Chapter 27

Zhongli listened to the noisy Alice in his ear, and for a moment, his head was a bit big.

After a long while, he said slowly:

"Are the Tree and the Sea so terrifying to you?"

"You're still mentioning it!"

Alice's voice became sharp again.

"Are you trying to make me go back and blow you up!"

Zhongli sighed.

"You calm down, I just want to know what the universe outside is like. This is very important to me and to Teyvat."

"This is not important to you! This is also not something you need to worry about! You just stay in Teyvat peacefully!"

Alice said coldly.

"Since that's the case, I already have my answer. Teyvat is indeed an existence attached to this multiverse."

Alice on the opposite side was silent.

After a long while, she finally noticed something wrong and said in a low voice:

"How did you know the concept of multiverse! Who told you about the Tree and the Sea!"

"This is not important to you, and this is not something you need to worry about."

Immediately, the petty golden dragon retorted with Alice's words.

Alice was furious.

"Fine, fine, fine, you say it like that, right? There should be someone beside you. Let me guess, is it Xiao and the others? Xiao, listen, when I came to Liyue back then..."

"Alright! I'll tell you!"

Zhongli hurriedly interrupted Alice and wiped the sweat from his forehead quietly.

This crazy woman has no filter. If she exposes his dark history, how will he mix in the future?

"Speak, I want to see what kind of existence has drilled into Teyvat under our noses!"

Alice's eyes were cold, looking at the boundless Dark Sea.

She hadn't gone out to travel for so many years, wasn't it because Klee hadn't grown up and she had to guard Teyvat?

Now that some dirty thing dares to drill in, isn't that slapping her in the face?

It seems that it has been a long time since she went out, and the guys in the Quantum Sea have forgotten her prestige.

"Before I tell you, I want to ask you one thing."

Zhongli paused and said softly:

"You have traveled through countless worlds. I want to ask you, do you know about cultivation?"

"Huh?"

Alice rubbed her ears incredibly.

"You, an ancestor of all immortals, ask me, a witch, if I understand cultivation?"

"No, it's not the kind of cultivation in Teyvat, but a higher level of cultivation."

Zhongli retorted and added:

"Or put it this way, do you know about the heavens and myriad realms?"

Alice was silent.

The heavens and myriad realms—this really asked her blind spot.

Zhongli could guess it, and couldn't help but feel a bit amused in his heart.

The witch who had always known everything was actually stumped by him.

It was really a breath of relief.

"The matter starts a hundred days ago. That day, a person from outside the sky came to Teyvat..."

Immediately after, Zhongli roughly told Jiang Yan's origin, the power he displayed, and even the Shushan that Jiang Yan himself spoke of.

Alice at the border felt more and more absurd as she listened.

She always felt that Zhongli was telling some storybook story.

But he never jokes, especially about such big things.

So...

Is there really a cultivator?

And right in Teyvat?

Alice became somewhat excited for a time.

Legendary cultivators—as an existence who has traveled through many worlds, reading novels is naturally Alice's hobby.

Alice understands the saying of cultivation very well.

But before, she only treated it as a pastime.

Now it seems...

She was wrong.

Cultivator...

Refinement of Essence and Transformation of Qi, Refinement of Qi and Transformation of Spirit...

Passing the tribulation and ascending...

Heavens and myriad realms, Great Luo immortals, Shushan Sword Sect...

These vast and magnificent stories made Alice feel somewhat restless for a time.

She didn't know if it was good or bad that a cultivator came to Teyvat.

However, according to what Zhongli said, Jiang Yan is now at the Refinement of Spirit and Return to Void stage, which is probably already something that Celestia and the Hexenzirkel cannot deal with.

And this is still before he has become an immortal, and he hasn't even walked through the ultimate path of humanity.

Calculated this way, perhaps Jiang Yan doesn't need to become an immortal; as long as he becomes a Refinement of Void and Integration of Dao cultivator, Teyvat's problems can be solved.

Perhaps he can even pull up the Imaginary Tree.

For a time, a glimmer of hope ignited in Alice's heart.

"Alice, are you listening? Can you give me an answer?"

Zhongli's voice interrupted Alice's contemplation.

The latter came back to her senses and said softly:

"When traveling through other worlds, I have indeed heard of cultivation, but they are mostly some novel stories."

"I didn't expect there to be real cultivators."

"Heavens and myriad realms? It seems my vision is still very narrow."

Zhongli raised his eyebrows and said somewhat uncertainly:

"Do you think that the heavens and myriad realms that Jiang Yan spoke of really exist?"

Alice asked back:

"Many people in Teyvat think that Teyvat is the only world. Before this, I also thought that the Tree and the Sea were the origin of all worlds."

"What do you think?"

Zhongli was speechless, but he had already given eight points of trust to the heavens and myriad realms in his heart.

"Then... what about the cultivation and Shushan he spoke of?"

"I don't know."

21. Alice: If you really have cultivation, I won't be sleepy anymore

"I have traveled through countless worlds and have indeed heard the name of Shushan in the Divine Land of many worlds."

"But they are all famous mountains and rivers, nothing special."

"However, the myths he told, Goddess Nüwa, Heavenly Emperor, Three Pure Ones, etc., these have been circulating in many worlds."

"According to his statement that Great Luo is immortal and reflects the heavens, it fits this statement."

"I cannot judge. You explore it yourselves."

In the end, Alice didn't give any constructive opinions.

After all, these things were truly asked into her blind spot.

Zhongli pondered for a moment and added:

"So, you support us in cultivating?"