Reading poems from Teyvat

Although the Great Compassion Tree King also said that he could directly let Shen Zhigui establish a new faction in the Academy of Teachings to teach his martial arts.

However, Shen Zhigui was definitely not a good teacher. He had no interest in managing students, and had no hobby of teaching and educating people. So he obviously had little interest in this proposal and directly rejected it.

When he made this decision, the Great Compassion Tree King who came to see him off did not seem too surprised, or rather, she seemed to have anticipated this day would come. She just stood by the roadside and asked Shen Zhigui how long it would take him to complete his journey and when he would return to Xumi.

"To be honest, even if I want to go back, I will go back to Liyue, not Xumi, right?"

Shen Zhigui, who thinks he is a Liyue person, just said that.

“But didn’t you say that you wanted to make Xumi’s forbidden knowledge a false signpost? Since a signpost is a signpost, it has to be established to be meaningful. But if Xumi is completely conquered, it will not just be a signpost. Maybe it will endanger Liyue as well, right?”

“That’s a reason.”

Shen Zhigui still spoke absentmindedly.

"Besides, you advised me to do this, so please take responsibility."

"If you want, you can go back to the World Tree and ask your sister to delete your existence. At worst, I can help her back up her memory. As long as she deletes the part about the existence of forbidden knowledge, she can definitely continue to become Nashida!"

Shen Zhigui was obviously not someone who could be easily persuaded.

The Great Compassion Tree King thought about it, and for a moment she was actually a little moved, so she looked at Nashida who was standing not far away. But in the end, looking at this peaceful intersection, and the tall cities and endless wilderness at both ends of the intersection, looking at this peaceful world, she finally shook her head and said, "Although rationally speaking, I should actually agree with what you said. After all, if Nashida can continue to be Nashida, she should get more status and power to compensate for the suffering she suffered in the past."

When Nashida heard what the two said, she carefully pulled the corner of the king's clothes, raised her head, and looked at her pitifully. Seeing this, the king shook his head and said, "But now, I am a little reluctant. After all, I can see the corresponding hope now, although that hope does not seem to be willing to be held by me. Not to mention, in comparison, Nashida seems to need to be taken care of more, rather than being elected as the leader of a country and shouldering such a heavy responsibility. She should be more carefree."

"If you really want to say it, as long as the seeds I planted take root and sprout, can't you always hold on to that hope?"

When Shen Zhigui heard her say that, he glanced at Nashida, and Nashida's face showed a look of relief, so he said.

"But before a seed grows into a towering tree, it is always at risk of being destroyed by a storm. Not to mention, you only have two seeds left." The Great Compassion Tree King turned his head to look at the two students he had accepted, thought for a moment, and said, "However, you seemed to have said that the holder of the Eye of God can also learn your martial arts?"

Shen Zhigui nodded.

"Can I do that too?"

"In fact, it might be more appropriate."

After all, when he taught martial arts to Zhongli, the other party's speed of getting started was almost as fast as his own. Although in comparison, Lei Dianzhen's progress was not satisfactory, but if compared with Dina Zedai's progress, Shen Zhigui felt that she was indeed progressing rapidly. Although Shen Zhigui was not sure whether Lei Dianzhen was pretending to be him, if one had the knowledge of a god, it would be easier for him to get started than a normal human, right?

Chapter 6: Epilogue ()

If Shen Zhigui had to carefully control the spread of his martial arts in the past so as not to attract the attention of Heavenly Law, then of course in reality, if it were not for someone like Zhongli who was originally called a "Martial God" practicing martial arts, no one could catch up with his progress in a short period of time. And even if it was Zhongli, if he did not practice ultimate core martial arts such as "The Sky Rises and the Underworld" or "The Jade Fortress Floating Clouds Change the Past and the Present", the limit he could reach with martial arts such as "The South Mountain in the Morning Snow is Jade Rocks" would probably not be enough to make Heavenly Law go to great lengths -

Although he has not yet taught the martial arts such as "The Heavens and the Underworld" to others.

