Reading poems from Teyvat

What's the point of doing this?

Xiangling was puzzled.

Shen Zhigui then picked up the spear and threw it back to Xiangling. Seeing Master Mao next to him with his eyes wide open in disbelief, he thought for a moment and said, "Although I can't say much, Master Mao, this guy is actually much more useful than you think. So, Xiangling didn't go on this adventure alone."

He pointed at Guoba who was standing next to Xiangling and seemed to want to comfort the girl.

"Goodbye then."

Without waiting for Master Mao to say anything else, Shen Zhigui waved his hand and said.

He also had no intention of pretending to fight Xiangling again and then letting her use all her strength to defeat him before going on adventures with her. If Xiangling could defeat him with her hard power this time, then he would be willing to accept the defeat, but isn't this impossible?

Although his behavior was indeed a bit despicable.

But as long as he can win and as long as the system recognizes it, who cares?

So as he left, he checked the task rewards issued by the system on the translucent interface. However, this time, what he got was not the familiar "Sword Art of Mountains and Rivers and States" series, but a new banned martial arts book: "The seventh move of "Song of the Blue Sky and Yellow Springs" - Cinnabar disappears without a trace when it comes into contact with fire."

He flipped through it briefly and discovered that this time the system gave him shooting skills.

Aren’t you just cheating me?

What use is marksmanship to me?

And doesn’t this mean that next time I defeat Tartaglia, the system’s reward will be something like the Hundred Steps Away Archery Skill?

But Master T is not a sharpshooter who can shoot an arrow through a hundred steps, right? Isn't he just using the bow as a close combat weapon?

Shen Zhigui thought that because he didn't have the Eye of God, he wouldn't be able to use weapons as readily as Keqing and Xiangling, who had to carry big swords, one-handed swords, guns, bows, and magic weapons with them when they went out. He felt a little scared for a moment:

This is a bit too silly.

Can it be changed into sword technique?

Shen Zhigui thought about this and started flipping through the books while standing on the side of the road. Although to outsiders he was just staring blankly at something in the void, his mind was already immersed in the world created by the martial arts that the system had given him. When he first saw the move "Come Like Thunder, End with Fury" because he had no experience, he often had to practice the specific moves to verify it. But now he can imagine himself practicing that martial arts in his mind through those moves. The more he practiced, the more desperate Shen Zhigui became:

Not to mention changing it into a sword technique, this "Cinnabar disappears without a trace when it encounters fire" is essentially a martial art with a concept completely different from "Come like thunder and end with fury".

Because "Come like thunder and end with rage" emphasizes "extreme movement and extreme stillness", and finds the fastest way to achieve it in the alternation between movement and stillness. Therefore, when using this move, the true energy in his body often surges like a tide. If one is not careful and has problems with control or his meridians are disrupted, he may become half paralyzed. And the move "Cinnabar meets fire and disappears without a trace" emphasizes "virtual and real", and is intended to incorporate one's own spirit, body, true energy, weapons and even everything in the outside world into a system of virtual-real conversion. In the end, one can turn oneself into "fire" and turn everything of the enemy into "cinnabar", and then destroy them all!

This is no longer a question of swordsmanship or gun skills.

Chapter 17: Night

But in the final analysis, Shen Zhigui had already reached his current limit in terms of "movement and stillness". Unless he could obtain the corresponding martial arts skills in the future, this limit could only be used to deal with people like Xiangling who did not focus on martial arts. He wanted to rely on this new trick to challenge those people. Not to mention someone like Beidou who had been through hundreds of battles and had seen a lot, even if he used it to deal with someone like Xingqiu, it would not end well. Although it was not impossible for him to challenge Yunjin and Xinyan, he had no chance to approach the two literary and artistic workers and challenge them recently.

So there's nothing wrong with practicing shooting, right?

Although he didn't plan to go out with a spear on his back.

