Chapter 5

Liuyun gently pushes Ganyu, taking her to sit back at the stone table quickly.

"Emperor, when did you come?"

Hearing this, Zhongli withdraws his gaze from Jiang Yan and says softly:

"Since before he recited the Huangting quietly."

"This... in that case, Emperor, you have also been paying attention to him during this time?"

Liuyun is somewhat surprised, and Zhongli nods slightly.

"Naturally, people from outside the world all have abilities, not to mention that he is a visitor who does not exist in the destined reincarnation."

"Coupled with the Huangtingjing he recited every day during this period..."

Zhongli pauses, his face under the hood somewhat serious.

"That scripture can alleviate my erosion, and even reverse the degree of erosion..."

"What?!"

Liuyun looks at Zhongli in disbelief.

Zhongli’s erosion is an irreversible rule of Teyvat.

If it were really so easy to solve, why would Azhdaha be sealed upside down for so many years?

Why would Zhongli bother to abdicate at this Rite of Descension?

Not to mention Liuyun’s shock, Zhongli himself is the most shocked person.

"It seems that I, this immortal, have indeed misjudged."

Liuyun sighs with emotion, looks up at Jiang Yan, and says with dissatisfaction:

"He does have some skills, but his words are presumptuous and he is arrogant. The Emperor must have heard what he said to me about immortals just now."

"It's simply nonsense, what against heaven, what immortality, it's simply the biggest joke in the world!"

"It's only because the Heavenly Principles are asleep now; otherwise, if he dared to say such things, he would inevitably be punished by the Heavenly Principles."

"Having lived in Teyvat for so long, I have never heard of anyone succeeding in cultivating immortality against heaven."

Zhongli stares at Jiang Yan without blinking and says softly:

"You also said it is Teyvat; how can you use the rules of Teyvat to define a visitor from outside the world?"

"Do you know what kind of world his world would be?"

Liuyun is speechless, and after a long while, she says with some resentment:

"Even so, what he said is too extreme; what Archon is not an immortal, what my immortality is not an immortal?"

"Isn't this denying my cultivation achievements for so many years?"

Zhongli smiles and says faintly:

"Perhaps, it is not a denial... anyway, just keep watching."

Liuyun is still somewhat unhappy, and after humming, she mumbles:

"What is he doing flying into the sky? Looking at this celestial phenomenon, I'm afraid it's going to rain heavily. Don't let him be struck by lightning, and then we have to work hard for our little Ganyu to save him."

"Immortal Liuyun!"

Ganyu lowers her head in shame, but immediately looks at the sky with extreme worry.

"Lightning strike..."

Zhongli’s gaze stirs, and his expression finally changes.

Looking at Jiang Yan in the sky with horror.

He had long felt that this celestial phenomenon was wrong, not something Teyvat could produce.

The aura contained within it is very strange to him, but that hidden sense of crisis makes Zhongli feel like he has thorns on his back.

At this moment, Liuyun points out the final confusion in Zhongli’s heart.

Rising abruptly, Zhongli looks at Jiang Yan in the sky in disbelief.

"He is going to... cross the tribulation and become an immortal!"

"What? Cross the tribulation?! Isn't that a fabricated legend?"

Liuyun is somewhat suspicious, and the next moment, without waiting for Zhongli to answer anything.

The dark clouds in the sky seem to have finally brewed well.

Surging and deep pitch-black thunder flashes, swallowing Jiang Yan like a pillar of light that connects heaven and earth.

Immediately following is a thunderous explosion that shakes the world.

This sound, I am afraid, shocked everyone in Teyvat.

Jean and others in Mondstadt who are suffering from the attack of the Stormterror.

Ningguang and others in Liyue who are busy with the preliminary preparations for the Rite of Descension.

Sangonomiya Kokomi and others in Inazuma who are preparing for another battle with the Shogunate.

Nahida in the Sanctuary of Surasthana in Sumeru, Candace fighting monsters in the desert, Furina enjoying the trial in the Opera Epiclese in Fontaine, the Tsaritsa sitting withered on the throne in Snezhnaya...

Lumine who is traveling through the wilderness with Paimon...

Even the Abyss Order under the Abyss, the many gods on Celestia, the Hexenzirkel at the borders of Teyvat...

All heard this thunder that shook the world.

Looking at the dark clouds that can be seen from any corner of Teyvat.

And the stronger the person, the greater the reaction to the thunder.

Zhongli, who is below Jiang Yan, has his face turn pale instantly, his divine power seems to be drained in an instant, and he sits down tiredly.

Liuyun and the others on the side are no better.

All are barely supporting themselves on the stone chairs.

"Too terrifying... is he really crossing the tribulation? How is this possible!"

Liuyun’s voice is somewhat dry, her gaze looking at Jiang Yan above her head in a daze.

That thunder did not shake Jiang Yan, only the purple energy on his body surged.

"Emperor, will Jiang Yan be alright?"

Ganyu asks with some worry, and Zhongli is silent.

Looking at Ganyu with complicated emotions.

He is not clear whether Jiang Yan is alright, but looking with his eyes, his state is quite good now.

But...

He, the Geo Archon, is going to have trouble!

This thunder makes him so powerless; if he is accidentally struck by it.

The grand drama of the Geo Archon being old and failing the tribulation and dying that he envisioned at the beginning.

I am afraid it will come true.

"Refreshing!"

A refreshing light shout comes from overhead, and Jiang Yan looks at the thunderclouds above his head with ecstasy.

He didn't foolishly use his body to resist it; that way of crossing the tribulation is either a pure body cultivator or some transmigrators whose minds are confused by immortal cultivation novels.

If you are not a professional body cultivator, if you take a hit from the tribulation lightning, see if it will strike you half-dead and break your meridians.

The real way to cross the tribulation, according to the Huangtingjing, is very popular: using true essence to build a defense.

When covered by the tribulation lightning, the true essence will be repeatedly tempered until it becomes true immortal essence.

That tribulation lightning just now already made Jiang Yan feel that his own extremely condensed true essence had transformed once again.

Jiang Yan looks at the tribulation clouds above his head with anticipation.

The Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation, totaling twenty-seven strikes.

Jiang Yan feels that surviving it is no problem.

But he estimates that the image after surviving it will not be very good.

Considering that he still has to carry out the cause of spreading immortal cultivation in Teyvat, the status of an immortal cultivator must be maintained.

Jiang Yan calculates how to perfectly resolve the lightning tribulation.

On one side, he does not forget to continue to use true essence to build defenses.

One after another, pitch-black tribulation lightning strikes fall.

Today, the entire Teyvat has nothing else to do, all watching the thunder that keeps exploding and falling.

Guessing what happened in Liyue.

If it weren't for clearly knowing that the Heavenly Principles have not awakened and Celestia has no movement.