Reading poems from Teyvat

"This is not something that can be told to outsiders," Shen Zhigui said absentmindedly, "Let's get back to the original question. What are you going to do? Are you going to continue to stay in Aru Village, or go somewhere else?"

Seba was silent for a long time.

There were two voices in her heart that kept alternating and refuting each other. She believed that the boy in front of her would never achieve his goal, so he would fail in the end, and she, who was dependent on him in the process, would definitely be held accountable by the Council of the Church. But the other voice told her that no matter how much the Council of the Church ...

Thinking of this, Seba immediately raised his head: "I want to leave."

"Is there anywhere you'd like to go?"

Seba hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "Liyue."

Shen Zhigui raised his eyebrows: "If I fail, you may not have a chance to return to Xumi."

"It doesn't matter."

Anyway, the Xumi she wanted to return to would not be Aru Village, and under the rule of the Church Order Institute, she was afraid that she would never be able to return to her old dream.

So that's fine.

……

In fact, although the Gilded Brigade’s activity was very unexpected, Shen Zhigui did not convince the Gilded Brigade’s top leaders.

Although to be precise, the Gilded Brigade in the desert is just a general term for those mercenaries, and the Gilded Brigade can be divided into smaller groups, and the people that Candice helped Shen Zhigui contact are actually the leaders of those groups. It is not very realistic to say that these people really want to resurrect the Red King, because they themselves know in their hearts that this purpose is just to give those young people in their own group who can't make it a little hope. After all, the reality is so cruel for the desert people. People who can make a name for themselves, such as the famous Dishiya, of course sneer at this statement, but most of the desert people don't have her ability and are just barely making a living.

Besides making a living, there are many other problems plaguing them.

In this case, the leaders of these groups could only spread empty words like "As long as the Red King is resurrected, everything will be fine." Although it is obvious that even if the Red King is really resurrected, he cannot create wealth and food out of thin air. After all, the common currency of Teyvat, Mora, is actually made by the Rock God next door. As for food, it is estimated that they can only rob the rainforest people. But if the Red King is really resurrected, will He really listen to the instigation of these believers and rob the people under the rule of the previous Grass God, who is said to have a good personal relationship with Him?

The attitude of God is still unpredictable.

So this kind of thing is just a thought.

Although there are indeed people taking action for it.

But that approach is more like a desperate gambler who, after realizing that he has almost lost everything, places his last chips on the option with the highest odds, hoping that the bet will bring them hope of a comeback.

Shen Zhigui's "resurrection of the Great Compassion Tree King" certainly does not have such magic power, but he himself has the method to cure the magic scale disease, which has actually attracted many people. Although many people have begun to back off after hearing that he is preparing to fight against the Order of the Church, after all, no matter how you look at it, the Order of the Church has ruled Xumi for hundreds of years as the actual ruler. Now some people say that he is going to challenge the Order of the Church alone and drive the people of the Gilded Brigade as cannon fodder. Everyone will have doubts -

But even though Shen Zhigui didn't dare to use martial arts like "The Vast Sea Covered with Hundreds of Feet of Ice" to shock this group of people, the Dream in his hand was a real weapon of the God of Thunder. So when he saw that this group of people were about to back down, Shen Zhigui directly drew out the Dream and asked Lei Dianying to transfer her power of the God of Thunder, which directly turned the area outside the meeting place into a "Thunder Pool" that was difficult to cross!

So it was natural for those people to kneel down on the ground.

What else could be done?

Revolt right under his nose?

Although most people at that time were afraid of Shen Zhigui's strength, they were only prepared to deal with Shen Zhigui on the surface, because although the Thunder God was a real god of Inazuma across the sea, if they cooperated well, the desert people might not be able to improve their lives by turning to the Thunder God or the Thunder God's messenger, not to mention that Shen Zhigui could indeed cure or suppress the onset of the magic scale disease, but this person came too quickly and too hastily, and they had no way to verify his words, so they were naturally skeptical about Shen Zhigui's words -

But although these leaders ostensibly wanted to deal with Shen Zhigui, they did not understand how long the young people under them had been waiting for such a legitimate opportunity to vent.

