"Mission accomplished."
After arriving atop the Jade Chamber through the prearranged teleportation array, Chen Li nodded to everyone.
"The Fatui harbored wolfish ambitions. After unsealing Osial, the Vortex Archon, they were bound to set their sights on the Geo Archon's Gnosis. Just as expected... You have our thanks, Mister Chen Li."
A woman surrounded by an air of graceful luxury smiled lightly at Chen Li.
Standing at the edge of the Jade Chamber's platform was a noble, elegant, celestial beauty dressed in a cheongsam interwoven with gold, white, and black.
Her waist-length silver-white hair was coiled up with a black-and-gold hairpin, split down her back, and draped all the way to her calves.
The crimson tassels hanging from her forehead matched the color of her eyes.
Her snow-white legs emerged from beneath the hem of her cheongsam... The exquisitely crafted dress perfectly accentuated her curvaceous figure and long, fair thighs.
Ningguang, one of the powerful Liyue Qixing, held the position of Tianquan Star, representing power and law. She understood the human heart and excelled at rhetoric.
Few across the entire continent could compare to the wealth under her name.
[Tianquan Ningguang, wealthy beyond measure.
Bright-eyed and enchanting, shaming peaches and eclipsing apricots.
Her eyes reached far, her ears heard all, and she handled a thousand matters with ease.]
This was how Liyue described and praised Ningguang, the Tianquan Star.
And the airborne palace beneath everyone's feet—the Jade Chamber, which floated above Liyue Harbor and had been constructed by gathering countless master craftsmen and Adepti talismans—had been built entirely by her own hand.
What was even more admirable was that she had come from humble beginnings, and every bit of her immense fortune had been earned through her own efforts.
In Chen Li's eyes, both the Jade Chamber and the Geo