The night is deep, and the bright moon hangs upside down like a jade plate.

In the courtyard surrounded by high walls, the moonlight accumulates like water, and the shadows of the dancing trees are reflected and swaying, like dark seaweed floating leisurely on the mirror-like bottom of the water.

The waterfront promenade casts a vermilion shadow on the water, and the shadows of colorful swimming fish can be faintly seen.

Under the red pillars supporting the flying eaves of the long corridor that leads directly to the center of the lake, a snow-colored young man stands.

Only half of the moonlight fell on him, and his tall upper body was in shadow, with two strands of snow-colored hair hanging down from his temples.

In the shadows, he opened his pupils as bright as lamps, and both his long snow-colored hair and pure white gown were glowing with fluorescence.

He was alone under the corridor, like a pure white ancient dragon watching his territory indifferently.

"You haven't gone to bed yet?"

The sigh of regret seemed to be mixed with thousands of things, but when he turned around, a young man dressed as a nobleman with broken black hair floated over.

He didn't know when he landed a few feet behind Shangyue Zhaoyue. There was only a set of tables and chairs and vermilion pillars on both sides between them.

Zhongli raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly. He was not good at showing kindness.

Shang Zhaoyue was not false at all, it would be better to say that he was waiting for Zhongli, so he spoke.

"With such beautiful scenery, neither you nor I need to sleep peacefully. I have been in your country for some time, and I have never paid a formal visit. Not long ago, there was a rumor in Tianqiu Valley, so I thought it would be better to invite you.

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He stretched out his hand, and suddenly a cup of tea appeared out of thin air on the square table between the two of them. The green leaves were floating on the dust, and the fragrance was overflowing. It didn't look like it was fake.

"When you come to apologize, you come here to say goodbye." After saying this, he bowed and took his seat.

Zhong Li looked carefully at his magic trick, not knowing whether he saw it or not. He smiled and sat down opposite him.

"There is no need to apologize. I am the god of the Liyue people, but Liyue is not my country alone. Its prosperity is based on the work of the people and the gathering of traders."

"You are also an outsider, but you are not a hostile guest. You are welcome."

"The tea is good. I don't know who made it. It's probably not a local tea master."

The danxia orange eyeshadow in the corners of his eyes moved slightly, giving him a different taste.

"From Rice Wife," Shangshan Zhaoyue said concisely and concisely. He squinted his eyes slightly, as if he could see through the clouds and mist the time when the girl practiced tea art hard.

Tea is also a part of elegance, but elegance is not transcendence. Feng is the style of the general customs, and elegance is the elegance of an expert. From elegance to wind is elegance. This is the realm of Inazuma's elegance, and it is also the elegance of Kamisato Ayaka.

"..." Zhongli stopped talking. He saw something, but he would not rush to expose it.

After one cup was in his stomach and warmth flowed in his heart, he showed a solemn expression, as if it was the result of more consideration.

"I plan to abdicate in the next few years." He put down the tea cup hard without making any sound, but it was like knocking down a piece of gold with a loud sound.

He didn't ask why Shangshang Zhaoyue could see through his disguise. His appearance could change and his aura could be disguised, but his essence as a rock remained unchanged.

Perhaps even the immortals cannot detect it, and even mortals like Qixing are futile. But in the eyes of the demon gods who are close to the essence of elements and the principles of nature, his disguise is not perfect.

"Does the unparalleled God of War also get tired?" he suddenly asked, then thought the question was too stupid, and added, "Because of wear and tear?"

"It's not just wear and tear," Zhongli's eyes were long and lingering, his pupils seemed to be illuminated, piercing through the ages.

"I have spent more than 6,000 years in this world, and it was already 3,700 years ago that I established Liyue with the immortals."

"At that time, I and other immortals swept across the four directions, leaving Tianheng in the south, Yaoguang in the east, Jueyun in the west, visiting Qingce in the north, calming the troubled times, and building Liyue."

"Now that most of the immortals are gone, this person has passed away, and the people of Liyue are no longer just chicks who can only rely on me to protect them."

"On a drizzly morning, I was walking on the streets of Liyue Port and heard a businessman praising his subordinates: "You have completed your duties. Now, go and have a rest." I couldn't help but think of my duty.

,Did you complete it well?"

"Until I heard that the emperor has protected Liyue Port for thousands of years, but will it still be the same in the next thousand years, and the next thousand years after that?

Can the emperor guarantee that every decision he makes will never make a mistake?"

"Perhaps these words may sound extremely rebellious to anyone, but in my opinion, if someone can say such words, it means that the time has come."

"The original contract of Liyue Port never stipulated that the era of the immortals must be the standard dogma of Liyue Port. The immortals are a part of Liyue, and so are people."

"Now that the Immortals have declined, Liyue Port has long ceased to be the Liyue Port in the eyes of the Immortals. It is changing all the time and has become a city for people."

"This is the reason why I abdicated. I abdicated as a god and, as an ordinary person, bless the next era - the era of man."

He raised the tea cup as if the cup contained finely brewed spirits.

He moved forward and bowed, paying homage in all directions, and then drank up the tea in the cup.

The tea swayed into a curtain of water in the moonlight, like Zhongli's final farewell.

"You are...free and easy." Seeing him sit down again, Shangshan Zhaoyue said in a dumbfounded voice.

"I have no regrets. The next step is to consider them and see if Liyue, who has lost the Yan King, can resist the invasion of foreign enemies." Zhongli made himself another pot of tea and blew on it.

"For example?" Shangshan Zhaoyue raised her head and asked.

"For example, the devil escapes from trouble, or foreign enemies disturb the government."

"That's really cruel." He didn't choose to say more.

No matter how ruthless it is, it is just a game under the supervision of the Rock King. The worst result is that the water will overturn Liyue Port, and the huge rock gun will once again suppress the demon into the infinite seabed.

By then the age of God will continue, and the age of man may be postponed indefinitely.

Keqing's ideals will also be disillusioned. As long as Liyue is still Liyue under the rule of Emperor Yan, Keqing's appeal will be like empty talk.

The reputation accumulated for thousands of years cannot be shaken by ordinary people in less than a hundred years.

It has nothing to do with Zhongli, this is Morax, the god's consideration.

"Or...are you interested?" Zhong Li changed the subject. His eyes were piercing, and his eyes were like jade, which didn't seem to be fake at all.

"..." If it were anything else, Shangshang Zhaoyue really wasn't interested, but he really wanted to make a move in front of Lord Yan, and now was a good opportunity, an opportunity to do something blatantly.

"Okay, but I also want to take something away."

"...It doesn't matter, it's harmless to all people, it's harmless to Liyue, you can take it for yourself."

"Then, the contract is established." Shang Zhaoyue stretched out her hand, and Zhongli suddenly realized that she also stretched out her hand to shake his.
Chapter completed!