Still One Step Too Late

Guinaifen asked in confusion, "What is this?"

"Is Mu Yang being chased by something?"

Putting Lumine's thoughts together, was this the truth behind why the people of Natlan had not been invaded by the Abyss?

So someone had been carrying the burden all along.

Him again, Mu Yang.

"He just came back to life. Can't he take it easy for once?"

"He'll be okay, right?"

Third time's the charm. Mihoyo, I'm begging you to be kind.

No wonder the death toll across all of Natlan was only in the triple digits.

Was this really okay? Didn't Marivka disagree?

If there was a way and he still refused to act, then he wouldn't be Mu Yang.

Mu Yang moved at incredible speed, his goal clear.

What he was looking for was the Abyssal Tumor that even Lumine had been unable to destroy.

"It's Elder Mu Yang! This way!"

A messenger from the Suspended Wood People led Mu Yang onward.

"This is the supposedly indestructible Abyssal Gate everyone has been talking about."

Mu Yang approached it and pretended to examine it.

He first attacked it with Cryo power.

"We've already tried elemental power. It doesn't work. It seems to have some kind of protective layer."

Mu Yang nodded slightly, acknowledging what the messengers had said.

"Stand farther back."

"Yes."

Mu Yang drew his sword, its blade glinting with a cold light.

It looked like Cryo power, yet it differed from before.

The temperature around them plummeted.

"Break."

The Abyssal Tumor froze, then shattered...

The messengers' eyes lit up. As expected of Elder Mu Yang, the man who had saved the Mountain King.

Yet Mu Yang himself did not look particularly pleased.

To destroy an Abyssal Tumor, he needed the power of the Heavenly Principles.

And he needed quite a lot of