The Yakshas Gather, and the Viewing Begins!

Lumine felt as though she had been cursed by the god of bad luck these past few days.

Ever since she had woken up on the beach, met a white floating spirit named Paimon, and set out on a journey with her, she had been running into all sorts of bizarre misfortunes...

First, she had gathered wild vegetables by the roadside, only to find that they were Whopperflowers, which had chased her all the way.

After finally reaching a town, she had encountered an attack by a massive dragon before she even had time to rest.

She had been lucky enough to receive help from a mysterious knight, but after coming down from the sky, she had been chased down and interrogated by the Knights of Favonius.

After finally getting free of the knights and becoming an Honorary Knight, she had run into a drunkard who claimed to be the Anemo Archon. The drunkard had pestered her into buying a whole lot of wine, after which Lumine had accidentally gotten a clue about the deity and set off for Liyue.

But she had taken a wrong turn on the way and accidentally climbed a snowy mountain. After struggling through the freezing wilderness for ages, she had finally escaped, only to plunge straight into a huge lake.

She had finally managed to continue her journey, but along the way she had unexpectedly run into some Treasure Hoarders stealing cultural relics.

Out of kindness, she had tried to stop their misdeeds, only to end up provoking an entire camp of Hilichurls afterward.

If it had only been the Hilichurls, that would have been one thing.

But during the fight, she had also accidentally triggered an ancient Liyue mechanism, awakening several enormous Ruin Guards. Those terrifying ancient mechanical creations had chased her down and attacked her...

Was my luck stat negative or something?

This bad luck attribute is way too ridiculous!

"Traveler, watch out!"

As Lumine kept recalling the miserable things she had encountered over the past few days, the Ruin Guards chasing her fired a volley of astonishingly powerful missiles.

Rumble!

At the sight of the rain of missiles filling the sky, Lumine's expression turned desperate.

She had only just arrived in Liyue and hadn't had time to resonate with a Statue of the Seven, so she could still only use Anemo.

Moreover, she had already drawn heavily on her Elemental Power while fighting the Treasure Hoarders and Hilichurls. Now she simply didn't have the strength to release more Anemo power and escape the Ruin Guards' pursuit.

"Paimon, I'm sorry. Let's travel together again in our next lives."

"Hey, hey, no! Traveler, I don't want to die yet!"

Paimon grabbed Lumine's arm, hoping to pull her away from danger.

But Lumine hadn't rested properly for days and nights, and she was so exhausted that her eyes could barely stay open. She had no strength left to make any move to dodge the missile barrage.

Just as the terrifying missiles were about to blast the girl into a cloud of bloody mist, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them.

Bang!

Mo Fan arrived just in time. Swinging the beginner's Dull Blade he had bought at a blacksmith's shop in an almost exquisite arc, he smashed the incoming missiles away.

At the same time, he quickly stepped forward and charged up to the Ruin Guards.

Though he held nothing more than an ordinary, unsharpened white-grade sword, his swing had nearly the effect of a divine weapon.

Boom!

As terrifying sword qi tore through everything, the Ruin Guards before him were reduced to scrap metal almost on the spot, collapsing in pieces.

"S-so strong!?"

Lumine and Paimon both stared at the scene before them, dumbfounded.

Mo Fan, meanwhile, silently walked over to the Ruin Guards and picked up all the core mechanisms inside them.

Those Ruin Guard cores could be exchanged for quite a bit of money at the Adventurers' Guild, so naturally he couldn't waste them when he was short on cash.

Only after picking up everything of value did he finally turn to Lumine and Paimon.

But when he turned around, he found that the looks in their eyes had noticeably changed.

"S-so poor?"

"Was this guy a junk collector before?"

Lumine and Paimon couldn't help feeling a little awkward at Mo Fan's practiced movements. The aura of an expert they had sensed from him vanished almost instantly.

"With you two talking like that, I might as well not have saved you."

Mo Fan wore an awkward expression. He had never expected that after saving them, he would be mocked instead.

"N-no, that's not it! We're very grateful to you, really grateful!" Lumine hurriedly said, trying to salvage Mo Fan's opinion of them.

"That's right, that's right! I definitely won't call you a junk collector from now on," Paimon added at once, thumping her chest in assurance.

"All right, then."

Mo Fan wasn't really that angry. He nodded silently and prepared to leave.

If he stayed away too long, who knew what kind of temper Ronova might throw?

Seeing that he was about to leave, Lumine immediately spoke up. "Um, we haven't asked your name yet! My name is Lumine, a traveler from another land, and this is my guide, Paimon. May I ask who you are?"

"Mo Fan, just an ordinary adventurer."

Mo Fan casually gave his name and hurried away so he wouldn't keep Ronova waiting too long.

"Mo Fan... Why do both the name and the person feel so familiar?"

Lumine froze for a moment, feeling as though she had seen him somewhere before, and couldn't help falling into thought.

But in the end, she couldn't remember anything and could only watch as his retreating figure grew more distant and disappeared.

Guili Plains.

The Yakshas' former residence.

At Bosacius's prompting, Xiao and Indarias came to the place where the Yakshas had once lived.

They had thought it would be a barren, deserted place, but when they arrived, they found a great many Liyue locals, and even tourists from other countries, vying to enter the Yakshas' former residence for a visit.

To ensure peace and order here, the Liyue Millelith had even been forced to post guards to keep order at the site.

"This... What happened?!"

Xiao and Indarias looked utterly bewildered and unable to understand.

They had never seen their former residence become so lively, like a tourist attraction.

"Hey, you're here!"

When Bosacius saw the two arrive, he greeted them at once and led Xiao and Indarias into the Yakshas' former residence.

Once inside, they were even more surprised to find a large number of tourists going to the Asura Yaksha's gravestone to offer all kinds of prayers and hold commemorative activities for him.

"What's going on? Are all these people here to pay their respects to Brother Asura?"

Indarias spoke in a daze, feeling as though she were dreaming.

After all, in her memory, her eldest brother had been treated as a sinner because of the tragedy from thousands of years ago and erased from Liyue's history books.

"I know what you're confused about. Actually, I was just as confused when I first got here." Bosacius looked helpless, but then his expression brightened. "As for what exactly happened, you'll understand after watching this video."

"Video?"

While Xiao and Indarias were still puzzled, Bosacius had already called Bonanus and Menogias over.

Once he had gathered the five surviving Yakshas of Liyue, he immediately took out his smartphone and played the Yaksha Chapter for everyone present, revealing the truth after two thousand years.