Reading poems from Teyvat

If the banned martial arts books given to him by the system in the past were mostly because there would be many risks in practicing, the banned books given by the system recently were mostly to tempt Shen Zhigui to trample on his own principles and turn him into a person who would do anything for power.

And the shortcuts provided by these banned martial arts books are frighteningly fast.

Apart from anything else, if Shen Zhigui cultivated to the third level "Gu Xuan", Teyvat is so big, there would be no place that he couldn't go.

At that time, he wouldn't even have to care about being hunted down by the law of nature. As long as everyone he saw was planted with the seed of "Mysterious Energy of Life and Death", he could hide at will.

But this method...

Shen Zhigui shook his head secretly:

It's really too weird.

"what happened to you?"

Keqing was standing aside, and seeing that his expression was very strange, she asked.

Shen Zhigui really didn't know how to explain his situation, so he just answered perfunctorily. Keqing obviously saw through his perfunctory attitude, and until now, he and Shen He had not let go of each other's hands, so the girl turned her head away, not wanting to talk to him anymore.

When Shen Zhigui saw her like this, he could not help but realize that if he really did that, would the Lord of Yuheng Star still tolerate him? But if he went to the point where he was hunted down by the law of nature, Liyue probably wouldn't tolerate him either, right?

Unless you can fight back against justice.

No, wasn't my goal from the beginning to overthrow all existence, including the laws of nature?

So this kind of future doesn't seem as scary as imagined.

Thinking of this, Shen Zhigui seemed to relax a little, so he let out a long breath, and then he noticed that his hand was being held tightly by Shen He, and even at this time, a lot of sweat had appeared on his palm, so he wanted to separate it, but after pulling it a few times, it didn't move at all, so he had to pat Shen He's hand, but Shen He looked at him calmly and said, "If you don't hold on tighter, you will fall."

"Not anymore."

Shen Zhigui just said.

"but……"

"Besides, if I fall, I still have the wings of wind."

"Puch..."

Shen Zhigui immediately turned around and saw Wendy, who was laughing secretly with her hands covering her mouth: "What are you laughing at?"

"No, nothing." Wendy immediately pretended to be serious and quickly changed the subject. "Come to think of it, you always said that you were also a bard. Now that you have done such a big thing, don't you have any inspiration?"

Shen Zhigui just thought about it, and then started singing:

"How many roads does a person have to walk?

"To be called a real person

How many seas must a white dove fly across?

"To sleep in the dunes

"How many times must the arrow fly across the sky

"Can be banned forever

How many years does a mountain stand?

"Before it can be washed into the sea

“How many years do some people have to exist?

"To be free

How many times must a person turn his head?

"You can pretend you didn't see anything

How many times does a person have to look up

"To see the sky

How many ears does a person have?

"Only then can I hear the cry of those behind me

“How many lives will be sacrificed?

"To know that too many people have died

"The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

“The answer is blowing in the wind.”[1]

Note [1]: Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind”. The first line of the original lyrics can also be translated as “How many roads must a man walk before he can be called a man”. There is a similar pun in “The Lord of the Rings”, but it is more appropriate to translate it as “real people”. The “cannonballs” in the original lyrics are also changed to bows and arrows here, which is more in line with the Teyvat worldview. Finally, it must be said that the author was only in his twenties when he wrote this song.

Chapter 1: Epilogue ()

Years later, as Barbara stood in the Cathedral of West Wind to take over as Cardinal, she would remember that distant afternoon when the dragon flew across the sky and hovered over Mondstadt.

At that time, Mondstadt was in the midst of internal and external troubles. The Fatui continued to create disputes outside, trying to bring Mondstadt under the rule of Winter and change the faith of the Mondstadt people to the Winter Queen. More than half of the elite knights of the Knights of Favonius were also pulled away by Captain Falgar to participate in the expedition, so the whole of Mondstadt became unprecedentedly weak. Her sister Jyn, who served as the acting captain, had been working diligently day and night, but she could never relax her frowning brows, until that day, the Dragon of the East Wind awoke from the ruins of the Wind Dragon, flew again in the sky of Mondstadt, and announced its return with a roar.

Although Barbara was not very clear about Mond's current situation, after seeing this scene, she was sure that her sister's frown could indeed be slightly relaxed.

