Reading poems from Teyvat

Although this doesn't seem surprising.

At least this person probably also knew that her dream of spreading her power throughout Teyvat through Morax and the Jade Pavilion was probably just a fantasy. Although she was a Celestial Power Star in Liyue and could use her power at will, this was ultimately based on Morax's indulgence of the Seven Stars of Liyue. If it were somewhere else—

It doesn't seem like it would be that bad.

After all, Mondstadt seemed to be like that. Wendy was simply too lazy to take care of things. Inazuma was also in chaos before. Didn't Lei Yingying allow the Tianling Bugyo and Kanjo Bugyo to collude and do whatever they wanted? As for Xumi, without the interference and control of the Little Auspicious Grass King, if this Tianquanxing was placed there, he might have climbed to a high position in the Church Order Institute early, and then started to transform her Qunyu Pavilion into an artificial god...

Even if she could indeed climb to the highest level of power in each country, she still could not bypass the gods and radiate her power to other countries, because this world, after all, is what it is today because of the gods. Her ambitions can only remain dormant in the shadow of the gods, and there may never be any hope of realizing them.

"So, the contract is sealed?"

At this time, Ningguang suddenly said.

Chapter 12: Spring Birds and Autumn Insects Make Their Own Songs (Part 2)

Seeing that Ningguang wanted to take the opportunity to finalize the situation, Shen Zhigui just shook his head and said, "If you really decide to give up your current power to pursue that possibility, then you only need to report the information about my martial arts to the emperor. He will naturally make a judgment later. Even if he chooses to expel me at that time, you can still continue to travel with me, right?"

Ningguang's eyes suddenly lit up:

"So, if you are really expelled, and I am willing to stand by you, are you willing to teach me everything you know?"

It is probably not realistic to teach everyone everything you know.

Shen Zhigui just thought.

Anyway, it is unlikely for him to teach martial arts such as "All fish and birds in the world fly and sink" and "The sky is high and the underworld is low". Without these two martial arts as a prerequisite, martial arts such as "Floating clouds in the jade fortress change the past and present" and "Life is like a dream", even if he teaches them, others will just be unable to understand them as if they were reading a book written in heaven.

Although the possibility of him and this Tianquan star being exiled to a foreign land is too low.

No matter what, if Zhongli still wants to continue to create such incidents to test Liyue and is ready to retire, he will not choose to expel Shen Zhigui. Although Shen Zhigui's existence does have the possibility of turning Liyue into the second Kanreya, if Teyvat always lingers in the shadow of the struggle between heaven and the abyss, in fact, every country has such a possibility. In comparison, if Shen Zhigui can now find a foothold under the shadow of those two existences, then wouldn't it be better for him, the Liyue Rock God who is praised as the God of War, to join forces with Shen Zhigui to defend Liyue?

So when Shen Zhigui heard her say that, even though he knew clearly that there was no possibility that he would be expelled from Liyue, he still nodded.

When Ningguang saw him like this, her flawless red ruby-like eyes suddenly lit up. After thinking for a while, she just said, "I thought that given your friendship with Yuhengxing, if you were really expelled by the Emperor, you would take her away at all costs. I didn't expect that Young Master Shen would choose me. Should I feel extremely honored?"

This isn't what choosing you means, is it?

Although no matter how you look at it, Shen Zhigui just took her words of traveling with him as a joke.

Anyway, he felt that this was too outrageous. Why would Ningguang, who had already climbed to that level on the ladder of power, risk everything to go into exile with him for his one-sided words and an illusory possibility? Even if he really would teach her everything, had she not thought about the adaptability of her, a pampered Tianquan Star, to his martial arts system? What if she couldn't break through the bottleneck of martial arts by then, and her progress was far behind those who only practiced a few basic martial arts? Not to mention, the Great Compassion Tree King of Xumi had already allowed the spread of martial arts, so no matter how he looked at it, Morax would not ban the spread of martial arts in Liyue.

"So, Young Master Shen, do you think that this is just an excuse I use to get closer to you?"

Is not it?

After all, there is a saying that adding icing on the cake is not as good as helping someone in need.

It is obviously better to support him when his future is uncertain than to praise him when he is shining.

