"So this is the place?"
"Yes, that's right—this is it!"
"Then where are the people you mentioned?"
"Look—aren't they right there at the foot of the mountain?"
Hu Tao pointed downward.
Bai Ge lowered his head to look, and sure enough, a group of people—panting heavily—were slowly making their way up the slope.
"That many?" Bai Ge asked in surprise.
"Of course! That's why I brought you along!"
Hu Tao replied,
"After all, we're here to exorcise evil spirits—not to deliver free meals to monsters!"
"Mhm." Bai Ge nodded, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings.
At this moment, it had already been an hour since he and Hu Tao left the small forest behind Liyue Harbor.
Night had fallen. Fortunately, the artificial sky curtain and the silvery moon still glimmered faintly, preventing the mountains from becoming pitch-black.
In fact, tonight's visibility was unusually good.
Aside from a few blocked areas, most of the terrain was clearly visible at a glance.
Directly ahead of them lay a wide, open clearing—
and in front of them stood a man-made structure.
Bai Ge's gaze settled on the center of that structure.
"So… this is a Ley Line Outcrop Stone?"
Looking at the square, solid structure—something he had seen countless times in the game but was now encountering for the first time in reality—Bai Ge murmured softly.
"That's right. This is a Ley Line Outcrop Stone," Hu Tao replied.
"In a moment, once we activate it and clear out all the monsters, the exorcism will be complete, and we can leave."
"I know."
Bai Ge answered without turning his head, his eyes fixed firmly on the stone.
"Huh? You know? How do you know?"
Hu Tao looked at him curiously.
"You even know how I conduct exorcisms?"
"Uh…"
Only then did Bai Ge realize he'd let something slip.
He couldn't exactly say, I've done your quest in the game before, could he?
So he could only force his way through with confidence.
"This kind of thing is easy to figure out if you think about it!"
"There aren't that many real ghosts in this world. Most cases of 'hauntings' are people scaring themselves."
"So as long as you make them believe they're no longer cursed, that's enough—right?"
"Hey, that's actually pretty good!"
Hu Tao stared at him in surprise.
"I didn't expect your thinking to line up so closely with mine. Hehe—
guess great minds really do think alike!"
Hu Tao nodded cutely, then stopped dwelling on the topic and turned her attention back to the Ley Line Stone.
"Oh right—when the time comes, are you opening it, or am I?"
"The one who activates the Ley Line first gets surrounded by monsters immediately, you know!"
"I'll do it," Bai Ge volunteered.
"But you'll need to teach me how to activate the Ley Line Stone."
In truth, helping Hu Tao this time wasn't really about that joking one-million-Mora price.
What Bai Ge really wanted was to personally observe the Ley Line Stone—and the Ley Lines themselves.
Ley Lines were the foundation of everything in Teyvat.
Here, almost any abnormal phenomenon could be explained away as a Ley Line disturbance.
And judging from the subtle hints scattered throughout the game, the Ley Lines clearly hid far more secrets than they appeared to.
After being isekai'd for so long, Bai Ge finally had the chance to directly interact with them.
As one of the components that make up elemental power, Bai Ge was extremely curious about Ley Lines.
After all, higher-tier power—Light Realm energy—split into seven, forming the seven elements.
Then Ley Line power, combined with other conjectured factors—such as wishes, memories, and emotions—manifested again as the seven elements.
If he could uncover the root of elemental power…
Perhaps Bai Ge could find a way to merge the seven elemental powers within himself into one.
"Alright, like this, then this, and then this—got it?"
Hu Tao demonstrated how to activate the Ley Line Outcrop Stone.
"Got it!"
The method wasn't complicated, and Bai Ge quickly memorized it.
After all, Ley Line Stones were devices meant to regulate Ley Lines and protect the world.
They needed to be periodically activated to clear blockages, so anyone with elemental power could operate them easily.
"Good—then let's get ready!" Hu Tao said.
At the same time, today's exorcism targets—
a large group of workers—finally reached the mountainside.
Looking at them, Bai Ge suddenly felt a thought stir in his mind.
"By the way, can I ask—why do these people think they're haunted?"
"And since this is an exorcism ritual, wouldn't daytime be better? Why choose night?"
"Oh, it's nothing special," Hu Tao replied casually.
"They're just workers who came back from the edge of the Chasm. They think they've been cursed, but they really haven't."
"As for choosing night—it's simply to better match the environment inside the Chasm."
"I see." Bai Ge nodded in understanding.
"So by now… the Chasm has already been sealed off by the Qixing."
"I remember that inside the Chasm…"
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