The Witness Comes to Witness, the Rememberer Is Born to Remember

By now, Alhaitham and Nahida understood how it had all come about.

Before Nahida, there had been another Dendro Archon: Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

But Forbidden Knowledge had contaminated her existence. To save Irminsul, they had to erase her from it.

Everyone would forget she had ever existed.

Su Yun knew because he possessed the standing of the Fourth Descender. Ronava knew because she was one of the Four Shades.

When everyone turned to Ronava, she spread her hands helplessly. "I can't watch every corner of Teyvat."

She was only a hired hand. How could she keep track of everything?

Su Yun spread his hands too. "Your memories of her were erased. What good would bringing her up have done?"

On reflection, they had to agree. Su Yun was only a witness; he could not intervene directly.

The Sky Screen continued.

"So I broke off Irminsul's purest branch to become my reincarnation, and left behind clues..."

"All so you could come here and erase my contaminated self from Irminsul completely..."

After that, the meaning could hardly be clearer. And Sumeru did have the Haravatat.

The scholars and sages of the Haravatat quickly gathered the records and pieced them together with what the Sky Screen had revealed, catching a glimpse of one corner of history.

But the truth they glimpsed weighed heavily on them.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's meaning was clear now.

Irminsul had been contaminated, and the former Dendro Archon, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, had become the source of that contamination.

So she had created another version of herself and asked her to erase her with her own hands.

That other self was Lesser Lord Kusanali, Nahida.

But for Nahida, it was unbearably cruel.

Even the people of Teyvat were struggling to make sense of it, let alone those on the Douluo Continent.