I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

"I thought Shadow had finally come to his senses and was about to make a choice about the concept of eternity with his puppet general—"

Raiden turned around and looked gently into Li Lin's eyes: "I didn't expect it to be you."

Li Lin trembled at Lei Dianzhen's gentle tone, feeling as if ants were crawling all over his body.

So what's with this tone of voice when meeting an old friend?

Lei Dian's face was somewhat blurry. She looked at Li Lin carefully and suddenly realized, "Ah, so it was you at this time... Let me think, hmm, you should have only recently forged your third artifact, right? Then you must have known me from the past."

"Seriously... what are you talking about?" Lei Yingdian, who was blocked behind Raiden, was completely confused. How did these two suddenly start chatting, looking like old friends reuniting?

Li Lin frowned, and the playful expression on his face gradually faded.

He realized that his existence might not be so simple.

Li Lin knew Lei Dianzhen only through the golden-haired fool in the game; in other words, he knew Lei Dian General, but Lei Dian General did not know him.

But Raiden's words revealed that she and Li Lin had known each other for a long time.

"Now that you have forged the third legendary artifact, you are not far from crossing that threshold. Therefore, the more this is the case, the less I can say."

"Ah, right."

Raiden Shin twirled the parasol in his hand, smiling as he looked at Raiden Film, "So I'm sorry, Aying, I need some time alone. Please wait a moment."

"Hey, Zhen!" Before Lei Dianying could protest, he was ejected from the Pure Land of One Heart by Lei Dianzhen.

......

Amidst the ruins of Narukami Taisha, Rai staggered out from under the sacred cherry tree.

"Oh dear, isn't this our General? Why are you in such a sorry state?" A certain pink-skinned fox was still making sarcastic remarks on the side, but Lei Yingdian grabbed her soft ear.

"Fox, what exactly do you know?"

"Let go! Let go! Let go! I didn't know!" Yae no Miko slapped Rai's wrist, then paused when she saw the bloodstain on her nose. "No way, that guy really managed to hurt you... But isn't this wound a bit...?"

"You still say you don't know!"

Yae no Miko screamed in pain, but fortunately, the people around Narukami Shrine had already been evacuated by the shrine's magistrate, and no one saw the scene of Yae no Miko and Raiden General losing their composure.

"I swear I knew nothing about this. If I did it... may I never eat fried tofu again for a hundred years!"

Lei looked at Yae no Miko with suspicion. Could it be that she had orchestrated this whole thing?

......

In the Pure Land of One Heart, Thunder Gently gazed upon Li Lin.

"How are you feeling now?"

Li Lin smacked his lips: "Delicious."

246 Riddler, get out of Teyvat!

It tastes good, of course.

Raiden can't cook at all; it seems all his talent has been channeled into Raiden Shin.

"Eat more if you like it. You can only eat this dish, 'Stir-fried Cherry Tree in Pure Land of Pure Heart,' once."

As Li Lin began to devour his food, Raiden's figure became somewhat blurry.

Ultimately, the Pure Land of One Heart is the consciousness space of the Raiden Twins. When Raiden Shinsho was still alive, the Pure Land of One Heart expanded to an immense size, almost covering the entire Narukami Island.

After she fell to Kanria, the rapidly expanding Pure Land of One Heart came to a standstill, and Ray Films even sealed it away, using it as a space to store his own consciousness.

However, Raiden's consciousness space was completely sealed, frozen under the Divine Cherry Tree.

Lei's obsession with film is unwavering eternity. She not only transforms herself into a puppet who carries out eternity, but also strives to freeze the entire Inazuma Kingdom in history, hoping that they will become a solidified eternity in history.

The true desire of lightning is a fleeting moment; what it seeks is every shining instant in the present. At that time, Inazuma is still a grand scene of vibrant life where all things are thriving. Although the light of rice is brief, what is everlasting is what flows continuously.

“Then, the question arises—” Raiden Shin’s voice rang out, “Since time is a river, a golden braid that is constantly being woven, how should we confirm our own existence? This is the question that the immortals should consider.”

"Pfft." Li Lin sneered without any mercy, "Who told you that?"

“You,” Raiden Shin replied, “but I don’t know when you are, whether it’s the past or the future.”

"So, to get back to the point, the most basic definition of an immortal is to make one's existence no longer limited to the present moment, but to make one's existence extend infinitely in the timeline—that is, in history. The longer one exists, the more ancient one becomes."

Based on this definition, the power of immortals may not necessarily be great, and the physical bodies of some immortals may not even be comparable to those of those who are renowned sages, but their way of existence is no different from that of gods.

"And what about your sister?" Li Lin wouldn't miss any opportunity to undermine him.

"My silly little sister... just as she had extended her power from protection to expansion, she abandoned that approach and instead froze her existence on a single point in time. Should I call her clumsy, or stubborn?"

Raiden gazed into the darkness beyond the light, "But she does share the same origin as me, so even though she chose this eternity, her previous life has left its mark on the history of Teyvat."

"Regarding the three definitions of immortals, I can only tell you the first one," Raiden sighed and shook his head. "It's not only because of the limitations of Teyvat itself, but also to maintain the stability of time itself."

After all, everyone knows Li Lin's personality, and this could easily trigger some kind of rebellious behavior in him.

