Chapter 6

Cloud Retainer gently pushed Ganyu and took her back to sit by the stone table quickly.

"Geo Archon, when did you arrive?"

Hearing this, Zhongli withdrew his gaze from Jiang Yan and said softly:

"Since before he quietly chanted the Huang Ting."

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

Cloud Retainer was a bit surprised, and Zhongli nodded slightly.

"Naturally, visitors from outside the heavens all have their abilities, not to mention that he is a visitor who does not exist in the destined cycle of fate."

"Plus, the *Huang Ting Jing* he chanted every day during this period..."

Zhongli paused, and the face under the hood was a bit serious.

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

"What?!"

Cloud Retainer looked at Zhongli in disbelief.

Zhongli's erosion was an irreversible rule of Teyvat.

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

Why would Zhongli be pondering about abdicating at this Rite of Descension?

Not to mention Cloud Retainer's shock, Zhongli himself was the most shocked person.

"It seems that I really misjudged."

Cloud Retainer sighed with emotion, looked up at Jiang Yan, and said with dissatisfaction:

"He does have some skills, but his words are presumptuous and he is arrogant. I think the Geo Archon also heard what he said to me about the immortal path just now."

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

"That is, the Heavenly Principles are sleeping now, otherwise if he dared to say such things, he would inevitably be punished by the Heavenly Principles."

"Having survived in Teyvat for so long, I have never heard of anyone succeeding in going against heaven to cultivate immortality."

Zhongli stared at Jiang Yan without blinking and said softly:

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

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

Cloud Retainer was speechless, and after a long while, she said with some indignation:

"Even so, his words are too extreme, what Archons are not immortals, what my immortality is not immortality?"

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

Zhongli smiled and said in a deep voice:

"Perhaps, it is not a denial... In short, just watch."

Cloud Retainer was still a bit unhappy, and after snorting, she muttered:

"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 later, and have our little Ganyu save him."

"Cloud Retainer!"

Ganyu lowered her head in shame, but immediately looked at the sky with extreme worry.

"Lightning strike..."

Zhongli's gaze moved, and his expression finally changed.

He looked at Jiang Yan in the sky in horror.

He had long felt that this celestial phenomenon was wrong; it didn't look like something Teyvat could produce.

The aura contained in it was very strange to him, but the hidden sense of crisis made Zhongli feel like he was on pins and needles.

At this moment, Cloud Retainer's words pointed out the last confusion in Zhongli's heart.

Zhongli stood up abruptly and looked at Jiang Yan in the sky in disbelief.

"He is... undergoing the Tribulation to become an immortal!"

"What? Undergoing the Tribulation?! Isn't that a fabricated legend?"

Cloud Retainer was a bit suspicious, and the next moment, before Zhongli could answer anything.

The black clouds pressing down in the sky finally seemed to have finished brewing.

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

Immediately after, there was a thunderous explosion that shook the world.

This sound was probably enough to shock everyone in Teyvat.

Jean and the others in Mondstadt, who were suffering from the Stormterror attack.

Ningguang and the others in Liyue, who were busy with the early preparations for the Rite of Descension.

Sangonomiya Kokomi and the others in Inazuma, who were 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 alone on the throne in Snezhnaya...

Lumine, who was traveling through the wilderness with Paimon...

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

All heard this thunder that shook the world.

Looking at these black clouds that could be seen from any corner of Teyvat.

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

Zhongli, who was below Jiang Yan, turned pale in an instant, his divine power seemed to be drained in an instant, and he sat down tiredly.

Cloud Retainer and the others on the side were no better.

They were all struggling to support themselves on the stone chairs.

"Too terrifying... is he really undergoing the Tribulation? How is this possible!"

Cloud Retainer's voice was a bit dry, and her gaze looked blankly at Jiang Yan above her head.

That bolt of lightning did not shake Jiang Yan, only the purple Qi on his body surged.

"Geo Archon, will Jiang Yan be alright?"

Ganyu asked with some worry, and Zhongli was silent.

He looked at Ganyu with complicated feelings.

He didn't know if Jiang Yan was alright, but looking at him, he was actually doing quite well now.

However...

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

This thunder made him feel so powerless; if he were accidentally struck by it.

The grand drama he had envisioned of the Geo Archon being old and failing the Tribulation and dying.

I'm afraid it would come true.

"Refreshing!"

A cheerful light shout came from overhead, and Jiang Yan looked at the thunderclouds overhead with ecstasy.

He didn't foolishly use his body to resist; that way of undergoing the tribulation was either for pure body cultivators or for some transmigrators whose heads were muddled by immortal cultivation novels.

If you weren't a professional body cultivator, taking a hit from the tribulation lightning, see if you wouldn't be half-dead, with your meridians broken.

The true way to undergo the tribulation, according to the *Huang Ting Jing*, was very popular: use true essence to build a defense.

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

That bolt of tribulation lightning just now had already made Jiang Yan feel that his own incomparably condensed true essence was transforming once again.

Jiang Yan looked at the tribulation clouds overhead with anticipation.

The Three-Nine Lei Jie, totaling twenty-seven bolts.

Jiang Yan felt that there was no problem in surviving it.

But he guessed that his image wouldn't be very good after surviving it.

Considering that he still had to carry out the cause of immortal cultivation in Teyvat, he had to maintain the style of an immortal cultivator.

Jiang Yan calculated in his heart how to perfectly resolve the Lei Jie.

On one side, he didn't forget to continue to build defenses with true essence.

One bolt after another of pitch-black tribulation lightning fell.

Today, the entire Teyvat had nothing else to do but watch the thunder that kept exploding and falling.

Guessing in their hearts what exactly happened in Liyue.

If it weren't for the clear knowledge that the Heavenly Principles hadn't awakened yet, and Celestia hadn't moved. ===== CHAPTER 7 =====