Mondstadt Library.
Lisa elegantly swirled the Essence of the Devil that Su Xuan had given her.
The bright red blood was not much different from the red wine she usually drank, and she could even faintly smell a delicate fragrance.
"When I saw you pour out the blood just now, a doubt arose in my mind."
"According to you, Demon Manifestation: Essence of the Devil should be a power that controls ice, and the source of that energy must be this blood."
"I was wondering if the more one drinks, the stronger the power becomes?"
Under normal understanding, Lisa's idea was not wrong.
As the blood of a super dangerous species, this substance itself carries an extremely powerful killing intent; an ordinary person would die instantly from drinking even a little, unable to withstand this murderous aura.
But the Essence of the Devil in Su Xuan's hands was a system product, without negative restrictions, and the strength of the power obtained was also unrelated to the dosage consumed.
"According to normal reasoning, your idea is not wrong."
"However, you don't need to drink too much of this; just drink the dosage I poured into the cup, and it will achieve the effect."
"The subsequent strength of ice control is only related to oneself."
After hearing the explanation, Lisa's gaze fell on the cup in her hand.
The cup holding the blood was also from Su Xuan, presumably a specialized tool used to measure the blood dosage.
"That's true, after all, it's something from your hand, so it can't be understood with normal thinking." Lisa smiled.
Perhaps it was a habit and philosophy developed from cherishing time back then.
Lisa's craving for power was not as severe as imagined; the component of power that the Essence of the Devil gave her was far less important in her heart than the Essence of the Devil itself.
Compared to gaining power herself, she was more inclined to see it as a gift from Su Xuan.
She elegantly tilted her head back, drank it all in one gulp, then pursed her lips afterward, her expression a little bewildered: "Hmm? It's quite sweet."
Immediately, she felt a surge of power spread from her abdomen, then return to calm.
"It seems I really can sense an extremely cold power..."
As Lisa murmured to herself, she opened her palm, and an ice flower elegantly spun out.
"It's as if after tasting a fine wine, I've gained a magical power."
"Oh my, how incredible you truly are."
Although she had long understood Su Xuan's incredible nature, every time it manifested, it still made people exclaim in wonder.
"It's just this blood..." Lisa subconsciously touched her own body.
Su Xuan smiled: "Don't worry, this stuff will definitely be digested after drinking it; it won't cause any changes to your body."
"That's good." Lisa finally seemed to relax, letting out a sigh of relief: "If a Crystalize were to be born between us in the future, and it wasn't mine, I'd be furious."
Su Xuan lightly coughed: "You are the Rose Witch, a rose with thorns."
Lisa chuckled: "The thorns are for others. When facing you, let alone thorns, even my wrinkles are smoothed out by you."
Su's eyes widened.
He found that the Rose Witch's speed was indeed getting faster and faster.
He, who claimed to be a connoisseur of beauty, was like heaven and earth compared to Lisa.
Was this the difference in knowledge?
In his helplessness, Su Xuan could only give Lisa a thumbs up.
Looking at Su Liangzai, who was shocked for ten thousand years by her, Lisa smiled softly: "Alright, alright, I won't joke with you anymore."
"However, could you let me witness the ice-elemental power you developed that you mentioned before, Mahapralaya Padma."
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At Lisa's home.
Jean restlessly paced back and forth.
"I sent Lisa to find Su Xuan, and it's been over two hours. Where did she take Su Xuan?" Jean said, looking depressed.
Eula didn't respond to Jean's helplessness.
This outcome was obvious: Lisa had taken Su Xuan away to enjoy herself.
An innocent Outrider, unaware of the situation, looked at Jean with a confused expression: "Acting Grand Master Jean, the Fatui have already withdrawn from Mondstadt today."
"There's no need to worry that the Traveler from another world will collude with the Fatui, and I don't think he's that kind of person either."
"Ann, Su Xuan is certainly not that kind of person; Jean's frustration isn't about that." Eula followed up, explaining.
