Reading poems from Teyvat

"Traveler from a foreign land, why are you here?"

Lei Dianying woke up from eternal meditation, and slowly stepped down into the void. With a wave of her hand, the stalk of rice light from the reed was grasped in her palm. Then, with a cold face, she just stared at the boy who looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, and said in a deep voice.

Ever since he stepped into the pure land of one mind built by his own will, Lei Dianying became more and more aware of the aura of the young man that was incompatible with the whole world. This was not a subjective feeling, but an objective fact. Every wisp of air around him exuded a sense of alienation that was constantly repelling the world, causing the elemental force to flee from his environment which seemed too cold and too hot, like a firefly startled in the middle of the night.

The young man just smiled.

What made Lei Dianying feel strange was that his posture always reminded her of her sister. Although such an idea was too weird, perhaps it was precisely because of this inexplicable sense of intimacy that she did not attack him as soon as she pulled the boy into Yi Xin Pure Land, but questioned him first.

"Although there are many reasons, such as the instructions of the Eightfold God, someone's wishes and obsession, Inazuma's current situation, etc., my reason, the most important one, is to verify my idea." The young man did not give her time to react or think, but just looked at her straight and said, "How can a person touch the realm of God without changing his own nature?"

"This world is in such turmoil because there are too many people like you who are chasing after vain wishes without knowing the purpose!"

When Lei Dianying heard him say that, his eyes suddenly became even colder, and his pupils, which seemed to have thunder flowing in them, burst into a sharp and dazzling light, even making everything he saw melt away like snow encountering the scorching sun!

"Perhaps, but is what you are seeking really an eternal, isolated, static country?"

The boy just said.

"That's the way it is."

"But I don't think so."

The young man raised the jade sword in his hand in a pretentious manner and tapped the sword with his fingers. Then, the jade sword emitted a clear sword chant in this pure land, and the young man's words spread along with the sword chant:

"Your Excellency wants to create an eternal kingdom, so you hope that everyone in the kingdom can be at their own place. So you think they don't need wishes, they just need to work from sunrise to sunset and rest at sunset. So the rigid puppet you placed outside doesn't need to do extra things, just handle affairs according to the fixed process, so you can continue to meditate on eternity in your own pure land to avoid excessive wear and tear, right?"

"So what?"

Lei Dianying is ready to strike with his fastest and strongest sword.

The young man still stood there as if he didn't realize anything and spoke without thinking: "But till now, you don't seem to have gotten any answer from your meditation, do you? Or, you don't seem to have realized anything, do you?"

"That's because there are too many people like you, so Inazuma can't completely settle down!"

"But you haven't interfered with General Raiden's decision-making in the past few hundred years, so you don't need to care whether Inazuma is stable or not. After all, you want to get the answer from your heart, so you stick to the Pure Land of One Mind and meditate day after day. But if you need to observe Inazuma's current situation to get the answer about eternity, then it can be seen that you still need to observe the changes of all things in the outside world to understand the truth. But when Inazuma one day evolves into that isolated, static, eternal country according to your will, and the people living in it are like machines without souls, what truth can you understand from such a country?"

The young man looked her in the eye without fear:

"Eternal?"

"Exactly!"

Lei Dianying’s eyes became increasingly gloomy.

"But what's the meaning of such eternity?"

“Being close to eternity is the greatest meaning!”

"But what if you are really close to eternity? The emptiness in your heart still seems to be unfillable. It can be seen from your dull and cloudy pure land that you have not been able to get out of the shadow of losing your sister and friends for hundreds of years. So even if you really reach that illusory eternal realm, I don't think you will be satisfied," the young man's expression became absent-minded at this moment, and in the blink of an eye it became like stagnant water, but his words continued, "In this case, why don't you just abandon the memories and obsessions of your sister and friends? Even if you have feelings for the Eightfold Son of God, you can abandon them all. In this way, won't your heart gain eternal stability, and there will be no more unnecessary wear and tear?

"This method is much better than your self-righteous method, right? And if you can't do it, I can actually help you get rid of your emotions."

