Genshin Impact: Dionysus reigns supreme, all demons retreat!

Chapter 617 The Mechanism for Sealing the Spirit

Xu Ning's sudden question startled Asarig.

Jade was surprised that Xu Ning, who had been all smiles the whole way, would suddenly confront Asarig here, and quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "Isn't it the same no matter who hits you?"

Xu Ning shook his head. "It's different."

"Because Asarig just told me something I've never heard of before, I think it's worth reconsidering the action of opening the door before figuring it out."

Jade asked, puzzled, "What is it that I've never heard of?"

Xu Ning looked at Asarig, who clearly didn't understand what Xu Ning meant either. However, in his mind, a line of small words suddenly appeared on Xu Ning's glasses.

"The mistress says this is taboo, so why isn't there any taboo between Jade and outsiders?"

Xu Ning originally thought he could get the answer from Asarig, but he didn't expect that Asarig didn't know either. However, he still had to ask the questions.

"Asarig, when you talked about the Mother of Spirits, you mentioned that your weapons contain fragments of ancient, mindless spirits, right? I never knew that the Tanit tribe had mastered the ability to command spirits. Can you show me?"

Asarig's expression relaxed slightly; he hadn't expected Xu Ning to want to ask this question.

However, he shook his head and replied, "I'm sorry, I can't demonstrate it for you."

“Although fragments of the spirit are sealed within our weapons, we generally do not activate them easily in battle unless the situation truly reaches a point of no return. Because once its power is activated, its wrath must be appeased by death, whether it be the enemy's or our own.”

Xu Ning looked at Jiede, who nodded to confirm for her elder brother, "That's right. I've seen Asarig activate his weapon during battle. The crocodile beast formed from the fragments of the Soul-Suppressing Beast helped him tear his enemy to shreds before returning to his weapon."

Do you have such a weapon?

Jade raised both hands, her four fingers except for her thumbs encased in sharp gauntlets, like two gleaming cat claws, and laughed, "I don't want weapons like that. I only trust my own hands. But what does your question have to do with opening the door, you big drunkard?"

Xu Ning gently placed his hand on the mechanism pillar that resembled a weight, and said, "Ever since I first saw those elemental energy mechanisms in the Crimson King's Mausoleum, I've been wondering how they work?"

"When I heard Asarig mention the spirits sealed within the weapons, I wondered if the reason these mechanisms displayed such intelligence was because they too were sealed with spirits."

Suddenly, an image appeared in Jade's mind: a child-like spirit standing sadly in front of the door. She slapped him across the face, and he cried and turned his head to the other side.

He would turn back to me crying as I tried to smoke him again.

Jade rubbed her little hands together, looking at Xu Ning with a mix of amusement and exasperation, "Now that you've said that, I can't bring myself to do it. How are we supposed to get in?"

Asarig hadn't expected Xu Ning to complicate such a simple matter as entering the gate. He sighed and advised, "As Tanit people, we do have some taboos regarding things related to the Town Spirit. But Xu Ning, you are an outsider. Ignorance is no excuse. Even if you accidentally offend the Town Spirit, it shouldn't punish you."

Xu Ning laughed and said, "So it turns out that being an outsider is so useful here. However, we are determined to get the Mother of the Spirit Town this time. If we offend her by attacking the Spirit Town and fail at the last minute, it would be a great loss."

"Anyway, the purpose of this object is to reveal the mechanism, so the mechanism to open the door must be not far from here. I can find it even without it."

Xu Ning waved his hand and summoned his rock elemental clone, sending it to sink into the ground to search for the mechanism at the entrance.

In less than ten seconds, the underground clone reported the location of the mechanism in front of the portal to Xu Ning.

Xu Ning walked to the location of the portal mechanism. As his clone slowly rose from underground, a wide opening gradually appeared on the ground. A stone platform mechanism sat quietly in the pit, waiting to be activated.

Xu Ning jumped down and gently activated the mechanism of the gate.

Asarig was surprised that Xu Ning had actually opened the door using another method, and glanced at the rock elemental clone standing by the pit with some astonishment.

"Although I don't understand everything, the door is finally open, let's move on!"

Asarig stepped into the ruins first, followed by Xu Ning and the others.

Xu Ning saw no monsters, enemies, or mechanisms. In the center of the hall, he saw a huge tower-shaped mechanism that looked very much like the lower half of the Crimson King's Tomb, but it was unfortunately half-buried by yellow sand.

Only in one corner was there a device similar to the one at the entrance, blowing a cool breeze towards the tower-shaped mechanism. This corner, the only one with the breeze, was not buried by yellow sand.

"It seems that this large mechanism can only be revealed when the other three mechanisms around it are all activated..."

Xu Ning interrupted Asarig, "If it's just about clearing away the yellow sand, just leave it to it."

The rock elemental clone stepped forward and placed its hand on the yellow sand.

Then Asarig watched in astonishment as the yellow sand, enough to bury two houses, gradually disappeared under the hands of the strange masked puppet, and couldn't help but glance at Xu Ning a few more times.

"The little grizzly's friend is quite capable..."

Xu Ning looked at the words displayed on the glasses, smiled slightly, and asked Asarig, "It will take some time before the yellow sand is completely cleared. Why don't you tell us about this city? You seem to know a lot; you really don't seem like a desert person."

Asarig's expression seemed to change slightly, but he quickly regained his composure just before it was noticed.

"Actually, much of what I learned about this place came from the papers Adelphi collected, and Jade probably read them all too. But some stories were told to me by my friends outside. Hey, after all, desert people aren't closed-minded; we have our own social circles..."

Asarig smiled as if he had remembered something, and then changed the subject.

"Whether it's the temple here or the entire city of Gül, it's said that it was built by a tyrant named Olmaz, seemingly in memory of Ahmar."

"But both the god he worshipped and he himself were eventually buried in this desert..."