Once he returned home, Ji Feng could no longer contain the wild joy in his heart. He covered his face with one hand, threw his body backward, and let out an irrepressible, bizarre laugh.
"Heh heh heh... finally! It's my turn to turn things around!"
Just moments earlier, when he successfully helped Ah Yin secure the shop and finally gave her a place of her own to settle down and practice medicine, the yellow quest exclamation mark that had hovered above her head for so long quietly vanished. It turned into sixty crystal-clear friendship Primogems, which settled firmly into Ji Feng's martial soul origin.
Other people cultivated their martial souls through soul power and Soul Rings. His Genshin Impact martial soul alone relied entirely on these Primogems to advance and summon.
And unlike the original game, a single banner pull with his Genshin Impact martial soul cost exactly sixty Primogems!
This was the turning point of his destiny!
Ji Feng suppressed his restless excitement and meticulously washed and bathed, cleansing himself and burning incense to shed every trace of dust and agitation.
Once all his preparations were complete, he sat upright in his room. With utmost reverence, he solemnly pressed his martial soul's exclusive summon button in his mind.
In an instant, light broke across the sky in his mind, revealing a familiar expanse of blue sky and white clouds. A dazzling golden meteor tore through the heavens, trailing a brilliant tail of light as it fell!
A golden meteor guaranteed a five-star!
Ji Feng was ecstatic! He had been worrying about what he would do if he got some trash four-star weapon! Well, that solved that!
At the same time, inside Ji Feng's bedroom, faint, formless glimmers surged out of the void and gathered. Specks of light intertwined, then abruptly erupted into a mighty torrent of golden radiance that filled the entire room.
The golden torrent whipped up a fierce hurricane, blowing the surrounding furniture, decorations, and even Ji Feng himself into a dizzying mess.
As the dazzling golden light slowly faded, the petite figure of a girl, refined and untouched by worldly dust, stood quietly in the center of the room.
The girl possessed a peerlessly beautiful face, her long, silky hair flowing from soft pink into deep bluish purple. Two delicate, winglike ornaments adorned her head, making her gentle features look all the more lively. Her clear blue-violet eyes were as still as a cold pool in the depths of the sea.
A simple, elegant blue bow was tied at her chest, and a clear Vision hung at her side, wreathed in faint glimmers. Lustrous shell ornaments decorated her back, paired with a dignified swastika knot and two white ribbons that hung lightly in the breeze, lending her an airy grace. She wore a distinctive fishtail dress with plain white stockings and rustic wooden sandals, and delicate half-palm gloves covered her slender hands. Her bearing was cool yet gentle, with an innate touch of a shrine maiden's sacred aura.
She slowly opened her eyes. Her clear gaze swept lightly over the shabby room before settling on its sole human occupant-Ji Feng, who was in quite a sorry state, with half his body pressed against the wall and the other half wedged against the floor.
A faint, gentle smile touched the girl's lips. She inclined her head slightly, her soft, pleasing voice like a sea breeze brushing a bell. "A pleasure to meet you. I am Sangonomiya Kokomi, the Divine Priestess of Watatsumi Island."
"Mm... not good."
Ji Feng folded his arms and frowned slightly. Unfortunately, hanging halfway up the wall made the pose look rather comical.
Hearing those words immediately upon her arrival put Sangonomiya Kokomi in a bad mood as well.
"What's not good?" Sangonomiya Kokomi asked, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"You're not the Raiden Shogun. Not good."
Honestly, Ji Feng was disappointed.
This was a rare five-star summon. He had fully expected to draw a top-tier powerhouse with overwhelming combat strength, only to end up with a strategy-oriented support character.
In Genshin Impact's story, Sangonomiya Kokomi was a strategist. According to its lore, she was an unrivaled intellect in her region, a military adviser who coordinated the entire war effort.
But judging by her performance in the game, Ji Feng seriously doubted whether she was smarter than he was. It couldn't be helped. That wasn't Kokomi's fault; her intelligence was simply constrained by the three-dimensional world.
And if he set aside her intellectual role as a military strategist, Kokomi could hardly even count as a combat character. He seriously doubted she could beat Hu Tao or Xiangling.
If he could trade Kokomi for Kujou Sara, a fellow Inazuman and a four-star, Ji Feng would agree without hesitation! Whether she had brains or not, at least she could actually fight!