But Ningguang just said:

"But you also said before that Xumi became like that because the World Tree was polluted by the forbidden knowledge brought out from the bottom of the Abyss by the Red King. That's why the people there have the devil scale disease, and the death zone was born there. So it was originally the front line of the struggle between the Abyss and Heavenly Law. The Great Kindness Tree King may not be blind to the hidden dangers of your martial arts system, but as the front line facing the Abyss system, even if she clearly knows that your martial arts system is poison, she must drink poison to quench her thirst, because the Great Kindness Tree King is the legendary omniscient existence after all. Maybe if she is given some time, plus the hope brought by your martial arts, maybe she can find a way to solve the problem of forbidden knowledge? But Liyue does not need to make such a gamble, and the Emperor probably won't plant such dangerous seeds for his country."

Shen Zhigui immediately raised his eyes to the smiling lady who was sitting not far away with her legs folded together, faintly revealing the snow-white skin of her thighs: "It sounds like you seem to hope that I will be expelled?"

Ningguang thought about it and actually nodded.

"why?"

"Hasn't your Excellency already said it? It is better to help someone in need than to add icing on the cake."

She said as a matter of course.

Shen Zhigui didn't know whether he should complain about her for being too casual with the power he had obtained, or complain that even if he was expelled, he would still be a guest of honor in other countries. Of course, Zhidong might not be at that level yet, but if he went to Inazuma, he might have an impact with the two sisters all day long, and might even drag the pink-haired fox into it, and might not mind her business...

cough cough.

Although Ningguang didn't know what Shen Zhigui was thinking about, his unnatural expression clearly betrayed his psychological fluctuations. She thought he was actually thinking about her previous question. After all, no matter how you look at it, the person he was most reluctant to leave in Liyue should be the Yuheng Star who was about the same age as him:

"So, if you were really expelled by the Emperor, what exactly do you think of her?"

"Who?"

Shen Zhigui didn't think about it for a moment and just asked.

"Yuheng Star, Keqing."

Ningguang was just saying.

"If she does, she certainly won't be willing to leave with me, right?"

Shen Zhigui just said that.

Although he did feel that the person he couldn't let go of the most in Liyue was Keqing, in the final analysis, Keqing always put her career first. She was definitely not the kind of person who would give up her career and run away with Shen Zhigui regardless of everything just because of personal feelings. Although in fact Ningguang was similar to her in a sense, Ningguang sometimes had more selfish motives than public-spirited ones. She might just think that if she gave up her position on Tianquan Star now, she would be able to make a comeback in Liyue faster after learning something under his guidance in the future, so she said so readily that she was willing to go into exile with him. But Keqing always put Liyue's country first. If it weren't for chance, I'm afraid that workaholic would never have a suitable lover in the end. Even if there was one, it might not be able to withstand her attitude -

Although this assumption doesn't make sense now.

Anyway, at this point, he couldn't choose to let go.

So now he just continues to get along with Lord Yuhengxing.

Chapter 13: I Meet You Again in the Time of Falling Flowers (Part 1)

Regarding Shen Zhigui's response, Ningguang didn't know whether to say that he was deeply in love with Yuhengxing, so even though his martial arts skills had reached the current level, he would still carefully consider her feelings and choose to take her mood into consideration; or should she say that he was too carefree about his interpersonal relationships, he and that person had obviously reached this point, but if the two had to separate, he could still calmly make such a decision and let Yuhengxing leave freely without making any effort to save the relationship.

Although it is also possible that he was too optimistic and felt that the Emperor would not expel him no matter what.

It is more likely that he is no longer concerned about the gains and losses of a "mere" Yuheng Star, as he claimed before, because he is involved in ambiguous relationships with multiple women at the same time.

However, from what Ningguang saw, the aura of detachment from the world that lingered around Shen Zhigui was indeed becoming more and more erratic, so no matter what choice he made at this moment, it seemed that he was destined to side with the immortals, to withdraw his existence from this troubled world, and to settle down in a place far away from human habitation.

