Chapter 8

Which immortal could 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 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, she could do it.

She, Cloud Retainer, would blow up her cave dwelling for Jiang Yan to hear a sound.

That was a mysterious and incomparable energy that had never been seen before, and it was not an attribute of any power existing in Teyvat.

Elemental power?

Better not touch it.

Things were too complicated, and Cloud Retainer had to sort them out.

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

Zhongli saw that Jiang Yan was waiting for them to ask, so he organized his language and said softly:

"I have always heard rumors about undergoing the Tribulation, and I used to think it was just something exaggerated and fabricated by novelists."

"I didn't expect that I would open my eyes today, and that there really is such a thing as undergoing the Tribulation to become an immortal."

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

Jiang Yan smiled and nodded.

"It is the manifestation of the Dao."

Dao...

This word was the word Jiang Yan had mentioned the most since he came here.

In the dark, he felt that this thing was very important.

But before he could ask, Jiang Yan said again:

"Undergoing the Tribulation is indeed undergoing the Tribulation, and it undoubtedly exists."

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

"According to your understanding, you can think that it is the debt I owe heaven and earth after going against heaven, and I need to use a life-and-death battle to repay what I have taken."

Zhongli became interested, put down the teacup, and said softly:

"It's like the contract law I master, if you want to get something, you have to take something to exchange, a fair trade."

"And you... what you pursue is an unfair exchange with heaven and earth, so you have to suffer such punishment. Is this the essence of Heavenly Tribulation?"

Jiang Yan laughed dumbly and nodded.

"You can say that."

Zhongli's eyes flashed with golden light, and he looked at Jiang Yan carefully.

Compared to before, Jiang Yan now had a strange conflicting feeling of nobility and ordinariness.

After looking at it for a long time, it made people feel physically uncomfortable.

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

Zhongli guessed that it was the suppression of the life level.

He shook his head with some melancholy.

"Immortal cultivator... truly a group of weird existences."

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

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

Jiang Yan took a sip of tea and said in a deep voice:

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

"Therefore, we immortal cultivators are actually a group of people who break the rules of heaven and earth, set our own rules, not only integrating great power into our own bodies."

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

"To put it bluntly..."

Jiang Yan paused and said with a smile:

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

Jiang Yan heard such words every day, so he naturally felt it was very chuunibyou and socially dead.

But for Zhongli and the others, this was very novel.

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

Zhongli's eyes became brighter and brighter, repeating this sentence constantly, seeming to think of something, sometimes emotional, sometimes resentful and disappointed.

Finally, it turned into a sigh.

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

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

Seeing that even Zhongli said so, Cloud Retainer felt unhappy, holding her cheeks and sulking on the side.

Jiang Yan saw that the atmosphere was a bit dull and waved his hand with some embarrassment.

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

"The Dao is different, but it is not absolutely impossible to conspire. What I said before is not to disrespect your immortals."

"Every world naturally has its own special features, but from a personal point of view, 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 the others who were thinking, Jiang Yan said softly:

"Do you know what kind of existence the Heavenly Tribulation just now was?"

"..."

Zhongli and the others recalled the Heavenly Tribulation just now, and for a time, they became more and more silent.

That was something that felt desperate when recalled.

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

"That is the Three-Nine Lei Jie, the easiest Lei Jie that immortal cultivators have to face. Going up, there are Six-Nine Thunder Tribulations, Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulations..."

"A thunder tribulation like this is actually 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 True Self..."

"These heavenly tribulations are silent, but they are all disasters engraved on the soul. Birth, old age, sickness, death, resentment, meeting, love, parting, seeking, not getting..."

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

"Once the tribulation fails, at best the Dao heart collapses and cultivation is lost, at worst, one becomes completely insane and never turns over."

"And even the most basic thunder tribulation that adds to the body but not the heart, the probability of surviving it 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 and have no place to be buried."

After saying this, Jiang Yan sighed and looked at the faint sky, Jiang Yan seemed to penetrate the false sky of Teyvat.

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

What did he, Jiang Yan, have compared to these geniuses?

Nothing more than a system that wasn't very sensitive and intelligent.

But immortal cultivation ultimately depends on oneself. The realm he possesses now is ultimately obtained by binding with the *Huang Tingyu Scripture* after his state of mind improved.

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

If he wants to improve his realm in the future, he can only constantly study the *Huang Tingyu Scripture* by himself.

Thinking about it this way...

It's quite interesting!

The corners of Jiang Yan's mouth suddenly curled up with a smile again.

Although he couldn't be a cheat like a "Deep Blue" point adder, but...

His cheat was also very powerful.

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

6. The difference between erosion and the Heart Tribulation of the True Self of immortal cultivators.

Jiang Yan's words about undergoing the Tribulation made Zhongli and the others silent for a long time.

Seeing Jiang Yan undergo the Tribulation so easily just now, it seemed he didn't spend much effort. ===== CHAPTER 9 =====