So even if the Great Compassion Tree King studied the martial arts he taught to great effect—

When Shen Zhigui thought of this, she became a little uncertain: if she could use those martial arts to study to a certain extent, she might be able to reproduce or even deduce techniques that are better than those core martial arts. Although this would take a very long time, by the time the reorganized Xumi Academy of Teachings really used these as research topics to produce results of this level, Shen Zhigui might have already ascended to heaven.

Although Shen Zhigui didn't quite understand which world he would ascend to after his ascension to heaven.

However, he naturally did not need to be as cautious as before, so the spread of Qi martial arts was left to the Great Compassion Tree King to decide whether to organize elite personnel or to have the whole nation practice martial arts. Anyway, with his current realm, it would take hundreds of years for later comers to catch up with him with those martial arts. Although Shen Zhigui had thought about releasing martial arts such as "Fish and Birds in the World Fly and Sink" and "The Sky Is High and the Underworld Is Low", but looking at these with his current eyes, he could not help but find that these martial arts were indeed tailor-made for him in a sense. Others might not be able to learn these martial arts even if they chopped off most of their bones, so Shen Zhigui could not help but start to ponder the origin of the system again.

Although he could now jump out of time and space, his vision was still not long-term or detailed enough. So although he had some guesses in his heart, he finally put this issue aside for the time being.

So now he just waved his hand, and then walked towards the direction of Yae Shinto and his companions who were already waiting impatiently at the front of the road.

By the way, a certain yellow-haired traveler has become friends with those Lanaros during this period, and has also discovered the traces of her relatives from the Great Compassion Tree King. Now she has actually discovered the fact that her brother is involved with the abyss. Although she doesn't quite understand why her relatives are involved with the infamous Abyss Cult, her own position is actually not so clear-cut between good and evil. So after learning this fact, of course, she didn't think about killing her relatives for the sake of justice, but to take her brother and run away, leave Teyvat, and continue to move on to the next world.

Although different destinations lead to different levels of difficulty, if Shen Zhigui really wants to randomly travel to the next world, he can actually do it now. But Shen Zhigui is still a little curious about how this brother and sister broke the barriers of the world, so he can't help but want to pay attention to what the ending of this golden-haired traveler and her brother will be.

However, that seems like a very distant thing, right?

Although her journey had actually been greatly accelerated by him.

Just as these boundless thoughts flashed through Shen Zhigui's mind, the Great Compassion Tree King suddenly pulled his sleeve. Shen Zhigui turned his head in confusion, and then saw the gentle and amiable face of the Great Compassion Tree King suddenly approached him, and said in a voice as soft as the breeze in Shen Zhigui's ear: "I heard Nashida say that you seemed to have asked my name?"

"That's true," Shen Zhigui simply said, "Are you going to tell me your name?"

"Of course, the previous name only has meaning to the people in the past, and most of my old people are dead. I heard that the Emperor of Liyue didn't seem to continue using his previous name, but changed to a new one, so I was wondering if it would be better to use a new name?"

The Great Compassionate Tree King still only spoke in a whisper.

Although according to Shen Zhigui's previous belief, a name is part of his bloodline, a symbol and sociological significance given to him by his ancestors, but the Great Compassion Tree King does not seem to have any ancestors, so he cannot say that there is anything wrong with her changing her name casually. Anyway, as she said, her past names were only meaningful to those people in the past, and now those people are almost dead. If she can always recognize that she is still the same person, then the name is just a symbol, and she can change it however she likes.

"So what's your new name?"

Although Shen Zhigui was actually more curious about her previous name.

However, the other party clearly did not want to mention the past, and Shen Zhigui was of course too lazy to delve into it further.

"So what name do you think would be better for me?"

"I'm not from Xumi," Shen Zhigui said casually, "How can I know your naming habits?"