Although she did not actually hear the boy's confession of his feelings like Keqing did on the moonlit night when they met again, and knew that his goal was to build his utopia and pursue his so-called poetic life, but strangely, Ningguang could sense that the boy in front of her did not care much about certain desires, at least not as ambitious as her. Although he was actually far more qualified than her to fulfill her ideal of weaving a network of power around Teyvat, Ningguang even felt that as long as Shen Zhigui had this idea, he might not need to use his martial arts to achieve it.

She couldn't say why, but she just felt that way.

This person may have been wasting his talent from beginning to end.

Although Ningguang could not guess what he was seeing at his current level, the threats he had to consider, and the compromises he had to make, his current state made Ningguang feel like she had no idea where to start. It brought the two of them closer to each other, allowing Ningguang to glimpse the nearly infinite possibilities in him, making Ningguang feel that her ideals had never been illusory, and allowing her to find a stable place in her heart, just like the Qun Yu Pavilion, although it was indeed gorgeous and powerful in the eyes of outsiders, instead of floating in the air all the time.

Although such an idea seemed to be too weak, it did not have the momentum that Tianquan Star should have.

But the person in front of her is indeed the most ideal example of her "infinity".

Although he himself does not seem to have any ambitions at all, recently he seems to want to withdraw his existence from normal society and escape to the mountains.

Mora was useless to him, and he didn't care about the power of Tianquan Star. It seemed that the only bargaining chip she had left was -

Ningguang watched the young man go away. Her gloved fingertips suddenly brushed across her well-maintained face, then she hooked a lock of silver hair beside her cheek and wrapped it around her fingers. After playing with it for a long time, she sighed softly, "The moth is covered with golden threads of snow willow, and the smile and fragrance are gone..."

Who is looking for whom, and who is it that suddenly looks back and finds the person they are looking for at the end of the street where the lights are dim?

Although if they really had met at the Sea Lantern Festival, the boy at that time was obviously just an unknown and down-and-out poet. If she could find the boy who had been watching her silently in the dark from the crowd at that time, could she have approached this person as a matter of course later without having to let him go to Yuheng Star to join forces? Even if he did have this or that prejudice in his heart, it would be better to say that he actually had this or that thought about that Yuheng Star, but they could still get together like they did?

Although if Shen Zhigui heard her inner voice, he would definitely say that there had never been such a possibility.

Because he copied this poem just to fleece the system.

However, perhaps it is because this poem is indeed a timeless phrase. Even though Shen Zhigui no longer cares about it now, the impact it caused can still stir up ripples of loneliness deep in people's hearts, making people wonder whether such a night really existed, making people feel regretful and wanting to make up for the missed encounter.

"Speaking of which, after the Immortal Invitation Ceremony, the Sea Lantern Festival is coming soon..."

Ningguang looked out the window. Although the distance she could see from this high-up castle in the sky did not actually include Liyue Harbor, all she could see was the endless picture of the sky and the sea merging into one, and the outlines of the mountains faded by the clouds, her mind had already drifted to the streets below Liyue Harbor, wondering how this Lantern Festival should be held.

The secretaries who came in later did not suspect anything when they saw Ningguang's look. Although they felt that Shen Zhigui was too arrogant, they estimated that the negotiation between the two had broken down. Lady Ningguang just loved talents too much, so she was just regretting that the man chose Lord Yuhengxing instead of her. So someone immediately proposed to mobilize the power of Qianyan Army to give that man a good try to please Ningguang. As a result, Ningguang glanced at that person. Although she did want to let her do this matter at the beginning, even if she couldn't do it, the responsibility would be thrown on her head. But when she thought that the man's current level was definitely not something that could be controlled by such power politics, Ningguang lost interest, so she just waved her hand, downgraded the man's level, and continued to resume her usual work and handle official business.

After Shen Zhigui left, because the Jade Pavilion was now hanging high above the Moon Sea Pavilion, although it might not move to another place in the future, after all, with Shen Zhigui's current martial arts skills, she actually didn't need to smash the Jade Pavilion to deal with Osel, so Shen Zhigui jumped down from the current location of the Jade Pavilion, falling lightly like a maple leaf into the wind, and when she landed on the surface of Liyue Harbor, she was just near the Moon Sea Pavilion.

