Reading poems from Teyvat

Even now, the location of the young man may not be real. It is estimated that he has already moved to another place and just left this illusion to talk to her.

Chapter 78: Still No News from Other Places (Part 2)

Where is he?

Lei Dianying's eyes darted around, trying to find Shen Zhigui's true location through the illusion, but she could only hear a faint sound of sword chanting lingering in her pure land. She had experience in dealing with such scenes before, so she subconsciously blocked her hearing, but the sword chanting still continued to ring in her ears, as if it had turned into real flowing water, pouring directly into her ears.

So Lei Dianying quickly realized that what she was doing now was equivalent to what the young man had said before: covering one's ears and stealing a bell.

Because everything in this world is an extension of her senses.

The sound was just a medium for the young man to intervene in her martial arts system. Just like the shadow standing there, it was just a kind of appearance, not the real substance.

Although in fact there was no need for Shen Zhigui to let her hear the sound of the sword.

Just as there was actually no need to explain to the young man the nature of the phenomenon before him.

He could have used these illusions to exhaust her mind, and then waited until she was weak to make the final decision, but he still chose this way to communicate with her. Why?

"Because it's not a very complicated method."

Shen Zhigui just said it casually.

Lei Dianying looked at the young man who always had an endless stream of tricks, and thought that according to what she had seen and heard, this person's mental age was definitely not much different from his appearance, so his knowledge was not that profound, but he could make rapid progress in martial arts, and at the same time he could use all kinds of tricks that even gods like her had never heard of or seen before. As for the twisted theories in his mouth, there was no need to say more. Therefore, his existence always made people feel that there seemed to be an insurmountable chasm between people's talents.

Just like a normal person and the holder of the Eye of God.

Although he does not have the Eye of God.

Not to mention normal people, even if you compare him now with the holder of the Eye of God, you will feel that there is a huge difference between them.

He reached his present realm as a mortal, and according to the conversations he had with the people of Liyue, he looked like a powerless poet more than half a year ago. With this talent, to say that he was the resurrected Demon God was to elevate those Demon Gods who died in the Demon God War. After all, if he really took part in that Demon God War, he could have snatched a seat from one of the original seven rulers of the mortal world, except for the Rock Emperor next door and herself!

"You don't want to spend the rest of your life here with me like this, do you?"

At this moment, the young man's voice came again.

"So what do you think I should do?"

Lei Dianying asked back as a matter of course.

"Then you have to ask yourself," Shen Zhigui didn't think there was anything wrong with Lei Dianying's question. Or he actually felt that Lei Dianying was indeed the kind of so-called country girl who couldn't accept new things. So at the moment, he just said, "If scattered forces can't achieve your goal, of course you should concentrate your forces. If the illusory goal is found not to be your original intention, then it's not a bad idea to change the goal to pursue."

After hearing the boy's words, Lei Dianying was silent for a moment:

"So you're saying that this world, this pure land of one mind, has no need to continue to exist?"

She raised her eyes and looked at the young man. She really didn't expect that the young man actually thought this way.

His goal is to destroy this world that has become so beautiful?

"But it's just an illusion after all, isn't it?" Shen Zhigui just said casually, "Just like the eternity you pursue is nothing more than you can't reunite with your old friends and relatives in reality, so you set yourself such a goal and let yourself be trapped in it forever. But no matter how beautiful you build such a world, it is just a reflection of your inner heart. You must absorb the corresponding nutrients from the outside world to make this world glow with vitality. Otherwise, just like you were in seclusion for five hundred years before, it is just a gray world. You obviously have enough power to rewrite almost everything in reality, why do you let your mind be trapped in such an illusion?"

When Lei Dianying heard the young man's words, he even had the illusion of sudden enlightenment:

"So that's why you've always treated me like that?"

"Although I think a person's attitude towards another person is not just because of her views on certain things," Shen Zhigui said immediately after seeing her expression and hearing her words, "But, there is no need for you to get to the bottom of this matter, right?"

