The Reversal Begins! Asura's True Mission!

With the adeptal power bestowed upon her by the Five Yaksha, the elemental energy around Ganyu suddenly grew incomparably dense.

Astonishing amounts of Cryo energy surged from her, eventually forming a massive, illusory qilin behind her.

"Celestial Shower!"

As Ganyu used a vast amount of Cryo energy to create a terrifying domain of ice and snow, the temperature around Asura Yaksha plummeted. In the end, he was covered in a blanket of white and frozen solid within the ice.

The art of creating ice that he had once taught Ganyu himself had now become the final spell that killed him.

The sight left everyone deeply moved.

[Did Asura Yaksha's story really end just like that?]

[Compared to the last video, the main character this time was a complete and utter villain.]

[Is this human nature? No matter how upright and honorable a hero once was, in the end, they still can't overcome the greed and desire in their heart.]

[Having to kill her own teacher, Secretary Ganyu must have felt terrible.]

[I think she was probably fine. Asura Yaksha wasn't a good person at all. He was using Ganyu the whole time. Letting an evildoer meet the end he deserved wouldn't have weighed too heavily on her.]

"Was he defeated that easily?"

Watching the scene in the video, Ronova couldn't help a subtle expression from appearing on her face.

Unlike mortals, she had once been the Ruler of Death, and she understood the differences between levels of power far better.

After devouring the remnants of the gods' resentment from nearly all of Liyue Harbor, Asura Yaksha had attained the strength of a great god. He was even at least as powerful as Decarabian, the God of Tornadoes from the previous video.

He shouldn't have been defeated so easily by Ganyu, whose strength was far inferior to his, much less been left with almost no ability to fight back.

Unless he had never intended to fight back in the first place!

But why had Asura Yaksha chosen not to fight back?

If he had truly wanted to destroy Liyue Harbor and the world, couldn't he have simply killed the Five Yaksha and Ganyu along with them to bring it all to an end?

What exactly did this Yaksha want?

Ronova watched the video with conflicted feelings, her mind full of thoughts she wanted to share with someone.

But the only person beside her was Mo Fan, who was sleeping soundly, leaving her with no way to voice her tangled thoughts.

"Sleep, sleep, sleep! Why don't you just sleep yourself to death!"

Despite her harsh words, Ronova ultimately left Mo Fan to rest.

She could only turn back to the video by herself and wait to see what happened next.

In the video.

After Ganyu joined forces with the Five Yaksha to defeat Asura Yaksha, peace returned to Liyue Harbor.

Because of his outrageously wicked deeds, Asura Yaksha received none of the honors due to a hero after his death. He was not even deemed worthy of burial; his corpse was simply cast into the mountains.

Bonanus, the youngest of the Five Yaksha, could not bear to see her brother treated that way. She took his body away at all costs and buried him at the old site on the Guili Plains.

In the years that followed, only the Five Yaksha came from time to time to pay their respects to Brother Asura, whom they had once trusted so deeply.

Liyue, meanwhile, almost completely erased Asura Yaksha's name from its history, wiping away all traces of his existence.

And for things to reach such a point, in a sense, it was all "thanks" to Ganyu.

Unable to forgive Asura Yaksha's betrayal, Ganyu could be said to have hated Asura more than anyone else.

After becoming secretary to the Liyue Qixing, she had steadily erased the traces Asura Yaksha had left in Liyue Harbor. In the end, even the history books about the Archon War recorded only the stories of the Five Yaksha, completely erasing the existence of the sixth Yaksha, who had also been their leader.

Ganyu had never once regretted what she had done. She firmly believed that everything she had done was right.

Whether it was killing Asura Yaksha or erasing his existence, both had been the right choices for Liyue.

For a long, long time afterward, she held fast to that belief.

Only on rare occasions did she recall the past and feel that something about the course of the turmoil in Liyue was amiss.

But because it had all happened so long ago, even when she had doubts, she never sought to verify anything. Instead, she silently accepted the facts, letting everything sink into silence as her memories faded.

[Time really is the most heartless thing. No matter how great a hero is, the passage of time will wear them away until they fade and vanish.]

[Heroes make mistakes, and justice can be absent too. We can hardly expect a perfect person to exist.]

[They're human, after all. Humans are destined to be imperfect.]

[So that's Asura Yaksha's story? I still feel like there's something I can't let go of...]

[Wait, haven't you noticed something odd about the video's progress bar?]

The Jade Chamber.

After Ganyu herself watched everything that had happened, memories long buried resurfaced, leaving her with an extremely complicated look in her eyes.

Keqing and Ningguang, beside her, understood what was on her mind and didn't disturb her. Instead, they quietly discussed the video itself.

"So I was right, wasn't I? Asura Yaksha was a villain!" Keqing said with a broad smile. "Ningguang, you're still too naive. What compelling reasons could villains like him possibly have? They were just trying to fulfill their own desires!"

"Perhaps..."

Having watched the video this far, Ningguang also found it hard to imagine what reversal could come next and silently accepted reality.

"Hehe, I can hardly wait to see you wear a cat-ear maid outfit to the Rite of Descension, Ningguang."

Keqing could barely keep the corners of her mouth from rising, and her face was full of a victor's expression.

But just then, the video, which had nearly reached its end, suddenly jumped to another scene.

The perspective shifted from Ganyu, now secretary to the Liyue Qixing, to Mt. Tianheng in old Liyue.

To explain the situation, the video provided a caption stating that this was before any of those events had happened.

The filmmaker had used a reverse chronology, only now beginning to tell the true opening of the video.

It was a time when the remnants of the gods' resentment shrouded Liyue, tormenting the land until its people could scarcely survive and despair was everywhere...

A man of an archaic bearing, dressed in a long black-and-gold robe, his long black hair flowing behind him, gazed slowly over the world of despair.

At the sight of him, the audience erupted.

[Whoa, is that Rex Lapis of Liyue!?]

[Lord Rex Lapis in human form? Oh heavens, I'm going to faint!]

[Well done, filmmaker! I need to buy the new Lord Rex Lapis merch right now!]

[So why are we going back to the very beginning of the story now? And why is the Geo Archon appearing here?]

As the discussions broke out, Asura Yaksha appeared behind Rex Lapis in the video.

"Rex Lapis."

As Liyue's Yaksha leader, Asura slowly cupped his fist in the palm of his other hand before the Geo Archon, looking as though he had made up his mind.

"Are you truly determined to do this?" Rex Lapis gazed at Asura, his eyes visibly conflicted. "If you intend to save Liyue this way, you are destined to be utterly disgraced and abandoned by everyone close to you..."

"Heh, you know I have never cared about that, Rex Lapis." Asura smiled, showing a calm acceptance he had never shown in the first half of the video. "I care nothing for my reputation, nor for betrayal by friends and family. My true wish is only to give my all and do everything in my power to protect this land."

As the man's words faded, the hearts of countless viewers gave a jolt.

At this point, everyone finally realized that the true story of the "Yaksha Chapter" might only just be beginning!