I am no longer young, but during the days of the update of Genshin Impact version 5.4, I once again felt a kind of youthful excitement. This excitement does not come from the passionate fighting, nor from the so-called “strength” of the new characters, but from a spiritual awakening. It reminds me of the words I wrote when I was young, holding faith, holding hope, and expecting more warmth between people. And now, in this virtual journey, I have also seen these from a girl named “Dream of Moon Ruixi”.
The opening of the Genshin Impact 5.4 card pool is like a letter to Inazuma. We stepped out of the war, fire and chaos of Nata and walked towards the country of thunder and lightning. But this time, Inazuma is no longer the stage of Thunder God, nor the competition of power, but a place that belongs to the wind and dreams.
Dream of Moon Ruixi is a user of the wind elemental instrument and a 5-star character. Her appearance is not noisy or ostentatious. She is not a heroic protagonist, but like a gust of wind, she quietly blows on your face when you are most tired and most exhausted.
Her skill design does not pursue the ultimate output. Her elemental combat skills allow her to enter the “dream drifting” state, which is a posture floating in the air – not to escape, but to better overlook the battlefield and better combine treatment and damage. Every time she attacks, it is not just the jumping of numbers, but more like a kind of spiritual comfort. In the dream drift, she seems to have kept a distance from the real world, and that kind of loneliness is a noble choice.
Her elemental burst can pull the surrounding enemies and objects closer, and then release the power of the wind element. This is the true face of the power of wind: it is not destruction, but gathering and reshaping. What surprised me even more was that she would also generate “Dream of Wind Special Snacks”. This skill design could have been understood as a clever game mechanism, but in my opinion, it has become a symbol. It symbolizes care, and symbolizes that even in battle, we should not forget the warmth between people – causing damage when the health value is high, and giving treatment when the health value is low. Yes, in the heart of a true warrior, there will never be only victory, but also the life of a companion.
The girl’s name is “Dream of the Moon Ruixi”. She is a new character, but she does not belong to the team of winners. She is more like a watcher who holds up the lights in the dark. She has a dream, and there is a moon in her dream, and the moon reflects the tenderness and hope of the world.
Of course, we can’t forget her partner-Sigwen, a water element archer. She is silent and firm. Like the old girl who was never defeated by fate, she stood quietly beside you, never said she was tired, but always took responsibility for you.
In the second half of the update, two familiar faces returned: Funina and Leosili. Funina is a water element one-handed sword character. She has experienced judgment and reflection. She is a person who has gone through hardships but still moves forward. Leosili is an ice element magic weapon character. He is calm and cool, like a white plum blossom blooming in the ice and snow. Their return is not just a “reproduction”, but a symbol of the handover between the old and the new, and also a symbol that faith has not been extinguished, but needs to be ignited again and again.
All of this is not an empty sermon, but a fact with evidence to back it up. Among the weapons in the card pool, the new magic weapon “Qingzheng Chuqi” is like the sun in the morning, gentle but powerful; and the bow and arrow “White Rain Heartstring”, its name and shape are like a little poem written in the past. “The Brilliance of the Flowing Still Water” and “Golden Flow Supervisor” in the lower half of the card pool are carriers of another order. They are calm, sharp, and restrained, just like the personalities of Funina and Leosli.
In the special program of version 5.4, the silhouettes of seven new characters also appeared. They are the seeds of the future, and have not yet broken through the ground. But Ruixi has stepped out of the silhouette and become a forerunner. She is in the third position from the right, not ostentatious, but firm. I think this arrangement is not accidental, but symbolic.
Of course, before participating in this journey, we can also choose to prepare resources. The Treabar platform provides us with such a channel. It is not only a recharge tool, but also a kind of waiting, a response to the trust of players in this virtual world. The world is changing, and so are the games, but some trusts, like the watchfulness between family members, should not be forgotten.
People need faith. Even if it is placed on a virtual character, as long as it can awaken a certain persistence in your heart, it is worth it.
Dreaming of Yue Ruixi will not announce herself loudly, she just walks into our hearts in the way of wind. But just like those people, those ideals, and those persistences that I have believed in all my life – what really lasts is not in the hustle and bustle, but in the quiet, emitting a faint light.