Miraculous Forger

Yet no one raised any objections.

The reason was the enticing grain in the tall Buli Ren leader's hand, brimming with Abundance Divine Power.

Chen Li had appeared before them as a holographic projection. Even though the ear of wheat in his hand truly was a personal divine object personally plucked by the Aeon of Abundance from behind herself, these Buli Ren could not sense it at all.

Only after Chen Li had paid a hefty price and plucked a Grain of Abundance to transmit over did the Buli Ren before him become properly respectful.

A divine object! An absolute divine object!

The Buli Ren had once received the Aeon of Abundance's blessing as well, though they called it the Lord of Longevity.

Yet they had never felt such abundant Abundance Divine Power.

And yet, in the mouth of Chen Li, this Divine Emissary, such a divine object seemed utterly insignificant.

"My lord, you said this Divine Emissary... is he trustworthy?" After Chen Li's holographic projection vanished, one of the underlings behind the Buli Ren leader asked.

"A rare divine object that lost ninety-nine percent of its power when transmitted across time and space into our hands still carries such a magnificent aura. He must be a Divine Emissary. Even if he isn't, he is." The Buli Ren leader slapped his underling across the head, leaving him bloodied and battered.

"Yes, my lord."

"I hope I can get that grain back. I spent several days nurturing a replacement for it, after all." Chen Li looked at the ear of wheat in his hand, now missing one grain.

This ear of wheat contained forty-nine grains. Chen Li had once taken one to forge the Karma Balance.

The day after plucking it, Chen Li saw that a new grain had grown back. However, both its effect and the brightness of its attributes were very low.

The good news was that it grew remarkably quickly.

By Chen Li's estimate, if he only plucked one grain each time, then used the remaining forty-eight grains to nurture it, a complete new grain could be produced in ten days.

As expected of a Divine Object of Abundance—or rather, as expected of an ear of wheat that grew right behind the Aeon of Abundance.

It completely defied logic.

And aside from the genuine Divine Object of Abundance, Chen Li's deliberate removal of the information about the Miraculous Forger that Miracle Commission should have transmitted to them had also contributed greatly to this infiltration operation.

That was the charm of editing, my friend.

In short, after Chen Li's smooth talk, he became a Divine Emissary who had once met the Aeon of Abundance and, after being moved by her, became an agent of Abundance.

"Hey, Kaguya, are you awake?" After getting out of bed, Chen Li began pounding on Houraisan Kaguya's door.

Creak! Houraisan Kaguya's door opened by itself.

"What do you want? I'm working on the fake medicine you asked for. I worked all night and already made six hundred pills." Houraisan Kaguya's voice came from within the pitch-black room.

When Chen Li entered, he could only see the colorful glow of the computer screen reflecting off Houraisan Kaguya's pale face. It was the room's sole light source.

Dozens of Undying Elixirs strung together like prayer beads hung from Houraisan Kaguya's left arm, receiving the baptism of the Power of Eternity.

"Thanks for your hard work." Chen Li inspected the finished Undying Elixirs as he spoke.

"Whatever. I was just idly rolling them anyway. But remember what you promised me," Houraisan Kaguya said casually.

"Yeah, yeah. Five hundred fake pills in exchange for a gaming buddy from another world. Once I'm done with what I'm working on, I'll help persuade Miko to share some of the great games from her world with you. Or I'll find you another gaming buddy."

These were the terms Chen Li and Houraisan Kaguya had discussed the previous night. One hundred thousand fake pills was indeed a frightening number, so it had been reduced to three thousand. At the same time, Chen Li gave Houraisan Kaguya plenty of small goals.

For every five hundred fake pills, she could make one small request.

Houraisan Kaguya did not have to give much in return. She only needed to hang the candy pills, strung together in a chain, from her left arm and give them a little charge.

Strictly speaking, these were not fake medicines, because they really could extend one's lifespan.

Houraisan Kaguya exchanged labor for payment, while Chen Li used information about miraculous objects and help returning Houraisan Kaguya home to obtain Houraisan Kaguya's assistance.

Everyone had a bright future ahead of them!

After preparing enough fake medicine to fool people, Chen Li got ready to depart.

Fake medicine was very useful to Chen Li.

