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

The exile had grown accustomed to Li Lin's personality: "While his lifespan of several hundred years was partly due to the Ashes Ledger, his own bloodline was equally extraordinary. I spent my childhood in an orange grove in Sicily, and he found me when I was twelve."

"He said I am the bloodline he is looking for."

"Blood of the Earth?" A familiar term suddenly came to Li Lin's mind.

“Yes.” The exile nodded. “I always dislike those scholars who spout jargon, but their generalizations are indeed accurate. According to the genealogy of the Sichen bloodline, the blood flowing in my veins belongs to the ancient gods who once roamed the world.”

"To be precise, it belongs to Antaeus."

"That's the guy Hercules strangled? How shameful!" Li Lin started with a sarcastic remark. "This is probably the Sea of ​​Milk."

Hercules is the same as Heracles, the famous demigod in Greek mythology, and also the twelve trial stakes that are often talked about by netizens on Tieba.

The exile gave him a strange look: "...Antheus refers to the wheel and flint, while Hercules is the lion maker."

Li Lin's heart skipped a beat. So, his Oripathy was also a bloodline of flint? Such a terrible bloodline was unacceptable.

Fortunately, the exile did not notice the strange expression on Li Lin's face: "I have been to western Tripoli before."

“The Spanish took Tripoli from the Berbers, the Knights of St. John took it from the Spanish, the Ottomans took it from the Knights, and now it is under Italian control.” The exile’s tone was devoid of emotion. “The Berbers call Tripoli ‘The Bride of the Sea,’ but if I can trust my great enemy, my mother calls it ‘home.’”

“There I met the old servant who had served my mother. He was Antaeus’s last faithful servant, and he told me about my origins.”

According to the exiles' accounts, Defour's purpose in approaching her mother was not pure. Initially, he only wanted to drink the balaclava—the radiance—from her brain. Later, he used her as a breeding tool to produce offspring. When Snyder was born, her mother also died in childbirth.

"Everyone is speculating whether I will follow the path of the Lionsmith, becoming a double-edged sword against my great enemy." The former prince of the Purifiers, now an exile, laughed mockingly. "But since my bloodline is so extraordinary, why can't I receive the treatment I deserve because of it?"

"That's why I risked falling out with Ligeia to find you, the key hunter. After all, there are many ways to enter Mansor."

The exile hugged his knees, his red eyes gazing at the night sky, and smiled at Li Lin: "That's enough for today, I'll keep watch."

......

A dark green tabletop rose up, colorless starlight fell, cobalt blue clouds stretched out a long road beneath Li Lin's feet, and bright silver atmosphere connected in a line.

Before the overgrown open space, the collapsed temple sat silently, and on both sides of the temple's royal path, several people stood without saying a word.

Just as the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, Li Lin appeared in the middle.

"Friends, I've missed you all so much!" This was followed by a crisp, rhythmic clapper sound.

The moment he finished speaking, Li Lin suddenly noticed that there were two more people present, and for a moment, Master Li's clappers were played even more skillfully.

One of them was naturally Raiden Shin, who was kicked out of Teyvat along with Li Lin, while the other looked somewhat familiar, with the black hair and black eyes typical of people from the East.

"Li Linjun".

"Professor Aatrox."

Li Lin stared in astonishment at the student who was now almost as tall as him, and at the robe she wore that symbolized the headmaster of Hogwarts: "Choo Chang?"

How did she become the headmaster of Hogwarts?

"It has been nineteen years since you left Hogwarts." The elegant and tall Eastern beauty nodded slightly and looked around. "This is the place where you met me back then. It's truly a place I miss."

"That sounds a bit suspicious," Talulah commented from the sidelines, never one to miss a good spectacle.

Holding a grudge, Li Lin immediately pointed at Talulah from afar: "When I get to Terra, I'll definitely come and slap you in the face."

"Where is Junjun?" Li Lin looked around but did not see the figure of the king killer.

“She went to assassinate a Letanian nobleman,” Talulah said. “It’s not a big problem, but she won’t be able to log on for a while.”

"Fine." Li Lin pouted in disappointment, having thought he could finally get a piece of the king killer's tail.

"What about the year?"

“I wanted to ask you that too,” Talulah said, stroking her chin. “We haven’t seen her in a long time either.”

Mulan in 251

"Do you have a way to contact her?" Talulah asked.

"I'll give it a try." Li Lin put away his clappers, took out an ancient casting, and manipulated the metal rings inside to form the shape of a celestial sphere.

Drop drop drop-

The ancient casting emitted a beeping sound similar to an electronic tone, then flew out of Li Lin's hand and hovered in the air.

"Hello? Hello." Nian's voice came from the other end of the metal sphere, as if she was holding the phone between her face and ear while making the call. "What's up? Hurry up and say it. I'm working here... Ouch, you old bastard almost poked me."

A distinctly Chinese curse came from the other end of the phone, followed by the whooshing sound of wind, and then silence.

"You're back? How's it going over there?"

Li Lin glanced at the excited audience around him, and after a few seconds of silence, broke the silence.

"I am known as the Teyvat Cannon King. I party every night and never want to leave. It's so awesome!"

This time, there was silence on the other end of the phone. About two minutes later, Ms. Nian's cold voice came from the other end.

"Wait for me, I'll be right back."

Li Lin grabbed the celestial sphere with a snap, but unfortunately the ancient casting seemed to have its own consciousness, and he couldn't bend it back to its original shape for a while.

