Genshin Impact: I am the Great General of Liyue

Chapter 204 Visiting the Immortal

Without further probing the barrier beneath the tree, Huiyuan turned her attention to Ganyu, who was completing the training task assigned by Xiao.

As Gan Yu's senior, Xiao may not have the blood of a mortal, but he possessed the mind of a mortal.

He understands Gan Yu's current situation very well and knows how to help Gan Yu get over this mental block. Xiao is the most suitable person to be Gan Yu's teacher.

About ten minutes later, Gan Yu finished her cultivation and returned.

"I have completed the training you assigned..."

Xiao opened his eyes upon hearing Gan Yu's voice.

"There's no need to report to me. The evaluations you seek from others are of no benefit to your cultivation. The results of your cultivation should be examined by yourself; this will make it easier for you to improve."

"Hmm...I've got it."

"Tomorrow I will further increase the difficulty of the training, you must..."

Xiao paused mid-sentence, a strange expression appearing on his face.

The conversation abruptly stopped, and Paimon asked anxiously, "What do you want?"

Xiao didn't answer, but turned his head away and pointed to a place.

"Sigh... They're coming from over there. That tough guy... I'll leave him to you to handle for now, Gan Yu. This... well, it's also part of the cultivation process."

After saying that, Xiao turned into a cloud of mist and disappeared.

Paimon was quite puzzled when Xiao uttered the words "a tough guy."

Besides powerful gods like the Rock King and the Emperor, what else is there that Xiao can't defeat?

However, "difficult to deal with" does not refer to fighting, but rather to being difficult to deal with in another sense.

Just as Paimon and Ying were puzzled, a man walked over in the direction Xiao pointed.

The man became excited when he saw the ethereal Gan Yu and Lingling.

"Heavens...heavens! May the Emperor's spirit protect me, I have finally found the immortals! May I ask if you are all immortals from this mountain? This is wonderful! I am Xin Cheng, and I beg you immortals to bless me with love, wealth, and career success...please, please!"

As he spoke, the young-looking man named Xin Cheng bowed deeply.

Seeing the young man who was frantically worshipping them the moment they met, Ying silently rubbed her forehead.

Seeing that this supposedly difficult opponent was not some wind-elemental immune monster, but rather a pseudo-immortal seeking a connection to immortality, Paimon was speechless.

"That's definitely the type Xiao isn't good at dealing with..."

Seeing Ying start to complain, Paimon chimed in, "Yeah, he's good at exorcising demons, but when it comes to dealing with weird humans..."

Ignoring Ying and Paimon's whispered conversation, Gan Yu stepped forward to deal with Xin Cheng.

"I... I should be considered an immortal, or you could say an immortal who is still cultivating."

Upon hearing Gan Yu admit that she was an immortal, Xin Cheng became even more excited and spoke faster.

"Great! It was definitely worth the trip. Although I might sound like a half-baked amateur, well... it doesn't really matter. So, what can you bless me with?"

When Paimon heard the other party refer to Gan Yu as a half-baked amateur, he became angry and deducted 100 points from his mental evaluation of him out of 10.

Although the other party's attitude was bad, Gan Yu had no choice but to ignore them.

“This…seeker of immortality, I think you shouldn’t try to take shortcuts like this. Immortals don’t help every seeker of immortality for free.”

"Free of charge? You mean you have to charge for divine protection?"

"Ah, that's not what I meant. I just meant that everything should be earned through hard work and a serious life... It's unfair to other ordinary people if they get everything for nothing."

Upon hearing this, a thought arose in Huiyuan's mind.

(I'm just an ordinary person, yet I have a system. Isn't that incredibly unfair to other ordinary people who are just as ordinary?)

Upon hearing Huiyuan's question, Sister Tongzi said she had something to say.

"It's unfair, yet it's not unfair. Host, the reason I chose you isn't just because of the kind side of your heart. In my long observation of Earthlings, I discovered you as an anomaly. Almost all Earthlings possess the attribute of greed, a dangerous attribute that has destroyed many civilizations. Just when I was about to give up observing Earth, I suddenly saw you, and I discovered that your greed is based on 'not reaping the benefits without sowing'."

Huiyuan is greedy, so greedy that he wants to resurrect the dead demon god to make up for the regret in his heart.

Huiyuan is very greedy, so greedy that she must protect anyone she sets her sights on, even if the price is death.

Huiyuan is very greedy, so greedy that he has thought about controlling the fate of the entire Teyvat in the future, so that no sadness will be born in the world.

But none of this is based on getting something for nothing. Huiyuan will not pray to God or burn incense to worship Buddha.

Perhaps during conversations with the system, one might jokingly say that the system is a trap and doesn't help them achieve their goals.

Even without the system's help, Huiyuan still managed to achieve her goal through her own efforts.

Is the friendship I built with Mimi, the fact that Mimi didn't go hungry, and the fact that I saved her life all thanks to the system?

No, that was the result of Huiyuan's own efforts. When she herself was struggling to get enough to eat, Huiyuan worked every day at the port moving goods to earn Mora. Even though she was easily hungry, she still chose to help this starving little black cat, even though the black cat represented misfortune.

Is the system's arrangement that the cats Lina, Toler, and Courtney are now grateful to Huiyuan for saving them?

No, this is Huiyuan's fate, the result of saving them out of kindness. The system didn't give any requirements to do good deeds, but Huiyuan still consciously did a good deed.

Some might ask: There are many people like Huiyuan, so why did Sister Tongzi choose him?

After gaining superhuman strength, can one still maintain their inner kindness and adhere to the principle of not killing, just like Spider-Man Peter Parker?

Can you resist the urge to touch or grope your favorite game character who is right in front of you?

After obtaining such an overpowered cheat system, can one still only want to live a simple and peaceful life?

These three tests are so challenging that some people might not even be able to pass the first one.

Because some people will find excuses, such as: (Anyway, the Fools are bad people, doing this is punishing evil and promoting good, he is a bad person and he is just reaping what he sowed), and so on, to cover up the fact that their hands are stained with blood.

The second test is one that those who seek to reap the rewards without sowing will not pass.

For those people, characters like Gan Yu and Ke Qing are merely game characters, part of their harem. They might even blame the game characters for rejecting their confessions.

They never treated the game characters as living, breathing people.