The Golden Tree Standing in Teyvat World

Chapter 318 Spring Water Spirit
After the Sea Lantern Festival, Liyue Port returned to its normal state.

And Lodia was also in the waters of Qingcezhuang, where the wind and water were mixed, making the Mond people with the simplified version of Skynet miserable, because the water was too bitter.

For this reason, Di Luke also reported this matter to Wendy. After hearing this, Wendy went to the water source to investigate, and then he saw Lodia.

Wendy: "."

Lodia: "."

"Why are you?" Wendy asked helplessly, "You couldn't be sent by Tassel to Horholmond, did you?"

Lodia shook her head and said, "Of course not."

"Then why did the Liyue people drink the same water, but they didn't respond, while the Mond people felt bitter and hard to swallow?"

Lodia raised her head and said, "I don't know either."

Wendy: "."

Seeing that Lodia was not going to change her appearance, Wendy left after being silent for a while, because only the Mond people drank bitter water, and it didn't affect him at all.

After Ying received the task, she also took Paimeng to Mond. Everything was as planned. When they were investigating next to Qingcezhuang, they met Yandola after cleaning up some water elemental phantom creatures.

"Yandola, without water, I'm dying"

"What is this? Paimon, is it your kind?" Ying looked at the water-blue elf floating in the air and asked in confusion to Paimon next to him.

"Hey! How could this be my kind? Don't confuse flying mascots! No, I'm not a mascot. I'm so pissed off by you!" Paimon said angrily.

"It's not a big problem." Ying waved her hands indifferently.

Paimon: "."

"Yandola, is that your name?" Paimon asked Yandola after being silent for a while.

Yandola replied intermittently: "Bitterness, hostility, will kill Yandola!"

"I don't know what to do though. How can I save you?"

"Yandola, boarding water dumplings, instead of transportation. There is no water. Yandola, there is nowhere to live."

"How do we take it to a place with a clear spring?" Paimon asked suspiciously.

Ying took out the water she had just poured and said, "Here is a bottle of water."

"But this bottle of water also tastes bitter."

"Are you stupid? I don't know if it tastes bitter or not?" After Ying finished speaking, she gave Paimon a blank look, then took a sip in front of Paimon and said, "It doesn't taste bitter."

"Yes, is it?" Paimon scratched his head and said, "Then I'll try."

Paimon took a small sip from the water bottle, and then her face turned a bitter melon color.

"Bah, bah, lie, it's so bitter, yet you say it doesn't taste bitter!" Paimon spit out the bitterness in his mouth and complained to Ying.

"Really not, why did I lie to you?" Ying took another sip after taking the water bottle, she really didn't feel any bitterness.

Paimon: "."

"Maybe your sense of taste is different, I think it's bitter." Paimeng saw that Ying didn't seem to be lying to her, so he could only sigh and said, "Yandora, do you want to come in, we only have this bottle of water."

"Yandora, you can be patient, but not for a long time."

Paimon nodded and said: "It's not too late, let's go to a place with a clear spring, but this guy has traveled so far with the water slime, and our relationship is very similar."

"Is it similar? Paimon means that you are a useless parasite?" Ying suddenly asked.

"No, it's not right, well, it's still different, at least I'm your good guide in Tivat."

Ying: "Tsk."

"Speaking of which, Connor seems to have said before that only the water in Qingquan Town is sweet, so let's take Yanduo to Qingquan Town." Paimon ignored Ying's disdainful expression and changed the subject.

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Ying rubbed her chin and looked at Paimon who had become different, and she couldn't help but think to herself: What should I do, Paimeng seems to have developed antibodies now, it seems that we have to add more information in the future.

The two came to Qingquan Town with Yandola packed in a bottle.

"Here, the water is sweet. Yandola found out, it's the same kind." Yandola said in a voice: "Yandora, the same kind, made the water taste better. It also made it bitter. It was Lodia who did it."

"So, there seems to be a legend about the spring spirit in Qingquan Town?" Paimon stroked his chin and analyzed, "Also, Lodia, is that the Lodia we know? What is she doing to make Mond's water bitter?"

"Forget it, don't think about it for now, let's go to the spring to replace the bitter water in the bottle."

When Ying and Paimon came to the spring, they saw an old man quietly looking at the surface of the water in a daze.

"Who are you?" The old man turned his head and looked at the two with doubts, "Looking at you, are you honorary knights of the West Wind Knights?"

"Yes, it's us." Paimon said with a smile.

"I see."

When Paimon was about to say something, Yandola who was hiding in the bottle suddenly jumped out.

"Wow, Yandora, why did you run out by yourself!"

"I am Yandola, the elf of pure water." Yandola said.

"So, this old man seems to be someone who firmly believes in the existence of Qingquan elves."

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Why didn't I know that he was a person who believed in Qingquan elves? Where did you get this information from?Even if you know that you have to act anyway, after being found out, you just stop pretending now, right?

The old man nodded and said, "...um."

"You're exactly like her. You're much younger, though."

"Yandora, you're still young! Yandora, you're studying."

