The original god of the Jyota Jinchūriki

Chapter 222 Visiting Walnut
The Lantern Festival is approaching, and the Hall of Rebirth seems especially quiet on this festive day. The employees who used to be busy making coffins and other sacrificial supplies have been given a few days off.

In the huge Hall of Rebirth, the ferryman was the only employee left on duty as usual. Although she was on duty, she actually just sat down on a chair in the Hall of Rebirth and started reading with great interest a light novel that she had recently bought from a bookstore called Yaedo that opened in Liyue Harbor.

You know what, "My Otaku Girl Friend Miss Thunder" written by the pen name Miss Fox is quite good, but the update is a bit slow, otherwise Miss Ferryman thinks this book would not have been recommended in only two issues.

"Mr. Zhongli, do you want to make tea? Let me do it."

She caught a glimpse of Zhongli walking into the hall with a bag of tea. The idle ferrywoman immediately put down her book and took the initiative to make tea for Zhongli. It was the consensus of all the employees in the Hall of Rebirth that those who followed Zhongli as a guest would have meat to eat.

When the ferryman girl went to settle the bill for Zhongli, the uneaten parts of the famous dishes that Zhongli ordered were all packed up by the ferryman girl. Speaking of which, the ferryman girl found it magical that she went to settle the bill for Zhongli, but she was in her twenties and had already eaten at the Liuli Pavilion many times. Her living standard was far beyond her peers.

She skillfully put a handful of tea leaves into the teapot and added some hot water. In the jade-white teapot, the tender tea leaves were like sparrow tongues, dark green in color, and bursts of faint fragrance emanated from the green liquid.

This tea is definitely not ordinary! The ferryman girl had made tea for Zhongli, the guest of the Wangsheng Hall, many times before. She didn’t say that she had tasted all the teas that Zhongli bought, but she had smelled the fragrance of most of the teas when they were brewed. In her impression, it seemed that no tea was more fragrant and flavorful than the tea brewed in the pot now.

Sniffing the faint tea aroma in the air, Zhongli did not taste it carefully today as usual. Instead, he sat in a chair, thinking about something as if he was preoccupied.

Somehow, after sending Klee to Ruojin, Zhongli always felt a little uneasy when he returned to the Hall of Rebirth. His intuition kept telling him that something big might be about to happen.

But Zhongli thought about it and realized that nothing big had happened in Liyue recently. Apart from his own girl bringing back the little girl Klee, everything else was within Zhongli's expectations.

As for Klee, if he was not mistaken, that little girl should be Alice's daughter. Thinking of Alice, Zhongli felt a little complicated. That female elf could be regarded as a remarkable woman of her generation. After all, ordinary people could not think of a series of problems such as draining the accumulated water in Jueyunjian to see if the Jueyunjian mountain could sink into the ground.

During the days when he traveled around Liyue with Alice, he was often amused by her wonderful ideas. However, because Alice really had the ability to realize her wonderful ideas, Zhongli followed Alice closely at the time, for fear that Alice would sink the mountains of Liyue into the ground with her imagination. You know, even the God of Wind, Barbatos, had never experienced such treatment.

But, Klee is just a little girl. Even if Klee is Alice's daughter, how destructive power can she have as Alice at such a young age? Moreover, Klee is such a polite child and Ruo Jin is watching her. Maybe he is too old and is too cautious.

Thinking about how Klee was so much more obedient than Hutao when she was a child during dinner last night, Zhongli silently drank his tea and stopped thinking about it. No matter what happened, he didn't want to intervene as long as Liyue was not destroyed. He had retired anyway, so let Qixing worry about these things.

Right now, Zhongli is only thinking about one thing, which is to quickly finish the plaque of the Hall of Rebirth. Hu Tao is now having her period and her temper is not very good. Zhongli does not want to provoke Hu Tao at this time.

"Zhongli, lend me your teapot. I'm going to make some medicine for Hu Tao."

The door of the Wangsheng Hall was pushed open, and Ruojin walked into the hall carrying the medicine prepared by Baizhu for Hutao. After entering the hall, he walked around the kitchen but couldn't find the utensils for decocting the medicine. After drinking a cup of tea, Ruojin set his sights on Zhongli's teapot.

Ruo Jin knew about Zhongli's teapot. Hu Tao complained to him at that time that Zhongli had to buy a teapot that could withstand high temperatures and be heated directly on the fire. He was really a spendthrift. Ruo Jin agreed with Hu Tao at that time. Now it seems that he was short-sighted. This was not a teapot at all. It was clearly a utensil for boiling medicine.

Sensing that there was something wrong with Ruo Jin's eyes as he looked at the teapot next to him, Zhongli's mouth twitched slightly. He thought that after he had wasted his tea leaves, it was now his teapot's turn, right? The tea in this teapot was specially sent by Zhenjun Liuyun Jiefeng through the little guy Shenhe, and he hadn't even had a few cups yet.

"I seem to hear Ah Jin's voice. Ah Jin, is that you?"

Hearing the voices of Ruo Jin and Zhongli talking in the hall, Hu Tao walked from the room to the hall with difficulty, holding on to the wall. Seeing Hu Tao coming out, Ruo Jin hurriedly helped Hu Tao sit down. After Hu Tao sat down, Ruo Jin tried to inject some immortal power into Hu Tao's body.

"Hey, Walnut, are you having your period?"

Although Ying's body is different from that of ordinary people, the most basic physiological phenomena still exist, so Ying saw at a glance the reason why Hu Tao looked painful, so Ying thought for a while and said seriously.

"Hu Tao, you must remember that every pain you feel is a successful transformation. The trials of blood and fire cannot destroy you. Only those who can endure the pain of nirvana are worthy of the beauty of rebirth. Even if the pain is excruciating, even if the world collapses, I believe that you, Hu Tao, will definitely be reborn in nirvana and fly high."

Ying's words stunned Zhongli, who had lived for thousands of years. As a god who had experienced all kinds of situations, it was the first time for him to hear such comforting words. This was too strange, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was no big problem.

"As expected of you, Ying. I don't feel this way when other people care about me."

Hu Tao suppressed her anger and gave Ying a thumbs up. She was indeed her good friend. Even her words of comfort were so much to her liking. You know what, after hearing what Ying said, Hu Tao actually felt that her stomach pain was not so severe anymore and her whole body felt warm.

"By the way, Ajin, why don't I see Klee?"

After looking around and not finding Klee, Hu Tao was a little confused. Could it be that Zhongli had forgotten what she, the head of the Wangsheng Hall, had told him this morning?
"Oh, Keli, I asked Keli to go play with Qiqi. With Qiqi accompanying her, there shouldn't be any problems. I also drew tracking talismans on them. If they encounter any danger, I will be the first to sense it."

After hearing Ruojin's answer, Hu Tao nodded without thinking much about it. As long as Klee and Qiqi could become friends, it would be fine. Compared to Hu Tao's calmness, Zhongli, who was drinking tea on the side, suddenly felt his hand tremble, and a bad premonition arose.

Before Zhongli could find an excuse to go out and sense Klee's location, he heard a knock on the door outside the Hall of Rebirth. When he opened the door, he saw a "stranger" with a dark face standing in front of the door. This made Ying, who opened the door, stunned and asked curiously.

"My foreign friend, who are you looking for?"

(End of this chapter)