Reading poems from Teyvat

Who made him so curious whether he could fleece the system twice from the same person?

Of course, he didn't think he would lose from the beginning.

After all, with his speed, he could also use the cheating kite style of play like Keqing. From the very beginning, both of them were actually invincible to some extent. The only difference was that Ningguang's invincibility was that she would not suffer any loss if she lost, while Shen Zhigui's invincibility was that he would never lose, or it would be difficult for him to lose.

"If you think this is really unfair, I can add another condition. How about that?"

"what?"

Shen Zhigui couldn't help but say:

"why?"

Ningguang simply said, "If you can defeat me, I will unconditionally agree to complete one of your orders. How about that?"

"Why would you go to such lengths to do this?"

Could it be that she really has some hidden card that she hasn't revealed yet?

Is it the Qun Yu Pavilion?

Can she fully control the magic circle she has set up in this castle in the air and deliver a winning blow at the critical moment?

Ningguang simply added confidently, "If your theory is true, even if I lose, you are still willing to give me orders, which proves that you are not as extraordinary as you think. I can use this to find your weakness—"

"Isn't it too early to say that?"

What if I have to use that order to make you do something dirty?

"I believe that you will not do anything that would embarrass Yuhengxing too much."

What does my order to you have to do with Keqing?

Shen Zhigui couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, but then he thought about the reputation of the Liyue Seven Stars, and he really couldn't issue an order to publicly humiliate this man. As for him using this order to satisfy his own selfish desires, wasn't that exactly what she wanted?

Although Shen Zhigui is indeed not a saint who has no desires or demands.

So he pondered for a moment, and finally nodded. At the same time, he noticed that fluctuations of elemental power began to emanate from various hidden places in this huge building. It was obvious that the Tianquan Star in front of him was mobilizing enough power to deliver a winning blow to him, thus completely bringing him under the control of this system.

Chapter 9: Cuihua Imagines the Empty Mountain (Part 2)

In fact, if Shen Zhigui were to think from Ningguang's perspective, he would probably also take this gamble.

Because it seems like a big bet, but in fact it is just a means of pulling. After all, someone has to consider the reputation of the Seven Stars of Liyue. In addition, he is originally a friend of Yuheng Star. The order he issued is too humiliating to Ningguang, which will damage the political reputation of Yuheng Star. Although if Yuheng Star knew about this bet, she would most likely participate in it and let Shen Zhigui transfer the ownership of this order to her.

But once Shen Zhigui loses the bet and is willing to work under her, she can use Shen Zhigui to win over those immortals. Maybe then she can really turn the cornerstone of the rules she has woven into something else she can control, thus breaking away from the Rock King and truly making the shadow of her power spread across the continent of Teyvat.

Her chances of winning don't seem too low.

In Shen Zhigui's view, the Jade Tower, which embodies almost all of her hard work, can be regarded as the "Gundam" she created in a sense. Although its maneuverability is a bit poor, she obviously does not expect a castle in the sky to have any maneuverability, because small-sized enemies do not need the Jade Tower to track them, and large-sized enemies obviously only need to press the self-destruct button "2887" at the critical moment to knock down the entire Jade Tower.

Although in fact, she already had that opportunity.

It’s not that Shen Zhigui fell in love with her at first sight and wanted to work for her.

Rather, it meant that a certain guest official of the Hall of Rebirth was ready to let go, so whether she was willing to leave that cornerstone or not, she had no choice.

But now, sensing the elemental forces flowing like blood vessels in the Jade Pavilion, Shen Zhigui couldn't help but feel a little frightened, but he still stood there condescendingly and said, "The call for elemental forces can't be made on a larger scale, right?"

"But according to the three elements of victory that you mentioned to Yu Heng Xing, isn't it that I am stronger than you right now? And I can also use my advantage to limit your speed. No matter what, I am more clever, right?"