"However, your appearance in front of me at least proves that that acquaintance is not my daydream." The old man said.

"She's still there. I don't know the name. I don't know, and I don't answer Yandola." Yandola said:
"Yandola, I want to contact her. Yandola, I can talk. What do you want to say?"

"You mean, is she here all the time? Can you send a message to her for me?" the old man looked at Yandola and asked in surprise.

Yandola: "Yes."

"I'm very old. I"

When the old man said this, he thought for a while and said, "Please ask her for me."

Yandola came to the spring and began to communicate with the spring spirit inside. Paimon and Ying waited for a while before Yandola finished talking with each other.

Yandola: "."

"She said some strange things, I don't understand."

"Greedy. What, I don't understand. Ask and don't answer."

"Well, the memory is still too small, and some things can't be expressed." Ying looked at Yan Duola and said.

"I don't understand. The pure water elf, we, like to merge together." Yandola continued: "She, one consciousness, alone."

Hearing this, Paimon spread his hands helplessly and said, "I think it's because I can't integrate with you."

"Hey, is there no way?" Yandora asked doubtfully.

"You'll be drowned in your bodies!" Paimon complained.

"You are so lonely. We, everyone, love everyone." Yandola suddenly exclaimed when she said this: "Ah!"

"What happened all of a sudden?" Paimon asked puzzled.

"Near the stone gate, Lodia's eyeliner! Small water animals, yes, scouts." Yandola replied.

"So it seems that we have indeed seen small animals with pure water nearby?"

"Is there?" Ying asked suspiciously.

"Powerful water, illusion, small animals. It's dangerous. But you can learn something by merging with them." Yandora replied, "Take me there. Over there. Lodia is very disturbed. Lodia has made the water bitter. Yandora learns to speak, and explain it clearly to Lodia."

"I think, if it was really the Lodia we know, it seems that we would have given it for nothing in the past." Ying spread her hands and said.

"How could it be? If we knew each other, we could ask her why she made the water here bitter." Paimon said, "And isn't Lodia a member of Tassel?"

"You don't understand, I'm not talking about this for nothing." Ying glanced at the naive Paimeng and said, "After all, you still don't understand Tassel."

Paimon: "."

"You mean, all of this is a trick set by Liusu?" Paimon was stunned at first, and then said with some concern: "Why don't we run away? Let's not do this task?"

"Why did you run?" Ying looked at Paimeng with a puzzled face and said, "Isn't it just for free? It won't be life-threatening, so what are you afraid of?"

Paimon: "."

Therefore, Ying took Yandola all the way to help find the creatures transformed by pure water on the road, and Yandola would learn a lot from them after defeating them.

"Yandola, you pure water fairies really think differently from others," Ying said.

"I don't know either. I still have a lot to learn." Yandola shook her head and said, "Let's go to Qingcezhuang to find Lodia now. I need to ask her face to face. I think Lodia will give me the answer."

"Why are you so sure?" Paimon asked puzzled.

"This feeling seems to be innate. The more I learn now, the closer I feel to the name Lodia. She is like the sea, the home of our pure water elves." Yandola replied, "No, Lodia feels wider to me than the sea."

"It seems that she is the Lodia we are familiar with." Paimon turned his head and spread his hands at Ying.

Ying nodded and said, "Yes."

"You know Lodia?" Yandola asked doubtfully.

Paimon replied with a smile, "We've known each other for a long time."

The two of them, the elf, walked towards the place Yandola sensed while talking, and finally, they saw Lodia resting with her eyes closed in a piece of water in Qingce Village.

"Lodia!" Paimon waved at Lodia.

"You are finally here." Lodia said, "How is it? Do you still like this surprise?"

"What, what surprise?" Paimon asked suspiciously, "Lodia, you wouldn't say that seeing you here was a surprise, would you?"

"Of course not. The pure water elf named Encounter beside you is a surprise." Lodia replied, "I used the phantasm created by the water element to improve her knowledge base step by step. Now she can be regarded as the last living thing that can think."

"I, I still don't understand." Paimon scratched his head and said, "This has nothing to do with surprises, does it?"

"What Lodia means is to give this Yandola to me?" Ying said with some surprise.

"Well, that's it. She was originally a spy or an assassin sent by Fontaine." Lodia said, "Maybe she has a lot of connections with the new water god, so I can't let her go back."

Yandola: "."

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You are lying to ghosts, your excuse will not work at all, okay, compared to Liu Su's method of fooling people, you are still a lot worse as a follower.

"Lodia, I'm not an assassin from Fontaine." Yandola explained.

"Your explanation is not important to me." Lodia glanced at Yandola and said, "Because I said you are an assassin, then you are an assassin."

Yandola: "."

"It's just that I didn't expect that you would really travel thousands of miles to Liyue." Lodia continued: "The moment you set off from Fontaine, I have noticed you. What you saw and heard along the way is also what I want to show you."

"Including, the bitter water, the phantom of water containing knowledge, and you can see me in this place."