Chapter 112: Boats and Cars Connect Everywhere (Part 2)

So even if the leaders of those large and small gilded brigades purely wanted to deal with Shen Zhigui on the surface, but when the relevant orders were issued, the group of young people were eager to respond actively, and even started a large-scale connection in private. They said that the Great Compassion Tree King was about to wake up after a long sleep, and was very dissatisfied with the Church's behavior that had been worthy of being called atrocities for hundreds of years. So the Great Compassion Tree King was going to join forces with the Thunder God next door - anyway, from a geographical point of view, they are indeed close neighbors - to give the people of Xumi a clear sky!

In general, this statement has many loopholes, but who made Shen Zhigui really take time out of his dream to perform a scene as if Thor himself was here? The Ministry of Education also knew about Shen Zhigui's connection with Thor because of the doctor. When they saw that Shen Zhigui was actually preparing to rally the desert people to fight against the Ministry of Education, they immediately panicked. On the one hand, they issued an order to arrest those who spread these rumors everywhere, and on the other hand, they publicly stated that there was nothing wrong with the Ministry of Education's actions, and their rule would not be shaken by anyone.

This statement certainly intensified the further spread of the "rumors", and they even began to prevail inside the rainforest. As a result, the House of Lords was immediately overwhelmed and sent people everywhere to deal with it. However, not everyone in their group agreed to cooperate with the Doctor to create new gods. At this time, they were already divided, not to mention that major disciplinary officers like Seno had defected. If the desert people had not created large-scale unrest and spread rumors on a large scale like they did now, perhaps they could have smoothly completed the internal factional cleansing. After all, some of the upper echelons had been imprisoned, and their close subordinates and disciples would certainly oppose knowing that their superiors and teachers were treated like this. Therefore, if the House of Lords wanted to smoothly implement the plan of creating gods, it would be necessary to purge the opponents layer by layer in this way.

But the more trouble the desert people made, the more the House of the Faith exposed its understaffing problem, and it even had to continue to employ the opposition to deal with the troubles caused by the desert people.

But those opponents are already suspicious of the current upper echelons of the Council of Ordinances. Although those who come out of the Council of Ordinances do not really believe the rumors spread by the desert people, such as "The Great Compassion Tree King has resurrected and joined forces with the Thunder God to govern Xumi", they are also opposed to studying with the desert people how to govern Xumi. But since the current situation has become like this, they only need to do nothing and wait and see.

So after things got out of hand, the House of Lords, which now had actual internal divisions, finally realized that they had no choice but to go all out and fully support the Doctor's plan to create a god. Otherwise, if they continued like this, the people would become more and more shaken and turn to their opposite side. Although they did not believe that this wave could overthrow the House of Lords, which had stood on Xumi for hundreds of years, it was very likely that the opposition would replace them.

Under such circumstances, the Order inevitably relaxed its guard over the Little Lucky Grass King, or they no longer had any extra strength to disperse and could only devote all their manpower to the Doctor's deification plan. So Tinari finally found an opportunity and met or was guided to complete the meeting with the Little Lucky Grass King.

Although Tinari certainly would not actually go to the Jingshan Palace to meet the god in person.

The risk of doing so is simply too great, and it would also expose their plan, so Tinari simply called for a response from the Little Lucky Grass King through the transformed void, just like in the game plot.

After Tinari told Shen Zhigui about the doctor's plan and recent events, the Little Auspicious Grass King was silent for a long time, but finally asked: "So, what do you think of the doctor's plan? In your opinion, does the doctor really have a chance to solve Xumi's problem?"

Tinari was silent for a moment. "I don't know either, but if the Great Compassion Tree King couldn't do it, and you can't do it either, why can a new god do it?"

