As [The World] utilized Time Stop, everything in the surroundings ceased movement.
Only Zhongli could maintain his thought process and see Ye Xi.
He saw Ye Xi fall rapidly from the high sky, landing directly on Dragon King Azhdaha's back. A faint green fluorescence suddenly appeared in his hand, followed by the summoning of a slender vine.
That's right.
This was Ye Xi's [Vine Binding] skill.
That vine swiftly circled around Dragon King Azhdaha's body, quickly tying him up and almost wrapping him into a mummy... er, a Mummy-daha.
Zhongli was quite puzzled, not knowing what exactly Ye Xi intended to do.
With such thin vines, let alone binding Dragon King Azhdaha, even binding Mountain Shaper or Moon Carver would result in them breaking free easily.
The strength of an Adeptus is immense, and Dragon King Azhdaha's strength is even greater! No matter how many of these vines were wrapped around him, it would be nothing more than a matter of Azhdaha stretching his back to snap them.
Just then, the world suddenly regained its color.
The mist diffused, the flying birds moved away, and everything in the surroundings returned to its previous state.
However, in the eyes of the Adepti, Keqing, and Ganyu, the surroundings had undergone earth-shaking changes!
"What happened? Where is that brat!?"
Because before the time pause, Ye Xi was still on the mountaintop. Thus, they discovered with shock that Ye Xi had also vanished into thin air!
"Cloud Retainer, look down there!"
Ganyu pointed to the foot of the mountain, and everyone looked down.
The situation below immediately startled everyone present.
"Hiss... Am I seeing things?"
"What happened? How did Azhdaha get wrapped up like that!"
"How did that brat run to the bottom of the mountain in an instant!? Why didn't One see it!?"
At this moment, Keqing on the side was even more astonished. Even the Adepti didn't understand what they saw, so she understood even less.
She was absolutely certain that Ye Xi was on the mountaintop just a moment ago. But without even blinking an eye, Ye Xi had gone to the foot of the mountain and even wrapped Dragon King Azhdaha into a zongzi.
Such a thing was simply inconceivable!
Only Cyno knew the situation clearly.
He knew that this was Ye Xi's power of time stop! This was already who-knows-how-many times he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
Slaughtering the Fatui Harbinger [The Doctor] at the Grand Bazaar, and instantly killing [The God of Righteousness] outside the city. Now, it was a battle against Dragon King Azhdaha.
Although he didn't know exactly what the Dragon King before him was, he could clearly perceive that Dragon King Azhdaha's power was not in the slightest bit weaker than The God of Righteousness!
Cloud Retainer sighed: "One does not know what occurred, however, that brat is obviously making a futile effort."
"Indeed, how could such thin vines possibly hold Azhdaha?"
"Even our arrays cannot trap Azhdaha, let alone ordinary vines."
Dragon King Azhdaha was also extremely flustered at this moment.
He had originally intended to burrow underground and make his escape. He hadn't expected that just as he was about to act, he would suddenly be tied up.
Now, let alone burrowing into the ground, he couldn't even move his hands or feet.
What made him panic wasn't these vines. Rather, it was that he couldn't figure out how he had been entangled! Why was he wrapped up like this in an instant!
If it were someone attacking, he could absolutely have torn the vines to shreds easily the moment they approached him! But he hadn't detected that human's action process at all!
What exactly was going on!
He really couldn't figure it out!
'This brat is a bit ominous!'
'Never mind, break free first, then teach this stinking brat a lesson!'
Thinking of this, Dragon King Azhdaha exerted force to stretch his body. In an instant, the gaps between the vines became extremely wide, as if they were about to shatter at any moment.
Keqing was immediately startled: "Oh no, it's going to break! Danger!"
She was very worried about Ye Xi, because Ye Xi was right on Dragon King Azhdaha's back! Once Dragon King Azhdaha broke free, Ye Xi's situation would be very dangerous!
Even the several Adepti panicked, wanting to go down and save him.
But just then, a bizarre scene occurred.
They saw those vines on the verge of snapping, but they simply did not break. Every single vine possessed extremely strong toughness, looking very much like elastic bands.
No matter how much force Dragon King Azhdaha used, the vines would not break. On the contrary, the vines actually began to contract forcefully! Just like a snake binding its prey, strangling tighter and tighter.
Even Dragon King Azhdaha's stretched body was strangled into deformity!
Dragon King Azhdaha's heart instantly sank, and he hurriedly exerted force again.
"Roar——"
Accompanied by the exertion of force, Dragon King Azhdaha let out a low roar; the vines expanded again, but then visibly tightened immediately.
Hearing the continuous roars of Dragon King Azhdaha coming from the valley floor, the group of Adepti was shocked.
"How is this possible? What kind of vines are these to be so sturdy!"
"They can actually bind Azhdaha! Isn't this much stronger than our arrays!?"
"Could it be that Azhdaha is defeated just like that?"
This method surprised Zhongli greatly as well. The toughness of the vines far exceeded his imagination!
In fact, this also far exceeded Ye Xi's imagination!
When he obtained this skill previously, he thought it was useless, a skill just to make up the numbers. He hadn't expected the attributes of this skill to be abnormally powerful!
