Chapter 1566: A New Year, Star Cup, God, and Deification (Final Chapter)

Let me get back to the beginning.

The so-called "Circle of Human Reason" is a cosmic order beyond time and space defined by the God of Man. It aims to fundamentally fight against the "law of fate that all living things must perish in the universe", rewrite the laws of the world and the universe, and become a brand new law of fate in the new universe where "existence is defined by me".

This is the "new cosmic order" in the macro sense that Jiang Yi has been describing. Specifically, it is the harmonious music in the circle of human reason, where people become immortals and gods, people become heroic spirits, historical achievements are sublimated into treasures, and death is not the end, but a chance to gain another life from the netherworld...all kinds of divine plans.

In order to achieve this, the planet is transformed.

Just as God created the "light world", "element world" and this dragon planet in order to allow humans to live on this planet.

……

a new Year.

Sea Lantern Festival.

"Chun Xi draws peach charms, and the Eight Wonders refine the peach capital." The sun is shining brightly, and Hu Tao kicks open the gate of Jiang Yi's house, "...Hu Tao...sends warmth."

He rushed to Jiang Yi's room and shouted, "Wake up, get up!"

"Wow! Shen He..." When she saw Shen He walking out the door, she immediately became angry.

What's going on? Another nighttime exercise, huh?

The last one to appear was Keqing, the cat that steals fish quietly and steals fish stealingly.

"Good morning!" Shen He smiled. "Well! Master Hu's new clothes... look great."

Today, Walnut changed out of her previous dark-colored ceremonial robes for a new year outfit with bright pink and snow-white as the main colors, and with delicate peach blossom embroidery.

The white round hat reminds people of first love with peach blossoms falling on the street. Red sunglasses are worn on the hat as decoration. The double ponytails are now wrapped into circles on both sides like a new hairstyle of double ponytails.

Her legs were covered with black stockings, and her perfect body was faintly visible under the red skirt.

"But unfortunately, Jiang Yi has already gone out!" Shen He said, "The guest scholar from your Wangsheng Hall brought back a tea called 'Ghost Mountain Spirit Bud' from Qingce Manor, and he went to ask for tea."

"Drinking tea so early in the morning!" Kurumi put his hand under his chin, "Ghost Mountain Spirit Bud!"

“Are they going to listen to opera at the Heyu Teahouse?” She remembered that her good friend Yunjin had prepared the play “Eight Wonders Refining Peach Capital” for this Lantern Festival and should be practicing it now.

According to legend, during the Demon God War, there was a sacred mountain in Liyue, on which stood a giant tree, which was the Demon God, named "Taodu". Behind "Taodu" is the land of the dead. If a person has committed serious sins in his life, his soul will not be able to cross "Taodu" and reach the other side after death. When the Demon God War came, "Taodu" was drawn into the vortex of war, the dead land moved strangely, the netherworld was turned upside down, and death invaded the realm of the living.

Finally, eight legendary figures who were not immortals but had magical powers set up a "grand formation" to refine the "demon god". After Taodu's death, his remains sank into the earth veins and turned into a boundary, isolating the life and death of Liyue.

This year's Mingxiao Lantern Festival is based on this theme, commemorating the "Taodu".

"Here! This year's greeting cards and auspicious money." Hu Tao opened his hand, revealing a special golden coin.

Specially forged by the Liujin Hall, one of the eight gates of Liyue, there are twelve types in total, engraved with Liyue ancient rock scrolls, each with auspicious meanings. At the street fair, a new booth for making auspicious greeting cards was added this year. Each card can be freely decorated with patterns, and a message can be left on it to be given to relatives and friends.

"Thank you!" Shen He took it.

"Then I'll be leaving first!" Hu Tao said, "I was going to send the first congratulatory letter of the year to Jiang Yi. Now it seems that I should leave the last one to him!"

She knocked on other doors again in a hurry: "Ying, Paimon... Happy Lantern Festival!"

"Yuhengxing, are you there? Ah! It seems you are not here!"

……

Jiang Yi stood on the street, looking at the exquisitely crafted, majestic and magnificent sky lanterns.

The towering ancient trees with pink and golden veins, which look like flowers, are in full bloom among the woven mountains and clouds, which is extremely magnificent.