At that time, she could see that the Dragon of the East Wind was hovering above the Cathedral of the West Wind. Soon after, several small black dots fell from the sky, and then quickly enlarged. Then most of them stretched out their wings of wind halfway, slowing down their falling speed. Only a girl in a skirt fell headfirst into the wind. When the girl fell to a certain height, Barbara saw a flash of lightning, and then she saw the girl in the light and luxurious silk short skirt plunged a sword into the ground, half-knelt there, and quickly stood up neatly, drew a beautiful arc with a sword, and then stood there like an immortal in the legend of Liyue.

This scene made Barbara's eyes widen, and she couldn't help but applaud this heroic girl of the same age.

And those people followed closely behind and landed one after another, so Barbara soon discovered that her own sister was among those people. In her opinion, a young man who had not yet gotten over the shadow of a broken heart was humming an unknown ballad, and the young man in green standing next to him took out a harp after landing and accompanied him.

Barbara listened quietly for a moment and could only roughly make out that this was a ballad against war. The boy's clear and bright voice combined with the soothing melody reminded people of the breeze in the autumn morning. Although the lyrics had a profound meaning, they did not sound heavy or sad in the boy's mouth. He just casually hummed this poem that was destined to be sung everywhere, as if to comfort the sleeping people who were about to face a nightmare.

"Um, Mr. Shen Zhigui——"

Barbara really couldn't imagine why someone like Shen Zhigui would be involved in Tevarin's awakening. In addition, she hadn't spoken to her own sister for a long time, so in order to satisfy her curiosity, she had to call out to the boy who could perhaps be called a friend.

Shen Zhigui, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and looked at her.

"Why did you get down from the Guardian of the East Wind?"

"Oh, it just takes us back to Mond."

"Then why did it send it to you?"

"Because its wound has been healed, and seeing that its leader Qin has recovered, hopes that it can continue to stand up and protect Mondstadt, so it uses this posture to announce its return to those who secretly have ill intentions towards Mondstadt, which may include us. If there is any abnormality between me, Lord Yuhengxing and Shenhe, it will be ready to shake us off and swallow us in mid-air..."

Shen Zhigui immediately made up a set of rhetoric that seemed very logical.

"You're joking."

Qin immediately pressed her forehead and interrupted the boy's nonsense with a headache.

And Barbara actually looked at the boy with suspicion.

After all, why would the people from Liyue go to the Wind Dragon Ruins if they had nothing to do?

So at this moment Qin couldn't help but wonder if their father had protected his own sister too well and couldn't even tell the truth from falsehood in such words.

Although it was outrageous that this young man could so easily make up stories that were unfavorable to himself.

He was clearly singing that kind of song before.

Qin was about to come forward to explain the truth of the matter, but she heard the boy whisper to her: "I don't want to be targeted by the Fatui now."

"but……"

It's just to heal Tevarin, there doesn't seem to be any reason for the Fatui to target you, right?

Qin said secretly in her heart.

And after what you've done to the lady, how could the Fatui let you go?

But she turned her words around in her mouth for a few times, and finally chose to respect the boy's wishes and did not continue. She just said that Tevarin did not mean that. But between the lines, she also admitted that Tevarin did need to make such a gesture to deter those who secretly harbored ill intentions towards Mond.

Barbara was confused, but still felt a little guilty for doubting Shen Zhigui's intentions, so she apologized to the boy. Although Shen Zhigui was not unaware of Barbara's nature, at this time he couldn't help but wonder if his reckless behavior was a bit too much.

But he soon put this little thought behind him.

Because Wendy was already clamoring to go to the pub to celebrate.

But Keqing felt that she was a little redundant.

After all, she didn't put in much effort during the whole process, and she was just acting as bait.

Shen He also doesn't like noisy places like pubs.

So at this time, the two of them actually said goodbye tacitly, and just stood there watching the two young men walk arm in arm towards the best tavern in Mond.

After a short rest, Eula had recovered some of her energy. Besides, she was quite fond of drinking, so she followed them. After hesitating for a moment, Jyn also followed. After all, no matter how you looked at it, Eula needed someone to take care of her. If she got drunk in the tavern, the two boys wouldn't know where she lived. Besides, they were of the opposite sex, so there would always be some inconveniences. Jyn also needed to make nice with them so that there would be a reasonable explanation for Tevarin's return.

