Chapter 7

Which immortal can be as ridiculously strong as him?

This kind of thing is even more ridiculous than Zhongli falling in love with swimming and even going to the deep sea to find seafood to eat every day.

And Jiang Yan’s move of driving the golden thunder giant sword just now, honestly, if that were elemental power, or if that were immortal power or divine power, it could be done.

She, Liuyun, will blow up her cave and let Jiang Yan hear a sound.

That is an energy that has never been seen before, mysterious and incomparable, but extremely tempting, not the power attribute of any existence in Teyvat.

Elemental power?

Let's not touch porcelain.

The matter is too complicated, Liuyun has to sort it out.

Ganyu and Shenhe on the side also don't know what to say, looking at Jiang Yan, occasionally in a daze.

Zhongli sees that Jiang Yan is waiting for them to ask, so he organizes his language and says softly:

"I have always heard of the matter of crossing the tribulation, and I used to think it was just something exaggerated and fabricated by novelists."

"I didn't expect that today I have opened my eyes, and there really is such a thing as crossing the tribulation to become an immortal in the world."

"However, if I didn't see it wrong, that tribulation lightning... is not the energy of Teyvat... no! It should be the manifestation of some rule higher than the world, right?"

Jiang Yan smiles and nods.

"It is the manifestation of the Dao."

Dao...

This word is the word Zhongli has heard most often from Jiang Yan.

In the dark, he feels that this thing is very important.

But before he could ask, Jiang Yan says again:

"Crossing the tribulation is indeed crossing the tribulation, and it exists unquestionably."

"But I am not becoming an immortal, just a test brought by heaven and earth when my realm has a breakthrough."

"According to your understanding, you can think that it is the debt I owe to heaven and earth after going against heaven, which needs to be repaid with a battle of life and death for what I have taken."

Zhongli becomes interested, puts down the teacup, and says softly:

"Like the contract rule I master, if you want to get something, you have to take something to exchange, a fair trade."

"And you... what you pursue is a kind of unfair exchange between heaven and earth, so you have to suffer such punishment. Is this the essence of the heavenly tribulation?"

Jiang Yan laughs dumbly and nods.

"You can say that."

Zhongli’s eyes flash with golden light, looking at Jiang Yan carefully.

Compared to before, Jiang Yan now has a strange conflict of nobility and ordinariness.

After looking for a long time, it makes people feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Jiang Yan also noticed this situation, and I don't know what he did; the next moment, it seems to return to the most original and transcendent appearance.

Zhongli guesses that it is the suppression of the life level.

Shaking his head somewhat sadly.

"Immortal cultivators... are really a group of weird existences."

"With a human body, defying the will of heaven, fighting with destiny, walking on the path of going against heaven and earth at all times."

"With my experience of over six thousand years of life, I have never heard of such an existence."

Jiang Yan sips his tea and says faintly:

"Cultivating immortality... what is cultivated is longevity, what is cultivated is equality with heaven. Heaven and earth are supreme, how can they allow such rebels?"

"Therefore, we immortal cultivators are actually breaking the rules of heaven and earth, setting our own rules, not only accommodating great power in our own bodies."

"But also pursuing to master the power of heaven and earth in our hands."

"To put it bluntly..."

Jiang Yan pauses and says with a smile:

"Actually, it is 'my fate is up to me, not heaven.' Although it sounds a bit middle-school, this is indeed the most appropriate word to describe immortal cultivators."

Jiang Yan hears such words every day, so he naturally feels it is very middle-school and socially dead.

But for Zhongli and others, this is a very novel word.

"My fate is up to me, not heaven..."

Zhongli’s eyes become brighter and brighter, repeating this sentence constantly, seemingly thinking of something, sometimes high-spirited, sometimes somewhat resentful and lost.

Finally, it turns into a sigh.

"My fate is up to me, not heaven, a very arrogant but very beautiful hope, but for us, it is somewhat unattainable."

"Thinking about it this way, our so-called immortals are indeed inferior to yours."

Liuyun sees that Zhongli has said so, and suddenly she is also somewhat unhappy, holding her cheeks and sitting on the side sulking.

Jiang Yan sees that the atmosphere is somewhat dull and waves his hands somewhat awkwardly.

"It's not necessarily like that. There are ten thousand methods in the world; since there are achievements, there are naturally merits."

"The Dao is different, but it is not absolutely impossible to conspire together. What I said earlier is not disrespecting your immortals."

"Every world naturally has its own special features, but from a personal perspective, your so-called immortals..."

"In my opinion, they are actually sacred beings born and raised by heaven, not immortals that can be cultivated."

"Sometimes, I might envy your immortals..."

"At the very least, you are born sacred, and you don't have to be like us, fighting with people, fighting with heaven, from birth to death, walking on the path of game."

"If you win, longevity is in sight; if you lose, your soul dies and the Dao disappears..."

Looking at Zhongli and others who are thinking, Jiang Yan says softly:

"Do you know what the heavenly tribulation just now is?"

"..."

Zhongli and others recall the heavenly tribulation just now, and for a while, they become more and more silent.

That is something that makes people feel desperate when they recall it.

It is hard to imagine how Jiang Yan faced it and survived.

"That is the Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation, the easiest lightning tribulation that immortal cultivators have to face. Further up, there are the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation, the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation..."

"A heavenly tribulation like this thunder is actually already considered the easiest."

"What we immortal cultivators fear most are the Three Disasters and Five Tribulations, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, the Heart Tribulation of the Self..."

"These heavenly tribulations are silent, but they are all disasters engraved on the soul: birth, old age, sickness, death, resentment, meeting, love, separation, and inability to get what one wants..."

"These tribulations point directly to the human heart and human nature, pointing directly to the Dao heart."

"Once the tribulation fails, the light one will have their Dao heart collapse and cultivation lost, and the heavy one will be completely crazy and never turn over."

"And even the most basic thunder tribulation that adds to the body but not the heart, the probability of surviving is one in a hundred."

"You only know that immortal cultivators are glamorous and become ancestors, but you don't know how many such immortal cultivators have died halfway without a burial place."

After saying this, Jiang Yan sighs long and looks at the faint sky. Jiang Yan seems to have pierced through the false sky of Teyvat.

Seeing the flames of those brilliant geniuses burning and blooming in the endless world.

What more does he, Jiang Yan, have compared to these geniuses?

It is nothing more than a system that is not very sensitive and intelligent.

But immortal cultivation, after all, has to rely on oneself. The realm he possesses now, in the final analysis, is obtained by binding with the Huangting Jade Scene Scripture after his state of mind has improved.

This can be considered the greatest support the system can provide him.

If he wants to improve his realm in the future, I think he can only continue to study the Huangting Jade Scene Scripture himself.

Thinking about it this way...

It is also interesting!

The corners of Jiang Yan’s mouth suddenly show a trace of smile again.

Although he can't be a hang-up player with deep blue points, but...

His cheat is also very powerful.

This immortal path, he may not be unable to walk through.

6. The distinction between erosion and the heart tribulation of the self of immortal cultivators.

Jiang Yan’s words about crossing the tribulation made Zhongli and others silent for a long time.

Just now, watching Jiang Yan cross the tribulation was easy, and it seemed that he didn't waste much effort.