"Lodia, I don't understand." Yandola shook her head and said, "You feel very different to me now. You are no longer a pure water elf, but I can feel an inexplicable affinity from you. This affinity is stronger than the water god I saw."

"Yeah, whether it's a stream, a river, or a big river, their final destination is to merge into the sea, but I don't want to merge into it." Lodia said: "So, I became [the sea]."

Yandola: "I don't understand."

"It's normal that you don't understand. The pure water elves follow the water to spread the love of their gods to the world, but they don't have love at all. They can't experience true love." Lodia said slowly: "Let me tell you a story. It's a story about a pure water elf and a boy."

"Okay, I like listening to stories the most!" Paimon cheered with a smile: "Lodia, tell me quickly."

Following Lodia's narration, Paimeng, Ying and the ignorant Yandora also gradually understood the truth of the story, because the boy Lodia was talking about was the old man they met in Qingquan Town before.

This story also happened between him and the pure water elf. From the beginning, the ignorant boy made a wish in front of the spring for the first time, and the spring water elf responded.

She responds to the boy's wish, but has no power to fulfill him, but she can share the wish, draw life from her troubles, and share it with him.

Gradually, the young man confides his sincerity to the spring water, and the ignorant spring water elf understands that this world is not only beautiful, but also the regrettable darkness is not only the layers of dark clouds covering the night sky.

The young man shared his powerless troubles with the spring spirit, and the spring spirit would gently and silently wipe away his tears. Afterwards, whenever night fell, the spring spirit would also tell the young man in his dreams the distant kingdom of water and the hometown of the sapphire. At this time, the young man became a silent listener.

In this way, she gained the ability to talk in the teenager's dream, and they became good friends who would never say anything.

"Uh, why do I feel a little weird, as if something sad will happen." Paimon scratched his head and said.

"This is a sad story." Ying took a look at Paimon and said, "Look at the pool of water that old Finch guards every day. Yandola also said that the fountain spirit is always there, but she just doesn't want to appear in front of old Finch."

"That's right, so the pure water elves have love, but they don't understand love." Lodia said with emotion.

"Then, what about Lodia?" Paimon asked puzzled.

"Me? I should understand a little bit, right?" Lodia said with some uncertainty: "Okay, let's not talk about this, the story is not over yet."

"Hey, although I know the result, I like to listen to stories." Paimon scratched his head and said, "Lodia, go ahead."

"When the night wind stopped blowing and the moon in the pool returned to fullness, the boy heard the voice of the elf for the first time.

Elves are born more slender and sensitive creatures than humans, and the boy couldn't help being fascinated by her gentle language like a dirge.

But elves are born more slender and sensitive creatures than humans. Through the eyes of the young man, she sees the yearning that cannot be concealed, and the promise that is about to be blurted out.

Suddenly, the elf panicked.

A mortal's life is tenacious but short, and a teenager will eventually grow up and grow old.When he loses his youthfulness and innocence, how will he treat the pure business of elements? When he is about to decline, will he blame himself and waste his life because of a childish promise?
The elf of the spring water is pure and kind, but she doesn't understand love in the human world.She has never seen the miracle of human beings, but only regards the changes of thousands of years as nothing.It is precisely because of this that she is particularly afraid of parting.

In the eyes of humans, the miraculous waiting is only a short-lived beauty in the eyes of the elemental elves.

And the aging of the loved one, even the power of the elves cannot restore it.

The slender spring water elf couldn't bear to see that day come irreversibly, so she stopped the boy with a kiss.

The young man is so stupid that he mistook the elf's cold rejection kiss for the confirmation of the promise.

At that moment, the elf made up his mind that he would finally have the heart to leave the boy.

The young man made a vow to be with Qingquan forever. "

"Ah!" Paimon couldn't help but exclaimed, "The fountain sprite would do such a thing to old Finch. No wonder he stayed there all the time. He probably thought that the spring sprite's kiss meant accepting him. Suddenly, old Finch felt so pitiful."

"You can't say that. The spring elf has her own thinking, and her decision is not wrong in the long run." Lodia said, "If I am still the same as before, maybe I will be like this?"

"By the way, how did Lodia meet Liusu?" Paimon asked puzzled.

"Actually, I was forced." Lodia replied shyly at this time.

"Hey??!"

"That day, Liusu came here suddenly, imprisoned me who was ignorant, and gave me everything I have now." Lodia replied: "And taught me in his own way."

"In my opinion, she might have just been on a whim at the time? Perhaps she also had a grudge against the pure water elf—[Lodia]."

Speaking of this, Lodia continued with some embarrassment: "After all, when I played "Original God II", I was also very annoyed by the battle that would only summon the Phantom of Water, and then tear down the stage and add the pure water spirit who was thinking about it."

Paimon: "."

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Although what you said is correct, don't you think it's strange for you to say that?

"That's all for now. My mission is complete. Take Yandola with you. She won't cause trouble with me. And when you arrive at Fontaine in the future, she will be of great use to you."

After speaking, Lodia disappeared directly before Ying and Paimeng recovered.

"Lodia is gone." Yandora murmured as she looked at Lodia who had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)