Chapter 114 – Heavenly Motion of All Phenomena, Mountains and Seas Taking Shape

The little girl widened her eyes, dark energy surging around her.

“No! Impossible… Could you be…?!”

Staring at Kun Jun outside the seal, the little girl spoke in disbelief.

“After the Barrier loosened, your power manifested in the outside world as a child.”

“Using this identity, you told people of your resentment at being suppressed, but they paid no heed.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl and spoke calmly.

“Then you realized the loosened seal gave you an opportunity.”

“Kidnapping the miners was also to dig out the entrance to the seal. You planned to strike from both inside and out to break through the Barrier.”

Crossing his arms, Kun Jun gazed at the little girl emitting dark energy within the seal and spoke softly.

“How dare you speak such insolence!”

“If you truly are a part of me, why do you stand beside the betrayer?!”

The little girl inside the seal glared at Kun Jun outside, speaking angrily.

“And I am another force that awakened when the seal loosened.”

“So weak I could not form an individual entity, only attaching myself to a human.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl and spoke slowly.

“My consciousness was very muddled; I couldn’t even remember who I was.”

“I only reacted to things related to the past…”

Kun Jun slowly closed his eyes and spoke.

“My goal was only one.”

“To find Morax and have him stop you.”

Kun Jun slowly opened his eyes, looking at Zhongli beside him as he spoke.

“If your power had been stronger, I would have recognized you sooner.”

“Instead of only noticing something amiss when you mentioned the Dragon-Suppressing Stone.”

Zhongli looked at Kun Jun and spoke calmly.

“Don’t blame yourself. I have long been unrecognizable.”

“It wasn’t until I touched that ancient stone tablet that I remembered everything from the past.”

Kun Jun let out a helpless light laugh as he spoke.

“Too much time has passed… a secret unknown to both young humans and the aged earth dragon…”

“Morax, shall you tell it, or shall I?”

Kun Jun looked at Zhongli beside him and said with a smile.

“It matters not. You decide.”

Zhongli looked calmly at Kun Jun as he spoke.

“Haha, you’re still the same as ever.”

“Then I’ll do it.”

Kun Jun chuckled lightly, then turned to face Lumine and Paimon.

“The Dragon King Azhdaha was originally the Geo Archon Morax’s closest friend and comrade, with a lifespan far exceeding that of humans.”

“However, beings born of the earth are like the rocks upon the ground…”

Kun Jun raised his head, recounting the past.

“The memories of rocks are not long; only the most intense emotions can remain within them.”

“The longer time passes, the more blurred the memories become. Erosion is precisely the fuse the world imposes upon them.”

Kun Jun looked at Lumine and Paimon, explaining slowly.

“Erosion…”

“Qiu Bai mentioned that word too…”

Lumine looked at Kun Jun, one hand resting on her chest, and spoke slowly.

“Erosion stole Azhdaha’s ability to think, making him gradually forget the faces of old friends, forget Liyue Harbor, which he had personally protected.”

“It made the once-complete Dragon King become irritable and aggressive…”

Kun Jun seemed to be recalling something as he slowly explained.

“It was humans who attacked the Ley Lines I depend on for survival!”

The little girl inside the Barrier, hearing Kun Jun’s explanation, spoke angrily.

“That is indeed true.”

“Which is why, three hundred years ago, you attacked The Chasm, leading to that great battle with Morax.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl sealed within and spoke softly.

“Initially, to expand territory and develop production, the people of Liyue entered the mountains to mine.”

“Excessive mining triggered Ley Line tremors, causing ‘us’ immense suffering.”

Kun Jun explained slowly to Lumine.

“Erosion further reduced ‘us’ to the state of beasts.”

“No matter how we struggled, we continued to lose the ability to coexist with humans… to lose our reason.”

Kun Jun raised his head, narrating unhurriedly.

“Morax divided his own power to prevent our further Erosion, but it was in vain.”

“Erosion is the will of the Heavenly Principles, beyond the reach of any force.”

Kun Jun seemed to be reminiscing about past events.

Then he slowly turned his gaze toward the little girl within the seal.

“I am your final Contract, witnessing the agreement between the Dragon King Azhdaha and Morax.”

“You may be angry, but you should not deny me.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl in the seal and spoke slowly.

“No, no…”

The little girl hurriedly denied.

“I am the remnant of the Dragon King Azhdaha’s benevolent nature, representing the will of the Contract, the lofty heart.”

“And the desire for peaceful coexistence with humans.”

White energy emanated from Kun Jun as he placed a hand over his chest, speaking resolutely.

“No! I am the Dragon King Azhdaha, born of Elemental Crystals.”

“Bearing the power and memories of the earth, as eternal as the mountains and seas. I am no ally of mere ants!”

Black energy surged from the little girl as she angrily retorted at Kun Jun.

“Morax is not an ant.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl in the seal and spoke plainly.

“The god of ants is still just an ant!”

The little girl, enveloped in black energy, said furiously.

“You can insult Morax, but could you please not insult me?”

“Isn’t the god of the people of Liyue both me and Morax?”

Hearing this, Qiu Bai twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking to himself with some exasperation.

“If you are the memory of the earth.”

“Then I am the memory of coexistence with humans.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl in the seal and spoke slowly.

“Planet Befall, mountains and seas take form…”

Kun Jun extended a hand, from which continuous streams of white energy flowed, entering the little girl’s body.

“…barren land gives birth to stars, brilliant as… the blazing sun…”

“Strange, what is this feeling, these… these are…”

The little girl in the seal looked at the surrounding white energy in surprise.

“You have long been exhausted and will vanish before I do.”

“But before that, I share these with you.”

Kun Jun looked at the little girl and spoke slowly.

Snow falling on spring wilderness melts in an instant, fleeting and transient.

Unable to leave any trace in your heart… even if this is the last time.

“No, how can this be… I refuse to accept this as fate!”

“Mo… rax…”

After uttering these final words, the little girl disappeared.

“Sigh, when I saw this scene in the story.”

“It really felt a bit uncomfortable.”

Qiu Bai sighed softly, his gaze fixed on the spot where the little girl had vanished.

“Is it the fate of Erosion?”

Lumine asked curiously.

“Azhdaha, the you now.”

“Isn’t it the will of the Dragon King Azhdaha’s remaining goodness, the last shred of memory of the Dragon King Azhdaha?”

Qiu Bai furrowed his brow, looking at Kun Jun beside him, who was emanating white energy.

“Yes, I’m afraid after I dissipate.”

“What you’ll face next time likely won’t be just our will fragments.”

Kun Jun looked at Qiu Bai, frowning as he spoke.