Of course, both Shen Zhigui and Wendy felt that this kind of excuse could be easily used to fool people.

Neither of these two people was essentially used to dealing with Jean's businesslike tone.

Although Jean is not such a boring person in private, as the acting leader of the Knights of Favonius, she will probably always show this side of herself in front of outsiders. Her personal relationship with these two people is not that deep, so naturally she can only adopt that attitude to deal with it.

On the other hand, Eula, who had gotten herself drunk as soon as she arrived at the tavern, had already begun to take off her mask.

Chapter 2: Epilogue ()

This plump and drunken daughter of an old noble family, but not in reality, poured wine in dissatisfaction and said to Shen Zhigui: "Although you did a good thing, which is a great contribution to Mond, you made me run around for so long that I haven't had a good rest until now, so I won't acknowledge you easily."

Her words immediately made the drinkers next to her feel even more disgusted with her.

Because what she said sounded like she didn't want to dedicate herself to Mond at all.

It turns out that all of these descendants of the old aristocracy have bad intentions.

Although these drinkers didn't know what Shen Zhigui had done.

But seeing that Captain Qin also came over and kept thanking the young man, it was obvious that the young man had indeed done a good thing.

"As you wish."

Shen Zhigui just said it casually.

He also knew that what he did was not good in Eula's eyes.

"I will acknowledge you only if you drink this glass of wine with me."

But Eula quickly revealed her drunken and unreasonable nature, raising her glass to the boy.

But Shen Zhigui obviously didn't believe the drunkard's nonsense, so he didn't care and just discussed the accompaniment of the song "Blowing in the Wind" with Wendy. Seeing that he ignored her, Eula slapped her wine glass on the table in dissatisfaction and said, "Did you hear what I said?"

"I don't think I particularly need your recognition, do I?"

Shen Zhigui really didn't want to get entangled with someone who was obviously getting drunk, but he still said it.

After all, the ice and snow martial arts issued by the system are either martial arts that create grand scenes like "The Vast Sea Covered with Hundreds of Feet of Ice", or martial arts that are not used for the time being like "Shine on My Heart Full of Ice and Snow". In the short term, since he already has "The Sky Is Full of Heaven" but has not studied it thoroughly, he actually does not have such a great demand for more martial arts. Of course, it is best to have more, but that does not mean that he will give up his principles for something with too low a probability -

Although he is not completely teetotal.

But now, agreeing to a drunkard's drunken words always made him feel like he was being fooled.

"You can obey the orders of the famous families of Liyue, but do you disdain the famous families of Mondstadt?"

Eula's drunken words immediately came out of her mouth.

Shen Zhigui immediately rolled his eyes: "This has nothing to do with any famous family, right?"

Although I feel like a loser when I start talking nonsense with a drunkard like this.

"But why can she become one of the Seven Stars of Liyue at such a young age and be loved by people like you, while I can only suffer the cold stares of Mondstadt people all the time, even though I have done nothing wrong!"

"In fact, I don't really love Master Yuhengxing that much..."

Shen Zhigui had no choice but to avoid the main point.

"You're lying! Seeing how eager you were to find her, I knew you just didn't like her on the surface! In fact, if she asked you to kneel down and lick her feet, you would be willing to do it, right?"

Shen Zhigui thought carefully about his performance at the time, and immediately wondered how the captain of the guerrilla squad of the Knights of Favonius could see that he was anxious? At the beginning, he just wanted to fish! As for the last sentence about licking feet, Shen Zhigui simply ignored it, so he just responded absentmindedly: "Even if it is, so what?"

"So you're doing all this hard work just to gain political capital for her, right?"

Youla said in shock.

Shen Zhigui looked at the adult woman with a completely rosy face and a completely blurred look, wondering if this was her true words or if she was the same type as him who would say whatever she thought of. But didn't she usually use grudges to cover up conflicts? Why did she say such a heart-breaking thing in this situation? Was it because she had been suppressing it for too long?

Qin, who was sitting on the side, was stunned when she heard Eula's shocking words, and then she couldn't help but look at the boy with a little suspicion.

Seeing this, Shen Zhigui immediately said, "Even if it is, so what?"

"But I think that Yuhengxing doesn't seem to be very willing to accept your kindness? She didn't even come to the celebration party. It seems that she wants to distance herself from this achievement."