When the little auspicious grass king heard Tinari's reply, she didn't know what to say for a moment. Although she had always regarded the former grass god as her goal, thinking that one day she might be able to grow to her level and shine on the whole Xumi like the sun, but now the Church of the Order was trying to create a new god to replace her and wanted to continue to imprison her permanently. This was really too bad. Although it had been hundreds of years, she still couldn't experience the emotional changes that a normal person should have, but at this moment, she still felt that she should be angry.

Although Tinari mentioned something that she was very concerned about: "And your friend said that the Great Compassion Tree King was not completely sacrificed, and her will still lingers inside the World Tree. It's just because she wants to solve the pollution of forbidden knowledge that she wants to delete herself from the World Tree?"

Although Tinari was skeptical about this statement, since things had come to this, he certainly had nothing to hide, so he nodded in agreement.

"But your friend does not accept the approach of the Great Compassion Tree King. He thinks that sooner or later, after humans forget the existence of forbidden knowledge, they will repeat the mistakes of the Red King. So he does not agree with the method of revising history, but wants to leave such a lesson to warn future generations, even if there are more and more patients with Demon Scale Disease and the appearance of the Dead Zone is becoming more and more frequent?"

Tinari could only continue to nod.

"And you, Mr. Tinari, what do you think?"

Facing the questioning of this god who looked young and actually had a childlike temperament in his words and deeds, Tinari said, "Let alone the fact that he claimed that his martial arts could suppress the demonic scale disease, I really don't think that the way the Great Compassion Tree King sacrificed himself was right. Moreover, if it is true as he said that humans repeat the mistakes of the Red King and bring forbidden knowledge out of the abyss to pollute the World Tree again, would you be willing to sacrifice yourself like the Great Compassion Tree King to help humans solve this problem? In other words, would you like the next Grass God you created to be like you, imprisoned somewhere after being welcomed back because of his young age and ignorance, and hated and not expected by others when he grows up, so they want to create a new god to replace him, but in the end they still have to sacrifice themselves to solve the problems of humans who always cause trouble?"

Little Auspicious Grass King was unable to respond to Tinari's words, because she herself was not sure whether she was really willing to sacrifice herself after going through so much, so she just said: "Maybe when the time comes, I will feel that I am actually the Great Kindness Tree King?"

Chapter 113: Boats and Cars Connect Everywhere (Part 2)

In fact, this response has already subtly revealed the attitude of the Little Auspicious Grass King: as she considers herself to be the Great Compassionate Tree King, she would indeed choose to sacrifice herself to solve the pollution problem of forbidden knowledge, because the Great Compassionate Tree King really thinks and does so, but as the Little Auspicious Grass King, she might not necessarily do so.

Tinari could understand her attitude.

If any normal person had her experience, they would have already started thinking about destroying the world.

Although it is true as she said, after the Great Compassion Tree King deleted her existence from history, this young god who looks like a child may mistakenly think that she is the wise and loving Great Compassion Tree King in history, but thinking that she is missing does not mean that she is indeed the Great Compassion Tree King in history, not to mention, is she really willing to let herself become such a seemingly true existence? If a person's self-cognition is confused like this, and the people around her also think that she is indeed the Great Compassion Tree King in history, it may not be a good thing for Xumi in the future.

If the Great Compassion Tree King really sacrificed himself as Shen Zhigui said and eliminated all traces of overly taboo knowledge in the World Tree, then in the end it would certainly be the Grass Goddess in front of him who would inherit the fame and status of the Great Compassion Tree King. At that time, the Court of Ecclesiastical Orders would certainly return power to her, allowing her to naturally control the country, just as they sang, allowing Xumi to return to the beautiful era under the rule of the Great Compassion Tree King.

But the Little Auspicious Grass King is not the real Great Kindness Tree King after all.

