Chapter 140

Such a restless fellow, Venti had Zhongli suffering from a massive headache.

In a mere five days, Venti had been caught and dragged to the Enforcement Hall twice a day on average.

Yet, they were always minor pranks, harmless and not requiring strict punishment.

At most, it was a stern lecture, followed by being made to copy out the Enforcement Hall’s precepts.

But as for this kind of punishment...

Venti would hear it, and the moment he stepped out the door, he would forget it.

Zhongli had anticipated that Venti would be a frequent visitor to the Enforcement Hall, but he never imagined he would come so many times in such a short period.

It was so disruptive that he hadn't had a single day to cultivate properly.

Reporting it to the Sect Master? They were just trivial matters, not worth the trouble.

In the end, Venti’s antics could only be suffered by Zhongli.

He had the mind to discipline him once in the name of a sparring match, but the fellow had learned the Wine God Art, and his strength was no longer what it used to be.

Trying to give him a sound thrashing was quite troublesome.

Moreover, this fellow didn't really know how to fight seriously.

Venti, who held the title of First Seat of Morning Sun Peak, was in reality a massive headache for Dragon Head Peak.

Progress among the four side factions was also limited.

The beast-taming at Falling Glow Peak didn't even have spirit beasts, just some powerful animals.

As for the formations at Morning Sun Peak, the most powerful formation disk made to date was the Maze Formation, which could confuse an Archon.

The most miserable were Big Bamboo Peak and Wind Return Peak.

The artifact refining by Cloud Retainer and Ping, aside from that one day they refined a low-grade artifact pill furnace, had yielded nothing since.

They wanted to create a Sumeru Mustard Seed, and they had indeed found substitutes for the materials from the resources Alice brought back.

But every time, at the very last moment, it would fall just a hair short; Cloud Retainer had been so angry these past few days that her feathers were standing on end.

The image of the elegant and intellectual big sister from before was gone, and her whole person exuded a sense of disarray.

It was even more so for Mountain Shaper.

Originally, he thought that with a pill furnace, even though the spirit herbs hadn't finished evolving, they could still refine some basic pills using the herbs native to Teyvat.

Yet, Mountain Shaper had refined pills hundreds of times over these many days, and every single time it ended in a furnace explosion.

The pills that were refined were all taken by Lisa to poison fierce beasts and collect their souls.

The pill furnace had also broken several times, and each time Mountain Shaper could only run to Wind Return Peak with a humble face to beg Cloud Retainer to fix it for him.

Every time, he had to face a double-team lecture from Cloud Retainer and Ping that lasted for an hour.

But Mountain Shaper was truly tireless in his pursuit of alchemy, failing repeatedly and fighting on.

Regarding this, Lisa expressed a headache.

This Big Bamboo Peak senior brother didn't understand the pharmacology of the herbs at all; he just threw them all in together, not caring about time or procedure as he refined.

It would be strange if the furnace didn't explode.

Compared to Mountain Shaper’s reckless alchemy, Lisa was not in a hurry to refine pills.

She was still carefully studying the *True Explanation of Basic Alchemy*.

Only by truly coming into contact with alchemy could one understand its profound and vast nature.

Techniques, heat, pharmacology, quantity, quality, order, environment, concentration of spiritual energy...

Countless factors blended together; if there was even the slightest error,

at best, the pill’s effect would be extremely poor, wasting the herbs.

At worst, the furnace would explode directly.

For example, Mountain Shaper.

That he could still be alive after exploding the furnace every time was truly a stroke of luck.

All in all, the cultivation of the Shushan people was still proceeding very smoothly.

Although there was no avoiding some commotion every day, since they began cultivating immortality, life had more and more to look forward to, and the prospects were becoming increasingly vast.

It truly made people feel deeply happy.

They were different from the past; they no longer had the worries of lifespan, erosion, or karmic debt.

In the future, they could realize even more wishes.

Resurrecting old friends, flourishing civilization, attaining immortality...

In such an atmosphere, everyone had begun to love cultivation and Shushan from the bottom of their hearts.

As for Jiang Yan, there was progress in his cultivation, but it wasn't as rapid as everyone else’s.

After all, he was already at the late stage of Refining Spirit to Return to Void.

At this level, every step upward, even with an Innate Dao Body, had to be calculated in years.

However, on the whole, the harvest was not small.

Ningguang and the others had transported in large quantities of various resources, and although most were to be stored in the sect’s treasury,

there were also things Jiang Yan could use himself.

For instance, Primogems and various kinds of classics.

Alice had even discovered quite a few Creation Crystals in the Sea of Quanta; that stuff was also of great use to Jiang Yan.

It was a pity that the quantity wasn't large, and they weren't easy to find.

But even so, Jiang Yan felt that his state of mind and divine sense cultivation had improved quite a bit recently.

Although it wouldn't lead to an immediate breakthrough to the peak of Refining Spirit to Return to Void, he reckoned it would be about half a year or so.

With Shushan initially stabilized, Jiang Yan had nothing else to do every day.

As for the disciples, they were managed by Zhongli’s Enforcement Hall.

The Merit Hall had Alice presiding over it.

Other affairs, because there weren't many people, were basically non-existent.

Jiang Yan spent basically every day single-mindedly hunkered down in the Sect Hall cultivating.

Aside from going out twice every morning and evening, it was just cooking a little something extra for Ganyu and Klee at night.

Then chatting with Ganyu and admiring the moon.

Life was truly leisurely.

However, while Shushan was peaceful, the entirety of Teyvat was still immersed in the ripples of turmoil and unrest.

That day’s tribulation event in Liyue was still affecting the whole of Teyvat to this day.

And after so many days had passed, Ningguang’s reply, full of perfunctory value, had long since spread to the other nations.

Regarding this, the reactions of the various nations were all different.

In Inazuma, it was nothing more than Kujou Sara acting on her own initiative to contact Liyue; the current Raiden Shogun would absolutely not allow her to do such a thing.

But that day’s lightning tribulation was truly too terrifying; for the sake of Inazuma, Kujou Sara had to do the first thing in her life behind the Raiden Shogun’s back.

Yet, looking at the extremely rough explanation in the letter, Kujou Sara was stunned.

She had taken such a huge risk, bearing the condemnation of her conscience, just for this understated sentence...

"It was merely the Geo Archon undergoing tribulation; if you don't believe it, you may come and see for yourself."

Kujou Sara walked angrily toward the Tenshukaku, but halfway there, she thought about how the current Raiden Shogun would never be willing to listen to such things that shook eternity.

After thinking it over, Kujou Sara gave up on notifying the Raiden Shogun with some disappointment.

She turned and walked dejectedly toward the Kujou Estate.

But before she could get home, a shrine maiden suddenly called out to her.

"General Kujou, do you have a moment? Lady Yae Miko requests your presence."

Kujou Sara, who was in the middle of a fit of anger, naturally didn't want to waste time, and said coldly:

"No time!"

The shrine maiden seemed to have guessed this answer long ago, and was not in a hurry, covering her mouth and laughing softly:

"Lady Yae Miko asked me to ask you, could it be that you don't want to know what happened in Liyue?"

"..."

Kujou Sara paused, and after a long while, she turned around:

"Lead the way."

92. Ganyu: Sister Miko, come quickly to cultivate immortality!