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For the Ministry of Education, an ignorant new god was obviously meaningless. Although they held the last hope in their hearts, they had to admit one thing when they took her back to Xumi City.
She is as pure as a blank sheet of paper but ignorant. She is not the Great Kind Tree King...
The newborn grass god was imprisoned in Jingshan Palace in the name of protection, with no one to take care of him or guard him.
……
The Jingshan Palace has a device that was built by the Great Compassion Tree King to isolate all external objects in order to meditate alone, but now it has become a means of imprisoning gods.
The petite grass god was imprisoned in Jingshan Palace, but its actual activity space was limited to a small area.
However, if the great sage of the Ministry of Education came to take a look in person, he would find that the space where the grass god can move is a whole circle larger than what they originally set, and...
In the already small space, a simple single bed was quietly placed in the middle. A girl with white-gray hair but a blue side ponytail at the end of her hair was curled up on the bed, hugging a blanket with a teddy bear pattern on it, looking around anxiously.
The waiting time had been getting longer and longer these days, but she didn't know what was causing it.
Just when the girl was nervous, the space beside the bed twisted and tore open a narrow crack, and a young man with a Liyue face squeezed out from the narrow crack, holding a book in his left hand and a candied haws in his right hand.
"You came."
Seeing him appear, the worry in the eyes of the little grass goddess Nashida faded away, and she moved closer to the bed with some excitement.
"Sorry, girl. I'm late again today."
Liu Bai rubbed Nashida's head affectionately and spoke apologetically, then sat down sideways on the bed.
"Nothing, I'm glad you're here~"
Nashida was so happy that she narrowed her eyes into slits, but her attention was soon attracted by the candied haws and storybook in Liu Bai's hands.
"You must be hungry. I brought you some specialties from Liyue. They are sour and sweet and delicious~"
Liu Bai noticed Nashida's gaze and immediately handed the candied haws in his hand to her with a smile.
Nashida twitched her nose and sniffed the candied haws, then happily took it and sat next to Liu Bai on the bed. Her chubby little legs could only sway gently in the air because they could not reach the ground.
"Wow...it tastes so strange."
Nashida's eyes lit up slightly, and she shook her head happily, causing her white to green side ponytail to sway along with it.
Liu Bai opened the storybook he had drawn and prepared to start telling today's story.
In his storybooks, there are stories of various styles from countless countries, including One Thousand and One Nights, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Journey to the West... Oh, and even brainless and cool stories from Qidian and Tomato...
Of course, he didn't plan to talk about the last part, so as not to teach the child bad habits.
"By the way, Nashida, which day is the day I tell you a story?"
Before telling the story, Liu Bai suddenly thought of something and turned back to ask Nashida.
"It's exactly the thousandth day."
Taking a nibble at the candied haws, Nashida answered without hesitation.
She would never forget the helpless nights when she was first brought to Jingshan Palace. A strange Liyue person suddenly appeared in front of her and told her stories to lull her to sleep...
"It's been a thousand days..."
“It’s been over a thousand days since I was reborn in Teyvat…”
Liu Bai muttered to himself, hiding a secret in his heart that he couldn't tell anyone.
"Okay, the story I'm going to tell you today is called Aladdin's Magic Lamp..."
Shaking his head, Liu Bai stopped thinking about anything else for the time being and began to tell Nashida the stories he brought with him before he traveled through time.
Nashida listened quietly to Liu Bai's story, occasionally asking some questions that she was curious about, such as "Why not make a wish so that you can get more wishes?"
"Perhaps it's because the person who made this wish was too greedy and was destined not to encounter the magic lamp."
Liu Bai answered with a smile.
This little episode did not affect Liu Bai's ability to finish the story.
For Nashida, Liu Bai's story was one of the few opportunities she had to "learn" while imprisoned. As the new God of Wisdom, she instinctively wanted to obtain more information...
"Don't look at me so pitifully. We agreed before that we can only tell one story a day. Don't be greedy."
After the story ended, feeling Nashida's gaze, Liu Bai touched her head and rejected her.
If I hadn't been so ruthless as to refuse this request, the stories I brought would probably not be enough to tell...
"Ok."
"Then I'm going to sleep. Can you wait until I fall asleep before leaving?"
Nashida had no choice but to respond obediently, then she lay back on the bed, pulled over the cute little bear blanket, and asked Liu Bai.
After a thousand nights of companionship, Nashida has long been accustomed to falling asleep in Liu Bai's company, and that dreamy and lively dream is her favorite thing besides Liu Bai.
"of course."
Liu Bai sat by the bed as usual, soothing Nashida to sleep.
But this time Liu Bai remembered something.
"By the way, the Great Compassion Tree King left behind something called the Void. The Ministry of Education has figured out how to use it and has started promoting it within the Ministry of Education."
When talking about the void, Liu Bai felt a little headache, because he was not from the Ministry of Education and had no way to apply for it.