In fact, Yuehai Pavilion is an important place in Liyue, so when some Thousand Rocks soldiers saw him, they thought it was some reckless adventurer who used the Wings of Wind to break into such a place again. So these Thousand Rocks guards quickly gathered around, preparing to arrest him and detain him in the prison of the General Affairs Department for a few days to teach him a lesson. But Ganyu happened to be working in Yuehai Pavilion at this time. She only said that Shen Zhigui had urgent news to give her, so she evacuated the Thousand Rocks soldiers and stood there looking at the young man she hadn't seen for a long time.

Chapter 14: I Meet You Again in the Time of Falling Flowers (Part 2)

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Chapter 15: I Meet You Again in the Time of Falling Flowers (Part 2)

It must be said that although Shen Zhigui pretended to the doctor that when he had insight into time, space no longer had any secrets for him, in fact, he was able to travel through space with ease thanks to his knowledge of "Life is Like a Dream", but in essence, he had to set all the parameters, measure the distance and other corresponding factors like before launching a weapon before he could "launch" himself. Therefore, if the destination was within sight, it would be fine, but if it was from Liyue Harbor to the Layered Abyss like now, Shen Zhigui would not be able to measure the distance more accurately, because he still had not developed the corresponding means to expand his perception range.

So when he wanted to travel through space across such a long distance, the landing point was actually vague.

If he chose to move horizontally, he might find himself embedded in a mountain in the next moment.

Of course, for Shen Zhigui now, this problem is not actually a problem.

But who made him bring Ganyu with him?

Gan Yu originally thought that Shen Zhigui had only made some progress in martial arts, and felt that his speed had surpassed her, a half-blood Qilin, so in order to speed up, he held her hand, ready to take her with him to walk in the air and rush straight to the abyss like he did when he was fighting with Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun before. But she never expected that the next moment after Shen Zhigui finished speaking, the scene around them suddenly changed from the flat land near Yujingtai to the empty and cloudless clear sky, and the ground below seemed to have turned into a large piece of blurry watercolor!

Soon, the two of them were falling in the blue sky. The howling wind was whistling around them, and the severe winter cold was constantly eroding their temperature. Although Ganyu, who had experienced the war with the demons, had actually dealt with such scenes before, she suddenly changed from being down-to-earth to being in this empty and helpless situation. Ganyu instinctively grasped the boy's hand tightly, wanting to retain the warmth between them. She even forgot that her skirt was constantly fluttering in this situation.

Although this scene made Shen Zhigui think of the scene after he "cured" Tevarin.

How did Keqing, who was also wearing a skirt at the time, cope with it?

It looks like he falls headfirst, and then uses the thunder wedge to change his movement energy and position when he's close to the ground?

Shen Zhigui recalled a little and found that the Lord Yuheng's approach did not seem to be suitable for this half-blood Qilin. However, it would not be very elegant if he continued to fall like this, so he took the initiative to reach out and pull Ganyu closer to him, and then picked up the "True Lord Gulu Gulu Rolling Down the Mountain" who was said to be able to choke huge monsters to death, so that her skirt would not continue to float up. Although there was still a part of what she wanted to say, Ganyu reacted quickly and used her free hand to hold down her skirt. Although Ganyu's face was already red as if bleeding, she didn't know if it was her illusion. She only felt that the air around her became hot again, as if it was about to burn -

In fact, if Shen Zhigui had set the target higher so that they could stay in the air longer, their clothes might have really caught fire like a meteor falling from the sky. But soon they fell to the ground, and when they were close to the ground, Ganyu felt that their speed suddenly slowed down, or the air around them suddenly became as thick and sluggish as water. So she and the boy hugged each other and fell like two slowly falling petals. In the end, when the boy's toes touched the ground on a mountain silently.

After landing, Ganyu naturally turned her head and fell into the boy's arms, remaining silent for a long time.

Even until the young man put her down and let her stand up, she still felt as if she was floating in a dream.

To be fair, she had encountered similar experiences of falling from a high altitude before. Although the beginning was not as sudden as Shen Zhigui's, which caught her off guard, a similar experience did not mean that her mood would be similar to that time. At least at that time, there was no one like this young man around her, right?

Although in terms of age, the gap between the two of them can be said to be as huge as heaven and earth.