Anyway, after traveling through time, Shen Zhigui rarely cared about other people's attitude towards him.

Even though Keqing had saved his life, he still angered the girl again and again. Although sometimes he knew that the words he said would most likely make Keqing angry, if he had to choose between not making Keqing angry and complaining without restraint, he would most likely choose the latter.

Although if he were still on Earth, he would most likely choose the former.

Because he was not qualified to show such brilliance at that time. He was just a tiny part of society who was busy running back and forth between his workplace and residence all day long for food and clothing. If a part showed too much brilliance, it would only be judged as unqualified and then cleared out of that huge system. So at that time, he could only cater to the shapes of others and let others adjust himself and make his shape continue to conform to certain standards. It was a great fortune for him to be able to say a few words to a big man and beautiful girl like Keqing.

But after realizing that he has such qualifications, he rarely hides his edge.

Of course, he himself knew that the growth of feelings was a process of mutual accommodation and adjustment.

But why is it that instead of others accommodating him, he should accommodate others?

Although there were some things he really didn't mind, he just let it go.

Of course, he could understand Lei Dianying to some extent, because even if she could really use her unparalleled martial arts to change reality, she could not change the length of life of her relatives and friends. The more she lost her relatives and friends, the more she felt that her martial arts were useless, so in the end she walked into the pure land of one heart in a state of being almost alone, but could such an approach really bring her closer to the so-called eternity?

Chapter 79: Nowhere to Find the Peach Blossom Land (Part 1)

Although Shen Zhigui didn't care much whether Lei's movie could get close to her so-called eternity.

He just felt that if they continued like this, the two of them would just be wasting their time.

Because now no one can do anything to anyone else.

Of course, to be honest, Shen Zhigui could indeed allow Lei Dianying to continue to consume her energy, and then take advantage of her weakness to defeat her in one fell swoop. However, Shen Zhigui's current state could not be maintained for a long time, because he was just "using" her after all. He was not a real god. He could peek into and manipulate the realm and power of gods through the "flying bird" that had been transformed by divinity, but it did not mean that he could always be self-sufficient at the corresponding level. So if he really wanted to fight a war of attrition with Lei Dianying, I was afraid that the dozen or so "flying birds" he had differentiated earlier would all be consumed here -

That’s more than a dozen trump cards!

For such a trifling decisive battle, even after the victory or defeat was decided, Lei Diandian might not admit it, or Lei Dianzhen would probably find some angle to reinterpret their agreement afterwards, so Shen Zhigui really didn't think there was any benefit for him to continue.

But it is absolutely impossible to make him admit defeat.

Even if Lei Dianying really wanted to gather all her thoughts and rush towards him, Shen Zhigui might not be her opponent in that state.

But he has already used up one of his trump cards, so it's reasonable to let Lei Diary bleed a little, right?

Although she may not be fooled.

After she came to her senses, she could still use the same trick again and continue to build such an illusory inner world for herself. If Lei Dian really could not overcome the barrier of life and death and died fifty years later, she would most likely choose to continue to close her heart in depression, pursuing some kind of eternal eternity, and no longer pay attention to all the disturbances in the outside world.

After all, people can always find reasons to close their hearts.

But now, Lei Dianzi just looked at him with a blazing light in his eyes. After a long silence, he said, "If I gather all my strength and run towards you as you said, you will definitely not be my opponent."

"That's impossible to say."

Shen Zhigui still pretended to be serious and tapped the sword with his fingers.

Of course he has his methods.

Because he has already buried a considerable amount of "impurities" in this pure land of one mind.

Although Lei Dianying will probably be able to discover clues and remove most of the "impurities" after destroying Yixin Pure Land and concentrating all the power in her consciousness, there are some that she may not be able to discover. By then, Shen Zhigui will not even have to continue to maintain her current state. Just use "Flowers Fall and Water Flows" normally to affect Lei Dianying's emotions to a certain extent and make her tie her own hands.

