He Casually Created a Blessed Realm, and She Fell Completely for Him?

The night was black as ink, and the lingering force of the purple lightning over the rocky slope gradually dispersed into the cool mountain breeze.

Irminsul swayed gently in Chu Yuan's left palm, its emerald branches and leaves, as though carved entirely from crystal, giving off a soft ripple.

As he curled his fingers slightly, more than a dozen fragments of Liyue white-marble railings and bluestone bricks scattered around the crater trembled in unison. Strands of visible amber Geo Ley Line light peeled away from within the stones and flowed into Irminsul's roots.

The stones, stripped of the lingering trace of the Ley Line, instantly became ordinary rocks, while a tender leaf on one of Irminsul's branches grew somewhat more substantial.

"Let's go. The smell of blood is too strong here. Higher-year Soul Beasts will soon follow the scent."

Chu Yuan turned, his gaze falling on the young woman sitting on the bluestone with her cover-up gathered around her.

Keqing gripped the Lion's Roar and immediately tried to stand. She had always been strong-willed, and even though she had now given her heart and allegiance to Chu Yuan, she was unwilling to act like a frail, helpless burden.

But the moment the tips of her boots touched the ground, her legs went weak beyond her control.

The baptism of primordial divine power that had lasted several minutes had completely remade her Vision and all the meridians in her body, but it had also subjected her soul and flesh alike to an intense shudder that had almost remade her from the inside out.

Now, waves of weakness and tingling that made her blush still lingered deep in her bones. Her knees buckled, and she gave a soft cry as she toppled forward.

"Ah..."

Before she could fall onto the rubble, Chu Yuan stepped forward and caught her slender waist in his right arm. With his left, he scooped up her long legs beneath the knees, where they were wrapped in torn purple stockings, and swept her into his arms.

"Your meridians have only just been remade, and the divine power hasn't fully settled and fused with your body. Why are you trying to act tough?"

Chu Yuan looked down at the pretty face in his arms as it flushed crimson with embarrassment. Holding her full, springy hips and thighs securely in his arms, he tapped his toe against the bluestone.

"Crack!"

First Soul Skill, Heavenly Punishment Thunderbolt!

The purple-gold divine authority First Soul Ring flashed beneath Chu Yuan's feet and vanished. In an instant, he became a streak of purple-gold lightning that tore through the night, carrying Keqing as he flashed at tremendous speed between the treetops.

A hundred meters passed in an instant, and even the fierce wind howling beside their ears was automatically blocked by the divine power of Heavenly Principles.

Keqing instinctively wrapped her arms around Chu Yuan's neck and pressed her burning cheek against his solid chest, clothed in nothing but a plain white inner robe.

This was the lightning-flash principle behind her own signature sword technique, Star Dou Restoration, but in Chu Yuan's hands, its speed, range, and control over space surpassed hers many times over.

Listening to the steady, powerful heartbeat in the young man's chest and feeling the scorching warmth of his broad hand through her torn black stockings, Keqing lowered her violet eyes slightly. The last trace of unease in her heart melted completely into compliant attachment.

After a mere dozen breaths or so, a secluded gorge five li away was already before them.

Chu Yuan reined in the lightning and descended lightly before a stone cave at the far end of the gorge.

The instant his feet touched the ground, a faint but exceptionally pure fluctuation of spatial resonance suddenly came from behind a rock wall buried under vines and rubble in the deepest part of the gorge.

"Hm? When the heavenly rift tore open just now, something actually fell straight into the depths of this gorge?"

Chu Yuan raised an eyebrow and carried Keqing at a measured pace to the cliff at the end of the gorge.

Deeply embedded in a crevice at the foot of the cliff was a strange piece of ore, about half a person's height and lustrous golden amber all over. Stuck to its top was half a fragment of a green jade pot, painted with the adepti's cloud-and-crane patterns.

"This is... Plaustrite?! And a fragment of Cloud Retainer and the others' adeptal Serenitea Pot?!"

Leaning against Chu Yuan's shoulder, Keqing got a clear look at the objects, and astonishment appeared in her violet eyes. "I've seen Plaustrite in the Jade Chamber's records and Ningguang's collection. It's a rare stone from Liyue that keeps the Jade Chamber suspended in the air, and what's flowing over that green jade fragment is unmistakably the adeptal Sub-Space Creation used by the Three-Eyed Five-Manifestation Immortals to create independent realms!"

"So the Serenitea Pot's core and the Plaustrite fused together in the turbulence between worlds."

A trace of delight flashed in Chu Yuan's eyes. He had originally planned to reshape the stone cave using only Irminsul and the scattered traces of Ley Line he had just collected. He had not expected the heavenly rift to deliver such a magnificent gift.

He gently set Keqing down on a nearby bluestone, then stepped forward and pressed his left hand against the Plaustrite and Serenitea Pot fragment embedded in the rock wall.

"Hum!" Second Martial Soul, Irminsul, fully unleashed!

The tender green branch, as though carved from glass and crystal, floated out of Chu Yuan's palm. The moment it touched the Plaustrite and the Serenitea Pot fragment, countless translucent golden roots suddenly sprouted from its base and plunged like living things into the core of the ore and the pulse of Star Dou's earth beneath his feet!

"In the name of Heavenly Principles, anchor the Ley Line and reshape the sub-space!"