He originally thought that with his progress in "Coming Like Thunder and Ending With Fury", he could quickly master the move "Cinnabar Sees Fire and Leaves No Trace", but he really overestimated his talent. His progress in this martial art was not even as good as "South Mountain Morning Snow Jade Rocks"! At least when he practiced the latter, he could see a little visible improvement every day, but when he practiced the former, he only practiced the movements of swinging the gun to perfection. He was still confused about how the "virtual" and "real" were transformed.

Could it be that I am not the martial arts genius I thought I was?

Sometimes Shen Zhigui couldn't help but doubt himself in frustration.

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Then he quickly cheered up again.

……

Keqing discovered that Shen Zhigui had stopped practicing sword and started practicing spear instead.

Although after she finished her official business - she had to get off work very late every day, she originally thought that Shen Zhigui had gone to bed at that time, but Shen Zhigui didn't know whether he did so on purpose because he knew her working hours, or whether it was really as he said, that his nightlife had just begun at that time. However, his nightlife was just reading those miscellaneous books bought from Wanwen Collection. But every time she came back from Yuehai Pavilion, she could see that the light in Shen Zhigui's room was still on. She asked Shen Zhigui to practice sword with her, and Shen Zhigui would not refuse, and he still practiced sword skills with her.

But Keqing always felt that his attitude was wrong.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone in my house said that you started practicing shooting during the day?"

Shen Zhigui nodded indifferently.

"why?"

"There's no reason for it, I just practice when I want to."

"But how can you achieve success in martial arts if you are so indecisive?"

Keqing was standing in the courtyard. Noticing the distracted look on the boy's face, she frowned and spoke seriously.

Shen Zhigui thought for a moment and said, "Then in your opinion, Lord Yuhengxing, what is the standard for achieving success in martial arts? Or do you think that if I continue on my original path, I can defeat people like you who possess the Eye of God?"

"But there's no way you can defeat me like this!"

"I didn't expect that Master Yuhengxing would have such high expectations of me. Should I be flattered?"

Keqing couldn't tell whether Shen Zhigui was being sarcastic or sincere. You said he was being sarcastic, but the expression on his face was so casual from beginning to end. You said he was sincere, but he didn't look really flattered. It was as if he never felt that anyone could really understand what he did, so he acted erratically. The moment before, you felt that you and he had a heart-to-heart relationship, but the next moment he would look at you with that kind of indifferent look, making you think that the two of you were just strangers who were hiding under the same eaves and talking on a rainy day in midsummer, and would go their separate ways after the rain stopped. So she became annoyed for no reason, drew her sword again, and said to Shen Zhigui: "Pick up your gun!"

"My marksmanship is not good enough..."

"I said, get your gun!"

"Is your period coming?"

Keqing heard the boy complaining quietly.

She immediately looked at him even more annoyed.

Shen Zhigui thought that this was urging him, and thinking that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, he walked towards the weapon rack at the edge of the courtyard, and at the same time, he planned in his mind to quickly learn that move and move out -

Although Keqing actually had a strange attitude towards his moving out, always saying that he had not yet cleared himself of the suspicion, so she had to continue to monitor his actions.

Shen Zhigui felt that he was not an antisocial person. Although looking for the holders of the Eye of God to challenge everywhere might make people think that he had the tendency of a martial arts madman, he felt good about himself and thought that his competition with others was just enough and did not cause any negative impact on Liyue society. He let her think whatever she wanted. Although living in someone else's house made him embarrassed to follow his usual lifestyle of sleeping until noon when he was lazy, if Keqing really learned that trick, he might just leave. If Keqing still used that excuse, he planned to go directly to Mondstadt to find new opportunities.

I remember that the Wind Flower Festival seemed to be in the last few months?

And I haven't heard about any dragon disaster in Mond recently.

That means Tevarin hasn't woken up yet.

Maybe then I can take advantage of the achievements of a certain yellow-haired traveler and gain the recognition of those God's Eye holders in Mond?

He can't help but be a little fanciful.

Although he himself has no talent in business.