"What about Liyue's naming convention?"

"Don't you think it's very inappropriate for a Xumi person to be named Liyue?"

"But I heard from Miss Eula that if one day she decides to give up the surname Lawrence, she might give you the right to choose a new surname. Will you really give her a Mond-style surname at that time?"

"She never really thought about giving up that last name, did she?"

Although she was indeed very shaken now, Shen Zhigui thought about it carefully. Thinking of her recent attitude changes, and thinking about how he had said before that he could teach her martial arts, but she had been content with the status quo recently, Shen Zhigui was not sure what she was thinking for a moment. However, if Shen Zhigui really had to decide...

Shen Zhigui couldn't help but have a headache.

"Is the matter about Miss Eula not that urgent yet?" At this time, the sound of breathing nearby reached his ears. Shen Zhigui came back to his senses and heard the Great Compassion Tree King continue to say, "Although my name is not that urgent, if Mr. Shen has a suitable one, you might as well say it."

Shen Zhigui looked at the face in front of him, which was so close and so different from the one in Lei's movie, and was filled with a warm and gentle divinity. Thinking of her origin, a name really came to his mind at this moment, so the corners of the lips on that face slightly raised, but the eyes still looked at him like water: "Mr. Shen, have you thought of it?"

Shen Zhigui hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Daoyun."

Although it is hard to say whether the World Tree can be called Tao.

But this name is surprisingly suitable for this grass god who grew from the tender branches of the world tree.

"The body of 'Dao Mie'?" The Great Compassion Tree King just pondered for a moment, and finally smiled and said, "Then, what's your surname?"

"Wood? Or forest?"

"I prefer Willow."

"whatever."

Shen Zhigui felt that this was a bit too frivolous, so he didn't take it seriously and just turned around and left. The Great Ci Tree King just stood there quietly and watched him go away. His posture was almost the same as when he said goodbye to Lei Dianying in his memory.

Then Shen Zhigui shook his head.

Chapter 130: Epilogue (End)

After that, Shen Zhigui's journey was quite unremarkable.

His martial arts had reached this level, and his destination was Winter Solstice. Although he did not intend to cause trouble, he had already killed several Fatui officers. Although the Doctor did not completely gather all his slices on the body of the artificial god, he was now no different from a scrapped being. After all, he was the only slice left, and he could not adapt to the leap in perspective brought about by his ascension to the godhood. This kind of "knowledge" was too heavy for him now, and he could not continue to act before finding a solution.

As for Rosaline, although she did not openly break with the Fatui, her current state is that she only follows orders and not announcements. Although the Queen of Winter has always been quite laissez-faire towards her subordinates, the Fatui is at least a tight organization, and a tight organization must always have corresponding responsibilities and affairs handed over, and Rosaline has been almost out of contact recently, so the Fatui are also wondering if she was seriously injured in the conflict with Shen Zhigui and has been holding on, or if she can no longer suppress her original injuries and therefore there has been no news.

After all, to be honest, Rosaline has been in the Fatui for hundreds of years. No one would doubt her loyalty, and no one would doubt her ideals. Although the various executives of the Fatui are actually quite difficult to describe, it is actually normal for them to mock each other. There are also many people who take advantage of the miserable situation of the Doctor. As for the scattered soldiers and the young master who have already died, in fact, not many executives expressed sympathy.

Of course, Tartaglia's cheap master did think about avenging his disciple.

But when this person saw Shen Zhigui who had entered the Winter for the first time, she realized that Shen Zhigui's current state was as perfect as the Queen of Winter herself, and it could even be said that he was better than her. Although this level of strength was far beyond her ability to predict, facing the young man was in a sense equivalent to facing the abyss. So after hesitating for a moment, she chose to give in during the meeting, as she was inevitably a little angry when she accidentally heard the news of her cheap apprentice's death.

