Genshin Impact: I am the Great General of Liyue

Chapter 196 Relics? ? ?

Five days had passed since I discussed alchemy with Abedo for a while.

With Ying and Paimon, Huiyuan raised the Frost Spike and explored the sacrificial ground sealed by the Frost Spike, which is the secret realm of the artifact [The Wandering Warrior of the Ice Wind] in the game, commonly known as the Ice Set.

The space here is hundreds of times larger than I imagined.

If one had to describe it, this sacrificial site, which once touched the sky but was buried underground, might be a place where Godzilla could settle down.

Because of his own reasons, when Huiyuan traveled to Teyvat, he didn't pay much attention to the alchemy table there.

When everyone is starving, who cares about these profound things?

Naturally, Huiyuan had not heard anyone else tell this story.

It wasn't until recently, after interacting with Abedo, that Huiyuan noticed something: relics and alchemy are closely related.

The original resin, which is the stamina item in the game, is also real.

Because those who own it take it for granted, and those who don't care about it at all, you rarely see anyone talking about raw resin.

The original resin contains energy, which slowly recovers over time. The exact mechanism is unclear, but perhaps it absorbs elemental forces from the air.

The virgin resin can also react with the core of the crystal butterfly. Through alchemy, the energy in the virgin resin is incorporated into the crystal core, turning it into concentrated resin.

There's a reason why it's called resin.

Around the world, there are various secret realms, which are the dungeons that players see, such as artifacts and talent books.

In these ancient and mysterious places, there are many petrified, silvery-white ancient trees, and the original resin can activate these petrified ancient trees.

The roots of ancient trees are connected to the earth's veins, and the energy contained in the resin can clear the channels of the earth's veins and refine the substances that are stagnant within them.

The extracted substances are of many kinds, the most common being relics and Mora.

High-quality artifacts don't significantly enhance the strength of powerful individuals, so they don't care about them. High-quality artifacts are also unattainable for ordinary players.

Ordinary adventurers who venture into secret realms can only obtain low-quality artifacts.

Relics are dispensable; instead of expecting them to grant immense power, it's better to diligently practice martial arts. Only adventurers would go to great lengths for such a thing.

Ying was one of them. Through spending this week together, Huiyuan gained a deeper understanding of Ying's life.

You could say that she stuffs everything into her backpack, and when she can't fit it all in, she puts it into the Huiyuan Chenge Pot. She's practically a super collector!

Keep exploring inwards, fighting and killing your way to open treasure chests.

With anticipation in her heart, Ying used concentrated resin to activate the petrified ancient tree.

Not long after, a relic emitting a purple light popped out.

It is the Flower of Life [Longing After Enduring Wind and Snow], which can enhance vitality and improve the ability to control ice elements.

Ying handed it over, gesturing for Huiyuan to try it on.

At first, Huiyuan didn't know how to wear it.

With the system's reminder, Huiyuan realized that relic items could be worn on clothing and also integrated into the eyes of the gods.

After wearing it, I didn't feel any sudden physical enhancement like I did after my attributes increased.

Huiyuan opened the attribute panel, and the stamina attribute remained unchanged, still at S-rank in Lingling's skin state.

According to Sister Tongzi's complaints, if the current S-rank represents the number 100, then this Flower of Life is just 100 plus 1, which can be said to be completely useless.

After Huiyuan complained that the artifact's enhancement was too small, Ying explained the reason.

"Maybe it's because you're too strong, Sister Lingling? I know, I haven't upgraded this artifact yet..."

After listening to the description, Huiyuan nodded, indicating that she understood.

"In other words, relics can be enhanced."

"Yes. However... strengthening them is quite difficult. You need to use other artifacts as an energy source to strengthen high-quality artifacts."

Having learned more about artifacts, Huiyuan understood even more why she rarely heard anyone talk about them anymore.

Not only does one need a certain level of alchemy knowledge to learn how to enhance artifacts, but the process of obtaining artifacts is also very difficult and complex, and enhancing them requires using other artifacts as nourishment.

No wonder, they are both rare and difficult to enhance, and since Huiyuan rarely goes to alchemy shops, it's even less likely that she would hear any gossip about artifacts.

(After exploring the secret realm, Ying's stamina—no, wait, the energy of the Primal Resin—was also exhausted. It was time to go back.)

Back at camp, Paimon called out into the cave, "Abedo! We're back again!"

After calling out the name, Paimon received no response and was stunned.

"Hmm? Abedo doesn't seem to be here? Did he go out to investigate, or did he go to do some mysterious sketching again...?"

Just as Paimon was about to turn on his phone to message Abedo, Sugar's voice came from behind him.

"Ah! It's you!"

Upon seeing the source of the voice, Paimon asked in confusion, "Isn't that Sugar? What are you doing here?"

"Ah... my research has just finished, and I have about five hours and twenty-six minutes of free time today. So, I came to ask you about the matter I requested before!"

"Such precise time! Are you a human clock?"

Hearing Paimon's complaints, Huiyuan teased, "Miss Clock?"

Seeing this, Sugar quickly and shyly waved her hand.

"No, no, no, there's nothing to praise about it, you're too kind..."

Seeing Sugar's reaction, Paimon retorted, "She wasn't praising you!"

Scratching her head sheepishly, Sugar looked at Ying and stammered as she changed the subject.

"Traveler, may I ask? How is the investigation I asked you to do regarding what Mr. Abedo was hiding going?"

Paimon then complained, "If my senses aren't malfunctioning, that was over a week ago."

Ying chimed in with a sarcastic remark, "I thought you'd already forgotten."

Upon hearing this time, Sugar leaned back in shock.

"What...!! More than a week?! I clearly... Ah! Waaah, I was so engrossed in the experiment that I completely forgot about it..."

Paimon was at a loss for words when he saw Sugar, who could accurately calculate her free time but couldn't remember the agreed time.

This is what is called a mathematical genius, but is he unable to take care of himself?

After calming herself down, Sugar asked shyly, "W-So! You already know the answer, right?"

Seeing that Sugar had calmed down but was still stammering, Ying didn't want to embarrass her any further and nodded.