Chapter 87: There is no two suns in the sky (Part 2)

At this time, Lei Dianying, who was about to adjust her state and then use the knife to decide the outcome, suddenly became furious, because the matter of Lei Dianzhen was an untouchable reverse scale in her heart, not to mention that this person actually wanted her to give up her longing for her sister, saying that doing so would bring her closer to eternity. It was simply an unforgivable sin!

Rage boiled in her soul, so she no longer tried to control and restrain it, but let go of her control over the lightning element. In an instant, the sky and the earth were like a painting burning in a raging fire. Countless elemental turbulences were running back and forth between heaven and earth. Everything within sight was distorted, emitting dazzling and scorching light, and cheering for their masters. But the next moment, the brightest light and the noisiest thunder took shape in an instant, suddenly crossing the void. The distance between the two of them seemed only a few feet away with this step, and with her arrival, the lightning elemental flow between heaven and earth also gathered towards the thin figure like sea water pouring into Guixu.

Right now, she is the most extraordinary and terrifying incarnation of thunder in this world.

The lightning instantly submerged the thin boy.

It was as if countless mad dragons wanted to tear his body apart, devour his flesh and blood, and destroy his soul.

But at this moment, Lei Dianying only heard a clear sword chant.

How could he keep up with her speed?

Lei Dianying couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

But the next moment, she was even more surprised, because she found that the tip of the spear of Nagikusa no Inami in her hand could not move forward any further, and through the scorching lightning, the boy only raised the sword with his right hand and blocked the spear lightly! At this time, he even raised his other hand, then put his fingers together to form a knife, suddenly aimed at a certain place in the void, and slashed down!

So Lei Dianying felt that the "threads" connecting him with those lightning elements seemed to be swept by a strong wind and became tangled. At the same time, those lightning elements that were originally trapped outside a certain transparent barrier and had no way out also fled in all directions like a flock of crows swept by a storm.

This scene made Lei Dianying's eyes widen:

Although Lei Dianying roughly understood that this young man was a kind of brilliant warrior through his duel with the puppet General Raiden, what he showed in his previous duel with General Raiden was his speed, agility and a nearly perfect swordsmanship, so he was able to respond just right and then get stuck at the critical moment when General Raiden was about to use the sword. But at this time, she was purely relying on the power of the Thunder God and the majesty of the master of One-Minded Pure Land to overwhelm her. According to common sense, even if he could resist, he would never be able to do it to this extent!

How on earth did he do it?

"You seem weird?"

The young man swung the ancient jade sword in his hand, which was suspected to be the work of Morax, with his backhand. The sword carried an overwhelming force that was irresistible. Lei Dianying was so shocked that he was flung back with his gun.

But as soon as she landed, she stared at the boy, trying to find out his secret.

And that young man also seemed to have no scheming or scheming at all. Although his face still had the look of someone bidding farewell to a deceased relative, or like the dead man lying in the coffin, his every move revealed a casual absent-mindedness. He tapped his sword again and said, "But I have said before, 'the metaphysical is called the Tao'. You need to observe the process of Inazuma's evolution to find the road to eternity and know the truth of eternity. But now, as a mere mortal, I have achieved this level. Naturally, it is because I am ahead of you on the 'metaphysical' road and closer to the 'Tao' than you, although only to a part."

"Nonsense!"

Lei Diandian said coldly, and then turned into thunder again, constantly approaching the young man, but no matter how she rushed left and right, no matter her attack method was as pervasive as mercury pouring on the ground, or as untraceable as an antelope hanging its horns, the young man could always cope with it with ease. He was like a reef standing in the waves, no matter how the wind and waves pushed, he could always break through the wind and waves and remain as safe as before.

Therefore, she realized that it would be a waste if she continued like this, and wanted to use "The Sword of Thoughtlessness" to decide the outcome. But at this moment, the young man seemed to have predicted the future and attacked with his fairy-like sword. The sword was like a stone thrown into the lake of her heart. Although the waves it caused were insignificant, it ultimately destroyed her state of mind without any thoughts.