He took out the emerald jade gourd and took a sip of the tea brewed with the "Ghost Mountain Spirit Bud" inside. In the eyes of others, he looked like a drunkard drinking.

"The Demon God Taodu, originally named Bonar."

"The god's body sank under the Qingce Mountain, settling life and death, and deciding the underworld."

"I am neither an enemy nor a friend to the immortals in Jueyunjian, but I care about all living beings and am willing to cultivate myself. If it weren't for this, let alone the Eight Wonders, even if there were another Eight Immortals, they would be helpless."

Next to him, a pretty girl covered in silver jewelry heard Jiang Yi mumbling to himself and looked sideways with curiosity.

"It's not the Eight Wonders that refine, but the self-refining... This is the first time I've heard of this." She muttered in a low voice, pondering these words that subverted her cognition.

"Eight Wonders, the Three Hidden Ones of Guizang, the Two Sages of Lianshan, and the Three Weirdos of Taodu." Jiang Yi looked at the mountains, rivers, and seas of Liyue behind the Sky Lantern, "The Three Hidden Ones of Guizang: the Wind Horn Spirit Officer of Wanxiang, and the Founder of Ancient Liyue Qimen Arithmetic."

"Yunlai Diaosu, his fishing skills are superb, and his casting posture has evolved into the Yunlai Ancient Swordsmanship and Yunlai Swordsmanship of later generations."

"Wuwang Boy - Grandpa Wuwang. A hermit in his childhood, he is good at using talismans and talismans to catch ghosts and expel plagues, and save the dead and the living. He passed down the secret method to the Wangsheng Hall."

"I have learned the secret of Guizang, and also learned the Lianshan secret method of 'The Two Sages of Lianshan', and visited the secret palace dojo you left behind."

"You are my teachers too!"

Jiang Yi poured out a pot of tea, "This tea is for you all, the heroic spirits will never die."

The pretty girl looked at the "wine" poured by the other party. Ah! Tea! This was the first time she saw someone using a gourd to hold tea instead of wine. Instead... to offer sacrifices to the heroic spirits, using "tea"?

It's like talking to a living person.

Moreover, pour tea in front of the Mingxiao Lantern casually, and wait for the Qianyan Army to arrive...

She ventriloquized secretly.

Suddenly, I sniffed, "It's a tea fragrance I've never smelled before?"

There was surprise in his eyes.

She was born in Chenyu Valley, the tea hometown of Liyue. She had smelled thousands of teas, but had never known of a tea with such a unique tea fragrance.

This is an extraordinary person!

The girl's eyes fixed, and she saw the poured tea disappear directly into the air, as if a teacup had taken the tea away.

There were illusory laughter and humble voices in my ears.

"Red and red attract fire, silver feathers cut jade, black birds, golden eyes ride yellow moon horses..." Then the man holding the gourd laughed and said, "The Three Monsters of Taodu, you are the auspicious beasts that people say have magical powers and can transform into human forms."

"This tea is for you, too."

It seemed as if a fiery red butterfly flew by and a swallow landed on the man's shoulder. The white horse with golden pupils shook its head, as if it could not bear it.

Of the Eight Great Immortals, the first five are humans, and the last three are said to be monsters who practiced together in Taodu Mountain.

"Likewise... this tea is for Taodu."

As the other party finished speaking, the girl began to hallucinate. The Mingxiao lantern in front of her, which was woven in imitation of the "Taodu", seemed to come alive, with swaying branches and blooming peach blossoms.

The vision disappeared, and the people around seemed not to notice.

It's like being in a unique time and space here.

Jiang Yi took a sip of tea and asked "Baqi" to buy the snacks himself.

He specially decreed that the heroic spirits who were worshipped every year could descend to the human world on the day of the worship, enjoy the offerings, and play for one to many days, depending on the festivals set by humans.

This can be considered the true return of a heroic spirit.

The Mingxiao Lantern is no longer just a lantern that carries this kind of meaning.

This can also be considered as the principle of humanity, the principle of sacrifice, and the principle of passing on the torch.

"Last year's Lantern Festival seems like it was just yesterday." Jiang Yi sighed, "For me, the Lantern Festivals in the future may become just ordinary days."

