"So how do we get there?"
"By boat, of course!"
[Seirai Island Grand Construction!]
Activity Description: You learned from Hyakubee that Shiki went to Seirai Island. Take a Waverider and go take a look!
A moment later…
"Traveler, your boat… it's really quite small…"
"Ahahaha… After all, it's usually just Paimon and me using it…"
The Traveler gave an awkward, rather than polite, smile. Do all of you have to criticize her Waverider? When she gets the chance, she's definitely going to get a bigger one!
In the evening, the Traveler and her party arrived at Seirai Island by boat. Before even docking, they saw bustling workers.
Of course, the lightning storm that was once visible even from Narukami Island had now disappeared. Recalling what had happened before, the Traveler knew that Shiki must have dispelled the lightning storm here, restoring the weather to normal.
"Hey, hey, hey! Look, everyone, the floating stones in the sky are moving!" Paimon pointed at Amakumo Peak in shock.
Floating stones in the sky were not surprising. They had seen similar things in both Mondstadt and Liyue.
For example, the Skyfrost Nail in Dragonspine, the Statue of the Seven and pavilions at Qingyun Peak in Liyue.
These things usually didn't move, and if they did, it meant someone was doing something.
"Let's go take a look!"
"Okay!"
The Traveler and her party hurried towards Amakumo Peak, and at this moment, at Amakumo Peak, Shiki had sent down the shaking shrine maiden.
Due to magnetic field deflection, two of the warding stones were floating in the sky. Although Shiki had the power to re-establish the seal and repair the grand barrier, to ensure accuracy, she still brought a shrine maiden with her to fly into the sky.
The poor shrine maiden had never seen such a spectacle and was immediately so scared that her legs trembled. If Grand Narukami Shrine wasn't located at the top of Mt. Yougou, she probably would have peed herself.
Although Mt. Yougou was high, it at least had a mountain body, but what about Amakumo Peak?
Good heavens, it was floating directly in the sky! She was just standing on a small stone at her feet. Not peeing herself was already very good!
"You've worked hard. Is there anything uncomfortable?" Shiki asked with concern.
Some people have poor health, and their hearts might have problems at high altitudes. Although this shrine maiden seemed fine, Shiki wasn't a doctor. If there was something she didn't notice, it would be bad.
She had brought the person out from Yae Miko, so of course, she had to bring her back perfectly intact.
"Wuwuwu… I'm never coming to Amakumo Peak again…"
The shrine maiden didn't answer but squatted on the ground, crying with a small, mournful face. So why did she volunteer to go up and take a look at that time?
'Looks like she's fine.'
Shiki looked at the crying shrine maiden and nodded silently. Since she could still cry so intensely, she should be fine.
Now that the grand barrier was repaired, the shattered peaks formed a huge platform in the air. Shiki had gone up to look before coming down, and there was nothing there.
In the game, this was the territory of the Thunder Manifestation, but now the Thunderbird's residue was gone. To find the Thunder Manifestation, one would have to absorb it from the ground.
Seirai Island should actually be called the Seirai Archipelago, because due to the Thunderbird, Seirai Island was not a single entity, but consisted of the main island of Amakumo Peak plus a series of small islands.
Each of these small islands could produce a Thunder Manifestation. Of course, each island could only produce one. The Thunderbird's residue was not part of the ley line cycle, and once gone, it would not regenerate.
And now there was another problem, which was the underground ruin below Amakumo Peak.
Shiki was currently thinking about whether to leave it alone and block it up completely after cleaning up the pollution tomorrow, or to explore it.
The ruin was covered by water, and to go down, one would have to solve mechanisms and such. Shiki remembered there were a bunch of Automatons and similar things down there, and she didn't know what this place was for before.
Just as Shiki was pondering whether or not to take a look, Paimon's familiar voice came from afar.
"Ryougi! We're here!"
Shiki looked in the direction of the voice and indeed saw an Emergency Food floating in mid-air.
"Oh, it's Em… Paimon and the Traveler. By the way, you came to Seirai Island to explore, why did you bring Xinyan and Shiki Taishou along?"
"We wanted to come ourselves!" Xinyan stepped forward and said, "Anyway, my concert in Inazuma can't be held, so why not have some fun!"
"Actually, if you want to hold it, I can help you with the relevant procedures, but I don't know if anyone will come to watch."
Shiki thought that Xinyan holding a rock concert in Inazuma would be less effective than co-hosting a fireworks display with Yoimiya, as Inazuma, like Liyue, finds it difficult to accept new genres like rock under traditional concepts.
"Really? That's great!" Xinyan said excitedly, "But for now, let's just have fun. Seirai Island, I've never been here before!"
"It's good that you have a plan. Speaking of which, you've arrived at just the right time. There's an underground ruin here, and I was just wondering whether to go down and take a look."
As soon as Shiki's words fell, Paimon asked, "Ruin? Where?"
"Under the water." Shiki pointed at the water surface.
"Do you remember the story I told you before? That great Seirai explosion blew a part of Amakumo Peak into the sky, and the ruin was exposed from within."
As for why she didn't say the ruin formed after the explosion, the reason was simple: the Khaenri'ah style here was too obvious.
Khaenri'ah was destroyed Five hundred years ago, and the explosion of Seirai Island happened decades after Khaenri'ah's destruction, so this ruin must have existed before the explosion.
"Since it's a ruin, we definitely have to go take a look, don't you agree, Traveler?"
"Yes, we'll take care of this ruin!" Lumine nodded.
"Okay, by the way, how much time do you think you'll need? After I clean up the pollution, that big stone in the sky will fall, and you might get buried underneath."
"One to two days, I guess. But what's this about pollution and the stone falling down?"
Lumine was a bit curious. A mountain peak that big falling down, would it really be okay? And what power had kept this mountain peak floating in the sky for hundreds of years?
"The so-called pollution is the electro archon's residue. Hundreds of years ago, Asase Hibiki unsealed the great barrier of the Thunderbird's resentment, causing an explosion on Seirai Island. The Thunderbird's power seeped into the ley lines, and so it became the way it is now."
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