Bringing Earth's Technology to Liyue

Bai Ye and Xingqiu repeatedly sought a solution from Yanfei, but the matter still remained unresolved.

Yanfei had already bound herself with the rules she had drafted.

Xingqiu could only helplessly choose to give up.

"This is fine too. Consider it a lesson for Father and Brother. In the future, no matter how foolproof a deal may seem, they must account for every possible change."

Xingqiu rose to his feet and spoke to Yanfei.

"Miss Yanfei, we won't trouble you any longer."

At the same time, he turned to Bai Ye.

"Bai Ye, let's go."

By the time they left, it was already late.

Bai Ye bid Xingqiu farewell.

Xingqiu went to keep his father and brother company.

Though he might not be able to help much with business,

he at least had a Vision and considerable combat skill.

With him around,

the unsettled hearts within the Feiyun Commerce Guild would stabilize somewhat.

Bai Ye returned to the room he rented.

It was a modest room. Aside from a single bed in one corner, every other space was filled with various automata, as well as talismans and ritual tools used in the Adeptal Arts he cultivated.

Bai Ye sat cross-legged on the bed.

He closed his eyes and began to meditate.

Although Bai Ye mainly relied on the Art of Automata and the abilities granted by his Anemo Vision in battle, he could not neglect his cultivation of the Adeptal Arts.

It could make his body sturdier. Though it had yet to help him grow taller, his strength, speed, and other abilities far surpassed those of ordinary people.

Moreover, cultivating the Adeptal Arts could calm his mind.

Bai Ye cultivated for a while, but his mind still could not settle.

Hagintos's remnant soul could clearly sense this. Yet she felt that she could do nothing to help him now, so she could only watch him silently and hope that he would find his own way through it.

"Unfortunately, this isn't my world. If it were, this matter would be much easier to resolve."

Even after cultivating the Adeptal Arts, Bai Ye could not help saying it aloud.

As though she had seized an opportunity, Hagintos hurriedly spoke in Bai Ye's mind.

"Your world? What, are such matters not difficult there? Come to think of it, you've barely told me anything about your world."

Hagintos knew perfectly well that Bai Ye came from another world. She had learned this clearly when Bai Ye became her disciple.

However, Bai Ye was not the only traveler from another world in Teyvat, so she had not asked too many questions.

Now, it seemed that Bai Ye's previous life differed greatly from Teyvat.

"In my world, things like Visions and elemental power didn't exist. Everyone was ordinary, but ordinary people used their own methods, and through the efforts of generations—sometimes more than a dozen generations—they achieved technological progress..."

Bai Ye seemed to have found someone he could confide in.

He told Hagintos much about his previous life.

Firearms many times more powerful than the Musketeer Vanguard's guns, flight rather than gliding like a wind glider, devices that allowed people to communicate across thousands of miles with ease, machines that could draw blueprints on their own...

He told Hagintos about many things that Earth's people considered commonplace, yet Teyvat's natives would find extraordinary.

The inventions of modern society allowed ordinary people to live more comfortably.

As Hagintos listened, she felt both yearning and curiosity.

It was not for her own sake.

Let alone the fact that she was only a remnant soul, even if she still possessed a physical body, she could make herself impervious to heat and cold.

What she longed for was how wonderful it would have been if her people could have lived such lives back then.

All gods loved their people, and Hagintos especially so.

As he spoke, Bai Ye gradually steered the topic back to the Feiyun Commerce Guild's current predicament.

"As for what happened today, it would actually be very easy to solve in my previous life. We already know where the fresh goods need to be sent. Even if we didn't travel by sea, we could transport them overland by rail. Even without railways, using freight trucks would still make it easy."

At that moment, Hagintos spoke in Bai Ye's mind.

"Then why not do it?"

"Hm!?"

Bai Ye sounded puzzled.

Hagintos continued.

"Your world was so wonderful, so why not bring that beauty to Liyue as well? Even I yearn for the things you described, so I truly hope Liyue can have them too. The things from your world are so exquisite—how wonderful it would be to recreate them here."

"Adapt things from Earth for Teyvat?"

Bai Ye picked up the surveillance monitor screen he had made earlier.

It had been an unconscious experiment at the time. Before this, he had never planned to bring things from his previous life into Teyvat.

After all, Teyvat's resources differed from those of his previous life.

But thinking it over carefully,

different resources did not mean they could not be integrated.

Most of the Art of Automata he used had been learned from his teacher, Hagintos, and had not changed much.

If he continued like this, he could only become a master of the Art of Automata. He would never truly become strong.

If he wanted to surpass his teacher, he had to find a path suited to himself.

Integrating what he had seen and learned in his previous life into the Art of Automata would be a new path.

A surge of motivation rose within Bai Ye.

He would transform Liyue.

Moreover,

he knew that although Rex Lapis still governed Liyue,

he would soon fake his death and leave during the Rite of Descension.

Liyue would ultimately have to be entrusted to human governance.

After the Rite of Descension, Bai Ye could work with the Seven Stars through his various creations.

"By then, perhaps I can try to get my hands on Ningguang's Floating Stone. With a Floating Stone as enormous as the Jade Chamber's foundation, I could sustain Teacher for a long time. No—bringing Earth's technology to Liyue will require even more innovations in the Art of Automata. By then, I might even find a way to restore Teacher. That would be even better."

Bai Ye looked forward to a beautiful future.

Hagintos simply watched quietly.

She was very happy inside.

After thinking for a while, Bai Ye picked up a pen and paper and began calculating.

"To create inventions unlike anything in Teyvat, I'll start by establishing a transport fleet."