Go to Swallowsong Pavilion as proposed by Cirrus and chat with Furynox

📍 The Xianzhou Luofu Fyxestroll Garden

Cirrus

You've heard the story of Ignamar and the great heliobus's glorious fight against the general. They were an entity born of many heliobi fusing together...

Cirrus

...but heliobi are gradually tainted by the emotions and desires of those we possess. We tend to spite each other and don't like to fuse together — it's like having multiple personalities inside a single head. It leads to "infighting..."

Cirrus

A powerful heliobus like Ignamar or Furynox might be able to swallow a lesser heliobus and placate them for a while...

Cirrus

...but this internal balance is easily broken when exposed to external forces — just like how we were torn apart and reborn after Ignamar fought the general.

Xueyi

Therefore... this might be the way to defeat Furynox. We can cause them to break apart and reduce their power, then the Ten-Lords Commission can use their sacred vessels to seal up all of Furynox's fragments.

Xueyi

I have a question. Why are you betraying your own kin? Why would you help the Xianzhou when we have sealed you for so long?

Cirrus

Why? Must heliobi always have a reason for their behavior? Perhaps I don't want Furynox to devour me. Perhaps I dislike idiots who use force and nothing else. Perhaps I wish to fight the general myself...

Cirrus

...or maybe I just want to do a favor for the Ten-Lords Commission that will ensure I can leave here in one piece?

Options

We should allow Cirrus to go ahead with their plan.

Don't believe Cirrus!

Xueyi

Judges of the Ten-Lords Commission always keep our promises. If you can truly deal with the problem at hand, I will ask for your freedom from the Ten Lords. However, I cannot guarantee the outcome of the appeal.

Cirrus

How conventional. Fine, I accept... but you better keep your promise, puppet.

Cirrus

Hehe, me and Furynox were "furnacemates..." I know them well. They are powerful, but as naive as a child and obsessed with victory. I only need to say three things to incite them.

Cirrus

{NICKNAME}, I'll need your body for a while longer.

Talk to Xueyi and come up with a strategy

Xueyi

You two, take this before we fight Furynox.

Xueyi

This is the Lunaumbra Gourd, a sacred vessel made by the Artisanship Commission. The Ten-Lords Commission has made some changes to it to better suppress heliobi. After you fight the puppets controlled by Furynox, make sure you seal their heliobi fragments in here.

Xueyi

Also...

Options

I'll look after Huohuo.

I'll go easy on the spiritfarers.

Xueyi

Her time as a judge has been brief — she is still inexperienced. Apart from that, please also have mercy on the spiritfarers that have fallen under Furynox's control.

Xueyi

The Ten Lords will not forget your acts of kindness. Thank you.

Huohuo

Mr. Tail, we're gonna fight some really dangerous enemies now. Please lend me your strength, too.

Tail

Oh-ho? Sounds like someone finally learned to talk tough.

Tail

I would've believed you if your legs weren't shaking so much!

Huohuo

Don't point that out! It took me a lot of effort to be this brave! All this time I've just been hiding behind {M#Mr.}{F#Miss} {NICKNAME}. I'm such a bad judge...

Huohuo

Madam Xueyi said those possessed by a heliobus can't get possessed again... I'm the only person who can help everyone!

Tail

Exactly! You're welcome, by the way... So, what are we waiting for? Let's go!

Xueyi

Huohuo, though I am of ingenium body, I too am feeling a sliver of fear.

Huohuo

Madam Xueyi... you're afraid too?

Xueyi

Faced with a demon that can manipulate life at will, of course I'm afraid... Afraid that I won't ever work with my sister again.

Options

Huohuo, I'm afraid too.

Afraid or not, we're still gonna beat the heck out of it!

Huohuo

...I—I guess if even you two are afraid, then... I—I feel a little better now.

Xueyi

Let's go! I will find my own way to defeat the pawns possessed by Furynox... and before that foolish heliobus has realized what's happening, I will suppress all of their fragments within the Lunaumbra Gourd.

Huohuo

...So we'll need to activate the Evil Binding Matrix, right?

Xueyi

Once my task is done, I will meet you at the Verdant Terrace and activate the Evil Binding Matrix at its matrix core.

Huohuo

Okay.

Go to the Verdant Terrace to meet up with Xueyi

System

Thanks for saving me, Your Honor...

Defeat Cirrus