But from what Shen Zhigui had seen, among all the people he had met in this diplomatic mission of Solstice, only this person was clearly quite dangerous and hostile. He had never seen anyone similar among the rest. The Fatui's high-level officials seemed to have no intention of testing Shen Zhigui. Even the Solstice Queen had never shown up from beginning to end, but had just handed over the negotiation matters to the corresponding bureaucrats. Shen Zhigui, who had been looking forward to seeing the true appearance of the Solstice Queen to verify whether she was as similar to the character in another game as the legend said, felt a little disappointed.

However, Yae Shinko's diplomatic negotiations went quite smoothly.

I think Solstice never thought that the Thunder God would be willing to trade the Heart of God. Besides, Solstice was indeed in the wrong for what the Fatui did in Inazuma, so the conditions she negotiated were quite generous. Although Yae Shinko privately suspected that the conditions Solstice came up with would not last for a few years, based on their practice of infiltrating other countries to obtain the Heart of God, I am afraid that once they have collected all the Hearts of God, the relatively stable situation will be completely disrupted. By then, if Solstice succeeds in what they want, all the conditions agreed upon will have to be renegotiated. If they fail, even if the fate of Solstice is not like that of Kanreya before, I am afraid that they will not be able to continue to maintain the conditions agreed upon.

So this is actually a case of getting something for nothing.

However, Inazuma knew that this stable situation could not last for a few years, and finally signed the treaty.

"There's no benefit in continuing to waste time."

Lei Dianzhen just said that at that time.

Of course Shen Zhigui also agreed with this statement. The Heart of the God of Thunder in their hands was of no use anyway. No matter whether the Queen of Winter was going to collect it to deal with Heavenly Law or the Abyss, success or failure would have an impact on the Inazuma under their rule, but it was better than continuing to confront Winter for such a useless thing to them. Winter would continue to infiltrate Inazuma and cause sabotage because of the Heart of God. Although Lei Diany could handle it, he had to choose the lesser of two evils. Rather than handing it over for such a useless thing, it would be better to exchange it for benefits, even if the benefit was only temporary.

Although at the time of signing the contract, it seemed that whether it was the representative of Zhidong, Yae Shenzi, or even Shen Zhigui, they all had a strange premonition. Even at that moment, several people exchanged glances, and finally sighed at the same time, and then suddenly smiled at each other.

After finishing this matter, the Eightfold Son of God went back directly, while Shen Zhigui wandered around and finally completed his geographical survey of Teyvat. In fact, he finally completed the observation of the void and fulfilled his "destiny". Although when his destiny was fulfilled, he didn't actually have any strange feeling of enlightenment, he just felt that his connection with this world had become very strange -

If you say it's tight, it's not that tight.

But if you want to say they are distant, now almost all human beings in the world are his retreat. As long as anyone has retained memories of him, he can use the "destiny" buried in these people's bodies to form a "ladder" from the metaphysical realm to the physical world, so this relationship cannot be called distant at all.

But no matter what, after Shen Zhigui completed this journey, although he felt that his martial arts had indeed improved, he also felt that the difficulty of integrating all martial arts and completing the ultimate leap in his realm had greatly increased.

"Although it seems that he still has a lot of time to waste, so there is no need to rush."

Shen Zhigui gently tapped the emerald jade sword in his hand, causing it to emit a crisp sword chant. He shook his head, turned his gaze towards Liyue, and then looked at the sky, which seemed infinitely far away yet infinitely free to him. He could not help but feel an indescribable sense of comfort in his heart, but he only spoke softly and recited a few lines of poetry that were neither appropriate to the mood nor the scene:

"Go home, why don't you go home when your fields are about to be overgrown? Since your eyes and mind are enslaved by your body, why do you feel sad and lonely? Realize that the past cannot be changed, but the future can be pursued. In fact, you are not far from the wrong path, and you realize that what is right today is wrong yesterday."

