After making a round through the various streamers' livestream rooms, Jun Bai finally exited with satisfaction.
So this was what it felt like to be a rich guy.
He lay on the bed and silently recited in his heart, "System, introduce the Background Completion quest."
[Background Completion quest means replacing the original world background with the background story designed by the host. I will open a time channel and project the host's consciousness to the time point that needs to be rewritten.]
"Using false history to replace real history? My time in the past and the present are not synchronized, correct?"
[Correct. However, when the host modifies history in the past, time in the present will not stop, because the host is not entering a memory but modifying history.]
"Give an example of the ratio."
[Unclear. However, the first part of the Background Completion quest will not exceed three days. This much I can confirm.]
"Then it won't delay the main storyline. Let's start the Background Completion now."
[Prior reminder to the host: To prevent a larger butterfly effect, when sending the host back to the past time point, I will seal the host's memories.]
The God of Nirvana was originally a non-existent character. Sending Jun Bai back was equivalent to creating a character that had never existed.
This was already an action that would cause a butterfly effect.
If this butterfly itself possessed the ability to actively flap its wings, the impact caused would only be greater.
Jun Bai's memories, which could be called omniscient and omnipotent relative to Teyvat, were precisely the ability of that butterfly to flap its wings.
The system knew that after its reminder, Jun Bai would not actively change the course of history (unless that was part of the background story), but to guard against that one-in-ten-thousand possibility, it still had to seal Jun Bai's memories.
"Sealing memories I have no objection to that. But after the Background Completion, will I still be myself, or will I become the God of Nirvana, Phenex?" Jun Bai asked worriedly.
After all, he would have to live in the past Teyvat for a very long time as the God of Nirvana.
If his memories were sealed, after returning and the memories merged, would he be Jun Bai or Phenex?
"Also, if my memories are sealed and I don't remember the background story, how am I supposed to modify history? What if I change it wrong?"
[Host, rest assured. Since I proposed memory sealing, I will naturally guarantee the independence of your personality and ensure that after completing the quest and returning, you will still be yourself.]
[Moreover, at key nodes, I will unseal your memories.]
"Really? Then there's no problem."
Jun Bai closed his eyes and said softly, "Begin."
As soon as the words fell, the Popularity Value on the system interface instantly decreased by twenty thousand.
Jun Bai's consciousness gradually sank into darkness.
...
After the end of the Year of the Burial Flames, Teyvat's power withered. Nibelung and the Primordial One fell one after another. The Seven Sovereign Dragons were at the end of their strength, and the Four Shades were nearly gone.
The era belonging to the ancient dragons came to an end. Teyvat welcomed new rulers.
Fragments of the [Primordial One] were scattered across Teyvat. Gods with power enough to change the heavens and earth, yet who loved humanity by nature, stepped onto the stage of history.
The birth of all gods was related to the fragments of the Primordial One. Therefore, gods were born with a love for humanity. Every god would treat their people and believers with actions they believed were good for humans.
The King of the Winds, Decarabian, established a capital city, arranged the fate of every citizen, raised wind walls, and protected his people and capital forever under his command.
Even though the God of Salt, Havria, was weak herself, she still sheltered her believers in this era overrun by monsters.
The God of Dust, Guizhong, in order to give her people a safer home, reached a cooperation with the God of Geo, Morax. The two gods formed an alliance, intending to bring happiness to their people.
However, there are always exceptions to everything.
In the land humans called Liyue, an abyss had existed here since ancient times.
Inside the abyss, there were no rivers or streams only exposed, scorching lava.
This was Liyue's forbidden land. Even the Three-Eyed Five-Manifested Adepti of Liyue did not dare set foot here.
Yet now, within this forbidden land, the sound of heartbeats rang out. Although very faint, it was exceptionally clear in this forbidden land that no living being had ever trodden.
A powerful lifeform was being nurtured within this lava.
As time passed, the heartbeat grew louder and louder. The lifeform living in the lava was thriving.
Finally, one day, a thunder-like heartbeat echoed throughout the entire abyss. The next second, the whole abyss fell silent.
The slowly flowing lava suddenly boiled. Countless bubbles erupted from the orange-red semi-solid fluid.
A tender, white palm reached out from the lava. It was very small, roughly the size of an ordinary human child of three or four years old.
Next, a small arm as delicate as a lotus root emerged from the lava. Immediately after, ripples spread across the lava.
A child, exquisitely carved from jade and powder, about four years old, rose from the lava. With white hair and red eyes, delicate and adorable features, one could not tell the gender at first glance.
If one had to speak of the difference between him and an ordinary child, it was probably only the pair of small flaming wings behind him.
Wings formed of flowing flames gently flapped, supporting the tiny body as it flew in mid-air.
"So cold."
Perhaps because he had just flown out of the lava, the sudden change in temperature made the child shiver involuntarily.
The flaming wings enlarged in an instant, folding together and wrapping the child's body.
Soon, the flaming wings opened. A gorgeous feathered robe appeared and settled on the small body.
A god born by nature Phenex had come into the world.
There are always exceptions to everything. Phenex was that exception among the gods. His birth was not influenced by the [Primordial One] fragments. He was truly born from heaven and earth.
He was born with the power of a god, yet he lacked the innate love for humanity that gods possessed. This was a trait unique to him alone.
Of course, the newly born Phenex did not know this. At this moment, he was like a spotless sheet of rice paper and a seed that had just been planted.
What kind of painting scroll he would have, and whether he would grow into a towering tree, all depended on his own fortune.
With the feathered robe on his body, Phenex no longer felt the cold.
He lowered his head to look at the lava beneath him, then raised his head to look at the abyss above, where only a single ray of light fell.
Without any hesitation, Phenex flapped his flaming wings and flew upward, advancing toward the sky he had never seen before.
At dawn, the great sun rose from the east.
A streak of scarlet appeared from Liyue's forbidden land. The fire phoenix rushed out of its restraints together with the sun.
Gazing at the half of the sky dyed red by the sun, Phenex widened his large eyes. Shocked by the beautiful scenery before him, the corners of his mouth curved up as he let out a silver-bell-like laugh:
"Hahaha!"
From this moment on, the God of Nirvana, Phenex, officially stepped onto the stage of history. Liyue no longer had a forbidden land only the territory of the God of Nirvana and Heavenly Phoenix Grand Marshal: Falling Phoenix Abyss.