If he was able to do that before because General Raiden was just an imperfect puppet after all, and although he inherited her martial arts, he was still inferior to her in some ways, but now this young man could actually do this kind of thing, it really made Lei Yingying feel a little uncomfortable:

She tried many times to focus her mind and stop thinking so that she could use that sword, but each of the boy's swords was like a stroke of genius, always able to just destroy her state of mind, resulting in a stalemate between the two of them. The two could only rely on their own skills and knowledge to exchange moves. The longer the stalemate lasted, the more she realized that the boy was actually faster than her, a god who had been immersed in martial arts for thousands of years!

In fact, if the power of the thunder element she controlled was not far superior to the strange, extremely destructive and destructive energy he controlled, she would have been defeated by now!

How can this be?

A mere mortal...

"Oh, isn't this our honorable Lord Thunder God? How come you are fighting with a mortal in your own pure land? You have been meditating here for so many years. Did you expect something like this to happen today? On the road to what you call eternity, someone is actually ahead of you?"

At this time, a woman who deliberately made her voice sound artificial appeared out of nowhere and stood behind the young man.

"Son of God? Is this your plan? This traveler... why did you come here?"

"Because I need you to hear those people's wishes."

The pink-haired witch no longer pretended at this time. She just looked at her old friend seriously and said.

"Desires are useless in the face of eternity."

Even though Lei Dianying was already at a disadvantage, he still spoke coldly.

"But this is a bit strange," the young man interrupted at this time, "You said that wishes are useless for eternity, and I also said before that if you want to get closer to eternity, the best way is to give up your unnecessary emotions. Then, isn't your desire to pursue eternity also unnecessary?"

Chapter 88: The People Have Two Masters (Part 1)

In fact, if we really talk about the eloquence, Yae Shen Zi may not be inferior to Shen Zhigui, but every man has his own strengths and weaknesses. Yae Shen Zi is better at being sarcastic, and the two of them are too familiar with each other. Most of the time, the words spoken are not taken seriously. So at this time, it is Shen Zhigui's words that can move Lei Dianying's mind more——

When she heard the young man say that, she just stared at him intently, and then once again gathered that unparalleled majesty. Shen Zhigui also instantly got ready, waiting for the moment when her sword heart was about to take shape. But at this time, the Eightfold God Child standing behind him suddenly whispered in his ear: "You don't want to suppress her with your own will, do you?"

"Why not?"

Shen Zhigui just asked back as a matter of course.

Yae Shinko also raised his eyebrows in surprise, pondered for a moment, and then said: "But you were evenly matched before, right? Although you can temporarily hold your own against her, she is a demon god who has lived for thousands of years, and you are just an ordinary human. Although I don't understand what the energy in your body that is different from elemental force is, it is not infinite, right? So you need the power to make the final decision."

"You don't mean to say that the wishes of the people you brought with you are enough to make the final decision, right?"

"What's wrong?"

"Perhaps if you change someone else, someone who can also use elemental power, and let that person bear the wishes of those people, so as to condense a strong enough will and elemental power, he can naturally defeat the Thunder God. But for me, for my martial arts system, it is already very difficult to do it now. If you mix in extra will, it will be difficult for me to coordinate." Shen Zhigui just stared at the figure who changed the traditional costume of Inazuma to be a little more open, and said, "So I can't bear the decisive power you mentioned, let alone use it."

Yae Shinko was a little caught off guard.

But in the next moment, the young man moved forward again, and the light and shadows that the two figures turned into became chaotic again. The dense sound of metal clashing and the fine lightning that burst out with the alternation of light and shadow spread everywhere. The two figures flickered back and forth, and the flowing light was constantly dissipating and flickering like sparks, as if there was no end.

At this time, what Yae Shinko thought was, if he could not carry the wishes of those people, then he would be the only suitable candidate, right?

But after seeing this scene, she realized that her meddling and intervention was only causing trouble for Shen Zhigui.

She really didn't have the courage to join such a battlefield.