Although to be honest, he doesn't have any land in this world, and even the place that can be called a fixed residence is actually Keqing's home.

However, it is indeed time for him to go back.

Chapter 1: There are always romantic fools in the world (Part 1)

When Shen Zhigui set out on his journey home, the weather had turned cold and winter had arrived. Although Shen Zhigui actually didn't quite understand how the geography of Teyvat was calculated, when he thought of the methods that Venti used to transform Mondstadt's climate, he suddenly became too lazy to spend time thinking about it. After all, in a world where gods exist, it is better to think about the thoughts of those gods and the historical events of the time rather than the natural environment of geography and climate.

In this way, he could understand the current state of Teyvat. Although, if he wanted to build his utopia, he would probably have to transform the external climate conditions like Venti did. To achieve this, even if martial arts moves such as "A Hundred Feet of Ice on the Vast Sea" could indeed create a scene of "Thousands of Miles of Ice and Tens of Thousands of Miles of Snow" in the hot summer, it would only be temporary. If he wanted the climate to operate according to his intentions permanently, he would either have to build permanent fortifications or make modifications in a more metaphysical field. To do that, he would first have to transform Mondstadt like Venti did...

Seeing that Shen Zhigui began to stare into the void in a daze again, Eula, who was traveling with him, was not surprised.

Recently, after escorting the chief priest of Narukami Shrine to complete the negotiations between Inazuma and Zhidong, a certain person did not choose to return home with the chief priest. Although in fact, Eula had no idea where that certain person's destination was, even though she herself knew that if that certain person were to choose a country in this world to settle down, the most likely place should be Liyue. After all, that was where his legend first began. During her time in Liyue, Eula had actually inquired about it secretly. Although a certain person had always claimed that he was a bard and his hometown was the so-called "Zhendan" which was not known whether it really existed in a corner of this world or was just something he made up, Eula did not find any of his earlier deeds and works, as if this person had jumped out of a stone out of thin air.

Although this is not worth making a fuss about.

Rather, after witnessing with his own eyes the progress of this young man from being a little afraid of ladies to now being able to be compared with real demons, and thinking of the miraculous origins of those demons, like the two generations of grass gods before and after Xumi were indeed grown from the tender branches of the world tree, it is much more reasonable for him to do this.

But no matter how you look at it, judging from the attitude shown by this young man, if he really had to choose, he would indeed choose Liyue.

Although it is hard to say what Liyue's Geo King's attitude towards him is.

It is hard to say what his attitude towards the Rock King is.

Although this person is indeed the disciple of the True Lord Liuyunjiefeng, wasn't that True Lord Liuyunjiefeng defeated by this person in a direct battle and never expressed his opinion on his casual attitude towards life again? Moreover, during that time, these people seemed to be planning something in secret. Could it be that this person was actually planning to return to Liyue to overthrow the rule of that emperor and usurp the throne?

It was her impression that a certain person had always been able to interact with those gods with ease, and even the problems of the two generations of grass gods before and after Xumi were solved by him - although to be fair, according to Shen Zhigui, the issue of Xumi was not actually resolved, it was just covered up, but as long as the struggle between the Abyss and Heavenly Justice was not decided, or as long as he could not kick Heavenly Justice and punch the Abyss, he would not be able to solve the problems of the Dead Realm and the Demonic Scale Disease from the source - but Eula thought about it carefully. In the countries where he had in-depth interactions, the attitude of the Wind God could be ignored, as he didn't care much about the matter anyway. But the Emperor of Liyue seemed to have never appeared.

So, he really has this plan?

Youla looked at Shen Zhigui a little hesitantly.

Although at this time, she was the only one walking on the road with the boy.

As for the yellow-haired traveler and her emergency food, after leaving Xumi, they went their separate ways and chose another direction to continue her journey to find her relatives. When Shen Zhigui left Zhidong and wandered around the remaining two countries, Eula, who followed him, met the traveler again in Fontaine, and the speed of the other party's improvement in strength made Eula a little dumbfounded again:

Therefore, these self-dissections with mysterious origins seem to be the result of the continuous investigation of the Qin Temple paper.

