Up ahead was the entrance to Jueyun Karst. They could already see the towering, fang-like mountains piercing the clouds.
The terrain was bizarre. Landforms that should only have appeared in underground caverns had emerged aboveground, and they were so tall and sharp that it made no sense. Yet there they were.
But none of the three paid any attention to the unusual sight, which was rarely seen on an ordinary day. They simply joked around and kept moving forward. Paimon, meanwhile, was still discussing and judging the "Rite of Descension" that had swept the three of them into the whole mess, speculating and analyzing all sorts of things about that dragon—that so-called Geo Archon, Rex Lapis—and his death.
"Annie!"
"Really, it wasn't you who killed that dragon?"
"If you admit it, Paimon will definitely believe you!"
"I think you're the only one who could've killed it!"
See?
Though Paimon had already asked plenty of times yesterday, while they were camping in a ravine west of Guili Plains and playing around in a big pot of "hot spring water," she still couldn't help asking again now that they'd arrived here and were about to meet the legendary Adepti.
"No!"
(＿＿*)
"Why would I kill it for no reason?"
(~)
Annie once again impatiently shot her down, insisting that the dragon's fate had absolutely nothing to do with her.
Because she really hadn't done it. And if she had, she would've admitted it openly long ago—she might even have wanted everyone to know she was the one who'd done it.
In fact, even the people of Liyue—that is, those so-called Liyue Qixing—probably weren't certain about what had happened. Otherwise, their wanted posters wouldn't have only accused her of attacking the Millelith, while merely mentioning that she was "suspected" in connection with Rex