Fame and status can be inherited, but the experience and skills in handling affairs are probably quite unfamiliar to the little King Jixiangcao, who has been imprisoned in Jingshan Palace since she was born. She thinks that she is the King of Great Compassion Tree, so she will be forced to play a role that does not suit her. She is in such a critical position, and her abilities and ideas do not match. I am afraid that she will bring disaster to Xumi again.

Although Tinari admitted that the previous treatment of the Faith Court towards her was inappropriate.

But the compensation for her is definitely not to force her into that position afterwards, let alone to let her change her perception of herself and regard herself as another person.

Little Auspicious Grass King - or rather, Nashida could understand Tinari's thoughts as a matter of course. Mind-reading was a natural ability for her, so even if the two were communicating across the void, Nashida could still do it. It would be better to say that through the void, Nashida could "see" Tinari's inner voice more clearly. The more she explored Tinari's thoughts, the more Nashida doubted her future. It was true that she did regard the former Grass God as her goal, but she definitely did not want to graft that person's reputation and deeds onto herself, distorting her own cognition to continue her will, not only to make her beautify or even forget the experience of being imprisoned for the past few hundred years, but also to make her continue to be prepared to sacrifice for mankind like the Great Kindness Tree King before -

Although it is not that easy for humans to repeat the mistakes of the Red King.

But she definitely didn’t want to think of herself as the Great Kindness Tree King.

In that case, her little wishes and self accumulated over hundreds of years would be nothing in such cognitive modification.

So after a long silence, she just looked at the ranger with furry ears and said, "Regarding the issue of the Great Compassion Tree King, I need to meet with your friend, Mr. Tinari, before discussing it in detail. However, I will try my best to gain control of the void as you asked me to do. However, even if I do, I will not be able to maintain this status quo for too long. You should know the reason, Mr. Tinari."

Of course, Tinari understood that.

Even though five hundred years have passed, this new god is still so weak, not to mention that the Doctor is now cooperating with the Order. Even if Nashida can really seize all control of the void from them, the Order and the Doctor will definitely react and forcefully control her body, or even directly use physical methods to destroy her. At that time, everything will be over.

Although it's only from Nashida's perspective.

Tinari couldn't help but wonder.

As for Shen Zhigui, he might not care about Nashida's life or death, because his purpose seemed to have nothing to do with the young and fragile god in front of him. Although to be honest, if the little auspicious grass king in front of him was unwilling to accept such a future, it seemed that he could also use it to persuade the great compassion tree king, but Shen Zhigui...

Tinari thought that the man had always been talking about the Great Compassion Tree King. Although he was not sure where Shen Zhigui got the information from, he swore that the Great Compassion Tree King was not actually dead. But if that was true, after solving the problem of the Doctor and the Council of the Church, the disagreement between the new and old generations of gods -

It's unlikely to be a problem though.

If the Great Kindness Tree King could really be resurrected, the existence of the Little Auspicious Grass King would naturally be dispensable.

Therefore, Shen Zhigui did not need to care about the life and death of the little auspicious grass king. Even if things developed to a certain point, Tinari found it hard to believe that Shen Zhigui would continue to worry and be afraid to take action. He would rather believe that if the doctor was really desperate and used the void to control the people in the city to threaten Shen Zhigui, Shen Zhigui would not care and would still do his own thing. Although they had not known each other for long, the young man had left such an impression on him.

But he came to save Xumi.

So you can't let this little auspicious grass king help you seize control of the void and then let her sacrifice herself, right?

Therefore, Tinari prepared to go back and discuss with others to agree on a suitable time, intending to attack them by surprise and catch the Church of the Lords off guard. Even if there was no way to completely defeat them and stop their plan to create gods for the time being, they could first rescue the little auspicious grass king and then make long-term plans. So after the two of them discussed in the void, they just let the little auspicious grass king continue to lie dormant, and Tinari prepared to contact people for reinforcements.

But when Tinari turned off the transformed void and walked out of the darkness into the sunlight, he saw a man wearing a mask on his face and a cloak on his back walking towards him with a faint smile on his face: "Sir, you should be Tinari, the famous genius scholar of the Life Theory School who the Ministry of Education has invited many times but failed to invite? How come you have time to come to Xumi recently?"