"Void Terminal?"
Nashida, who was lying obediently on the bed covered with a teddy bear blanket, cast a curious look at him.
"Well, it's a tool that can manage knowledge. Maybe you can use it to see the outside world and learn knowledge that you have never been exposed to."
Liu Bai nodded and explained briefly to Nashida.
"Really?"
Nashida wanted to sit up excitedly, but Liu Bai gently pushed her back with one hand.
Now is the time to sleep...
"But I don't have that thing, what should I do?"
Nashida had no choice but to continue lying there, opening her eyes wide and asking Liu Bai anxiously.
"The Void relies on the Heart of God to operate, and you are the Grass God of Xumi. I believe you can learn it with a little try."
Liu Bai didn't know exactly what to do, but he knew that this was not a problem for Nashida, so he just gave this answer.
"Starting tomorrow, use the void to study hard. In the future, you will definitely become a little grass god recognized by the people of Xumi."
Liu Bai said this and reached out to touch Nashida's head again, but this time the latter did not cooperate and rubbed it, but answered seriously.
"I certainly will."
For Nashida, what she desired from the very beginning was to become a god recognized and loved by the people like the Great Compassionate Tree King.
"Alright, alright, it's time to go to bed now. You can save the Void thing for tomorrow. Go to bed obediently."
"Um……"
Nashida responded obediently, slowly closed her deep green four-leaf clover eyes, and slowly relaxed her hands that were gripping the sheets.
"Sleep...sleep...my dear baby..."
"The night is quiet... and I am so warm..."
Liu Bai sat on the edge of the bed, took out a harp from somewhere, and began to play a lullaby gently. His voice became lower and lower until he felt Nashida's breathing became slow and long.
"All the...happy wishes in the world..."
"All the warmth... all belongs to you..."
Liu Bai's singing voice became quieter and quieter, until finally he stood up and walked back into the space crack.
It’s not like he hadn’t tried to take Nashida out with him, but unfortunately he failed because the space rift couldn’t carry anyone through it…
And now he does not have the ability to destroy the meditation device of the Great Compassionate Tree King.
……
For Nashida, knowledge is the content that people have mastered in their minds. It does not need to be something high-end. It can be the skills of fishing bait and fishing line, the experience of planting trees and raising seedlings, or the technology of judging the health of pack animals by their fur.
These contents that people have mastered through accumulation are the knowledge that Nashida wants to learn now.
So after successfully connecting to the void, she was attracted by the countless knowledge provided by the scholars of the Academy of Teachings.
Learning and remembering new knowledge bit by bit was undoubtedly a happy thing for Nashida, who had just come into contact with the void. She was reluctant to stop doing this...
However, as night fell, Nashida, realizing this, took the initiative to disconnect from the void and returned to her small bed in the Jingshan Palace.
Because the space crack was too narrow, this bed was originally assembled by Liu Bai piece by piece of wood overnight.
"Will you be late today?"
Curled up at the head of the bed, hugging the quilt, Nashida muttered a little unhappily that Liu Bai had been arriving later and later recently.
As expected, at the precise time, Liu Bai did not show up. Nashida muttered a few words and continued to wait silently.
"Hmm, today is so slow... I should have continued studying for a while..."
Until late at night, even the entire Xumi City had fallen silent, but Liu Bai still did not show up. Nashida could not help but complain.
But just as she finished her words, the space beside the bed suddenly twisted and a narrow crack appeared.
"You came!"
Nashida immediately moved closer excitedly and hugged Liu Bai, who had just barely managed to squeeze out of the crack by leaning sideways.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm late again today."
Liu Bai embarrassedly said the same apology as he did a few days ago, and stroked Nashida's head with one hand to comfort her.
"Today I saw someone from Xumi say that it is disrespectful to make a girl wait too long."
However, this time Nashida did not behave obediently as she did in the past and did not pursue the matter. Instead, she raised her hand and pressed Liu Bai's hand that was touching her head while speaking.
Currently, the void terminal is only promoted within the House of the Decree, but even scholars need social interaction. Nashida occasionally heard about this through scholars.
Liu Bai: “…”
The Void Terminal doesn't seem to be a good thing!
But after just one day, she seemed to have learned a lot...
"Hehe, I'm not angry~"
Seeing Liu Bai's expression, Nashida smiled happily, took Liu Bai's hand and sat with him on the edge of the bed.
"Ahem, how did you sleep last night? I think you didn't secretly get up in the middle of the night to study the void terminal?"
Liu Bai simply chose to change the subject and handed the candy he brought to Nashida.
"No, I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed that I also had a magic lamp, but the genie inside was you."
Nashida happily took the candy and answered while peeling off the wrapper of the candy.
"Is it me? Then what wish did you make for me?"
Liu Bai suddenly became interested and tentatively asked Nashida about her wish.
"I made three wishes. One is for you to tell me stories every day."