Chapter 168: Sending the Immortals to the Ceremony
"A gangster?" The blond boy was confused at first, but soon he put away his expression and introduced himself with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Zhongli, my name is Kong, and this is my travel partner, Paimon."
"Yeah, hello." Paimon turned in the air and waved to greet them.
"Is this creature a mutated Hilichurl?" Looking at Paimon floating in the air, Xia Yu's curious voice suddenly rang out.
For Xia Yu, there is no difference whether the "Traveler" is "Kong" or "Ying". Although it is a character he has controlled before, he has controlled many more characters. If he had not drawn Zhongli at the beginning, Zhongli would have become one of the characters he controlled.
However, the traveler is Sora. I don’t know if it’s because he chose “brother” for the sake of immersion when he was playing the game, but it doesn’t have much effect on him.
"Hey, Paimon is not a mutated Hilichurl!"
Hearing Xia Yu's words, Paimon stomped his feet in the air and retorted with dissatisfaction.
"Oh, I see." Xia Yu showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and looked at Kong seriously and said, "That must be emergency food, right? After all, it's easy to get hungry when traveling."
"That's totally wrong. This is worse than a mutated Hillilchur!"
Hearing these familiar words, Kong chuckled. Paimon became even more dissatisfied when he heard that Kong actually laughed.
"You're still laughing!"
"Sorry, I just thought of something happy." Kong retracted his smile, apologized to Paimon, and then said to Xia Yu, "Paimon is not emergency food, but a travel companion."
"I know, it's just a joke. Sorry, my travel buddy Paimon." Xia Yu looked at the angry Paimon with a smile.
"Hmph." Paimon raised his head high and put his hands on his hips. "I am a magnanimous person. I will accept your apology."
But soon, Paimeng lowered his head, looked at Xia Yu curiously and asked, "By the way, you haven't introduced yourself yet?"
Kong also took the opportunity to look at Xia Yu. He was also curious about this man who looked about the same age as Zhongli, but had black hair that gradually turned gray at the ends.
"Me? Just call me Xia Yu. Zhongli just said that I'm just here to join in the fun. Don't bother with me."
"Okay, now that we all know each other, let's talk business." The young master suddenly interrupted, "Mr. Zhongli is a guest official of the Wangsheng Hall, and the Wangsheng Hall is an organization in charge of funeral ceremonies, aiming to send people to the afterlife in peace."
"That's right." Zhongli also took over the conversation, "I have a way to let you see the immortal body of Emperor Yanwang."
After these words were spoken, Kong and Paimon were stunned for a moment, but Zhongli continued speaking without caring about other people's reactions.
“Although Emperor Yanwang is the ancestor of all immortals, he is still just an immortal after all. Looking at Liyue’s thousands of years of history, immortals have left one after another. This is an irreversible trend.”
"Because times have changed, you should have experienced this change in Jueyunjian."
“Indeed, the immortals are moving away from Liyue.” Kong nodded in agreement.
In his previous journey to find immortals, he had discovered that the immortals almost always stayed away from humans, and were almost indifferent to the affairs of mortals.
This matter seemed to be the consensus of all the immortals. Also because immortals were hard to find, he had to travel so much further.
After Kong finished replying, he lowered his head in thought. Zhongli showed no intention of stopping and continued speaking.
"As you can see, the age of immortals is fading away, and the age of humans is gradually becoming a reality."
During the dinner, Xia Yu only said a few words at the beginning and spent the rest of the time eating silently. After all, the things they talked about had little to do with him.
But he was not idle either, he was chatting in the group... talking about the future.
[Genshin Impact]: I have only reached the "Farewell to the Long-Awaited Body" stage in the story. Can you help me think about what benefits I can get?
[Clash of Clans]: Go to the God of Wind and say bad things about him, then go and fight with the God of Thunder, and your mission will be completed!
[Dark Soul III]: Don’t forget the little Loli Grass God, go kidnap her, hehehe, my Grass God.
The evil spirit Xia Yu has already sent the latest setting set of the original god to the group, so Xia Yu and others already know the general plot, including the new characters in the plot and so on.
[Clash of Clans]: This is too cruel. How come I didn't know you were so cruel?
[Dark Souls III]: You are stupid. If you want to punish someone, use the Grass God punishment. The other party is more than 500 years old. How old are we? It's obviously like old grass tempting young cow.
【Clash of Clans】: …
[Genshin Impact]: …
[Food Addiction Dungeon]: I thought of it. Doesn’t Zhongli have a legendary quest? I remember there seemed to be a Salt God, but he fell.
[Genshin Impact]: What do you mean?
[Food Addiction Dungeon]: The Salt God's relics. As long as you get his relics ...
[Genshin]: Yes, I can devour...
[Food Addiction Dungeon]: We will have an endless supply of salt to eat!
[Genshin Impact]: ???
【Food Addiction Dungeon】: ???
[Genshin Impact]: An endless supply of salt? My goodness, you only want to use the relics left by a demon god to make salt.
[Food Addiction Dungeon]: Nonsense, why don't you use it to make salt? Do you want to devour the opponent's relics? Aren't you afraid of choking to death?
[Genus]: ...What I devoured was the authority of the Salt God, not pouring salt directly into my mouth. Besides, if I devoured the authority of the Salt God, I might also be able to make salt.
[Food Addiction Dungeon]: Forget it. I don’t think anyone can eat that kind of salt. Think about it, the salt of a beautiful woman and the salt of a man, which one do you want to eat?
[Genshin Impact]: …
The demon god Xia Yu didn't want to talk and quietly closed the chat group.
…
"Well, if you agree, come with me. We can discuss the details on the way."
When Xia Yu came to his senses, the conversation between Zhongli and Kong had ended.
Kong wanted to see the dead body of Rock King, and Zhongli also gave his suggestion, which was to perform the Immortal Sending Ceremony.
The Ceremony of Sending Off the Immortals, as the name suggests, is a grand commemorative ceremony, which has always been a tradition of Liyue.
Whenever an immortal passes away, there needs to be a farewell ceremony, but now that the one who passed away is Emperor Rock King, no one has the time to care about this tradition.
Therefore, Zhongli asked Kong to prepare a farewell ceremony for the God of Rock with him. Only by participating in the farewell ceremony could he see the body of the God of Rock again.
Everyone was very satisfied with this dinner. Kong got the chance to see the remains of the Rock God, Zhongli also successfully brought people together to prepare for the ceremony of sending the immortal, and Gongzi also successfully achieved his goal.
Xia Yu, like Paimeng, was happy to have another meal.
After the dinner was over, the young man, who was planning to stay for a while, looked at the clean table, was silent for a moment, then smiled and prepared to pay.
Zhongli and Kong were going to purchase things needed for the Immortal Delivery Ceremony. Xia Yu showed no interest in this and left alone after saying hello.
He now has to look for the remaining relics of the Salt God, and then join in the fun of the immortal farewell ceremony after finding them.
