It was just after we finished our breakfast that I felt Guizhong within my soul stir slightly and that felt very weird as my other summons didn't move or do anything in my soul so I carefully tried to summon her into reality. But surprisingly she only ever so slightly took my aura for her to manifest into reality.
"Hmm... I can already feel my soul slightly fixing itself and the corruption from the abyss falling apart under your soul's light." Guihzong spoke out while yawning as she manifested from my Schnee glyph with her form clad in her tight-fitting Wuxia clothing.
"Waah! It's that small goddess Jake and Lumine beat up!" Paimon cried out as she hid behind Lumine and I couldn't help but chuckle seeing the petite and short goddess pouting at Paimon who was hiding behind Lumine.
I coughed and spoke up. "Paimon, it should be fine. She was being controlled by the Fatui so let's just try to get along... Most likely she will be following us on our adventures a good bit." I finished a bit wryly and Lumine rolled her eyes.
Lumine looked between me and the petite goddess before shrugging and speaking with a small smile. "Well, either way, we need to go talk to Liyue's leadership to find out what is to happen with your squatting goddess."
"Why are gods and goddesses so troublesome." Eula even added on with a sigh and from her perspective, I understood what she meant... As Venti was a literal drunkard who slept for centuries. Morax even with warnings about the stuff that was happening only reacted, at the final moment when things went insane, and lastly Ei was a stubborn woman, to say the least, and was allowing her nation to fall apart in a civil war.
I clapped my hands and took a breath as the girl's attention was gathered to me. "Alright let's get going to the Jade Chamber. That is probably where we can find the leadership of Liyue." I finished as I realized that Ningguang never used the old Jade Chamber as a nuke to blast Osial with... 'So maybe we wouldn't need to do any quests to rebuild it?' I thought before shaking my head as my party left our house.
When Guizhong came outside I saw more of her energetic and cheerful side as she giggled and raised up her and took a deep breath of Liyue City's air. "Hmm... Haaaa, I can smell the morning fried dough sticks mixing in with the scent of the sea." She said nostalgically and her face was lit up in a bright smile at the sight of the city coming back together from the attack a couple of days ago.
I summoned up an Anemo Hypostasis to fly us around and as I got on with the other girls, Eula gave me a different place to go. "Maybe we should try to speak to Madame Ping first before we try to speak with the Liyue human leadership." She offered and then Lumine continued her line of thought.
"The Adepti likely have a better idea of what happened after Morax sealed away Osial and that weird toad dragon thing Azhdaha," Lumine said spitefully as she still hadn't forgotten how the beast companion of the Geo god attempted to throw us into the damned abyss before he was resealed or killed.
Guizhong frowned but didn't respond to Lumine's words as Morax's strongest companion during the Archon wars did in fact betray Liyue despite it being driven insane by the world's Erosion of his mind and soul. It was still a breach of the contracts he had with Morax.
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"Oooh, there is Madam Ping and Yanfei!" Paimon called out as we flew over the terraces of the back half of Liyue and we saw the salmon-pink hair of Yanfei standing beside the 'old lady' Madame Ping. "Take us down, Jake!" Paimon cried out excitedly and I smiled a bit at her excitement as I made my flying summon come down closer to the clearing the two girls were in.
For a moment as we landed and my summon disappeared there was a bit of tension as Madame Ping and Guihzong stared at one another and Yanfei awkwardly made her way over and stood beside Eula as we watched the confrontation.
"You... Still have that annoying smug smile." Madame Ping said pointedly and I heard a bit of spice in her voice that wasn't typically in her grandma-like demeanor.
In response, Guihzong raised one of her oversized voluminous sleeves and covered up her face as she giggled with her eyes tightening on her once rivals' frame. "And depression and taking on a grandma's form doesn't fit you at all." She snapped back making Madame Ping's face twitch before she snorted. Thankfully the terrace we were on was completely emptied as she abruptly glowed with a pure white light for a couple of seconds and then as the light disappeared there was no longer a hunched-over lady.
Now Madame Ping was in the prime of her youth dressed and clad in wuxia-style clothing that clung to her much more voluptuous body compared to Guihzong's petite frame.
Even as Ping rocked back on her feet getting used to not hunching over in her grandma-like form, Guihzong dramatically pointed at her old friend as her rocking back and forth to get used to her old body made her breasts bounce. "You cheater! You cannot bounce like that!" Guihzong roared with all the fury of a girl that was a lifelong member of the itty bitty titty committee.
Ping obviously couldn't help but laugh and I heard a thick sob being held back in her laughing as she stepped forward and regardless of Guihzong's outrage, she buried her friend's face into the large breasts she seemed to so despise. "It's good to see you again my friend." Ping whispered to Guihzong who stopped windmilling to get out of her friend's grasp and then she relaxed and gave her old friend a hug before they split apart.
But then Yanfei ruined the moment. "Wait... So that's why you and Cloud Retainer always sounded so darned smug whenever you talked about what Lady Guihzong looked like. It's because you guys have bigger boobs than her! Having bigger ones doesn't make a girl better than another right Jake!" Yanfei turned to me and placed her hand on her own rather small breasts and looked at me for an answer to that fucking massive landmine of a question. I couldn't help but nervously chuckled as Lumine and Eula also eyed me for my response.
'I could use a shield right about now Morax... Pls halp!' I cried out mentally as the girls closed in on me for my 'opinion'