Chen Li was quite adaptable. If he had the ability to cleanse a world, he cleansed it. If he did not, he first developed a small side business, grew stronger, and then cleansed the world.

This was also a lesson Chen Li had learned through countless troublesome encounters.

Of course, cleansing worlds was not strictly necessary for Chen Li... It was just something he did when convenient, buddy!

Selling fake medicine and saving the world were not mutually exclusive.

Besides, Chen Li had never claimed to be a good person.

Chen Li was merely a passing, despicable outsider.

Still, Chen Li did not cheat good people. Provided they truly knew what they were doing.

Space seemed to have been torn apart by the bite of some ferocious beast, and a terrifying aura seeped out through the jagged rift.

The moment Chen Li arrived in Buli Ren territory, countless Buli Ren lowered their proud heads. Their gazes darted away, as though they had seen something terrifying.

"Look at me, little brats." Chen Li's voice held no emotion, yet the Buli Ren began trembling again.

"Where is my holy relic?" Facing countless Buli Ren without fear, Chen Li extended a hand toward the Buli Ren leader beside him, whose body was shaking nonstop.

"Your holy relic." The leader's hand trembled slightly, but he honestly returned the grain of wheat to Chen Li.

The Buli Ren leader had long since prepared a speech in his heart, planning every possible way to keep this Gift of Abundance for himself. Yet the moment he truly saw the Divine Emissary, his mind went blank, as though he had beheld mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Was this really a Divine Emissary of Abundance? Why did he look even more Demon Bow Calamity Ancestor than the Demon Bow Calamity Ancestor?

"Good. Are all the believers here?" Chen Li lowered his head and asked the Buli Ren below the cliff, packed together in a dense mass.

Chen Li was not surprised by their attitude toward him. Ever since he had cleared out eighty percent of the ghosts and monsters on Earth in Miko's world, Chen Li's deterrence against demons and ghouls, goblins and monsters had grown even stronger.

"Yes, they are all here. They await your blessing," the Buli Ren leader said respectfully.

"That's the force Demon Bow Calamity Ancestor sent to hunt you down?" Chen Li raised his head toward the massive ship, of which only a faint, enormous silhouette could be seen. It seemed to be very far away.

"Yes. As far as I know, it is the Yaoging Xianzhou."

"Oh, that Great Victory Xianzhou? I've heard of it." Chen Li became interested.

As Chen Li understood it, the Yaoging Xianzhou's general was a Foxian named Feixiao. Among all the Xianzhou, this one was renowned for its military might and had won victory after victory.

And what Chen Li faced now was merely one branch of the Buli Ren, not even enough to be called a tribe. After their tracks were discovered by the Xianzhou, they had fought while retreating all the way to this barren planet.

At least, that was what the Buli Ren leader had said.

"Are you sure all the believers are here? If they're all here, then I'm about to make my move." Chen Li lightly waved the waist-high ear of wheat in his hand.

With just that gentle wave, the power of abundance began to rain down, making the Buli Ren leader beside Chen Li look utterly blissful as his fear of Chen Li was temporarily suppressed.

"Yes, they're all here." His mind dazed from the pleasure, and believing Chen Li was about to bestow his blessing, the Buli Ren leader nodded again.

The next moment, a half-human-height card appeared before Chen Li, bearing the image of a divine bow radiating golden light. Chen Li reached toward the card, and after it vanished, the Peaceful Longbow appeared in his hand once more.

This method of summoning strange objects was a little slow, but it looked cool.

Besides, there was no rush right now.

This was the first time Chen Li had seen people so eager to die. In that case, he could only grant them their wish.

Yet in the next moment, the smile on Chen Li's face froze.

A gaze from an infinitely distant place descended upon Chen Li...

Although this was Chen Li's first time in the Honkai: Star Rail world, to any Path, he could only be considered a newborn.

But the Miracle Card's function was to record—record the miracles and accomplishments Chen Li had once performed, then convert them into records recognized across worlds.

This was also one of the principles that allowed Miracle Cards to function normally in any world.

In the Honkai: Star Rail world, mortals could knowingly or unknowingly step onto Paths governed by Aeons, becoming Pathstriders who put their ideals into practice.

Among them, the exceptional could even receive an Aeon's gaze. This might also be the only point of contact between mortals and Aeons in this world.