Tinari's heart suddenly started to ring with alarm bells:

Why is he here?

Had he intercepted the information stream of his conversation with Little Auspicious Grass King?

Chapter 134: Five Colors of Rare Light in the Sleeve (Part 1)

Of course, the person who came was the doctor.

Tinari didn't believe that this man, who had previously been able to control Seno's body through the void to demonstrate to Shen Zhigui, would not recognize him now, so he said directly: "Why are you being so hypocritical?"

"Because I really feel sorry for you. Why would an academic genius like you stubbornly oppose me based on old moral ethics? You and I could have joined hands to create a new era, but we have to go to opposite sides just because of this small issue of stance. I have to say, this is a very regrettable thing."

"A small question of position?"

Tinari's eyes suddenly turned cold:

Although it was not a reasonable choice for him to confront the man head-on at this time, the disagreement between the two was downplayed by him as a small issue of stance. Tinari was immediately furious, but before speaking freely, he looked around and tried to find a chance to escape. Unexpectedly, the man opposite just smiled and shook his head: "Don't waste your time. With your current strength, even if it's just a slice of me, it's enough to deal with it. If you were brought here by Shen Zhigui, maybe I would be cautious, but if it's just you, there's no need to struggle. I only value your academic talent. As for your personal strength, I don't take it seriously."

Tinari took a deep breath and said, "It sounds like I should feel honored to be valued by you?"

The doctor just stood there playfully, like a cat playing with a mouse, neither nodding nor shaking his head, but the aura emanating from his body was as sharp as the edge of a sword, spreading out, as if someone was pushing the tip of a sword straight into Tinari's brow inch by inch, forcing him to concentrate all his attention to watch and fight. In this situation, Tinari couldn't help but feel that even breathing began to become difficult, but he still forced himself to calm down and said to that person:

"But can you really guarantee that creating a new artificial god will definitely solve Xumi's problem? And for such an illusory hope, people like you will certainly sacrifice countless lives in the process to achieve your goal, but the final product may not be able to complete the mission of saving Xumi. Xumi has made such a great sacrifice, but it is just a stepping stone for you to achieve your own personal goals. You tell me that this is just a small issue of stance?"

The doctor just listened to Tinari quietly, and finally said: "But if the difficulty of solving the problem of Demon Scale and Death Domain is '8', then creating a new god is just starting from zero to one, and the subsequent process is just a simple repetition of this initial process. And you said that I made Xumi pay such a great sacrifice. Does it mean that the number of people who died from Demon Scale and Death Domain from ancient times to the present is small? If the problem of Demon Scale and Death Domain continues, this number will only become more and more, and these mediocre and incompetent people living in this world are just wasting their time. They can evolve useful data in this great experiment. No matter how you look at it, they should thank me."

"sophistry!"

Tinari took out his longbow, quickly drew the arrow, and aimed at the doctor's forehead. The power of the grass element quickly condensed into an arrow, and then shot towards him like a meteor.

In the end, the man casually pinched it with two outstretched fingers.

He just stood there and chuckled: "I've already said that your personal strength is really not that impressive."

Tinari's attempt was useless, so he immediately reached out and crushed the transformed void that was originally fixed on his forehead. Although he didn't want to keep the call record between him and the Little Auspicious Grass King on it, this void had been transformed. If he was captured by the doctor, the other party would definitely find out something through this void, but his current behavior didn't seem very appropriate -

Even the doctor began to think:

"Oh, so the first thing you did after realizing that you had no hope of escaping was to crush your own Void Device? What did you do with that Void Device before? It seems that your Void Device did not leave any corresponding records, so was it modified? Since you ran to this place to use that kind of thing, then the purpose should be..."

