Genshin Impact: Forced to Become a Follower of the Seven Gods

In the courtyard, Su Ming leaned on the rocking chair and rocked slowly, squinting his eyes and looking at the clear sky. He seemed a little puzzled, "Why isn't it raining yet?"

"Raining?" Zhongli raised his eyebrows slightly, with doubt in his voice.

Su Ming nodded and pointed in the direction of Guyun Pavilion. "Didn't Ying take Villette to the haunted house? I was waiting for him to cry out of fear. It's just in time..."

It seems like it hasn't rained in Liyue Harbor for a few days, so it's a good time to cry.

At this point, Su Ming turned his head to look at Zhongli, hooked his fingers on Zhongli's wide sleeves and shook them, "Teacher, when he is unhappy, it rains, and when you are angry, you throw rocks at me, which also counts as a meteor shower, so are you a dragon or not?"

Zhongli:……

"You dare to think so." Zhongli pulled out his sleeves, propped up his chin and sat on the rocking chair with his legs bent. His pair of golden pupils were calm. "Why are you so obsessed with finding the elemental dragon?"

Su Ming thought about it, and patted himself again, "Let's see if I can beat him. My Chen Ge Pot only has the Immortal Ancestor Transformation now."

Zhongli closed his eyes and shifted his gaze.

I'm afraid it will take a long time for this wish to come true.

A gentle breeze blew, and the tall trees in the yard swayed and dropped golden leaves.

After a long silence, Zhongli finally spoke, "Have you found all your memories?"

Hearing this, Su Ming opened his eyes and tried to recall, "I should have found everything, but there are still some details that I can't remember. Maybe I can only find them out when I encounter a familiar scene."

It feels quite coherent and smooth, but I really can't recall the small things. After all, it has been too long, and even if I have a good memory, it is impossible to remember everything.

“Yes.” Zhongli responded, tapping his fingertips on the table. “If you had listened to the method of escape that I discussed with the other immortals, perhaps what would be presented to the traveler would not be the ceremony of sending off the immortals, but the ceremony of abdication.”

Su Ming: ...

This one hasn’t passed yet?

Isn't it just that he was the emperor for a few more years? Is it necessary for you to remember it until now?

"Then I would have been torn away by the plot long ago." Su Ming sighed heavily and turned to look at Zhongli, "Even if you wanted me to take over from the bottom of your heart, I couldn't do it."

Zhongli achieved his deity status through military exploits and has governed Liyue for thousands of years. He has only been studying under the Emperor for a dozen years or so. How could he be capable of taking on this hot potato?

"It's not a true succession. You were still a human at the time. Taking over the Emperor's position is not the same as taking over the position of a god. Qixing and you are both mortals, which may be better for Liyue." Zhongli was silent for a moment, and then his steady voice sounded again, "At least there are some things that Qixing can't do openly that you can do."

Su Ming: ...

Su Ming turned around and squinted at Zhongli, "You are scolding me, right? What you mean is that it is not good for Qixing to go out and create people, but I, a crazy master, can create people everywhere, right?"

"That's true." Zhongli didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed about having his rhetoric exposed, and his facial expression didn't change at all.

What a pity, the young disciple has a strong temper. He would rather die than listen to the adults' arrangements and survive safely. Even if he dies, he will leave some psychological trauma on so many people in Liyue Harbor.

Su Ming sighed slightly, turned his head and yawned, "Sir, what you and the immortals want to do is to force a blessing. It's okay to protect others, but for the Rock King and the Liyue immortals, this behavior is biased, even if I have done nothing wrong."

At this point, Su Ming turned his head and looked at Zhongli, "But the law does not punish everyone. You can't kill all the subjects you once protected. After all, there is always darkness in people's hearts. Even if you pick a few people out to kill, everyone will still secretly miss the power I can control. It's better to start over."

Zhongli was silent for a moment, and finally couldn't help but say what he had been suppressing for many years, "You have always been selfish and self-interested, but in this matter..."

By dying once, he would discard all the power in himself that was worth noting, and protect his reputation as a teacher and the reputation of an immortal, that is...

I feel a little wronged.

"That is indeed selfish. I am an outsider, an adventer, holding the power of the Eye of God, and I also have the authority of the Demon God to rely on." Su Ming laughed, and swayed lazily in the rocking chair with a smile on his face, "Why should I bother with those background people? They just lower my status."

“Even though I was forced into a desperate situation and died once, it was not because of those ordinary people.” Su Ming paused, looking at Zhongli’s profile. “It was the strange gods who secretly watched me, step by step pushing the reputation of the Geo Emperor for fairness and justice and the merits of the Liyue immortals for protecting mortals to the other side of the scale, forcing me to admit defeat and obey, and change to something else…”

Zhongli fixed his eyes on Su Ming's face, and after a while he couldn't help but chuckle, "Do I need to be moved at a time like this?"

"Then you'd better be moved to tears, otherwise I'll go to the kitchen to cut two onions for you..." Su Ming smiled, rocking in the rocking chair with his arm as his head rested, while his other hand held up a ball of gray mist.

Su Ming looked at the God's Heart condensed in his palm, and silently turned to look at Zhongli, "You said... I can easily make so many God's Hearts, is it because no one wants to use my ashes?"

Zhongli:? ? ?

A question mark flashed in Zhongli's eyes, staring at Su Ming, "What?"

How did this kid Su Ming know so much? !

Didn't the contract between him and the Ice Emperor stipulate that these things must be kept secret from Su Ming? !

"Tsk tsk... The seven rulers are dividing the skeletons of their respective people. Now it's my turn..." Su Ming's face was full of emotion, and he seemed a little confused about the logic. "I have a whole skeleton to use. I can make as many God's Hearts as I want."

"You..." Zhongli almost couldn't catch his breath, and felt that his fatigue seemed to have worsened.

He looked at Su Ming with calm eyes and couldn't help asking, "Are you telling me a bad joke?!"

Can't you be a little sad?!

He would rather die than destroy his teacher's reputation. Does he have to tell such a dark joke when he is so moved? !

"Yeah." Su Ming put away his palms, and swayed on the rocking chair, with his usual lazy smile in his voice, "This atmosphere is really not suitable for someone like me who gets crazy every day, and there is no need to think about it anymore."

Su Ming turned his head to look at Zhongli, stretched out a hand to grab Zhongli's sleeve and swung it back and forth, just like when he was a child and wandered around the streets and alleys of Liyue Harbor holding Zhongli's sleeve, "The god who backstabbed me is more broken than me, and the person who backstabbed me will not live longer than me and will be sent away by Hu Tao sooner or later. What is there to think about."

Before he finished speaking, a drop of rain as big as a bean fell on Su Ming's forehead.

Su Ming was stunned for a moment, reached out his hand to wipe it, and looked at the sky with a puzzled look.

At one side, Zhongli also looked up, looking at the gloomy sky in confusion.

After a while, Su Ming couldn't help himself and said, "Oh no, it's raining in Liyue? Can the structure of my haunted house scare a water dragon to tears?"

He is so virtuous and capable!