After glancing at Jean, she then secretly leaned into Ann's ear, whispering: "The main thing is that Rosalyne's hospitality towards Su Xuan was too lavish."
"As Mondstadt's Acting Grand Master, Jean wasn't able to fulfill her duties as a host before, so she feels very apologetic."
"But..." Ann hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "But the situation in Mondstadt was too tense before, Acting Grand Master Jean...
After all, Mondstadt faced too many problems before, and all the pressure was on Jean's shoulders. How could Jean consider things so meticulously?
Ann sighed helplessly.
This kind of matter was not something she, an Outrider, could participate in, so she simply said no more.
Just as she was about to open her diary to review its previous contents, she suddenly noticed that the light screen that had appeared earlier had resurfaced.
"Acting Grand Master Jean, Eula, that light screen has appeared again."
"This is..." Ann stared at the energy shield that suddenly rose before her, her expression freezing.
"It's Su Xuan's Psychokinesis shield." Eula sat up in surprise: "What's happening?"
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Mondstadt Library.
Lisa looked at the Psychokinesis energy shield rising around her.
She instantly understood Su Xuan's meaning.
He intended to use the Psychokinesis energy shield to withstand the effects of Mahapralaya Padma.
And Su Xuan, standing before her, now held a deep blue orb of light in his palm, smiling slightly at Lisa: "Let's use the entire city of Mondstadt to let Miss Lisa experience it."
As his words fell.
The deep blue orb of light in Su Xuan's hand suddenly began to expand, and in the blink of an eye, Lisa felt the entire room's environment turn deep blue.
Although the library's environment hadn't changed at this moment, under the deep blue illumination, Lisa felt as if she were in another space.
Looking left and right, she realized that the pendulum, which had been swinging continuously before, was now suspended in mid-air, as if Frozen.
"It's really still..." Lisa didn't finish her sentence, suddenly remembering Su Xuan's earlier mention of using the entire city of Mondstadt for her to experience.
As soon as she thought of this, Lisa quickly ran to the window, and after poking her head out, she realized that not only the library but also the entire city of Mondstadt had turned deep blue at this moment.
"This is..." Lisa looked around in horror, only to find that all the scenery visible outside the window had stopped moving at this moment, and even the birds about to take flight from the trees were Frozen in the instant of spreading their wings.
"Let's go, I'll take you out to see." Su Xuan wrapped an arm around Lisa's soft, voluptuous waist, leading her out of the library.
Stepping out of the library and onto the streets of Mondstadt.
The sight before her completely stunned the genius Rose Witch.
Everything in Mondstadt had fallen into a state of stillness at this moment.
What shocked Lisa the most was that Su Xuan's Mahapralaya Padma was supposed to be an ice-elemental power, yet looking across Mondstadt, she couldn't find a single ice flower.
Even the fountain in the plaza showed no signs of freezing, but rather appeared to be simply paused.
The pedestrians on the street were also in the same state at this moment; even their micro-expressions were firmly fixed.
The Ladies who saw this scene through the light screen felt it more deeply; the Mondstadt in the light screen at this moment looked exactly like a realistic oil painting.
A certain immortal bird far away in Liyue's Jueyun Karst stared with wide eyes.
Its expression of utter disbelief was quite comical.
"Is this the result of an ice-elemental power?" Cloud Retainer couldn't believe what her eyes were seeing.
Was Mondstadt in the light screen in a Frozen state?
My two disciples are both Vision users of the ice element.
Su, you can deceive Lisa, but you can't deceive this immortal. You must have used a terrifying power like time suspension.
Especially recalling that the qiankun mirror in Su Xuan's hand possessed time manipulation, Cloud Retainer became even more certain of her conjecture.
Right! This move isn't a Frozen effect; it's a direct time stop.
The most astonished person at this moment was undoubtedly Lisa, who was experiencing it firsthand.
She pulled Su Xuan and walked around Mondstadt, finding that even the tiny dust particles stirred up by the wind in Mondstadt were now suspended a small distance above the ground.