After all, she is just a weak, ignorant and pitiful witch.

I guess the young man never thought that she would interfere.

Although she was a little surprised by the fact that the boy could not carry the wishes of the confiscated God's Eyes.

But to be honest, the fact that he could do such a thing was completely beyond her expectations.

But she knew very well that if this continued, the human boy would definitely become weaker and weaker, and then he would be defeated. In that case...

"How on earth did you do that?"

At this moment, when the two figures separated again, Lei Dianying suddenly spoke.

"Do you mean?"

"You have been trying to block my power over the element of lightning, right?"

The boy didn't comment, but just said, "So?"

"But you can't possibly do this unless you are a god who survived the war between demons and gods like me. So you are definitely not just a human. Who are you among those old friends from a thousand years ago? Orobas?"

"You've actually thought of that name, right?"

Shen Zhigui, however, still had that indifferent look on his face, like a dead man, and said.

"It's impossible! If her will is attached to you, why can't I sense any breath from her? Why would she help you deal with me?"

"Then do you think what you have done is acceptable in her eyes? Will she be satisfied with your current situation and the current situation of Inazuma, or will she be disappointed?"

Lei Dianying was forced to take a step back by this question:

She wanted to argue but couldn't utter a word. She wanted to reprimand the boy for his tricks, but the way he kept harassing and blocking her power during the duel with her was too weird. Although he was indeed unable to use elemental power, he seemed to know his power over the lightning element very well. So he kept tampering with the "threads" of her control over the lightning element while fighting with her. So in the eyes of Yae Goddess, the balance of victory and defeat would gradually tilt towards her, but the fact was just the opposite!

Anyone who can do this to one god must also be another god.

Eliminate all the impossible options, and the one that remains, no matter how ridiculous, will be the correct answer.

"So," she suddenly put down the spear in her hand, looked at the boy, and was silent for a long time before she said in a trembling voice, "Is it really you, sister?"

Yae Shinko opened her eyes wide in disbelief:

Had my old friend gone mad after meditating in this pure land for hundreds of years? Otherwise, why would she call a boy who couldn't use elemental power "sister"? Was there any real aura of thunder and lightning in him?

She had been hiding in Ah Zhen's arms before she transformed into a human form, and she was very familiar with Ah Zhen's breath.

But the only response to her and Lei Diandian was dead silence.

After a long moment, the young man shook his head and said, "I thought you would listen to others only after the outcome of the fight is decided."

"Oh, are you so sure of victory?"

Yae Shinko asked.

"if not?"

"So, what Aying said is true? Is there any remnant of Azhen's will in you?"

"Maybe," Shen Zhigui just said, "Although I don't know whether she is illusory or real, but if she can really help me step into the realm I am in now and help me suppress the power of this Baalzebub, why don't I believe that she really exists?"

"That's true," Yae Shenzi pondered for a moment, then said, "Then, can you let her show up and meet us?"

"One more item is needed."

"what?"

"She left that dream to that person."

Shen Zhigui just pointed at Lei Movie and said.

When Lei Dianying heard him say that, he stared at him for a long time, and finally said, "Can you really let her meet me again?"

"It's just a loan anyway. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

Lei Dianying was silent for a moment, and finally reached out and pressed her hand on the center of her smooth chest, pulled out the relic that Raiden Zhen left for her, and solemnly handed him the sword that still had her body temperature: "I hope you will do what you say."

Chapter 89: The People Have Two Masters (Part 2)

Shen Zhigui took Mengxiang Yixin and stared at this beautiful sword for a long time, which had accompanied two generations of Thunder Gods through a long period of time:

This weapon is also the place where the Thunder God's pure land is placed. She has not even withdrawn her consciousness from it. It can be said that Lei Dianying has already handed over her life and property. As long as Shen Zhigui has any strange thoughts and does anything to the sword, or directly breaks the sword, Lei Dianying's consciousness will most likely be dying like a candle in the wind.

It seems that Lei Dianzhen is indeed irreplaceable to her.