"Miss, would you like some tea?" He turned his head and looked at the pretty girl who had been beside him for a long time.

The girl saw a pair of star-like eyes and an exceptionally clean and clear face of a man, but for some reason, she could not remember what the other person looked like.

Just like the clouds flowing in the high sky, they describe different appearances of the sky at different times.

Until the eternal sun, moon and stars became each other's eyes, solidifying into a visible image.

"Uh! Okay..." The girl agreed subconsciously. She was also very interested in this unknown sacrificial tea.

Jiang Yi handed over the jade gourd: "The silver ornament in the girl's hair is a 'silver feather jade bird', a silver hairpin, a silver necklace, a chest pendant... With this kind of attire, is the girl from Chenyu Valley?"

The girl inexplicably didn't mind drinking from the same utensil and took a sip of the tea.

The temperature is slightly hot but will not hurt the tongue. It is the most suitable time. Rich spiritual energy suddenly spreads from the saliva.

"This...this..." She widened her beautiful eyes, "Could this be the adventure that grandpa talked about?"

Her name is Lan Yan, and she lives in Chenyu Valley. Her grandfather is a fortune teller who helps people with feng shui. Before she left, her grandfather read her fortune and said that she would meet a noble person when she left.

Growing up in Chenyu Valley, she seldom went out of the mountains often. The few times she went on long journeys were always with her grandfather. This was her first long journey in the strict sense.

She thought the noble person was Yuhengxing who had just come to see her to discuss matters concerning the Sea Lantern Festival.

I didn’t expect...it was this...mysterious immortal?

She put an uncertain question mark.

Legend has it that there are immortals living in seclusion in Liyue Harbor, and on the surface, the other party seems to be one of them.

The other party said that he had learned many secret techniques from the "Eight Wonders". The Eight Wonders were active two or three thousand years ago. According to legend, after Taodu was refined, the Black Bird Fairy and the Wanxiang Fengjiao Lingguan went on a journey together, while the White Horse Fairy disappeared from the world. Many people believe that the White Horse Fairy mentioned in "Moonlit Night in the Bamboo Forest" is the White Horse Fairy.

However, Fairy Youdie died as a result of using the "Eight Gates and Seven Gates Formation", which was also the formation to refine "Taodu".

The Eight Gates are the eight key nodes in the Liyue Earth Vein. They can guide the power of the Earth Vein. The person holding the formation can choose one of the Eight Gates to suppress the evil, and then use the power of the Earth Vein to hide himself, thus cutting off the evil's retreat.

Where did the other party learn this "secret method"?

If it was "taught personally by the Eight Wonders", then it would be an immortal who was on good terms with the Eight Wonders two or three thousand years ago, and only then could he have lived so long. If not, then he would need to visit the Hall of Rebirth, the Lan family among the Twelve Tribes of Chenyu Valley, the inheritor of the Yunlai sword technique... and many other sources to learn it.

She is a member of the Lan clan, and Wanxiang Fengjiao Lingguan is the ancestor of the Lan clan.

However, she only learned the basics of Yin-Yang secret arts and Qimen Fengshui from her relatives. The most precious thing she had was the "Silver Feathered Jade Bird", a treasure passed down from generation to generation.

Jiang Yi looked at the dazed girl in confusion.

Did this guy drink up all his "tea"? There were not many of these rare "Ghost Mountain Spirit Buds", and he only got some from Zhongli.

Although it can be created with power, some things taste better when they are in small quantities. You cannot let them overflow because of your magical powers and lose the appreciation and satisfaction when tasting them.

"Good tea! It's the magical tea of ​​the immortals." Lan Yan put down the gourd. "The tea tastes profound, as if I am tasting the life and death of the world."

I probably won’t be able to drink it anymore in the future… she thought.

Return the jade gourd to the man.

"My name is Lan Yan, and I'm from Chenyu Valley. May I know what your name is, senior?" She nodded.

Jiang Yi drank it quickly...Ah! There was nothing left.

Forget it, the spiritual buds have sunk to the bottom and can be soaked again in the fairy spring water.

"!!!" Lan Yan blushed when she saw Jiang Yi's action. That... couldn't it be because I drank all the tea? I got up early in the morning to work and was busy for a long time. I was thirsty just now because I didn't drink tea in the morning.