Chapter 10

Zhongli paused, pondered for a moment, and said slowly:

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

As soon as this was said, Cloud Retainer and the others perked up, looking at Jiang Yan expectantly.

They couldn't understand the other questions, and they didn't care much.

Only this one...

It seemed to be related to the foundation of why immortal cultivators were so powerful.

This point was very important to them.

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

"This question..."

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

"How? Is it unspeakable? If it's inconvenient, you don't have to say it."

Zhongli added another sentence, and Jiang Yan shook 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."

"I don't understand how it reached this step."

"However..."

Jiang Yan gently reached out, and a book scroll condensed from white jade appeared in his hand.

Zhongli and the others had never seen the characters on it, but strangely, they knew what they meant just by looking at them.

*Huang Tingyu Scripture*.

It seemed to be the thing Jiang Yan had been chanting all along.

But Ganyu had a deep memory, and it should have been a slightly yellowed, old-fashioned paper book.

Jiang Yan gazed at the *Huang Tingyu Scripture*, and after a moment of silence, laughed softly:

"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 through and being reborn from life-and-death disasters."

Zhongli was a bit dazed, and after a moment, nodded 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."

Cloud Retainer curled her lips on the side, but didn't refute anything.

Jiang Yan smiled and waved his hand.

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

"The myriad laws of the world all have their capabilities, and any world or any system ultimately has certain merits."

"It's just that, in the eyes of us immortal cultivators, an immortal 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 myriad worlds."

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

Zhongli realized, and Cloud Retainer's expression also improved a lot.

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

Jiang Yan nodded and smiled:

"That's right."

"Then are you not an immortal yet?"

Cloud Retainer couldn't help but interject, feeling a bit depressed:

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

Zhongli's face turned black. Fortunately, the hood blocked it, and no one else could see it.

But in his heart, he couldn't help but complain that Cloud Retainer was as brainless as ever.

"I have no need to lie to you."

Jiang Yan shook his head helplessly.

"I am still one major realm away from truly becoming an immortal, but in reality, this one realm can trap thousands of immortal cultivators."

"Many talented immortal cultivators might 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 spoke, Jiang Yan looked at Cloud Retainer, raised one palm, and colorful light flickered in it.

As if the starry sea was sinking into it.

It was that thing that was absolutely not elemental power again!

Zhongli felt a chill in his heart and carefully felt it, but other than being noble and mysterious, he couldn't feel anything else.

"Cloud Retainer, what I said to you just now was 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, there is no worry of birth, old age, sickness, and death from now on, jumping out of the three realms, not within the five elements."

"Traveling to the North Sea in the morning and the Cangwu in the evening, plucking stars and grasping the moon, changing heaven and earth, and even... creating worlds, these are the abilities of an immortal."

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

Hearing this, Zhongli sighed with yearning, and Cloud Retainer's eyes also shone with brilliance.

Just the fact that their immortals could be above the world was already far ahead of the immortals of Teyvat.

"It's truly an incredible immortal cultivation system. In this way, our self-proclaimed immortals are indeed a bit arrogant."

Cloud Retainer snorted with depression and didn't say anything.

Jiang Yan shook his head.

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

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

Cloud Retainer became more and more angry, glared at Jiang Yan, but couldn't refute anything.

In terms of combat power...

Compared to immortal cultivators like them, Cloud Retainer and the others were indeed the weaker side.

Jiang Yan didn't continue to discuss the issue of combat power and continued:

"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 think you have reached the end."

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

Jiang Yan looked at the sky with some emotion and said softly:

"Mortals want to cultivate immortality, immortal cultivators want to become great beings, great beings want to ascend to become immortals, and immortals want to become giants of the Immortal World."

"Giants of the Immortal World want to attain the Dao."

"After attaining the Dao, what then? I think it's probably continuing to walk as I am now."

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

Jiang Yan seemed to be saying it to Zhongli and the others, and seemed to be comforting himself.

In short, Zhongli and the others didn't interrupt.

After a while, Jiang Yan came back to his senses and smiled gently:

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

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

Zhongli always felt that Jiang Yan seemed to be teaching him how to cultivate immortality.

But for a time, Zhongli was not sure of Jiang Yan's intentions, so he could only patiently continue to ask:

"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 reached out again. This time, everyone saw it more clearly.

First, various elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth circulated in turn, and even occasionally evolved into the seven elements of Teyvat. ===== CHAPTER 11 =====