She seems to be a traveler herself, so why can't she make such progress after gaining more knowledge?

Although Shen Zhigui did teach her some of his martial arts recently.

But to be honest, people like her who hold the Eye of God are at most just borrowing his martial arts to extend their own perspective. The foundation of the holder of the Eye of God has always been the elemental force controlled by the Eye of God. Of course, she can indeed cultivate true energy in her body through some method, but just like the situation that Keqing had to face a long time ago, the elemental force has to some extent been deeply involved in the life evolution process of the holders of the Eye of God like them. Although the lifespan of quite a few holders of the Eye of God is actually similar to that of normal people, it only shows that their evolutionary direction and degree of evolution are different. For example, didn't Rosaline evolve to the level of living for hundreds of years?

Although if Shen Zhigui had not used "The Heavens and the Underworld" to treat her, or if the Queen of Winter had not given her the blessing, she would not have been able to hold on.

The problem with Eula and Keqing is that, although their life evolution with the help of elemental force is not as advanced as Rosaline's, elemental force is indeed deeply transforming their forms all the time and diffusing throughout their bodies. If Qi wants to grow and become stronger, it will inevitably conflict with these forces of similar nature. They are not like Zhongli who can manipulate elemental force so finely that there is no trace of elemental force left in their bodies.

It is not something that ordinary gods can do to abandon their old divine bodies.

Not to mention that Eula and Keqing are not gods.

Therefore, they could only learn from Shen Zhigui's martial arts ideas instead of practicing them directly. In fact, even if they wanted to copy him, it would be just cutting the feet to fit the shoes. To a certain extent, only Shen Zhigui could achieve such a fast progress in martial arts. Although many prerequisites were actually provided by the system, without those prerequisites, a normal person would have gone crazy if he wanted to practice "the sky and the underworld" by torturing himself like Shen Zhigui did at the beginning. Even if he practiced by killing people, normal people might not be able to bear such a perspective.

Chapter 2: There are always romantic fools in the world (Part 2)

Therefore, even if Eula did learn Shen Zhigui's martial arts during the journey, Shen Zhigui did not hold back - of course, in reality, Shen Zhigui did not dare to teach others such a strange and forbidden martial art as "Fish and Birds in the World Fly and Sink". Although he was attracted to this martial art when he first saw it, and directly split his soul on the first day, but thinking back on it, Shen Zhigui felt that he was too bold and reckless at the time. If there was a slight problem in the middle, his situation might not be much better than that of the current doctor, so he did not think about spreading this truly forbidden martial arts book -

However, there is no problem in passing on martial arts such as "The vast ocean is covered with a hundred feet of ice" and "My heart is full of ice and snow".

In Shen Zhigui's opinion, the "Shine on My Arms Full of Ice and Snow" which had not been modified by him to invade the perception of others was actually more like a youth version of "The fishes and birds in the world fly and sink separately". Although the effect was not as good as "The fishes and birds in the world fly and sink separately", and the conditions for use were a bit harsh, and only on a moonlit night could the practitioner's thoughts be clearer and his spiritual perception more lucid, the good thing about this martial art was that it did not have the danger of splitting one's own soul like "The fishes and birds in the world fly and sink separately", although this kind of martial art of visualization and artistic conception had actually touched upon the high-end concept of "refining qi into spirit" to some extent.

Of course, at the entry level, it is not that high-end.

However, it is not so easy to let Eula use the ice element to replace the effect of true qi and let her enter the so-called "heart as clear as ice" state. After all, although true qi and elemental power are indeed similar in nature to a certain extent, they are not the same thing in essence. The specific and subtle differences can only be discovered by Eula herself, and Shen Zhigui has no experience of it.