Gods Above! The Mysterious Constellation Beyond Divination

In a private room on the second floor of the Golden Goblet Restaurant, soft light shone on the [Crown of Heavenly Principles], its seven colors flowing above Chu Yuan's right palm.

Four diamond-shaped, winglike lights pulsed gently on either side of the crown. With each slight movement, the laws of Douluo Soul Power in the surrounding air, once violent and hostile, meekly retreated and turned into the purest Primordial Divine Power, which lingered around the room.

Mona stared blankly at the illusory crown of light, its brilliant seven-colored divine radiance reflected in her mint-green eyes.

Ever since she had fallen onto this strange continent the previous night, the plane's rejection had tormented her like an affliction lodged in her bones, constantly squeezing and wearing away the Hydro elemental power within her. The instant the crown appeared, it melted rapidly away like ice and snow beneath the blazing sun.

The Hydro Vision hanging at the small of her back was now giving off waves of warmth, conveying an overwhelming sense of yearning and submission.

"Th-this is the primordial authority that stands above The Seven of the mortal world?!"

Mona's voice trembled. As an astrologist who studied the truth of the stars, she understood the laws behind the "False Sky" and "Visions" better than the average person from Teyvat.

The presence emanating from the crown before her was unmistakably the source of all elemental power and the paths of the stars of fate in Teyvat!

"There are too many eyes and ears here. This isn't the place to reshape your Vision."

With a thought, Chu Yuan put away the [Crown of Heavenly Principles] in his palm.

"Let's go back to the suite at the Rose Hotel first. Once we're there, I'll completely strip away the suppression this world's laws have placed on you."

"Mm, the restaurant really isn't convenient. Walls have ears."

Keqing rose, walked over to Mona's side, and said softly, "Miss Mona, come back with Chu Yuan and me first. When I first fell here last night, I was in far greater danger than you are now. It was thanks to Chu Yuan's authority over Heavenly Principles that I was able to reshape my Vision, and my strength has even improved considerably compared to when I was in Liyue."

Hearing that even Liyue's Yuheng, whose eyes were set above the crown of her head, held Chu Yuan in such high regard, Mona felt her cheeks grow warm. She hurriedly adjusted the pointed witch's hat on her head and rose from her chair.

"O-okay! Since the survival of Hydromancy and my Vision is at stake, this astrologist will go with you!"

After settling the bill, Chu Yuan and Keqing left the Golden Goblet Restaurant with Mona between them.

The night breeze was cool, stirring the golden star ornaments at the ends of Mona's twin tails. Perhaps because she had eaten her fill, or perhaps because she was sheltered by Chu Yuan's reassuring primordial presence beside her, Mona's steps were much lighter on the way back. Only when she occasionally looked down at the tears in her starry black stockings on the outside of her right thigh and above her left knee did she pull her cape down a little in embarrassment.

Before long, the three returned to the Rose Hotel.

The tables and chairs Keqing had smashed in the hotel lobby that day had long since been cleared away. As soon as the manager at the front desk saw Chu Yuan enter with two breathtaking young women, he hurriedly bowed and scraped as he watched the three step onto the spiral staircase leading to the third floor.

Entering the Rose Suite on the top floor, Chu Yuan shut the carved wooden door behind him and casually cast a pale-gold Heavenly Principles barrier, completely sealing off the sounds and power fluctuations of the entire suite.

It was Mona's first time entering such an intimate-looking room, with its dark red velvet carpet and translucent crimson curtains hanging everywhere, and she froze in the doorway.

She blinked her clear, large mint-green eyes and swept her gaze twice over the huge heart-shaped bed strewn with rose petals. Her fair, delicate, oval face turned visibly red.

"Wait... Chu Yuan, Miss Keqing, why is the place you're staying... such a strange-looking room?!"

Keqing walked over to the table and poured a cup of warm water. Hearing Mona's fuss, she could not help feeling the tips of her ears turn red, but outwardly she maintained the Yuheng's dignified composure. She cleared her throat softly.

"This is the hotel's only top-floor suite. It's spacious and quiet, making it ideal for setting up an isolation ward. Miss Mona, there's no need to think too much about it. Just focus on preparing to reshape your Vision."

"I-is that so...?"

Still half-doubtful, Mona drew in her neck and hugged the brass astrolabe Chu Yuan had just returned to her tightly against her chest.

She walked onto the dark red velvet carpet in the center of the suite. Looking at Chu Yuan, who had taken off his outer robe and sat calmly on the edge of the couch, she felt the scholar's thirst for knowledge in her bones and a touch of the great astrologist's pride suddenly resurface.

