Following Du Ming's guidance, you venture into the deepest parts of the underground area.

What are you going to do afterwards?

It appears that this machine ... has kept running for well over a century.

Du Ming is committed to his choice. We should help.

I figured it out. "Darkness it skims" refers to the irrigation machine. It separates the Blight from the clean water, and that's why the Ancestral Spring is Blight-free.

It kept running without maintenance for far too long. Though the chassis is undamaged, the machine itself is ... almost at the verge of malfunctioning.

Yes. Although this machine is wholly different from the modern Xiranite facilities ... I am quite certain this is the work of the Yanese Tianshi.

Is this ... the "truth" you wanted to show us?

What are you doing!?

When I stumbled into this place by accident back then, I didn't expect ... to confront the "true form" of the Ancestral Spring.

I wasn't prepared for it... My family has guarded the spring for so many generations, but it turned out to be something else!

I don't know if my ancestors left writings about the truth ... or even the means of repairing this machine...

I grew up in Qingbo Stockade and all I got are ambiguous stories and legends ... those that make people believe in the miraculous powers of the Ancestral Spring...

No... You flatter me. I still can't bring myself to accept this...

When I returned to the surface and saw the banner of Qingbo Stockade from afar ... the only thing on my mind was —

Even if the legends were false, I must protect the Fam's faith in the Ancestral Spring...

That's why you pretended to be mad in front of the Landbreakers!

Yeah. I ... I'm not a great fighter like Ruan Yi, and I couldn't unite the Fam like our Supreme Chief...

The only tactic I knew ... is to feign madness and possession like the folk tales...

Though the Landbreakers are gone, the Ancestral Spring is in pretty bad shape. The Blight containment tank will eventually overflow and affect the Stockade.

I guessed that too. That's why I ... came up with an idea of guiding you down to this place.

I hope you can help me shut down this machine and seal it away.

But if the machine stops working, it would no longer filter out the Blight and...

And the Ancestral Spring will eventually be affected...

Let me, Du Ming ... perform the transgression and destroy the Ancestral Spring!

...What do you think, Endmin?

Thank you, everyone. I've already made a few attempts but none of them worked. There's probably a special mechanism involved...

Excellent work, Endmin. This machine is finally getting its well-deserved retirement...

Now ... I can finally face my ancestors with peace of mind.

I ... I probably need to allude to the legend of the Ancestral Spring one more time...

I hope you will aid me once more.

But it must be done, or all that built up Blight will overflow and surge to the surface! I have to protect the livelihood of everyone in Qingbo Stockade!