After Feng Yi put Yuan Bao and Qi Qi into the Serenitea Pot, he walked towards Sucrose.
Sucrose was Albedo’s capable assistant and should know some recent news about him.
He planned to approach Albedo through Sucrose and ask him some questions about alchemy.
"Ahem, excuse me, sorry to bother you, are you conducting an alchemy experiment?"
Feng Yi coughed twice as he approached, alerting the other person to his presence.
"Whoa! D-don't come closer! Ah… no, I mean, don't get too close… I'm doing an experiment, this… it might explode!"
Sucrose, engrossed in alchemical research, was not good at communicating with others. Seeing a stranger suddenly appear and approach the dangerous experimental pot, out of politeness and concern, she quickly waved her hands to stop him.
"Please don't worry, I am an alchemy apprentice. I naturally understand the dangers of experiments and how to protect myself from explosions caused by experimental failures…"
Feng Yi disguised himself as an alchemy apprentice to more easily find common ground with the socially awkward Sucrose.
"You like alchemy too?"
Sucrose implied that if you like alchemy, then we are good friends!
"Yes, my name is Feng Yi. However, my alchemy is just at the beginner stage, and there are many things I don't understand… If it's not too much trouble, could you tell me what you are doing right now?"
Feng Yi glanced at the glass sphere simmering in the pot. It looked somewhat familiar at first glance, why was it so much like a Vision?
No, this thing was a Vision!
Sucrose was boiling Visions for fun?!
"Hello, Mr. Feng Yi, my name is Sucrose. If it's just a beginner-level question, I should be able to help answer it, although I'm still far from Mr. Albedo…"
Sucrose gave Feng Yi an encouraging smile, inviting him to consult her if he encountered any problems.
There were very few people who liked alchemy, and Sucrose would help other beginner alchemy apprentices, just as Mr. Albedo helped her.
This was Sucrose's understanding of "passing the torch"!
"When I was experimenting this afternoon, I refined a very strange glass sphere, and I was curious if it would react with other materials, so…"
When it came to alchemy experiments, Sucrose instantly became talkative.
The story was this: this afternoon, Sucrose was pouring her carefully prepared green alchemical solution into a large pot and beginning the 159th experiment of processing dandelion seeds.
The large pot suddenly boiled over, and the room was instantly filled with steam.
Sucrose rushed to the edge of the pot to check the results of the new change, her hands so hot they were burned by the rim of the pot from excitement.
Unfortunately, the dandelion seeds remained scorched black.
However, in the center of the black seeds, there was a strange glass sphere.
Sucrose pondered for a moment, did not discard the solution, but rekindled the fire and continued to simmer the glass sphere.
She wanted to know what kind of reaction the dandelion seeds and the strange glass sphere could produce.
Unfortunately, after simmering for another three hours, the experiment yielded nothing.
Sucrose did not want to give up and tried adding other materials into the pot, trying to uncover the secrets of this glass sphere.
But she had experimented until now, adding materials such as white sugar, Jueyun peppers, apples, sweet flowers, and Valberries, but nothing happened.
Vision: Are you cooking? Why not taste it first?
Although Sucrose was a little disappointed, she was not discouraged. After all, in alchemy experiments, failure was normal.
Even Mr. Albedo, the Chalk Prince, had to go through countless failures to find the secret to success.
Sucrose still had many materials to experiment with. After meticulously recording the results of the current experiment in her notebook, she took out a small bottle of Slime Condensate…
"Please wait a moment. Aimless experimentation is meaningless. I happen to know something about this glass sphere…"
If Sucrose continued at this pace, she might work sleeplessly for several more days, then collapse from exhaustion and be forced to take a break by Albedo…
Feng Yi quickly stopped Sucrose, telling her some things about Visions, saving her a lot of meaningless experiments, and gaining some favor!
"So, a 'Vision' is an external organ of power recognized by the gods, used to guide elemental power…"
After Feng Yi's explanation, Sucrose had a preliminary understanding of this glass sphere that appeared out of nowhere.
She used iron tongs to remove the Vision from the boiling water, placed it in cold water to cool, and then picked it up with her hand, closing her eyes to feel the connection with the glass sphere.
Suddenly, the Vision lit up with a green pattern. With a wave of Sucrose's hand, a gust of wind appeared out of thin air, stirring up dust on the ground.
This magical sight made Sucrose's eyes light up. This glass sphere called a Vision could indeed guide elemental power, just as Feng Yi said.
How interesting!
Sucrose became increasingly interested in this novel Vision.
Seeing Sucrose engrossed in studying the Vision like a child with a new toy, Feng Yi couldn't help but sigh.
Visions could help weak mortals control the power of elements and were regarded as gifts from the heavens, but did they truly come without any cost?
Not necessarily?
Power was usually linked to cost. Whatever power you gained, you had to pay an equal price!
This was the law of universal balance. Even gods had to undergo arduous closed-door cultivation to increase their strength…
After all, no one could say for sure how Visions were born. Even the Seven Archons of the world had no definitive connection to the distribution of Visions.
This could be inferred from the Raiden Shogun's voice line: "The bestowing of Visions has nothing to do with the will of the gods."
Feng Yi once made the following conjecture: Could Visions be a "breeding plan" by Celestia?
Celestia cast Visions as "feed" into the mortal world. When the Vision holders became powerful, they would harvest them.
It was like slaughtering cattle and sheep in a farm.
And did the Seven Archons of the world play the role of farm owners raising cattle and sheep?
This was not Feng Yi's unfounded speculation. Various clues in the game pointed to this possibility.
For example, there was a book in the game called "Rare Goods of the Dreamlands," which described that those who obtained Visions would disappear from this world one day.
In other words, Visions in Genshin Impact had side effects, and their holders would go missing inexplicably.
Wasn't this like cattle and sheep being slaughtered after they had fattened up?
Another example was the Lionfang Knight Vanessa, who overthrew the rule of the old aristocracy with Venti. Legend had it that after she ascended to Celestia, she somehow escaped and, after a secret talk with Venti, voluntarily went to Windrise and transformed into a towering giant tree guarding Mondstadt!
Perhaps it was because she inadvertently witnessed the truth of Celestia…