep it anyway." Li Qiuzhi nodded slightly, and then said, "Actually, I already have a little guess about how the black mud came from. ”

"You got it?"

Yelan let go of the fingers against her chin and looked at him in surprise, as did Ganyu next to her.

"It's just a guess that came to mind, and I don't know if it's right."

Li Qiuzhi was about to tell the information he had learned in the game, and he looked at the black mud that had not yet dissipated that had been summoned by the relic giant snake just now.

"I've been thinking all the way here, those black mud usually come out of the ground, and when I fought with the ruin giant snake just now, I also found that it summoned the black mud from the ground."

He paused, and continued:

"Since they all came out of the ground, it's probably not the power of the ruin serpent itself.

"It's probably just that the power of black mud has more in the energy core, so it can summon black mud from the ground at will,"

"And if there is anything in the ground that can hold the black mud, I think it should only be the leyline, after all, the underground of the mining area is also normal.

"There shouldn't be anything other than the leylines, so that the black mud appears everywhere in a random manner."

Yelan and Ganyu listened to Li Qiuzhi's words, thought about it carefully in their hearts, and found that what he said was quite reasonable.

They also now felt that the relict giant snake that could be easily defeated would most likely not be the source of the black mud.

"You guessed it right, we'll destroy these contaminated energy cores, and then we'll see if there is any change in the black mud."

Even though she already has a tendency in her heart, Yelan feels that she has to verify it before she is more rigorous.

"Hmm."

Li Qiuzhi nodded and said that there was no problem.

He motioned for the two of them to step back a bit, and then controlled the "Glowing Sword God", splitting the four energy cores in half with a single sword.

With a burst of golden lightning "sizzle", all the energy cores stopped moving.

The black mud inside also flowed out.

Li Qiuzhi used a large amount of elemental power to cover the black mud, and then they annihilated each other, and finally the black mud could not be replenished.

He won comfortably.

In terms of being able to annihilate each other with elemental forces, black mud is quite similar to the power of the abyss, and perhaps it is also a type of abyssal power.

Li Qiuzhi thought with some speculation.

"Hasn't it changed?"

When Yelan was destroying the energy core by Li Qiuzhi, she also focused on the black mud that the Relic Serpent had summoned earlier.

It was found that it had not changed much, and it was now almost certain that it was not the relic serpent that caused the turmoil in the black mud.

"If you want to determine if it's the cause of the leylines, I feel like you have to ask professional scholars to come and take a look."

Li Qiuzhi gave his own suggestions.

"Well, let's go back and talk to that guy Ningguang first, and let her arrange for researchers in related fields to come over and analyze it."

Yelan let go of the arm holding her chest and said with a slight sigh of relief.

Liyue's academic research is not as powerful as Sumeru's, but it basically has everything it should have, so that not even a scholar who understands the leylines can't find it.

"I'm bothering you two today, otherwise it wouldn't have been so soon, and the investigation has progressed."

She looked at Li Qiuzhi and Ganyu and said with a smile.

[Yelan has a good impression of you, gain 260 opinion points, and the current opinion level is Lv.3 (180/300)]

"No, don't thank you, I didn't do anything, it's just Mr. Li Qiuzhi's credit."

Ganyu waved his hand and looked at the young adventurer next to him and said.

[Ganyu has a favorable impression of you, gain 200 opinion points, and the current friendship level is 4 (200/400)]

Li Qiuzhi looked at the two favorability prompts that popped up in a row on the character panel, and said with a smile:

"Although we haven't found a solution to the black mud completely, we should be quick when we have a direction.

"By the way, before I go back, I'm going to leave two sword intent incarnations behind, and let 'them' clean up the black mud and monsters in the main mining area?

"It might be able to get the mine up and running again."

He actually didn't want to miss the monsters in the Chasm that had been strengthened by black mud, and they gave him a lot of experience.

Hearing Li Qiuzhi's words, Yelan and Ganyu glanced at each other, and after thinking about it, they felt that it was not impossible, so they nodded and said:

"You decide."

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