[Vine Binding: Can manipulate vines to bind a target; the more the target struggles, the tighter the binding effect.]
[Note: Unless the Host commands it, the vines will not snap.]
The key lay in [will not snap].
In other words, without his order, even if [The Heavenly Principles] came, they would have to remain tied up! Unless they used spatial skills to break away from the space wrapped by the vines.
It might be a bit tender for dealing with [The Heavenly Principles], but dealing with Dragon King Azhdaha was still a piece of cake.
Yelan was watching intently from not far away.
At this moment, her heart was filled with shock. Seeing Dragon King Azhdaha was originally shocking enough; that oppressive might, more terrifying than Osial, almost made her turn tail and run, wanting to go back and tip off Ningguang.
However, seeing Ye Xi take care of Dragon King Azhdaha alone now, she was completely dumbfounded on the spot!
Invincible!
Simply invincible!
She silently took out a small notebook and wrote Ye Xi's name on the list of key concerns. This list contained people she had determined to be powerful and not to be trifled with after conducting investigations in Liyue.
Now, Ye Xi was already ranked first.
Are you kidding? Fighting a Demon God-level monster alone!
What kind of perverted level of power was this?
One had to know, in order to deal with Osial back then, the power of all the Liyue Adepti was gathered, and a Jade Chamber was even smashed. This Dragon King Azhdaha was obviously not something a Jade Chamber could handle.
And now he was being beaten effortlessly by Ye Xi!
Wasn't this a humanoid Demon God?
On the other side.
Dragon King Azhdaha struggled for a long time, tired to the point of panting heavily. He showed wit in an emergency and unleashed an elemental attack!
In an instant, blazing flames bloomed upon that mountain-like massive body. However, those taut vines were not affected in the slightest.
Next came lightning strikes, freezing ice; no matter what elemental power, it was all in vain.
Now, Dragon King Azhdaha lay prone on the ground, having completely given up.
Ye Xi stood on Dragon King Azhdaha's head and said in a deep voice: "Dragon King Azhdaha, I give you two choices."
"First, give up resistance, sign a contract, continue to guard Liyue Harbor, and be used by me."
"Second, be beaten by me until you give up resistance, and then sign a contract."
"You choose."
Hearing Ye Xi's words, Dragon King Azhdaha's heart was full of unwillingness.
It was too stifling.
Last time, he had woken up with great difficulty, only to be suppressed by his other self and Zhongli working together. This time, he had finally awakened with great difficulty, and before he could even take revenge, he was sanctioned again!
From birth until now, he had never suffered such aggravation!
But what could be done?
He couldn't even move now; out of ten thousand moves, he couldn't use a single one! If the human brat before him wanted to beat him up, he had no power to fight back at all!
Besides surrendering and submitting, what else could he choose!?
"Wu——!"
"Wu wu wu (Choose one! Choose one!) ——!"
Because he was wrapped tightly by the vines, he couldn't even open his mouth and could only make "Wu wu" sounds.
Ye Xi furrowed his brows: "What? You choose to resist to the end?"
Dragon King Azhdaha: ? ? ?
"Wu wu wu! Wu——!"
"Still cursing people, are you? Then don't blame me!"
Ye Xi arrived behind Dragon King Azhdaha and controlled the vines to expose Dragon King Azhdaha's buttocks. Dragon King Azhdaha felt a chill on a certain part and instantly realized what Ye Xi wanted to do.
"Wu wu wu (I surrender! I surrender!)"
Seeing Dragon King Azhdaha looking so agitated, Ye Xi took out a Mora.
"Got anxious, right? Cursing people is wrong!"
After speaking, he tossed the Mora up and activated [Railgun].
Boom——
A streak of electric light struck directly at the lower-middle rear part of Dragon King Azhdaha. Subsequently, a wail rang out.
"Ow——!"
Dragon King Azhdaha's eyes rolled back.
For a moment, the humans and Adepti on the mountain and below were all speechless.
"Cloud... Cloud Retainer, Dragon King Azhdaha seems to no longer intend to resist, right?"
Hearing Ganyu's query, Cloud Retainer also fell silent.
"This doesn't give Azhdaha a chance to speak either!"
"Too miserable. Should we go down and stop it?"
"Uh... This Adeptus is also unsure."
The three Adepti subconsciously looked toward Zhongli, who was hiding behind the tree. Zhongli couldn't even bear to watch.
Too miserable.
Dragon King Azhdaha had never received this kind of treatment. He sent a sound transmission to the few Adepti.
[Go help Azhdaha a bit, he is an old friend after all...]
Hearing this transmission, Mountain Shaper hurriedly flapped his wings and flew down the mountain.
At this time, seeing that Dragon King Azhdaha remained unmoved, Ye Xi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"As expected of the ancient Geo Elemental Dragon, truly a tough bone."
"Then I have no choice but to fire another shot!"
Dragon King Azhdaha: ! ! !
"Wu wu wu! (Did you give me a chance to speak!)"
If not for being bound by the vines, unable to even shake his head, he would have shaken his head off!
"You're still going to curse, right?"
Saying this, Ye Xi took out another Mora!
Just as he was about to activate it, a shout came from the sky.
"Young friend Ye Xi! Stay your hand and spare the chrysanthemum——!"
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