The hem of Ningguang's cheongsam fluttered in the wind. She just stood there calmly, controlling the elemental forces surging from all parts of the Qun Yu Pavilion as if they were her own arms. She made those rock elements press towards the young man standing on the roof like a tide, and even Shen Zhigui felt that the heaviness in the air was about to become substantial. Even breathing became difficult, as if there really was a huge mountain that was about to fall down on all sides of him, turning the place where he was into an inescapable cage, a real Five Finger Mountain.

Shen Zhigui just smiled:

"So-called strength and weakness are always relative."

He was still leisurely waiting and tapped the sword again, causing the weapon, which looked like some peerless sword, to emit a clear sword chant.

"Oh?"

"An army of 20,000 peasants is unlikely to be able to defeat 5,000 well-trained cavalry in actual combat."

“Your Excellency’s intention is to say,” Ningguang quickened her movements and asked, “that the power that your martial arts can mobilize is far more refined than the rock element that I can control with external objects?”

At this time, the rock elements surrounding Shen Zhigui had become so dense that the topaz-like luster was almost condensed into substance. As long as Ningguang changed his mind slightly, these rock elements would be squeezed towards the center with the young man as the center, and become substance in an instant, thus completely trapping him in that place.

"What I mean is that in the existing elemental power system, the rock element is indeed the element with the strongest sense of boundaries."

Shen Zhigui just said.

This is indeed one of his recent insights.

According to his recent observations, among the seven elements of Teyvat, the wind element has the weakest sense of boundaries, and is also the most similar to "true qi" in nature. Therefore, Shen Zhigui can easily learn the technique similar to "Thousand Miles Sound Transmission" from Wendy. Of course, due to the limitations of his own spirit, he is unable to control the true qi that is transmitted out of his body for such a long distance. Even if he attaches the "bird" differentiated from "Fish and Birds in the World Fly and Sink" to the true qi that is transmitted, the true qi will still be consumed in the process of transmission, so it will dissipate after transmitting for a few kilometers at most. Wendy's control over the wind element has obviously reached perfection, and he can even make the wind element that transmits the message cross the thousands of mountains and rivers between Mondstadt and Liyue.

The reason why he mentioned this was because in his opinion, among the seven elemental forces of Teyvat, the simplest one to achieve "conversion between virtual and real" is the rock element. Among the remaining elemental forces, even the grass element requires the cooperation of other elemental forces to quickly produce grass seeds, and the wind element simply does not have the option of converting between virtual and real.

Therefore, Shen Zhigui's Qi martial arts system is in a similar situation to the wind element.

Therefore, when facing these holders of God's Eye of Rock Element, he was actually quite passive.

Although to be honest, no matter which holder of the Eye of God he faced, he would be quite passive as long as he did not seize the initiative.

But he still has a trump card.

"A sense of boundaries?"

Ningguang was like a cat playing with a mouse, and was not in a hurry to attack Shen Zhigui. Perhaps it was because she had already won the game, and she probably wanted to promote Shen Zhigui's martial arts in the future, so she couldn't help but take the opportunity to find out Shen Zhigui's thoughts:

"what do you mean……"

"The 'virtual-real conversion' of the rock element is simpler than that of other elements, and in a sense, the 'virtual-real conversion' has already approached the realm of creation."

"good fortune?"

Ningguang heard the boy continue to say those terms that she didn't understand, so she said: "If you want to use this method to delay time, it will only make me mobilize more and more elements, and make your situation more and more difficult."

"But if I didn't have the confidence to deal with the rock elements you have mobilized, I would have just jumped down from the beginning."

"Then should I thank you for giving me the opportunity?"

"No, I should thank Lady Ningguang for giving me the opportunity."

Ningguang suddenly didn't want to continue this conversation, so she waved her hand, and then the rock elements surrounding the boy suddenly turned into entities, and they rushed to where he was standing like living things, trying to trap him there. But in an instant, Ningguang sensed a withered, dilapidated, desperate, and dark aura erupting with the boy as the center, turning everything touched by the aura into inky ashes!

