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"Then again...how are we going to get to Mt. Hulao!"

Paimon looked at the wiki map the traveler had opened, dazzled by the dense array of icons, what with where there were ores, where there were boars, where there were glazed bags and holy relics...

"Yoyo can tell you!"

Yoyo happily popped out from behind the big tree behind the alchemy table, hiding the grabbed glazed lilies behind her back.

"Ohhh, Yoyo is so reliable! Unlike that traveler who only knows how to hoe the earth and doesn't know the route!"

Paimon looked like she wanted to be beaten up.

"Hahaha~ Yoyo wants to help too, to find Sister Qiqi! But, if we go to the mountain Hulao, Yoyo knows there are two roads, I don't know which one you want to choose!"

With that, Yoyo used the roots of a freshly picked lily to draw distortedly on the traveler's map, but she could probably get the direction she was guiding.

"Looks like the closer journey is from the outskirts of Liyue port, through the Southern Heavenly Gate, traveler!"

Paimon concluded smugly.

"There's another way, but it's a bit of a detour. It's from the east of Tianheng Mountain, through Gui Li plain and west, and you have to go through the Jue Yun Valley. Although it's a long way away, the places we pass through are all areas with herbs, so Yoyo often takes that route too!"

Yoyo put down the bamboo basket and carefully placed the glazed lilies she had just picked on a pile of washed lotus seeds.

"If it's Qiqi... ah no, if it's just a little herb-picking girl, Paimon thinks she may start from Tianheng Mountain East! After all, there are so many herbs to be picked along the way, and maybe plenty of missing treasure chest!"

The traveler nodded in satisfaction, ready to practice a few more Gale and Granite oils before choosing to leave.

"Hold on, Traveler."

Behind her, Zhong Li had just returned from hanging out with the birds, heard the noise of Paimon, and walked up to her.

"As far as I know, thousands of years ago, when the gods and demons fought, the battlefield spread to the vicinity of the present-day Gui Li plain. At that time, most of the herbalists chose to take the road near the outskirts of Liyue port - the place where Lueyue now originates."

"You know quite a lot about Liyue, Mr. Zhongli."

The words that should have been taken up by Paimon were instead by Ke Qing, who had come from the Red Bridge.

She looked at Zhongli for a moment, felt that he was suspiciously knowledgeable as a guest of the Hall of the Dead.

"I don't think so. In terms of knowledge, the traveler at hand is the truly knowledgeable one."

How could Zhongli say such nonsense while expressionlessly!

"Well, Traveler knows a lot of things that even Paimon doesn't know, like how she's always saying that Paimon looks like a Garage kit, and how she wants to make a Dakimakura out of Ke Qing!"

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! I'm going to fry Paimon tonight!

"Da...Da...Daki...makura !? " Ke Qing didn't understand what it meant, but somehow she blushed.

"What's a Dakimakura? Can Yoyo be a Dakimakura too?"

Yoyo's innocent, cute, wiggly look intensified the traveler's determination to put extra Jedi cloud chilies and fiery essential oil in the deep-fried Paimon tonight.

"By the way," Zhong Li spoke up, begging never to say anything tawdry about becoming a hug pillow, or else the traveler might die of overexcitement, "what's a Garage kit?"

...

Before nightfall, amidst Paimon's useless struggles and moans, the travelers finally set off, although the occasional "danger zone" red alerts were somehow annoying.

With the frugal idea that a level 70 breakthrough was enough, the traveler put on her level 5 Carrion Sword and set off for the world rank 10 land of Liyue.