Upon hearing this, Lei Dianying just stared at him.

At this moment, she actually desperately hoped that Ah Zhen could encourage her and help her make a decision through the Dream One Heart she held in her hand. However, at this moment, Dream One Heart was just dead silent. Although the tighter she held it, the more she could feel the warm touch of the weapon that had been with her for a long time, it was as if her sister was holding her hand at this moment, telling her that no matter what decision she made, she would support her.

But is the decision she is making now the wrong one?

She couldn't help but ask this in her heart.

But I also believe that I can help you recognize whether this decision is right or wrong later, so I just hope that you can make the choice you think is right on your own. Only after you make your own choice, time will give you the real answer.

It seemed as if there was a voice in the dark responding to her questions, as gentle and kind as always, as if it would never leave her. She could stay with this voice forever and let it drive her.

But this is just an illusion.

There was no way that voice would really stay with her forever.

Because the facts have already proven it.

Although she also believed that with the tacit understanding between her and her sister, Ah Zhen would probably say the same thing after hearing her question.

So she still has to make her own choice.

She felt as if she had returned to the night when she heard the bad news about Ah Zhen. At that time, although she was confident that she could be a weapon in Ah Zhen's hands to remove all obstacles for her, after hearing the news, she felt as if she was a small boat floating on the boundless ocean, with ups and downs of the tide on all sides, but she had lost the companion who could pull her forward and guide her. So from now on, she had to choose her own direction to drift on this boundless ocean, and she had to choose the distant place she wanted to go.

But the distant place she chose at that time was to stay where she was.

Although now that I think about it, if she had mustered up the courage to keep going, she might have been able to find more people to walk with her, right?

Although it is very likely that those companions will eventually disappear from her life like Ah Zhen.

So she actually doesn't regret what she has done over the past few hundred years.

Although such actions did bring many unnecessary hardships and disasters to the people of Inazuma, and although she also realized that the eternity she wanted to pursue and the eternal kingdom she wanted to establish were nothing but illusions like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, because she herself would be shaken by Ah Zhen's resurrection, there was no reason for others to obediently follow the picture she designed and live their lives in peace. After all, human beings have to pursue something unrealistic and beyond the level of their own lives, just like the young man in front of her, who has been pursuing the progress of his martial arts, so he has been able to progress to the current level in such a short time.

She looked deeply at the boy:

But if it were not so, if she changed her goal halfway, if she realized her mistake in the process, then the young man in front of her would most likely appear in front of her to wake her up. Even because of her early awakening, the will of Ah Zhen that was originally hidden in her dream would most likely appear early, and then smile at her who might have become mature, and finally leave her side early.

So she was glad that she didn't become so mature so early.

Because if the price of maturity is to let Ah Zhen leave her side forever, then she would rather never grow up and always be just a weapon in Ah Zhen's hands, instead of having to have her own will and make her own choices like she does now.

Although independence is a stage that everyone must go through.

Chapter 80: Nowhere to Find the Peach Blossom Land (Part 2)

Perhaps from a certain perspective, Lei Dianying has actually become independent very early, because she has indeed locked herself in this pure inner void for hundreds of years. During these hundreds of years, she has not had any communication with the outside world, but only let the puppets she created act on behalf of the shogun's authority.

Although in the eyes of Raiden Shin and Yae Kamiko, she was just running away.

Of course, Lei Dianying does have the qualifications to indulge in old memories and live in the beautiful dreams of the past.

However, if she really pursued "eternity", then her feelings for these old relatives and friends should be unnecessary, because she thought that leaving Yaezakami without saying goodbye would make their friendship stay at that moment forever, but Yaezakami was not like her who just wanted to maintain the "stillness" of a certain moment. She was still continuing to travel in the long river of time, and Lei Dianying did not manage to maintain the mood of that moment forever, because the scenery in this world, this pure land, had changed after all.