Chapter 10: Cuihua Imagines the Empty Mountain (End)

"The sky is high and the underworld is low" is indeed worthy of being the core martial arts that governs the entire "Song of the Sky and the Underworld".

Even if we put aside the improvement of Shen Zhigui's internal energy, the "life" and "death" created by this martial art are of infinite use. Even if Shen Zhigui himself is a little extreme and has begun to choose to use killing as a means to improve himself, even if he has not reached the stage of "Tongyou Mingtong" at the moment, the accumulated "life" and "death" are enough for him to run rampant in Teyvat. Even if he met an opponent of the lady's level at the beginning, as long as he seized the initiative, he could use the burst of "death" to win in an instant!

And right now Shen Zhigui is doing the same thing.

He attached "death energy" to his body, but isolated it with "life energy", so his whole body was like a drop of ink immersed in the originally clear pool, quickly infecting the rock elements around him into a pitch-black color, so Ningguang lost control of those rock elements in an instant, and could only watch those elements turn into ashes and fall, drifting in the wind. The young man was like a nimble fish, and in an instant he passed through the tide formed by the condensed elemental force and arrived in front of him!

If it were before she mobilized the entire elemental power of the Jade Pavilion, Ningguang would not be helpless. However, she used her own elemental power as the key to pry open the entire system. Now the key has been embedded in the door lock and integrated into the entire system. Obviously, it is not easy to pull out. Comparing the two situations, her current control over the rock element may be far more majestic than before, but it is also far less delicate. She can't even create a screen around herself like before.

Because if anything went wrong, she herself would be hit by the screen.

Therefore, Shen Zhigui's move simply verified the metaphor he mentioned before:

Twenty thousand militiamen may not be able to match five thousand elite cavalry.

Because the militia's organization was far weaker than that of the 5,000 well-trained elite cavalry.

Noticing that the edge of the sword in the boy's hand still retained that dark aura, the boy did not actually press the sword against her skin, but just kept a distance from it. However, even so, Ningguang could still sense how overbearing and cold the aura of death attached to the sword was, as if the god of death himself had come to the world and was reaping lives with his sickle.

"You win, Mr. Shen Zhigui."

Ningguang sighed slightly, but soon raised her face and spoke gracefully.

"Concession."

Shen Zhigui retracted the sword in his hand, and at the same time condensed the "death energy" he released into a line, then he pointed his sword and locked onto a flying bird from a distance. Ningguang could see that the light gray aura in the boy's hand instantly broke through the air and attacked the bird. After hitting the bird, the bird didn't even have time to scream. Its entire body instantly fell into the water like mud and sand. Its external shape was washed away, and black dust flew away. The remaining skeleton fell straight down.

Ningguang then realized what the consequences would be if she was contaminated by that aura, so she took a step back with lingering fear.

After all, as a woman, she absolutely did not want to see her originally beautiful face turned into that horrible appearance.

Although she soon realized that she was showing too much weakness in front of Shen Zhigui.

But Shen Zhigui is not having an easy time now.

Because the "life" and "death" in his body need to be balanced.

Therefore, he had to transform the excess "vitality" into "death energy" in order to regain the original balance. He had to circulate the Qi in his body. Otherwise, once the "vitality" completely overwhelmed the "death energy", his body would continue to grow indefinitely. He might become like the dead prince Godwin who was stabbed by the black knife in "The Ring of Elden", and his entire body would turn into a huge indescribable thing.

As for why he didn't take the "death energy" back into his body, it was not that Shen Zhigui didn't want to, but he couldn't do it. Because once the "death energy" was released, it would have been separated from his own physical and spiritual framework and contaminated by external elements or something else. If he took this extremely dangerous toxin mixed with unknown "foreign objects" back into his body, any mistake could affect the circulation of his true energy. Shen Zhigui was not willing to seek death to this extent.

So now he just stood there, silently closing his eyes and regulating his internal energy, and Ningguang just stood there and looked at him silently. Baiwen, who was standing next to him, couldn't bear to see his immediate boss and life idol being neglected like this, so he wanted to step forward and scold him, and even wanted to wake him up, but was quickly stopped by Ningguang.