"It's simply incredible. This feeling is as if, during this process, you can do whatever you want to anyone."
"They won't even react at all." Lisa let out a long breath.
Su Xuan nodded: "Be confident. During this process, I can indeed do whatever I want to anyone."
"They truly cannot react at all, nor will they feel anything, but after the Frozen effect wears off, all sensations will come flooding in."
"Of course, I wouldn't do such a boring thing."
Feeling that Lisa had experienced enough, Su Xuan withdrew the influence of Mahapralaya Padma's effect.
The deep blue covering Mondstadt instantly vanished, and the next second, all of Mondstadt returned to normal.
Everything seamlessly continued the events that were about to happen.
Not a single person could realize that for a certain short period, they were in a paused state.
"Alright, the experience is over."
Su Xuan clapped his hands, then suddenly turned to Lisa: "Oh right, I haven't had a chance to ask you, what did Xiao Qin want with me?"
Lisa shrugged her shoulders, stretching languidly: "Sigh, she feels that Rosalyne's hospitality towards you was too good, and she was outdone."
"She's uneasy and wants to discuss it with you, to see if there's anything you require that she can do, as a form of compensation."
As Lisa spoke, she herself almost couldn't help but laugh.
For Jean's abilities to compensate for Su Xuan's demands, she was thinking quite a lot.
However, this could also be considered a gesture of goodwill.
Su Xuan did not immediately express his stance on this but pulled Lisa along with him back to Lisa's residence.
After meeting with Jean and the others, before Jean could even speak, Su Xuan had already handed the prepared Essence of the Devil blood to the three of them.
Although Ann had not yet undergone Su Xuan's baptism, with the enthusiastic Outrider present, Su Xuan naturally couldn't leave her out.
After all, such obvious differential treatment is a very hurtful thing.
Moreover, since Ann was present here, and with the Rose Witch in charge, her chances of escaping were almost zero.
"This is..." Jean Gunnhildr looked at the blood-filled cup in her hand in disbelief.
She then glanced at Lisa, who was skillfully playing with ice flowers, clearly having gained the power to control ice.
"As you can see, besides my Electro Vision, I now possess an inherent Cryo element," Lisa said, her smile as beautiful as a flower.
Jean's heart tightened.
They had just witnessed Su Xuan freeze all of Mondstadt with a mere lift of his hand.
If they drank the blood in their hands and gained this power, given enough time, they could achieve the same feat.
This power was undoubtedly far more valuable than the power granted by a Vision.
"This..." Jean's hands trembled slightly, her already uneasy heart now wavering even more intensely.
Immortality, Limit Break, Essence of the Devil...
Any one of these was something others could only dream of.
Yet, they had obtained all of them seemingly without effort.
"Acting Grand Master Jean, I already know your thoughts from Lisa."
"You don't need to feel so much pressure. Speaking of which, I do have something I need you to do."
As soon as Su Xuan finished speaking, before he could even react further, Jean's excited voice immediately reached his ears: "Please tell me! As long as I can do it, I will not hesitate in the slightest."
"Alright, you said it," Su Xuan replied, and a light appeared in his hand.
Soon, a black and white spotted garment materialized in his grasp.
"I'd like to see how this garment looks on Acting Grand Master Jean."
Hmm... this item was a lifestyle product obtained from a gacha draw...
Eula, Lisa, and Amber simultaneously leaned in curiously. After just one look, Eula and Lisa exchanged mischievous smiles, turning to the blushing Jean.
The uninitiated Outrider, Amber, was utterly stunned on the spot.
Could such clothing really be worn?
Even if she wore it at home and looked in the mirror, her head would probably start smoking from shame.
"Phew..." Jean took a deep breath and chuckled, "I thought you were going to ask me to do something difficult."
She then let out a sigh: "Such a small matter cannot put my mind at ease."
"However, since it's your request, please wait for me a moment. I'll be out very soon."
Jean snatched the garment from Su Xuan's hand and, without hesitation, turned and walked into the bedroom.
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