So she was just trying to find a sword by carving a mark on the boat.

She was simply using old memories and beautiful dreams as firewood, letting the light and heat from their burning to warm herself, but the firewood would eventually turn into embers, and by then, perhaps she would be only one step away from the eternity she once thought she wanted to pursue?

But during this period of time, she finally realized that for her, martial arts was only a means, not an end. Of course, there might really be those hopelessly romantic fools in the world who believed that the ultimate meaning of their lives was to climb to the highest peak of martial arts, and who believed that the reason people climbed mountains was because the mountain was there. But unfortunately, neither she nor Shen Zhigui were that kind of people.

Therefore, the eternity she pursued was nothing more than a false hope from beginning to end. But if she could get real and unforgettable memories in reality, why should she burn her limited remaining firewood like this?

Although she actually likes the current appearance of her One-Minded Pure Land.

But if you think about it carefully, the reason why this world has changed from a ruin to a vibrant one is probably related to the boy in front of her. He traveled around Teyvat with his dream, so what he saw, heard, thought and thought kept pouring into her eyes and ears, so the scenery he had seen was constantly reflected in it, and was intercepted and pieced together by her into the current appearance. It was precisely because she knew that this boy was going to go further and see clearly this world that she had not set foot in for hundreds of years and was constantly changing with each passing day, that the boundary of the pure land of one heart also had a corresponding vague distance.

So could she really destroy this place completely just for the sake of winning or losing in the short term?

Lei Dianying looked at the young man again, and after hesitating for several times, he waved his hand to open a crack leading to the outside world.

"What does it mean?"

Shen Zhigui asked.

"Then let's call it a draw."

Ray Movie just said.

"But how can I know that you are not fishing?"

Shen Zhigui was still full of suspicion at this time.

Although he actually has a way to test it.

However, Lei Dianying was an upright warrior, and obviously did not have as many small thoughts as him. At this time, of course, she just threw her dream in her hand over, but it was obvious that the boy she saw was just an illusion, so she just watched the sword go straight through the boy and sink into the crack of the world. Obviously, it would soon fall into the seabed below the original position of the two people -

Lei Dianying could only completely retract the open field of Isshin Pure Land and once again use the omnipotence of Thunder God to control Dream Isshin, letting the sword float there quietly.

She looked at the young man, but still felt that the person standing there was just an empty shadow.

"Is this really good?"

Shen Zhigui's voice seemed to come from all directions.

Lei Dianying couldn't help but frown his thin and sharp eyebrows: "What do you want to say?"

"If you want to keep the One-Mind Pure Land as it is, it means that my involvement in your senses will remain in it for a long time. In other words, your One-Mind Pure Land has been mixed with some of my impurities. If it is no longer pure, what is the meaning of the word 'pure' in 'One-Mind Pure Land'?"

"But according to what you said, isn't the existence of the Pure Land of One Mind meaningless?"

"If you can have fun with it, why not continue?" Shen Zhigui just said casually, "I just think that people like you may not want to leave any handle in my hands, so I just remind you."

Fun is actually a word that Lei movies have ignored for a long time.

After all, she has been sitting alone in the pure land for hundreds of years and has never communicated with the outside world. Such a life would certainly not be fun.

Although it was probably because of the arrival of this young man, and through his perspective to observe the world hundreds of years later, Lei Dianying was able to find more fun beyond desserts and novels, and to know that there are so many strange people and things in this world, so there was actually a moment when she actually understood her sister's idea of ​​traveling around with this young man, because when you are with such a person, life seems to never become boring.

Although she is essentially, perhaps, the most boring person.

"I remember that when you were evaluating your senior sister, you told a very interesting story."

At this time, Lei Dianying suddenly changed the subject and said.

"Story? Is there one?"

Shen Zhigui couldn't remember it for a moment.