If at this moment the young man were to emit the same aura of destruction and death, Bai Wen's fate would definitely not be good.

After a long time, Shen Zhigui opened his eyes.

Then he saw a line of transparent words flowing across his vision:

"The fourth move of the "Sword Art of Mountains and Rivers" has been released in the empty mountain."

Shen Zhigui immediately breathed a sigh of relief:

So, is it possible to fleece the system twice from the same person?

Although he didn't know how to defeat an opponent like Zhongli, he could just take advantage of him.

Not to mention, he still hasn't understood the "Jade Fortress Floating Clouds Change into Past and Present" that the system rewarded him with after getting his recognition, not to mention how much road he has to go through to reach the level where he can defeat that person. As Zhongli is one of the best demons in Teyvat, he can almost be among the strongest. If he can defeat him to the extent that he can, then he should be able to compete with the Maintainer of Heavenly Justice, right?

But he shook his head:

These are still too far away.

It’s so difficult to defeat Ningguang, so I don’t know how long it will take to be able to defeat Zhongli.

It’s better not to aim too high for now.

Although Ningguang, who owns the Qun Yu Pavilion, is in some sense not comparable to the ordinary holders of the Eye of God.

So, doesn't it mean that I can be sure of winning when facing ordinary holders of God's Eye?

"Sir Shen Zhigui, what are you thinking about? Are you savoring the afterglow of victory? Or are you thinking about how to use that order?" At this moment, Ningguang's face was not unhappy at all, she just smiled sweetly, as always, "What I said before still counts. No matter what order Sir Shen Zhigui wants to give me, I will do my best to complete it.

"Whatever the order is."

She emphasized this sentence word by word. Although there was a smile on her face, her expression was firm and unquestionable. Even if Bai Wen next to her wanted to stop her, she just said this to the boy.

Chapter 11: Explaining the Infinite Hate of Spring Breeze (Part 1)

Shen Zhigui hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Then I'll go discuss it with Yuhengxing."

Ningguang could only smile helplessly: "Why do you have to do this?"

"Didn't you say, Lady Ningguang, that I wouldn't do anything that would embarrass Lady Yuhengxing? Then wouldn't it be better to discuss it directly with her?"

"Do you really like that Master Yuhengxing that much?"

“This doesn’t count as love, does it?”

Shen Zhigui said.

It's just bad fun at best.

Ningguang took another careful look at the young man in front of her and said, "But you like her to this extent, why don't you choose to stand with her and take the path of change she hopes for, but think it would be better to maintain the status quo?"

"I've already said it, that doesn't count as love," Shen Zhigui said helplessly, and then added, "And didn't you say it? She just thinks she's mature, but in fact she doesn't understand the public's thoughts at all, and she may not even be able to recognize her own innermost thoughts."

"But you've already done this much for her, don't you still like her?"

“I don’t think this is anything special.”

"That only proves that you think your current level of love for her is not enough."

Shen Zhigui couldn't stand the atmosphere of both sides talking to each other with their own logic, so he shook his head and said, "I say, Lord Tianquan, you don't have to worry so much about whether I really like Lord Yuheng, right?"

"But if you don't like her, why do you choose to stay in Liyue?"

After all, from Ningguang's perspective, rather than really believing that this young man was a traveler from a foreign land, who was originally an ordinary, powerless bard and who had been reborn in just two or three months and became what he is now, it would be better to believe that he was actually a revived demon god who was gradually recovering his memories and gradually gaining control of his own power. That is why he could make such great progress in such a short period of time. Even she, who had mobilized the Jade Pavilion, was not his opponent. Although he looked harmless now, what if his self was gradually transformed into the demon god of the past by those revived memories and powers, and thus caused unrest in Liyue and brought down natural disasters?

Although this speculation is too shocking.

Moreover, he has a good personal relationship with those immortals.

If he was really like that, then those immortals wouldn't be able to see it, right?