Yet Kokomi showed no disappointment at his words. Instead, understanding dawned on her face. "The Raiden Shogun? Do you mean the one who issued the Sakoku Decree and enforced the Vision Hunt Decree, who presides over Inazuma's countless laws, impartial and selfless, with all her people in her heart-Inazuma's greatest enlightened ruler of a golden age, Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho, Beelzebul, Raiden Ei?"
"Cough, cough, cough..." Ji Feng coughed uncontrollably as he listened. As expected of a strategist, Kokomi had far too much of a sense of humor.
In reality, the exact opposite was true. Raiden Ei was an utterly incompetent ruler and tyrant who dictated the fate of all Inazuma according to her own preferences, plunging countless people into deep waters and scorching flames. She obsessed aloud over eternity and claimed to protect her people, but in practice, all she did was hide in the Plane of Euthymia and let everything rot.
"Well, that's all true, but, you know... the Shogun is really strong."
And she's beautiful, Ji Feng silently added to himself.
"Then how can you be sure that, if you summoned her, she would be willing to follow you?" Kokomi raised an eyebrow with interest.
"Hm? Hmmm?!!"
Ji Feng made a puzzled nasal sound, then suddenly grasped the meaning hidden in her words.
A storm surged through his heart. The martial soul characters I summon actually get a say in this? Aren't they supposed to come with maxed-out loyalty and obey unconditionally?!
Kokomi curled her lips into a teasing smile. "Surely you weren't naive enough to think that everyone you summon would obey you unconditionally? Honestly, you're quite lucky. If you had summoned the Shogun you wanted so badly, there would only be two possible outcomes."
"First, she would force you to send her back to the Plane of Euthymia without hesitation. Second, if she discovered that some external force was restraining her, given her temperament, she would most likely act immediately to eliminate the obstacle."
"Even in our current state, with less than a tenth of our power remaining, the Raiden Shogun alone, as a god, might still be able to wield her full strength. If you summoned her, this chance to turn your fortunes around would probably become a death warrant instead."
She quietly studied the splendid succession of expressions on Ji Feng's face, from delight to astonishment to lingering fear, and a faint flicker of pleasure crossed her eyes.
"Wait a minute! Were you this mischievous in the story? Did Miko possess you or something?!" Ji Feng complained.
Kokomi blinked her watery eyes and chuckled. "This isn't Watatsumi Island. I don't have to keep playing the Divine Priestess who accounts for every possibility and is always right. Staying on guard all day is exhausting. Besides-you thought I was vastly inferior to the Raiden Shogun the moment we met. Anyone else would probably already be nursing a grudge. Treating you this gently is quite understanding of me."
"If I've shattered your expectations of the Divine Priestess, I'm sorry, but..." She paused, a sly glint flashing in her eyes as she smiled sweetly. "I'm not changing~"
"Don't you want to go back to Inazuma?" Ji Feng suddenly thought to ask.
"With the invincible Shogun there, Watatsumi Island has no need for a superfluous strategist like me. If anything really happens, they need only ask the Shogun to intervene."
"Do you hate the Shogun that much?" Ji Feng was puzzled. Kokomi had been quite calm and even-tempered in the original story.
"Hate?" Kokomi froze for a moment, then gently shook her head. "Why would I hate her? I just... think she's an idiot."
"She possesses divine might that reaches through heaven and earth, yet remains trapped by her own obsession, building a cart behind closed doors and ignoring the wishes of her people. As the god who governs a nation, not only does she fail to lead her subjects toward peace and stability, her stubbornness has instead brewed war. She herself became a great calamity, leaving countless civilians displaced and soldiers dead."
"All right, none of that really has anything to do with you. Having a good, comfortable rant has made me feel much better!" Kokomi found a spot that was barely fit to sit on and seated herself gracefully, neatly bringing together and crossing her slender legs, clad in gleaming white stockings. Then she looked up at Ji Feng. "Now it's your turn. What's the situation here?"
"You do need my help, don't you? Though I'm only a humble Divine Priestess, far inferior to the Raiden Shogun, I should at least be a reasonably useful ally to you as you are now."
Ji Feng hesitated-or rather, he was thinking. If he was going to explain, there really was a lot to say.
Seeing that he remained silent, Kokomi continued on her own. "You aren't from this world, are you?"
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