The doctor's eyes roamed around, and Tinari couldn't help but feel troubled by this man's sharpness, but for now he could only continue to draw his bow and shoot arrows at the man like a meteor shower, trying to distract his attention through this behavior, or even kill him directly. However, the man strolled leisurely under the torrential attack created by Tinari, without any pressure at all, and the emphasis of his words was still the same, revealing an unspeakable arrogance in his calmness:

"The more anxious you are, the more it proves that my idea is correct. So what you did before was actually to contact that little auspicious grass king and try to take back control of the void through her, right?"

The man pondered for a moment and continued, "Speaking of which, the birth of a new god must indeed be baptized with the blood of the old god. Recently, the Ministry of Education has been overwhelmed by the matter of the desert people, resulting in a shortage of manpower for subsequent experiments. I almost forgot about the existence of that person, and you just reminded me."

It’s over.

Tinari suddenly felt completely hopeless.

Even the action of drawing the bow became a little weak.

The doctor seized the opportunity at this time. With a wave of his hand, a trail of frost suddenly appeared out of thin air. The fierce cold wind carried the moisture in the air, making everything in the place it passed covered with a layer of white ice. This cold air rolled towards Tinari like an avalanche. The coldness surged towards Tinari from all directions. Even before Tinari's body felt the arrival of the cold air, he felt that his soul began to freeze and the flow of thoughts stopped.

But this situation does not seem to be caused by the doctor.

Because out of the corner of Tinari's eye he saw signs of lightning in the clear, cloudless sky!

The lightning, with a brilliance that dazzled Tinari, gradually connected the distance between heaven and earth, gradually approached his direction, and finally exploded in his ears. Immediately, the turbulent and conflicting elemental forces drove away all the chillness around him!

Chapter 115: Five Colors of Rare Light in the Sleeve (Part 2)

A moment later, Tinari heard several deafening thunderclaps in succession, accompanied by blazing lightning that made everything near and far pale. The lightning exploded around him, and the landing point formed a certain erratic trajectory, but in the end, the person who controlled the lightning obviously grasped the target, so in the chaotic lightning elements that overflowed to the point that Tinari felt that the hair on his body was about to stand up, it took him a long time to adapt to the bombardment of sound and flash. Finally, at the end of his sight, he caught a glimpse of the dark figure of the doctor half-kneeling on the ground. At this time, the man actually had the energy to look somewhere in the air:

"This is impossible!"

"What's impossible?"

The boy's erratic voice came from somewhere in the sky.

"How on earth did you manage to control the Heart of God with a purely human body?"

The doctor forcibly extended the life of this slice of himself and asked about the boy's whereabouts. This was both an attempt to delay time and a real hope that the boy would respond.

After all, from the doctor's perspective, the more he utilized the "void" system created by the Grass God's Heart, the more he felt that the power contained in an object like the Heart of God could not be controlled simply by the human body. He could certainly rely on his understanding of the "void" to drive the people of the entire city to work for him, but that was just a simple manipulation of the body, not a complete manipulation of those people's wills, not to mention letting those people wholeheartedly exert their strength for his use. Even if he did the latter, he could still feel that that was not all that the Grass God's Heart of God could do. In order to reach that level, he had to put part of his consciousness or all of his consciousness together with the Heart of God into the body he created using the technology of reverse cracking the body of a scattered soldier.

But the young man in front of him was too efficient in utilizing the element of lightning.

So the doctor subconsciously felt that Shen Zhigui was using the power of the Heart of God in his hand.

He didn't think the news that the Heart of God was in the hands of the Eightfold Son of God was true. After all, there was no reason for Shen Zhigui to hand the Heart of God to the care of that priestess who didn't look very good at fighting. As for the fact that the priestess was originally a follower of the Thunder God, he simply ignored it. After all, the Thunder God was obviously reborn because of this young man, and the follower of the Thunder God hadn't pulled her out of the Pure Land for hundreds of years. In the eyes of the Thunder God, it was naturally obvious who was more important between the two, and their strengths and weaknesses were even clearer.