Chapter 9

Zhongli pauses, and after thinking for a moment, says slowly:

"How is the path of immortal cultivation walked out?"

As soon as this is said, Liuyun and others perk up, looking at Jiang Yan with anticipation.

Other questions, they don't understand very well, and they don't care much.

Only this one...

Seems to be related to the root of why immortal cultivators are so powerful.

This point is very important to them.

7. Did the Primordial Jade Cutter become a flying sword for the Sword Art?

"This question..."

Jiang Yan frowns slightly, and the purple-gold rune between his eyebrows glows with a watery luster.

"How? Is it unspeakable? If it's inconvenient, then don't say it."

Zhongli adds another sentence, and Jiang Yan shakes his head.

"It's not that, it's just that the immortal cultivation system has been born for too long, and I don't know exactly how it was born."

"How I got to this step, I don't understand either."

"However..."

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

Zhongli and others have not seen the words on it, but strangely, they only need to look at them to know what they mean.

Huangting Jade Scene Scripture.

It seems to be what Jiang Yan has been reciting before.

But Ganyu has a deep memory; that should be a slightly yellowed paper book.

Jiang Yan stares at the Huangting Jade Scene Scripture, and after a moment of silence, chuckles:

"The Great Dao is fifty, the heaven evolves forty-nine, and one escapes."

"This escaped one represents a glimmer of life; everything in the world has a glimmer of life."

"Even if it is something impossible, there is a glimmer of life."

"Immortal cultivation is cultivating that escaped one, constantly breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn from the disaster of life and death."

Zhongli is somewhat trance-like, and after a while, nods slightly.

"There is a glimmer of life in heaven and earth..."

"I understand; it seems that the immortality you cultivate is indeed more perfect and extraordinary than ours."

Liuyun on the side curls her lips, but does not refute anything.

Jiang Yan smiles and waves his hands.

"I also said just now that I don't look down on the immortals of your Teyvat."

"The so-called immortal cultivation is to draw on the strengths of others; any world and any system have certain merits."

"It's just that an immortal, in the eyes of us immortal cultivators, is absolutely impossible to be born and raised by heaven; this is an attitude that immortal cultivators must have."

"Born and raised by heaven, born as an immortal, can be a great supernatural being, can be a congenital sacred being."

"But an immortal is an opportunity for transcendence given by the Great Dao to all life in the heavens and myriad worlds."

"An immortal is an absolutely sacred future in the eyes of immortal cultivators, so immortal cultivators are very stubborn about the definition of an immortal."

Zhongli realizes, and Liuyun’s expression on the side also gets much better.

"So, you are very strict about the division of realms."

Jiang Yan nods and smiles:

"That's right."

"Then you are not an immortal yet?"

Liuyun can't help but interject, somewhat depressed:

"You aren't lying to us, are you? The strength you showed just now, I feel like you could easily knock the Emperor down."

Zhongli’s face turns black, but fortunately, with the hood blocking it, others can't see it.

But he still can't help but complain that Liuyun’s guy speaks without using her brain as always.

"I have no need to lie to you."

Jiang Yan shakes his head helplessly.

"The distance between me and truly becoming an immortal seems to be only one realm, but in fact, this one realm may trap thousands of immortal cultivators."

"Many talented immortal cultivators may also need thousands, or even ten thousand years to break through this realm."

"You still don't understand the definition of an immortal in the eyes of immortal cultivators."

As he speaks, Jiang Yan looks at Liuyun, raises one palm, and colorful light flickers in it.

As if the star sea is sinking into it.

It is another thing that is definitely not elemental power!

Zhongli’s heart tightens, feeling it carefully, but apart from being noble and mysterious, he can't feel anything at all.

"Immortal Liuyun, what I said to you just now is not an exaggerated description."

"The so-called immortal lives as long as heaven and earth, and shines with the sun and moon."

"Having survived the Three Disasters and Five Tribulations, from then on there is no worry about birth, old age, sickness, and death, jumping out of the three realms, not within the five elements."

"Traveling to the North Sea in the morning and Cangwu in the evening, picking stars and taking the moon, changing heaven and earth, and even... creating the world, these are the abilities of immortals."

"To put it bluntly, an immortal is a life form higher than the world; an immortal is above the world, at least in Teyvat it is like this."

Hearing this, Zhongli sighs with longing, and Liuyun’s eyes also shine.

Just the fact that their immortals can be above the world is already far ahead of the immortals of Teyvat.

"It is truly an incredible immortal cultivation system. In this way, calling ourselves immortals is somewhat arrogant."

Liuyun hums depressedly and says nothing.

Jiang Yan shakes his head.

"No need to say that; I have also seen your immortals, and many abilities are indeed mysterious, not weaker than many means of immortal cultivators."

"It's just that the combat power is slightly worse."

Liuyun becomes more and more annoyed, glaring at Jiang Yan, but can't refute anything.

In terms of combat power...

Compared with immortal cultivators like Jiang Yan, the immortals like Liuyun are indeed weak.

Jiang Yan does not continue to discuss the issue of combat power and continues:

"Just as a human is the starting point of the human Dao, an immortal is also the starting point of the immortal Dao."

"Cultivation is an endless struggle, and there is no end point that stops."

"If one day your progress stops, and you feel that you have reached the end point."

"That doesn't mean your cultivation is over, it just means you have reached the place you can finally reach."

Jiang Yan looks at the sky with emotion and says softly:

"Mortals want to cultivate immortality, immortal cultivators want to become great powers, great powers want to ascend to become immortals, and immortals want to become giants in the immortal world."

"Giants in the immortal world want to attain the Dao."

"After attaining the Dao, what then? I think it is probably like me now, continuing to walk."

"This path is a one-way street that no one can stop and there is no way back."

Jiang Yan seems to be talking to Zhongli and them, and seems to be comforting himself.

Anyway, Zhongli and them didn't interrupt.

After a while, Jiang Yan comes back to his senses and smiles gently:

"Heaven and earth are limited, but the human heart is infinite, so the immortal seeks inward, not outward."

"Only by cultivating oneself and cultivating the Great Dao can one become a true immortal."

Zhongli always feels that Jiang Yan seems to be teaching him how to cultivate immortality.

But for a while, Zhongli is not sure of Jiang Yan’s intentions, so he can only continue to ask patiently:

"The ability you used just now is not elemental power, nor is it divine power. Is that a unique ability of you immortal cultivators?"

Hearing this, Jiang Yan reaches out again. This time, everyone sees it more clearly.

First, all kinds of elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, rotate in turn, and even occasionally evolve into the seven elements of Teyvat.