Original God: Founding the Shushan Sect, Gathering People in Teyvat to Cultivate Immortality.

6. The difference between wear and tear and the self-disaster of the cultivator

Jiang Yan's words about overcoming the tribulation left Zhongli and others silent for a long time.

Just now, Jiang Yan overcame the tribulation with ease, as if he didn't have to put in much effort.

I had never expected that there would be so many crises.

Every step you take seems like you are walking on a tightrope. If you are not careful, you will be crushed to pieces.

After a long time, Zhongli sighed softly.

"Any action that goes against the will of heaven will naturally lead to a fatal crisis. This is true in any world."

"But perhaps it is precisely because of this that the strength of you cultivators is so strong."

Jiang Yan did not refute this. If one does not get the due reward after going through such difficult and arduous training, what is the point of this cultivation?

After a pause, Zhongli's eyes flashed with a complicated look.

After seeming to stop talking for a while, Zhongli said:

"Let me ask you a question, cultivation..."

Jiang Yan saw at a glance the question that Zhongli wanted to know, and immediately nodded with a smile.

"That's right, there will be no wear and tear when cultivating immortals."

Zhongli felt a little disappointed, and Liu Yun and others beside him also looked like they didn't know what to say.

"Is this so..."

Zhongli smiled bitterly and sighed.

"From this point of view, I really envy you."

Jiang Yan explained slowly:

"What cultivators seek is to gain strength from heaven and earth, and longevity is naturally obtained from heaven and earth as well."

"In this case, the life span of a cultivator must naturally be controlled by himself."

"That is to say, as long as one survives the heavenly tribulation, the fate of the immortal cultivator is under his own control as long as his life span has not yet ended."

"To be frank, what you call wear and tear is the shackles that heaven and earth impose on you, the immortals, just to restrain you."

"In this case, it naturally cannot affect those of us who seek to break the rules of heaven and earth."

"To put it in a way that you can accept, we cultivators are a group of people who don't follow the rules, especially the rules of heaven and earth, which we dislike the most."

"And, if I'm not mistaken, your wear and tear should also affect your soul and heart, right?"

"When an attack occurs, the person will become insane and mad."

Zhongli nodded solemnly, pursed his lips, and said with some hesitation:

"From the perspective of you cultivators, is it similar to the so-called ego tribulation?"

Jiang Yan was silent for a moment and nodded slightly.

"Some of them are similar, but they are fundamentally different. The ego's heart tribulation is a tribulation imposed by the Tao, and it is a debt that the cultivators must pay."

"Your wear and tear is actually more man-made..."

Jiang Yan didn't explain it very clearly, but his smiling gaze towards the sky made Zhongli understand a lot.

Zhongli felt a little angry and clenched his fists, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Do you know how many years it has taken a cultivator to reach the stage of the Self-Heart Tribulation?"

Jiang Yan suddenly mentioned it softly.

Suddenly, Zhongli and others looked over curiously.

Jiang Xuan gently raised four fingers.

"Four thousand years?"

Liu Yun muttered something and thought it was quite reasonable.

After all, the time when Ruota's wear and tear occurred was about four thousand years ago, and Zhongli also started accumulating wear and tear three thousand years ago.

However, Jiang Yan shook his head.

"At least four epochs."

"Yuanhui? What is this?"

Gan Yu looked at Jiang Yan blankly, always feeling that this way of recording time was a little strange.

Jiang Yan gently spread out his hands.

"The life of an immortal cultivator is long, so long that they can watch many worlds disappear with their own eyes."

"Thus, time gradually became worthless in the eyes of immortal cultivators."

"The immortal cultivators call the cycle of the world from its beginning to its end a Yuan Hui. One Yuan is followed by twelve Hui. One Hui is followed by thirty Yun. One Yun is followed by twelve Shi. One Shi…"

Jiang Yan paused, quietly glanced at everyone's face, and said slowly:

"Thirty years."

Zhongli clenched his hands suddenly, and tiny cracks appeared on the teacup.

"One Yuan will last for 129,000 years, so your ego's heart calamity..."

Jiang Yan shook his head and said casually:

"Those who have been able to cultivate to the stage of the Self-Heart Tribulation have all become great masters in the immortal world, with longevity equal to the heavens and as bright as the sun and the moon."