But perhaps she has always been unclear whether she is a human or an immortal, so she does not think that her mentality is as gloomy as those old people in human society. Of course, she does not think that Ping has become like those old people with that appearance. But every day when she looks in the mirror and sees that she is about the same age as a normal young human woman, and thinks of her confusion when she cannot find her place in human society even after staying for so long, and her heartbeat quickens slightly when she thinks of someone's words that are still ringing in her ears, she feels that the age gap is not as big as she imagined. At least someone has never looked at her strangely because of her age.

I even once gave him some guidance on a moonlit night when I had revealed my confused inner self.

Although it is very likely that this person is just a superficial person who only looks at the appearance.

But she didn't think it was strange to get closer to the boy because of her appearance.

Rather, this person never seemed to show any strangeness towards the pair of horns on his head, which he claimed were just decorations, and he even seemed to have a special liking for them.

Although she didn't know what she would think if she knew about the dirty thoughts in Shen Zhigui's mind, such as the steering wheel.

However, at this time, she was already a little dazed and seemed to have nothing in her mind. She just felt that such time seemed extremely beautiful, as if it could make people forget all worries and sorrows, so that she didn't have to persistently pursue her position in human society, nor did she have to force herself to become the so-called supervisor of this young man. She could even forget the contract she made with the Emperor and just wanted to be trapped in such a beautiful dream forever.

Although the previous sensory experience of going from severe cold to almost hallucinatory heat was not very good.

But after the young man supported her and she staggered a few steps, Ganyu, who had been holding down the corner of her skirt, suddenly thought of something: "Zhigui seems to like the way I am dressed now?"

Otherwise she wouldn't be so careful to maintain her image.

Chapter 16: I Meet You Again in the Falling Flower Season (End)

Although if Shen Zhigui could hear Gan Yu's inner voice - although he could actually hear it if he really wanted to, he was too lazy to keep that perspective open, so on weekdays he just kept the minimum senses of a normal human being, and even had to put in the effort to deliberately reduce the "image quality" and "frame rate", because under normal circumstances, he could even make his perspective almost perspective, observing the world he saw meticulously, and could directly ignore a person's clothes, skin, and even flesh and blood, and see the essence of that person, but he didn't suppress this perspective before because he still needed to climb the ladder of martial arts, but now he has no worries, and began to study how to turn himself back into a normal person.

Although Shen Zhigui, as a normal male creature, did feel that this ability was very useful when he first realized that he could see through things.

But as he kept using it, and saw that everyone on the street looked like that, he had a bit of the Buddhist feeling that color is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from color. Not to mention that it would be fine if the streets were full of beautiful women, but no matter which world it is, there are always ordinary people. As a senior face control, Shen Zhigui really has no interest in ordinary people. While maintaining this perspective, he always sees ordinary people, so even if Shen Zhigui does not consider that he is suspected of being morally corrupt by doing this -

Although it is questionable how much morality he actually has.

After all, a normal person probably wouldn't pretend to cleanse the sea ghosts for the sake of improving his martial arts.

No matter how high-sounding his actions may appear to be, he is essentially doing it to satisfy his own selfish desires.

So to be honest, he has actually been a morally corrupt scum for a long time.

But even if he admitted that he was indeed a scum, he definitely didn't want to be a scum who became a monk and had no interest in women, even though according to some theories, it was better to have no such desire than to have it. Just like if he hadn't been addicted to Coke in his original world, he might have saved a few hundred dollars a month, thousands a year, and in ten years -

Although he followed his original lifestyle and habits, he didn't think he could live for more than a few decades.

But he did not feel that he would be happier after he lost this desire, because after all, people are creatures who can only become happier after they have desires and their desires are satisfied. Although he always said before, "It is better to forget each other in the world than to help each other in times of need", for him, the tide that always makes him linger in the world is a kind of fun, and this kind of fun will fade if his perspective becomes like that. By then, the world in his eyes will probably become a monotonous and lifeless portrait.

So now Shen Zhigui is not willing to continue to "leap" his perspective upward.

So he really couldn't hear Ganyu's voice now.

But even if he heard it, he would probably just complain that Ganyu's original outfit of black stockings and one-piece clothes was actually unnecessary to maintain, right?

……

Not far from where the two fell, Keqing was reviewing the files of the staff who were still in the Abyss.