The Foremost Guardian Yaksha, Yaksha Asura!

In Mondstadt.

After searching the entire city using the Anemo Archon's power, Barbatos soon found traces of the Law of Time that had yet to fully dissipate.

She immediately followed the traces, eventually arriving in front of a damaged house.

"This is..."

Looking at the house before her, which seemed to have been occupied just a couple of days ago but was now empty, the young woman's face filled with obvious confusion.

As she pondered, the door of the house next to the dilapidated one suddenly opened, and the astrologist Mona stepped out.

"Are you... Miss Mona?"

"I remember you. You're the bard from the tavern, aren't you? What are you doing here?"

Curious about Barbatos's arrival, Mona looked in confusion at the young woman before her, who seemed somewhat anxious.

Barbatos wasted no time asking Mona about the people who lived next door.

"The neighbors next door? I think they recently moved to Liyue." Mona shared what she knew and described Mo Fan and Ronova's appearances as well.

After listening to Mona, Barbatos was shocked.

She immediately realized that the man beside the Ruler of Death, whom she had encountered at the city gate earlier, might have been the Knight of Boreas!

She had actually missed him just like that!

For a moment, the young woman was utterly dejected and confused.

Mona, meanwhile, didn't know what Barbatos was thinking, but she could sense her dejection.

So she suggested, "Well, I was just about to go watch a video at the tavern. Would you like to come with me?"

"Watch a video at the tavern? What video?"

"The famous A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation series, of course! To attract more customers, Angel's Share even put up a big screen to play the videos on a loop!" Mona said, looking eager. "I heard the creator just posted another new video. I don't have a smartphone, so I have to go to the tavern and use their big screen to watch it."

"A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation..."

Hearing Mona's words, Barbatos paused, then promptly accepted her invitation.

Now that she knew the Knight of Boreas's identity, she was in no hurry to find him immediately.

She might as well watch more of his videos and find out just what had happened to him over the past several thousand years.

Barbatos immediately went with Mona to Angel's Share, where they found quite a few people already gathered. There were the adventurer Fischl, Dawn Winery's owner Diluc, the Knight of Favonius Kaeya, and even the Outrider Amber and the Spindrift Knight Eula.

They had evidently gathered because they were interested in the new A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation video.

"Ah, more customers." Kaeya smiled when he saw Barbatos and Mona. "Looks like playing popular videos in the tavern really works. Business might increase severalfold."

"It wasn't your idea, so what are you so excited about?" Diluc cast Kaeya an indifferent glance.

"Haha, true, true. We have Amber's suggestion to thank for this." Kaeya laughed.

"It's nothing. I just don't have a smartphone, so I wanted to use the tavern's Akasha Terminal to watch," Amber said, scratching her head awkwardly.

As they talked, the new video began playing on the tavern's screen.

The previously lively Angel's Share immediately fell quiet. Everyone held their breath and watched the screen intently, clearly eager to see what the new video contained.

Of them all, Barbatos was undoubtedly the most eager.

She was very curious about what the Knight of Boreas had experienced after his reincarnation with her came to an end.

[Oh, wow, this time it's a story from ancient Liyue?!]

[It's finally our great Liyue's turn! Liyue is number one under heaven!]

[Is this one about what happened just after Liyue's Archon War ended? How does the creator of this video know everything?]

[So the videos weren't actually filmed by the Heavenly Principles, were they?]

A flood of comments flashed across the screen in an instant.

At the same time, the video gradually began to play.

The first thing to appear was ancient Liyue, scarred by the Archon War and littered with ruins.

As numerous gods fought for control of the land of Guili, one terrifying, earth-shattering battle after another broke out.

Evil abounded, and the fires of war raged everywhere.

Countless people were displaced, and disaster endlessly devoured every ordinary person who longed to live.

Seeing the tragedy unfold on screen, many viewers couldn't help looking as though they couldn't bear to watch.

Ronova couldn't help sighing. "I finally understand why there were so many souls of the dead from Liyue during the Archon War..."

Back then, she had still been a Ruler of Death without emotions.

No matter how much death she witnessed, it never stirred her in the slightest.

Only now did she finally understand the weight of death, and how important the peace and happiness mortals pursued throughout their lives truly were.

After a sigh, Ronova turned back to the video.

Though the Archon War was horrific, Rex Lapis led the adepti against the calamities, and in the end, all the disasters were swept away. The founding of Liyue Harbor formally marked the beginning of a new era for the land.

But the good times had not lasted long before the resentment of the dead gods began to wreak havoc across Liyue.

Bizarre incidents inexplicably occurred in many villages: people were either possessed by evil spirits or encountered terrifying vicious beasts...

One village suffered just such a fate.

A Millelith soldier who had been guarding the place suddenly went mad. He saw everything around him as a terrifying threat and even attacked the village's innocent civilians.

"No!"

"Help us!"

"Don't kill me!"

Amid the people's cries of anguish, Ganyu, a young qilin girl who had just come out of the mountains and forests to Liyue Harbor, witnessed everything and felt overwhelming sorrow and pain.

She immediately stepped forward to stop him, but she was too young and had not even mastered adeptal arts sufficient to protect herself. All she could do was watch as the crazed Millelith soldier's blade came at her.

Just as she fell into despair, a spear suddenly flew in from afar.

"Pfft!"

With unerring precision, the spear abruptly drove the crazed Millelith soldier back. An astonishing icy aura then radiated from its tip, freezing the soldier in place.

[Oh, oh, oh, is he finally making his entrance?!]

[What identity will our Knight of Boreas have this time?]

[Could he be a Yaksha from Liyue's legends?]

[I can't wait to see the Knight of Boreas's new look!]

[Wait, is the Knight of Boreas going to hook up with my beloved Miss Ganyu this time?]

[If the events in A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation have already happened, then he probably hooked up with Miss Ganyu thousands of years ago...]

As a flood of comments flashed past,

Ganyu, too, saw the true appearance of the person who had saved her in the video.

He was a rather taciturn-looking man, with jet-black markings on his body and heavy gray-black armor.

Even though he had not come close, an astonishing icy aura radiated from him.

"You are..."

In answer to Ganyu's question, the man replied openly, "My name is Asura. I am one of the Three-Eyed Five-Manifestation Immortals under Rex Lapis, and the current foremost Guardian Yaksha."