"In the blink of an eye, the world is born and destroyed. Time has no meaning to them anymore."

"Only at this point can one truly feel the horror of the ego's inner tribulation after being washed away by time."

"What cultivators fear most is not fighting, but asking questions of the truth and their own consciences."

"However, these are still too far away from me. I am still just an insignificant little cultivator who has not even become an immortal yet."

Zhongli looked Jiang Yan up and down, and the aura of a higher level of life presence that he exuded was faintly revealed.

Not becoming an immortal?

Well, they are not cultivating the same kind of immortality.

He smiled bitterly in his heart, but there were still many doubts in his heart that he wanted to solve urgently. Zhongli felt that if he continued to talk, he would gain something incredible.

So, Zhongli said:

"I heard you mention Tao repeatedly before. What is the so-called Tao?"

Everyone noticed it, and after asking this question, Jiang Yan's expression suddenly became extremely solemn.

It no longer had the gentle yet slightly casual look it had just now.

"The Tao... is the Tao."

“The Tao can be anything, or it can be nothing.”

“The Tao can be unique or it can be infinite.”

"I can't introduce it to you. I can only say that everyone's path is different. There are thousands of paths, and there is no superiority or inferiority."

“But only by finding your own path can you truly achieve a broader future.”

"To cultivate immortality, one must cultivate the Tao."

Zhongli seemed to understand a little bit, but in Liuyun's ears, what Jiang Yan said was just mysterious and useless nonsense.

She curled her lips in a somewhat disgusted manner.

If the situation wasn't still a little confusing and she hadn't figured out the current situation, her super chat skills would have come into play.

"still have a question……"

Zhongli pursed his lips and said apologetically:

"Isn't that a bit rash? You just survived a tribulation today, so you probably need to rest."

"If you feel tired today, we can talk about the rest of the questions another day."

Jiang Yan shook his head, gently stretched out his hand and tapped the stone table, his wide black sleeves seemed to inadvertently create a breeze.

The next moment, the tea on the table was filled up as if time had gone back, and the surrounding trees miraculously gave birth to bizarre flowers under the breeze.

The refreshing fragrance instantly restored Ganyu and the others, who were a little tired, to their peak spirits.

Jiang Yan smiled gently.

"It's just a little trick of cultivating immortality. Don't be surprised."

"There's no need to talk about it another day. It's just a tribulation. It's not that tiring."

"What we are doing now is actually what cultivators often do, discussing the Dao."

"Refer to other people's cultivation experience to verify your own path."

"It is a rare opportunity for me to discuss the Dao with the oldest ruler of Teyvat."

Hearing this, Zhongli felt somewhat comfortable in his heart, but the wide hood covered it and nothing could be seen on the surface.

He just seemed to nod slightly.

"Thank you for the compliment... It is my honor to be able to see the immortal cultivation schools from other worlds."

"Then I will continue to ask questions..."

Zhongli paused, thought for a moment, and then said slowly:

"How do you find the way to immortality?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Yun and others immediately perked up and looked at Jiang Yan expectantly.

They didn't quite understand the other questions, but they didn't care much either.

Only this...

It seems to be related to the fundamental reason why immortal cultivators are so powerful.

This is very important to them.

7. The green rock turned into a flying sword?

"this problem……"

Jiang Yan frowned slightly, and the purple-gold rune between his eyebrows glowed with a halo-like luster.

"How? Can't you tell me? If it's inconvenient, then don't tell me."

Zhongli added another sentence and Jiang Yan shook his head.

"No, it's just that the immortal cultivation system was born too long ago. I don't know exactly how it was born."

“How we got to this point, I don’t understand.”

"but……"

Jiang Yan gently stretched out his hand, and a scroll made of white jade appeared in his hand.

Zhongli and others had never seen the words above, but the strange thing was that they could know what they meant just by taking a look at them.

Huangting Yujing Sutra.

It seemed to be what Jiang Yan had been reciting before.

But Ganyu remembered it very clearly. It should be a slightly yellowed and old paper book.

Jiang Yan stared at the Huang Ting Yu Jing Sutra, and after a moment of silence, he chuckled and said:

"There are fifty great ways, forty-nine of them are derived from the heavens, and one is missing."