I've been feeling lazy lately and don't want to copy those long novels.

In fact, even if he wanted to copy, every time he opened the blank copybook, his mind was blank, and he couldn't remember the specific words and sentences of the previous novels, so he could only fill in the blanks himself. He remembered some classic openings such as "Linjiangxian" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the sentence "The general trend of the world..." He remembered them clearly, but the names of the characters before the Three Kingdoms in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were enough to make him feel overwhelmed, not to mention that he only remembered the parts related to Zhuge Kongming after Guan Yu fled to Maicheng. Moreover, he didn't dare to tarnish this work with his poor writing skills. As for copying novels like "Second Brother Helps to Blow Up the Axle of the Big Brother's Wedding Car and Steal the Big Sister-in-law", not to mention the problem of the original work not being completed and not being able to adapt to the local environment, he couldn't stand the structure and length of the novels.

Why not do something else with this energy? Why does he have to copy novels?

So for now he could only complain that the system had given him this kind of martial arts, but actually he had no choice, so no matter what Keqing said, he would always try it first. Anyway, he really had nothing he wanted to do recently. After all, there were no mobile phones and computers in this world, and the only way to kill time was to practice martial arts and read those random books.

So he just picked up the spear from the weapon rack and made a formal stance towards Keqing.

Chapter 18: Spreading the Message

However, given that Shen Zhigui had lost his speed, which he had always been good at, and had not yet mastered the art of spearmanship, his defeat was foreseeable. He didn't even last more than ten moves before Keqing pressed the tip of her sword against his chest, and he simply admitted defeat.

"Do you understand?"

Keqing said.

"Understand what?"

"If you keep practicing like this, there's no way you'll be able to beat me!"

Shen Zhigui raised his eyebrows when he saw her smug look because she defeated him. "Let's not talk about my current age. I have only learned sword for a month. It's not too late to switch to spear now, right? Not to mention that most people in Liyue use spears, and even the Qianyan Army uses spears. Maybe some immortal will take a fancy to my talent and teach me peerless spear skills! But even without saying that, Lord Yuhengxing, why do you think I must defeat you? In the eyes of normal people, people without the Eye of God can never defeat people with the Eye of God, right? This is the norm in this world, right?"

Keqing's expression suddenly froze:

Yeah, why?

Why did she herself secretly hope that Shen Zhigui could defeat her?

But she didn't want to think about it too deeply now, and just said: "I just don't want to see anyone wasting their talent."

"But maybe my talent is already full to the point of overflowing?"

“Humph,” Keqing saw that he was so stubborn and turned to walk towards her room, “You take care of yourself.”

"Forehead……"

But she heard the boy standing there, about to say something, but then stopped quickly. She thought he was going to change his attitude, so she turned her head slightly and whispered, "Do you have anything else to say?"

Shen Zhigui immediately said: "If you really have your period, remember to drink more hot water."

"go to hell!"

Keqing grabbed the sword with her backhand, and threw it fiercely in his direction, even using the power of the Eye of God to speed up. If Shen Zhigui hadn't dodged quickly enough, he might have been hurt. He looked at the long sword slanting in the courtyard, and the graceful figure of the girl leaving angrily in the night, and thought:

Is it really my period?

……

In reality, although Xiangling's mind was no longer on martial arts, she did not have much interaction with her master, Grandma Ping, in her daily life. After all, they lived in the east and west of the city, so she would only visit the old man at a fixed time. But as that person's disciple, Xiangling would occasionally meet the old man and be tested by her. When Grandma Ping checked Xiangling's martial arts progress - in fact, it was just maintaining the level of not falling behind - Grandma Ping saw that her moves seemed to be influenced by someone recently, and she had been maintaining a tense state, ready to be released but not released. She nodded with satisfaction and said, "A dragon will regret its overconfidence, and fullness cannot last long. If you understand this principle, you can make further progress in martial arts. But haven't you always focused on cooking? How did you realize this principle recently?"