"Damn it, he's asking for it, isn't he?" Li Lin simply threw it onto the table. "Now it's solved."

"I don't think this is a good approach." Talulah felt a sudden unease and said, "Aren't you afraid that Nian will come back and punch you a couple of times?"

"What you can't have always stirs your heart, and those who are favored are always fearless," Li Lin replied with a cold laugh.

After temporarily setting the matter aside, Li Lin turned to Raiden Shin and asked, "You said you've seen me before... was it the future me who has achieved something, or the me after time travel?"

"What's the difference between these two?" Talulah asked, turning into a curious child.

“Yes.” Zhang Qiu habitually pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose, took out his wand and tapped his palm. “Let’s take our unique time converter as an analogy. Any rash time travel will have an impact on the past, because two selves of the same size will cause time disorder, and history itself will give birth to a new tributary.”

“Once they meet, something terrible and unpredictable will happen, so seven years after the professor left, all the time-twists were destroyed in one go.”

Zhang Qiu raised her wand and tapped it in the air, then flicked her wrist to draw a line.

"For people who can only live in the present, they are just points in time, so to go back in time is to jump from one point to another."

"But the immortals are different, because they exist for a long time in a period of history, like a line, and any point on this line is a self in a different timeline."

Zhang Qiu erased the fluorescent dots and lines in the air, and like a patient teacher, she gently guided him: "Do you understand?"

"understood."

Talulah lowered her head, her expression shifting between light and shadow. It wasn't that she thought there was anything wrong with Zhang Qiu's words, but rather that she was reminded of the black snake Koschl.

"I do not know."

Lightning's expression wasn't exactly pleasant either. She crossed the border of Teyvat accompanied by a vast expanse of starlight, but unlike Nian, who was favored by many of the Celestials, the Twins had no intention of helping her, and no one would come to welcome this immortal who had been banished back to her homeland.

“I originally thought that would be you, who will become an immortal in the future, but I’m not sure now,” Raiden Shin finally shook his head and said.

"How could anyone not trust me?" Li Lin said, feeling hurt. "I would not bow to the emperor, and my true name has been lost."

In short, Raiden is currently just a long-term support character; he's useless, weak and pitiful, but he can be eaten.

"You can't say that," Raiden muttered. "I still have a set of artifacts..."

Li Lin's expression changed drastically. He finally remembered what he had forgotten. He had gone to Teyvat with great difficulty, but he hadn't farmed all the dungeons and rifts that dropped artifacts.

Suddenly seized by a surge of malice, Master Li jumped up and grabbed Lei Dianzhen, yelling, "Damn it, spit out my top-grade holy relic!"

Talulah and Zhang Qiu quickly went up to comfort Li Lin and pulled him away.

It's unrealistic to expect Raiden to actually spit out the relic; as an immortal who was banished back to her homeland, she can only now rely on the relic.

"But what's the situation on your end?" Li Lin became curious about Zhang Qiu's situation again. "Is that old bastard Dumbledore alright?"

"It's alright. Professor Flitwick is right next to him, and they're both patients at St. Mungo's Hospital." Zhang Qiu pushed up his glasses and told a not-so-funny joke. "Well, actually, no."

"During Albus Dumbledore's tenure, Hogwarts' influence steadily declined under Durmstrang's suppression until we also had our own strategic wizards."

Zhang Qiu briefly described what happened after Li Lin left.

Grindelwald succeeded, but not entirely. He successfully saved the Soviet Union from disintegration, bringing it back to life, and created a series of strategic-level spells.

However, Li Lin's disappearance finally allowed the European market to breathe a sigh of relief. As time went on, Dumbledore had to take up the mantle of fighting Grindelwald again, and the biggest blow to the old wizard was undoubtedly the "defection" of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.

They received training at Hogwarts, but sided with the Soviet Union after graduation. When they reappeared, they had become the world's youngest strategic-level wizards.

Li Lin thought to himself, "This is the development of the 'Dragon Pride' novel; it can't be simply described as weird."

The defection of the Iron Triangle left the old wizard increasingly haggard. He handed over the position of headmaster to Professor McGonagall early on, but Professor McGonagall did not possess any strategic-level magic. Therefore, just one year later, the position was handed over to the young Cho Chang.

“All of this is the seed you planted back then, Professor.” Zhang Qiu’s eyes were bright, like a beacon. “So-called strategic magic is essentially an imitation of secret techniques. They are closer to the truth of the world than spells.”

Li Lin suddenly looked at Zhang Qiu with a tense expression: "Is there a Japanese man named Shiba Tatsuya in your area?"

“I don’t remember anyone like that at the Magic Institute,” Zhang Qiu replied, shaking his head. “The Magic Institute is the only school that’s not allowed to possess strategic-level magic, and if they make any unusual moves, eight strategic-level spells will be aimed at their poor island at the same time.”

"That's alright then." Li Lin patted his chest. "I thought this book was really going to turn into a tale of anti-Japanese heroes."

Looking around, Li Lin seemed to realize that he had forgotten something, but since he couldn't remember it, it meant it wasn't important.

A scorching breath sounded faintly behind his head, followed by the clanging sound of metal hitting the ground: "Li Lin, I'm here to beat you up."

"How dare you say that!" Li Lin complained pitifully, "You clearly said you would watch my live stream, but you didn't stay until the end."

Talulah guiltily looked away; she couldn't bear to look any longer.

The main reason was that Li Lin's actions were too bizarre, and she was afraid that she would imitate them.