Chapter 120: The High-Cloud Quintet — Baiheng
"Let us congratulate Honkai Impact 3rd's Tesla for winning the opportunity to answer the question!"
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Tesla: Since it's me, my answer is: He wants to die! ]
"Are you sure about this answer?"
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Tesla: I'm sure! ]
"Congratulations to Honkai Impact 3rd's Tesla for answering correctly. The reward will now be distributed!"
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Einstein: Well done! ]
[ Honkai Star Rail - Xuan Yong: Old Yang, your Lobster-Head Doctor answered correctly. Aren't you going to come out and praise her? ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Tesla: Lobster-Head Doctor? Do you even know what you're saying? You absolute xxxxxxx, xxxxx your mother, you better xxxxxxx in the future. ]
[ Honkai Star Rail - Welt Yang: Uh, Tesla, don't be so angry. ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Welt Yang: Even though you are the future me, why does this always feel so strange? And I keep feeling like a green hat is appearing on my head. ]
[ Genshin Impact - Raiden Ei: I wonder if a past version of me will appear? ]
[ Genshin Impact - Zhongli: Since we have the past and the future, I wonder if Guizhong is there. ]
At this moment, several thousand years in the past, Guizhong saw Zhongli's words. A smile curled upon her lips. She glanced at Morax, who was training soldiers not far away, and said with an air of pride, "Hmph, you say you don't like it, but your body is quite honest! Though, that is thousands of years in the future. Sigh, but by then, I will already be dead."
"Congratulations to Honkai Impact 3rd's Tesla for obtaining an otherworldly black technology—Propellantless Controllable Nuclear Fusion."
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Tesla: Otherworldly black technology? Propellantless Controllable Nuclear Fusion? ]
Just as Tesla was dazed, a massive flood of knowledge suddenly rushed into her mind. It caused her head to throb with pain. She had to steady herself by leaning against the table next to her. When Welt Yang was about to step forward to support her, Tesla raised a hand to stop him.
"Good stuff!" After fully digesting the knowledge in her head, Tesla's eyes flashed with excitement as she spoke.
"Mophead, Mophead, get over here quick, Mophead!" Immediately after, Tesla kicked the nearby Welt Yang aside and ran out to find Einstein, completely ignoring Welt Yang, whom she had kicked away.
[ Honkai Star Rail - Herta: Propellantless Controllable Nuclear Fusion? That seems to be the technology that guy was experimenting with. ]
[ Honkai Star Rail - Screwllum: Yes, indeed! ]
[ Genshin Impact - Ningguang: What is this thing? ]
As the world with the most backward technology among the three, it was normal for the people of Genshin Impact to have never heard of this. At this moment, many people from Genshin Impact in the live broadcast room expressed their confusion.
"Alright, enough of the idle chatter. Next, let us talk about the last of the High-Cloud Quintet—Baiheng!"
[ Honkai Star Rail - Jingliu: Her. ]
[ Honkai Star Rail - Jing Yuan: She was a gentle person. ]
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"Baiheng was a Foxian girl. She was once a Nameless traveling the universe, until she arrived on the Xianzhou Luofu, where she chose to stay and became one of the Luofu's High-Cloud Quintet."
"When Baiheng was a Nameless, she wrote a book called The Travelogue of a Nameless. This book recorded the creatures and ecological environments of many different planets."
"And in the book Travelogue of a Nameless: Xianzhou Zhuming, Baiheng's travelogue recorded such an event: Little Yingxing's home planet was invaded by the Borisin, becoming a weapons ranch for them. His blood relatives and compatriots were turned into meat with no dignity left, serving as nourishment for those mountain-sized weapon beasts."
"Little Yingxing came to the Xianzhou Zhuming to learn craftsmanship in order to avenge his parents and homeland. However, his background and identity as a short-life species made him feel extremely inferior."
"At one point, Yingxing believed he would achieve nothing in his life and would never be able to take his revenge. It was the newly met Baiheng who stood up and encouraged him."
"Yingxing's dejection: 'The other Xianzhou masters in the Commission say that I am far from enough. It's not a lack of drive, nor a lack of wit. It's just… I can't live as long as they do… The knowledge I can learn is always limited.'"
"'Perhaps, I will never see the day when I can avenge my parents in this lifetime.'"
"Baiheng's gentleness: 'Don't listen to those old fogies' nonsense. They aren't immortals, they're just jealous of you.'"
"'Unrivaled geniuses who pass away in just a few decades are not uncommon in the Genius Society! Their achievements still shake the cosmos. What does living a long or short life have to do with one's accomplishments?'"
"'You just need to focus on what you want to do. Whether you succeed or not is up to heaven.'"
"Perhaps at this moment, this gentle Foxian older sister became the white moonlight in Yingxing's heart. Ultimately, Yingxing also achieved the miracle of a short-life species obtaining the title of Furnace Master."
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[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Murata Himeko: So that's how it is. No wonder young Yingxing would risk such danger alongside Dan Feng to bring this girl back to life at all costs. It turns out that at that time, this girl had already become his white moonlight? ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Theresa: What's wrong, Himeko? Do you want me to find you a boyfriend? ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Murata Himeko: Principal, if I recall correctly, you are also an old maid. ]
[ Honkai Impact 3rd - Theresa: I… I… I… ]
[ Honkai Star Rail - Bronya: Isn't this like the love interests mentioned in novels? ]
[ Honkai Star Rail - Seele: Yeah, exactly. ]
During this time, Seele had accompanied Bronya in reading a large number of romance novels, and she had long since been thoroughly influenced by them.
[ Genshin Impact - Furina: Romance novels? ]
[ Genshin Impact - Lisa: I recall Jean seems to quite like reading that kind of novel. ]
[ Genshin Impact - Jean: LISA!!! ]
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"Her care for the short-life species Yingxing showed that Baiheng did not treat people differently based on their identity."
"Even the High Elder of the Vidyadhara, the Imbibitor Lunae, was nothing more than flesh and blood in Baiheng's eyes, no different from the soldiers beside her."
"Such a personality naturally made her welcomed by everyone. And besides having emotions as delicate as water, Baiheng also possessed a heroic spirit of self-sacrifice for the greater good."
"In the battle against the Abundance army led by the Emanator of Abundance, Shuhu, seeing that the Imbibitor Lunae, Jingliu, and a large number of Cloud Knights were in danger, she chose to sacrifice herself, perishing to stop Shuhu."
"Until a starsiphon pierced through everything like an arrow.
He saw the girl crawl out from the ruins with great difficulty, holding aloft an absolutely dark sun."
"In that instant as swift as eternity, he watched her hand vanish, watched her face vanish, he watched her vanish."
"That object ground everything around it into the finest dust, sweeping it into a storm of power, along with the girl herself" [ from the light-cone "On the Fall of an Aeon" ]
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