Xiangling had no choice but to talk about the duel with Shen Zhigui.

"Can you have that kind of speed without the Eye of God?"

Grandma Ping also began to ponder.

As a fairy living in seclusion in Liyue Harbor, she is also always paying attention to the unstable factors in Liyue Harbor.

So she asked Xiangling for more specific information about Shen Zhigui.

But Xiangling was actually not very familiar with Shen Zhigui. She only said that Shen Zhigui seemed to have a good relationship with Yuhengxing Keqing, and recently seemed to have become a member of Liyue's Adventurer's Association and was certified as having outstanding strength. There was no more news. When Granny Ping heard that Yuhengxing was also paying attention, she didn't think too much about it and asked why the two of them fought. Xiangling immediately said embarrassedly: "He took the initiative to bring it up. He said that if I could beat him, he would agree to accept my father's commission and go on adventures with me to take care of each other."

"But he only used one move to decide the outcome?"

"Yes, Master, you also find it strange."

Xiangling nodded quickly.

No matter how you look at it, this approach is not right.

It was like he was blatantly saying that he had ulterior motives.

Normal people who want to learn martial arts from other schools, if not for fame, all want to find out their own shortcomings through competition, and see if they can secretly learn the essence of other schools to broaden their horizons and take their martial arts to a higher level. However, that young man defeated Xiangling so easily, but did not publicize his own reputation. If Xiangling had not said it herself, Granny Ping would not have known that such a person had come to Liyue Harbor. What was his intention in doing this?

Do you think defeating Xiangling is not enough to brag about?

Grandma Ping thought for a moment and said, "Xiangling, if you see him again, you can tell him that I want to see him too. If he's interested, tell him to come find me."

Xiangling was a little surprised by her master's attitude, but she didn't think much about it and nodded in agreement.

So, when Shen Zhigui still couldn't figure out anything, he had to wander around Liyue Harbor. But still couldn't find any chance to get close to those holders of the Eye of God. So he went to Wanmin Hall to eat again. Xiangling suddenly came out from the kitchen and told him about this. Shen Zhigui was a little surprised for a moment, wondering why that person would be interested in him?

But after all, he is a legendary immortal, so there is nothing wrong with going to meet him. Maybe they can have a good chat and the other party can give him some inspiration with her experience in martial arts.

So Shen Zhigui said that he would visit her soon and asked what kind of gift Grandma Ping liked.

"Nothing much. I rarely see Master showing a particular fondness for something. If I had to say it, it would probably be flowers, but..."

Isn't it a bit weird for a young man to visit Grandma Ping and give flowers to someone of her age?

Xiangling said in her heart.

So she quickly changed the subject and asked, "By the way, Mr. Shen, where are you from? Did you just arrive in Liyue Harbor recently?"

Although Shen Zhigui felt fine when addressing Xiangling and others with honorifics such as "Miss Xiangling" and "Master Yuhengxing", he felt a little uncomfortable when others addressed him as "Mr. Shen", so he said, "Just call me Zhigui."

Then he said that he was a traveler from a distant country called Zhendan.

Xiangling's eyes suddenly lit up, and she also said, "Then you can call me Xiangling. Since you are from such a faraway place, is your cooking method different from ours?"

Chapter 19: Discussion on Superiority and Inferiority (Part 1)

"More or less the same, right?"

In response to Xiangling's question, Shen Zhigui thought about it carefully and then spoke.

Although before he came to this world, he was the kind of person who could only cook noodles if he had to, not to mention that he would only order takeout on weekdays, and the takeout was always Western fast food such as hamburgers, cola, French fries and fried chicken, so Xiangling asking him this kind of question was actually asking a blind man, not to mention that he was not really that familiar with Liyue's food, and in his impression, the setting of this country seemed to be similar to the ancient times where he was before -

Although he was not quite sure where the "Zhongyuan offal" sold next to Wanmin Hall referred to.

When Xiangling heard him say that, she actually asked about how to make hamburgers, French fries and fried chicken.