Chen Li's accomplishments were indeed enough to draw the gaze of The Hunt Aeon, and his principles of action did indeed align with The Hunt.

But... under normal circumstances, an Aeon's gaze would only be felt by the person being watched. It would not create such a grand spectacle as this.

"The Demon Bow! It's the Demon Bow!" Seeing the faint phantom of The Hunt Aeon towering above the planet, all the Buli Ren instantly fell into panic.

And nothing was more terrifying than seeing the mortal enemy of the Abundance People draw its longbow at them...

Chen Li silently lowered his head and looked at the Peaceful Longbow in his hand.

Born for hunting and twice used by Chen Li to "cleanse filth," the Peaceful Longbow's rules were similar to those of "The Hunt."

The moment it entered this world, the Peaceful Longbow was like a massive boulder crashing heavily into the river known as "The Hunt," stirring up enormous waves.

That was the weight of a miracle.

Thus, what should have merely been a Path's "gaze" of recognition had instead drawn the attention of The Hunt Aeon itself.

This should have been a good thing. Chen Li might even have gotten The Hunt Aeon's recognition for free, then become an honored guest on the Xianzhou.

Unfortunately, Chen Li was currently holding a Divine Object of Abundance personally bestowed by the Aeon of Abundance, with a group of Buli Ren standing beside him.

"Wow, is this some new trick your Tai Bu Division came up with?" On the Yaoging Xianzhou, still some distance from the Buli Ren's planet, General Feixiao watched the enormous spectacle and turned to ask the Tai Bu of the Tai Bu Division.

As followers of The Hunt Aeon, the Xianzhou never worried that The Hunt Aeon would ignore their signal after seeing it. They only worried that The Hunt Aeon would fail to receive the signal.

"My apologies, it isn't."

"That's strange... Forget it. Let's move farther away first."

"Everyone, although we met only briefly, I'll miss you in the future." Standing beside the Buli Ren leader, Chen Li tossed the Peaceful Longbow aside and spoke.

Chen Li tossed the Peaceful Longbow aside so he could receive the blessing.

That was right, a blessing.

Chen Li could sense that The Hunt Aeon bore him no ill will.

But Chen Li could not stay here. The Hunt Aeon truly would grant blessings, but it also truly killed Abundance Fiends the moment it saw them.

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The Hunt's attack could not be evaded, but Chen Li, holding a Divine Object of Abundance, was oddly not its target. So Chen Li did not plan to leave the Honkai: Star Rail world. Instead, he planned to make a run for it and let his talent decide where he should go next.

At the very least, he could not remain here.

"Over to you, Constraint Bracelet! I'm outta here..."

Endless radiance condensed into arrows of light that descended from the sky, washing over everything on the planet.

The utterly bewildered Buli Ren leader instantly turned to ash, and the entire planet was vaporized along with him. Chen Li, standing beside him, had already vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a golden longbow that continuously devoured "The Hunt's arrows."

"If I said... I didn't mean to pull out the Divine Object of Abundance in front of all of you, would you believe me?" Chen Li blinked and looked innocently at the people surrounding him.

"Believe my ass! You abomination wielding the authority of the Ancestor of Plague and Calamity! Don't let us find you!" At the Six Lords Conference, Dan Shu, the Dan Shi Chief of the Dan Ding Division, was the first to attack, directing her accusations straight at Chen Li, who had appeared at the conference.

The Six Lords Conference was the meeting of the heads of Luofu Xianzhou's six departments.

Cloud Knight Army, General Jing Yuan

Dan Ding Division, Dan Shi Chief Dan Shu (acting head)

Tai Bu Division, Master Diviner Fu Xuan

Tian Bo Division, Helm Master Yu Kong

Di Heng Division, Balance Master Hui Fu

Gong Zao Division, Anvil Master Zhu Lun

A true Face-to-Face Ult.

"...I'm seriously going to make a Curio that can slap someone through an internet cable. Seriously." Chen Li ground his teeth as he looked at Dan Shu, the first one to point fingers at him.

Yes, I did suddenly appear at the Six Lords Conference.

And yes, when I showed up, I hadn't put away the Divine Object of Abundance in my hand yet.

It did admittedly make me look a little like a remnant of Abundance, but what gave you—the actual remnant of Abundance—the right to point fingers at me? Do you have no shame?