Raiden's lips twitched a few times, as if he were smiling: "You just need to know that I won't harm you... After all, it will take my silly little sister an unknown amount of time to become 'true'. Five hundred years of obsession will eventually need to be resolved by her fighting the Puppet General."

The power of Narukami is not something that only Raiden Shin can activate, but rather something that only "Shin" can possess.

“When Raiden Shin learned what flowing eternity was, and opened the sealed Inazuma, allowing it to reappear in the sunlight—” Raiden Shin said meaningfully, “at that moment she became ‘Shin,’ and the Doll General became ‘Kage.’

"The Riddler, is it?" Li Lin exclaimed in shock. "Damn it, why do I keep running into Riddlers in every world?"

“…?” Raiden's lips twitched slightly. She felt that the Li Lin in front of her was different from the one she remembered.

More dazzling, more outrageous, more insane—basically, the more abnormal the better.

So you didn't understand what I was saying, did you?

Li Linzhen said, "What you're saying is so ambiguous, who can understand it?"

To stop Lei Dian from continuing his riddles, Li Lin quickly finished the rest of his meal and cleverly changed the subject, seemingly casually asking, "Why did you push Lei's movie out and leave me here?"

It can change the subject, keep the plot going, and even pad the word count—it's like Qin Shi Huang touching an electric wire, winning by leaps and bounds.

"Because there are things you need to do next."

Raiden replied that she felt it was time to speak.

“The moment you leave my consciousness, you will be kicked out of Teyvat by the laws of nature, so you must finish these things first…”

"Why?" Li Lin roared. "Damn it, they didn't arrange any sisters for me, and it's all men, fine, but why do I have to fight with Lei Yingdian when I come to Inazuma?"

You despicable Night's Watchman!

"For no reason other than that you have already obtained the authority of the Rock God, and because of the blood of the earth, you can also touch the territory of the Pure Land of One Heart... But if this continues, the proportion you occupy in the Heavenly Throne will become larger and larger."

Raiden no longer used riddles: "Fanes... simple good and evil cannot judge Him. I believe He also has His own considerations. If He banishes you from Teyvat now, it must be because you yourself are not yet able to bear the responsibility of running the Teyvat world."

The primordial principle, or Phanes, is the origin born from the closed egg of Orpheus.

Phanes was a night watchman, and Orpheus's egg was the face of the ancient god, the egg of the reverse hatch. It was because Orobas witnessed this scene that he was ordered by the heavens to go on an eastern expedition to offer his head and commit suicide.

"So it's my fault after all?" Li Lin sneered, his gaze turning unfriendly.

Raiden suddenly became a little nervous. She suddenly remembered Li Lin's personality and hurriedly stammered to make amends: "Of course not... it could also be a problem with Fanes."

"That's more like it," Li Lin said magnanimously, indicating that he would not hold a grudge.

Raiden Shin pulled a seed out of his pocket: "This is a seed from the Divine Cherry Tree. Plant it."

This was originally Lei's job, but now, due to Li Lin's appearance, he has to plant it in the Pure Land of One Heart. Otherwise, the power of the Great God of the Eternal World, Istaru, will not be able to nurture the Divine Cherry Tree and connect the past and the future.

It is true that cause and effect can be reversed, but only if all the necessary elements are present.

"Why don't you plant them yourself?" Li Lin asked after taking the seeds.

“I am not the ruler of time. The Great God of the Eternal World, Ishtar, has only promised to help us once.”

"Moreover, because I am no longer confined to a certain history—in your familiar terms, I am trying to use this method to return to the past, to transcend my origins with A-Ying, and to seek a new opportunity to become the ruler of life."

Ray replied, "But I failed."

247 Get out of Teyvat!

On the throne at the center of the world, reigned high was Phanes.

Beside Phanes stood four luminous shadows, the four facets of the divine law, existing as the constant laws governing the mortal world.

This world once belonged to the wild dragons, and the center of the world was once fought over by two thrones, which are referred to as "Heavenly Principle" and "Abyss" in the great secret of the Abyss Palace.

A smug look flashed in Lei's purple pupils: "But the truth is not like that."

"The First Throne and the Second Throne were once one. At that time, the Orphic Egg had not yet ascended to the higher realm of light, and Phanes had not yet been born. Therefore, the First Throne does not refer to Phanes, but to this once unified world egg."

"You know His name."

Li Lin silently pulled the shocking crowbar from his crotch.

Lightning was so frightened that his whole body blurred with Gaussian: "It is the Inverted Egg, and the second throne that came after it was the Night Watchman born from it. But the Night Watchman and the Inverted Egg can be seen as one in some ways, so the throne of the first king still sits high on the Sky Isle."

Li Lin scratched his head in confusion: "Why are you suddenly going into such detail? Aren't you afraid of getting stabbed to death by that petty night watchman when you go out?"

Raiden Shin stated that he has always been indifferent: "If I were sent back to my place of origin directly, that would be a good thing... but as I said before, my attempt to bypass the origin tracing has failed."

"I have not only lost the authority and ability of the immortals, but my own existence has also become blurred. Only when the coordinates are clear enough can I see the world again in an instant. Sometimes history appears to me as a thousand tangled braids."