Xingtie: Starting from the Cloud Five period

Jiang Yuan planned to ask his friends from Teyvat if they would like to go out for a walk with him.

There was no sign of Dainsleb.

Kaia rejected him.

While Ayato refused, she gave him a cup of milk tea with a new flavor. Jiang Yuan in turn refused Ayato's milk tea.

Elhaisen was discussing some profound topic with Danheng and Walter, who finally had some free time. Jiang Yuan felt a little sleepy after listening to a few words and turned away - judging from Brother Hai's appearance, he definitely had no intention of going out to play with him.

Finally, there is Zhongli.

Zhongli was not alone when he sat in the teahouse drinking tea and listening to books.

Sitting next to him was a little old man whom Jiang Yuan had just met not long ago.

It’s General Huaiyan.

"Retire?" Huai Yan sighed, "Unfortunately, I have to go back to work after retirement. I hope you won't encounter such a thing."

"Lend your blessings."

Zhongli poured Huaiyan a cup of tea.

He still looks young, and seems to be of a different generation than Huai Yan.

But he gives people a calm and steady feeling, so people don't feel any sense of incongruity.

Actually, in terms of age, the younger-looking Zhongli is the older one.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan sat next to the two old men.

"You two are in such good spirits." He also started drinking tea, the Immortal Happy Tea.

By the way, it wasn't given by Ayato, he bought it himself.

"Haha," Huai Yan stroked his beard cheerfully, "It's enough for you young people to handle the matter. Of course, I, an old man, will take this opportunity to take a rest."

Zhongli nodded: "Liyue no longer needs my concern."

[But the Hall of Rebirth needs you, guest!]

[Do you need the old man to buy something and put it on the Wangshengtang account?]

[…Haha, alright old man, you can continue playing and have fun. I will take care of the affairs of the Wangsheng Hall!]

[So Mr. Zhongli's purchases are really all recorded in the Wangshengtang account?]

[Not really, we are just joking!]

〔I see. 〕

[He sometimes chooses to put it on the traveler's account.]

[…? ]

Zhongli, who is currently in Luofu, does not need to be counted in the pioneer account.

Not to mention the large sum of money Jiang Yuan transferred to them right after they were summoned, he could get his tea for free, but it was all thanks to his own efforts.

Zhongli sacrificed his own...image.

"Let's talk about this Rock King. He is very careful and knows that this matter cannot be investigated using a male image, so he transformed himself--"

The storyteller opened his folding fan to cover his face, then slowly moved it away, trying to act out a scene of a person changing his appearance.

"She turned into a beautiful woman!"

There was a burst of applause from the audience.

[? 〕

[Is this written in the book that Jiang Yuan took out?]

[I reviewed it again these two days, and it didn’t happen.]

〔So what is the storyteller talking about?〕

"...Zhongli." Jiang Yuan recalled the plot of the book.

Compared to the audience who were confused but couldn't get answers, he could just turn around and ask Zhongli who was right next to him.

“This paragraph is not written in the book, right?”

"Perhaps, I have not read that book." Zhongli's expression was calm. He accepted the story of the emperor who transformed into a woman well. "He asked me the other day if I could make some artistic processing of the emperor's experience. I agreed."

And what everyone hears now is the result of artistic processing.

At the same time, looking at the audience's reaction, we can conclude that this artistic processing is very successful.

Even Zhongli himself was quite interested in things he had never experienced.

So he rejected Jiang Yuan's invitation to go out.

Jiang Yuan stayed there and listened to the storyteller for a while before getting up and leaving the teahouse.

Friends from the neighboring Star Iron World had already rejected his invitation.

So his next goal was to find March 7th.

Before he found March 7, he saw three little guys first.

"You rude fellow, give me back my sword!"

"I told you, your swordsmanship is not good enough, so I won't return it to you!"

"Wait, calm down, can we just have a chat?"

Jiang Yuan could tell who was who just by listening to the content of the conversation.

The first one is Yan Qing from this world whose sword was stolen.

The second person to speak was Yun Li, who thought Yan Qing's swordsmanship was not good enough, so she grabbed the sword that flew to her side.

The third person who had no choice but to persuade was naturally Yan Qing from next door, who was a little calmer because he had been teased too much by his elders.

Jiang Yuan paused.

Not only did he almost miss a plot, but he also missed a wonderful plot?

Can he choose to believe in the star god who can travel back to the past and go back to watch the story again?

"Teacher!" Yan Qing from next door was the first to notice Jiang Yuan approaching, "Do you have something to do?"

He relaxed slightly.

Teacher Jiang Yuan usually behaves inappropriately, but he always has a way to interrupt the quarrel between the two people next to him.

"Hmm..." Jiang Yuan responded vaguely, "What are you doing?"

He walked closer and thought about it, and found that the scene was different from that in the game.

Obviously, the scene before him was also part of his butterfly emergence.

"We were sparring," Yan Qing from the next room explained, "He lost control of his flying sword and it was caught by Yun Li who passed by."

Several elders would take him to visit other immortal boats from time to time, so he was quite familiar with Yun Li from another world.

Seeing the current scene, he felt helpless but also a little bit of fun as a veteran.

You have to know that they were both young geniuses. When they first met, neither of them wanted to admit defeat, and they had quarreled like this.

Later, as we had more exchanges, from the initial tit-for-tat to now, we can be said to be...both enemies and friends.

[I remember that Yan Qing and Yun Li from our side had a quarrel like this, right?]

[We quarrel. We still quarrel because of different opinions on certain things.]

[The me from another world finally appears. I really want to see how strong she is now.]

[Don't worry, judging by the way they are arguing, they might start fighting soon.]

[Even if a fight doesn't break out, with Jiang Yuan here, I'm sure it will.]

Very good. After listening to Yan Qing's words, Jiang Yuan confirmed.

It’s not that he missed a certain plot, but that the plot didn’t happen at all - now he can’t be sure whether it hasn’t happened yet or will not happen.

"Since neither of you can win by bickering..."

Jiang Yuan touched his chin.

"Why don't you two fight?"

[Look.]

[It is indeed so.]

[This is something Jiang Yuan would do.]

[But in this situation, is fighting really the most useful thing?]

[It seems so.]

"Teacher Jiang Yuan..." Yan Qing from next door shook his head, "I asked you to persuade them, not to encourage them."

But it was no use what he said.

Yan Qing and Yun Li from this world are right.