Chu Yuan's eyes once again took on the divine colors of intertwined pale gold and silver-white. The Crown of Heavenly Principles from his right hand hovered above his head, ceaselessly drawing in the violent Soul Power of the Douluo world around him and forcing it through Irminsul's network of roots into the Serenitea Pot fragment.

"Rumble!" The entire secluded gorge shook violently.

Countless brilliant emerald and golden-amber patterns of light spread swiftly along Irminsul's roots, covering the entire gorge, several li across, in the blink of an eye.

The spatial law of the "realm within the pot" contained in the Serenitea Pot fragment was fully activated and amplified by Irminsul. It became a barrier of seven-colored flowing light, invisible to the naked eye, that completely separated the secluded gorge from the surrounding Star Dou Great Forest!

The instant the barrier closed, the oppressive force of the Douluo Continent's plane within the gorge, filled with rejection and malice toward living beings from another world, vanished without a trace.

In its place were the seven elemental powers of Teyvat, so dense they were almost liquid, and pure divine power, all converted by Irminsul!

That was not all. Transformed by the Plaustrite and the Serenitea Pot's sub-space power, the once dark and damp natural cave expanded and rearranged itself with a roar.

The rough rock walls became the carved beams and painted eaves of an ancient Liyue-style corridor, while the floor was laid with lapis lazuli tiles as smooth and lustrous as jade. In the spacious main room at the back of the abode, a carved nanmu bed and screen appeared of their own accord, giving off a faint scent of sandalwood.

Beside the terrace outside the main room's side hall, a natural spirit spring that had drawn upon the underground fire veins and life essence burst from the earth, forming a white-marble hot spring pool, steaming and wreathed in white mist!

Several Silk Flowers and Sandbearer Wood trees bearing the presence of Liyue quietly sprouted branches and leaves beside the hot spring, adorning the realm beneath the night sky.

"This... this is simply a miracle..."

Keqing stood beneath the newly transformed jade-stone corridor, feeling the Electro and breath of life in the air, several times more abundant and gentle than in Liyue Harbor. The shock in her heart had long since reached its peak.

With a mere wave of his hand, he had transformed a perilous wilderness gorge into an adeptal realm shielded from the plane's rejection. The authority of the man before her was truly worthy of the name "Primordial Heavenly Principles."

And at the very moment this First Heavenly Principles Realm was fully anchored and formed,

Irminsul, rooted at the realm's core, gave a clear, joyous chime. An immense quantity of law power, fused with the origins of space and life from both worlds, surged back into Chu Yuan's body through the Martial Soul connection.

Beneath Chu Yuan's feet, his first, three-thousand-year purple-gold Soul Ring slowly lit up.

Immediately afterward, outside the purple-gold Soul Ring, a deeper-colored ring, flowing with the luster of emerald crystal and dark-gold divine spatial patterns, abruptly condensed from illusion into reality!

The Second Soul Ring, self-condensed through divine authority!

Moreover, because it had fused with the adeptal Serenitea Pot's spatial fragment and the Ley Line of the entire secluded gorge, the second Soul Ring's original age had crossed the five-thousand-year threshold and reached an astonishing six thousand years. Its purple was so deep it was nearly black, and a faint emerald-gold radiance curled around its edge!

[Crown of Heavenly Principles / Irminsul · Second Soul Ring (Self-Condensed through Divine Authority · Six Thousand Years)]:

Passive authority [Blessed Realm]: Within the boundaries of an anchored Heavenly Principles realm, the cultivation speed of the host and all followers increases by 100%, while their recovery speed for injuries and Soul Power increases by 300%. The realm's barrier can also perfectly conceal their presence and block all mental probing at the level of a Titled Douluo or below.

Active Soul Skill [Void Domain]: Draw upon the spatial authority of the Serenitea Pot and Irminsul to deploy spatial barriers anywhere within a hundred-meter radius, devouring or deflecting enemy attacks. In a crisis, space can also be torn open instantly, directly transporting the user and those nearby back to an anchored Heavenly Principles realm!

"Attack and defense in one, and it comes with absolutely safe cross-space teleportation and a cultivation bonus?"

Feeling the increasingly profound and powerful Soul Power of a peak level-thirty Soul Master within him, Chu Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

Now he needed only his final Third Soul Ring to officially enter the Soul Elder realm. With this realm anchored, he had an absolutely secure base for whatever came next, whether he went to Suotuo City or deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

Reining in the two divine authority Soul Rings pulsating around him, Chu Yuan turned to look at the purple-haired young woman standing somewhat awkwardly beside a corridor pillar.

"I've remade this place into a realm dwelling shielded from the Douluo Plane's rejection. Neither the Soul Beasts nor the human Soul Masters outside can spy on it in the slightest."

Chu Yuan walked slowly up to Keqing, his gaze sweeping over the cover-up draped around her and the long, shapely legs beneath it, stained with dust and blood and clad in badly torn stockings. He said gently, "There's a Ley Line hot spring outside the side hall that I just brought forth. It contains Irminsul's life essence. Go wash away the blood and fatigue first, and change into clean clothes. I'll wait for you in the inner room."

At the mention of bathing, the fair skin around Keqing's ears grew slightly warm.

She looked down at her ruined dress, so disheveled it could barely cover her body, and indeed felt sticky and uncomfortable all over. She immediately nodded. "Mm... thank you."