Earlier, on the street corner, hunger and the elemental backlash had kept her from seeing Chu Yuan's star of fate clearly.

Now she had eaten and drunk her fill, and beneath the protection of Chu Yuan's law barrier, thirty to forty percent of the Hydro elemental power within her was circulating again.

Before reshaping her Vision, she was eager to use the "Astrologist" Hydromancy she was so proud of to glimpse for herself the magnificent starry path of fate that belonged to this young man who bore primordial authority!

"Um... Chu Yuan!"

Mona took a deep breath, crouched down, and spread her astrological velvet cloth on the carpet in front of the couch. Raising her pretty face, she spoke to Chu Yuan earnestly.

"Today you not only helped me out of a predicament, but also treated me to such a lavish meal, and now you're even going to help me with my suppressed Vision... Astrologist Mona Megistus never accepts favors for nothing! Before we begin, please allow me to use the most formal Hydromancy to divine the course of your future fate. Consider it payment in advance!"

Hearing this, Keqing, who stood nearby, looked at Chu Yuan with concern. "Chu Yuan, her Vision hasn't been reshaped yet. If she forces herself to divine your fate, will she...?"

"It's all right. Since our great astrologist means well, let her give it a try."

Chu Yuan leaned back on the couch, a hint of interested amusement in his deep black eyes. He gave Mona, who was half-kneeling on the carpet, a slight nod. "Go ahead, Mona."

With his permission, Mona straightened her slender back, brimming with fighting spirit.

She solemnly closed her eyes and formed intricate, abstruse astrological hand seals above the brass astrolabe. A deep blue light shone from the Hydro Vision at the small of her back.

"Reflect, illusory image of fate! Starlight and rippling water, reveal to me the true fate of the one before me!"

With a splash, a stream of crystalline blue water, speckled with flickering starlight, poured from her palm into the brass astrolabe.

Ripples quickly spread across its surface. Countless fine astrological runes rose and intertwined above the water, attempting to trace his star chart of fate across the two worlds.

For the first breath, the water remained relatively calm.

But the next instant, when the astrological array in the astrolabe truly touched the origin of creation deep within Chu Yuan's soul, belonging to Phanes, the "Primordial One," as well as the supreme fate of Heavenly Principles that was uniting the laws of Teyvat and Douluo, a sudden change occurred!

"Hummm!!"

It was as though ten thousand stars had exploded at once in Mona's mind!

In the astrolabe's reflection, she saw no single Constellation. Instead, she saw a resplendent golden throne spanning the endless void, holding the entire starry sky of Teyvat and the stars of Douluo in its palm!

Before such supreme might, which transcended "fate" itself and even created and governed its rules, her little brass astrolabe could not withstand even a one-hundred-millionth projection of those laws!

"How is this possible...? No Constellation... he himself is the ruler of the sky and the stars?!"

Mona's pupils contracted violently, and she cried out in horror. She wanted to cut off the flow of Hydro elemental power at once, but it was already too late!

"Bang-crash!!"

With a crisp explosion, the astrolabe engraved with alchemical inscriptions burst into countless fragments under the backlash of the laws!

The starlit water filling the basin instantly turned into a spray that poured down on Mona, who was kneeling before it!

"Ahh!"

Mona cried out. Although Chu Yuan casually swept his sleeve and froze the exploding brass fragments in midair the instant they flew apart, the great splash of cool astrological water drenched Mona from head to toe!

From the brim of her pointed witch's hat to her fair, delicate cheeks and slender swanlike neck, down to the dark purple-blue bodysuit already stretched tight across her chest, waist, and abdomen, she was soaked through in an instant!

The sudden mishap, coupled with the instantaneous exhaustion of the Hydro elemental power within her, caused Mona, kneeling on the carpet, to lose her balance completely. Crying out in panic, she fell backward.

Just as she thought she would land awkwardly on the carpet, a warm, strong hand shot out like lightning, lifted her bodily into the air, and seated her directly on the couch.

Or, more precisely, seated her astride Chu Yuan's long, sturdy thighs, face-to-face with him!

"Mm...!"

Mona instinctively wrapped both arms around Chu Yuan's neck. Her pointed witch's hat slipped off onto the carpet as she fell, revealing her long, dark purplish-black twin tails, slightly damp and giving off an alluring fragrance.

The air in the room seemed to turn thick and scorching in an instant.