Who Says You Can't Slack Off?

When it came to time spent cultivating Adeptal Arts, Ganyu had several thousand more years of experience than Bai Ye.

Her experience far surpassed Bai Ye's.

Ganyu wanted to give Bai Ye some guidance.

"Mm-hmm."

With someone willing to guide him, Bai Ye was naturally more than happy to accept.

Without using the Art of Automata, Bai Ye demonstrated his Adeptal Arts to Ganyu.

He pulled several talismans from his pocket.

"By decree!"

The talismans floated into the air, surrounding Bai Ye. Then they flew outward and stopped ten zhang away.

Light representing wind flashed, forming a raging gale around Bai Ye and Ganyu.

The surrounding winds were swept up, blowing so fiercely that Ganyu could barely keep her eyes open.

Ganyu reached out, producing Adeptal talismans of her own. An icy aura surged forth, seeking to block the fierce winds.

However,

the ice was scattered by the gale, and shards of ice were instead blown back toward Ganyu.

Ganyu's expression changed.

Her fingers tapped the talismans again, and an even more biting chill appeared.

This time, Bai Ye's gale could no longer affect Ganyu's ice.

Even the four talismans he had released were completely frozen and fell to the ground.

Looking at Bai Ye, Ganyu said with lingering fear, "Bai Ye, your Adeptal Arts are truly astonishing. It seems that not only are you skilled in the Art of Automata, but your talent in Adeptal Arts is equally remarkable."

Ganyu realized there was not much she could teach Bai Ye.

His technique was absolutely no weaker than hers. She had broken through it just now purely by relying on brute force.

When someone's technique was no worse than yours and you could only bully them with brute force, it did not matter against an enemy, but it was rather embarrassing when teaching a junior disciple.

Sure enough, their teacher's final disciple was a little genius.

Hearing Ganyu say that, Bai Ye felt a little embarrassed. His talent for Adeptal Arts was truly average. The problem was that Zhongli had taught him back at Wangshu Inn.

And Zhongli had directly pointed out all of his problems.

It was like a Nobel Prize winner explaining a graduate student's research topic and publicly revealing all the answers.

If he still could not do well after that, Bai Ye would be far too stupid.

Ganyu felt she should still say something, so she told Bai Ye, "Your Adeptal Arts and techniques do not need much further improvement right now. You should focus on cultivating their quality. Once you raise that quality, your strength will naturally increase."

It was roughly like a homeroom teacher's helpless advice to a good student.

You need to do more problems and consolidate your foundation.

"I understand."

Bai Ye nodded lightly.

Still, he asked curiously, "By the way, Sister Ganyu, are there any heavenly treasures for cultivation? Something that could raise my strength by a huge amount the moment I use it?"

"I have never heard of such a heavenly treasure." Ganyu shook her head.

"There is only one way to quickly increase your strength."

Bai Ye had only meant to joke around, but when he heard that Ganyu knew of a shortcut, he immediately asked, "What way?"

"Battle. Only through constant battle can your strength rapidly increase."

Ganyu told Bai Ye.

Battle? He had been through plenty of battles, so why had he never felt his strength improving?

Hearing Ganyu's words, Bai Ye was a little confused.

But upon further thought, it was only natural.

When dealing with Treasure Hoarders, basically no one could last more than three moves against him before being bundled up and captured.

That included the remnant body of an Archon. Its ability to deprive people of the Seven Senses was troublesome, but its actual combat power was not strong.

The only enemy who could truly exchange blows with him was Tartaglia, the Fatui Harbinger.

But when facing Tartaglia, Bai Ye's fighting style had been as shameless as shameless could be.

"Um, Bai Ye, although this method is quick, I still do not recommend it. Battles on the edge of life and death can increase your strength, but they are truly too dangerous."

Ganyu spoke seriously to Bai Ye.

Back during the Archon War, she had been protected by her master.

Now that she was facing her junior disciple, she needed to take good care of him as well.

Her cute, sweet-smelling little junior disciple should not take risks.

"I would never go out of my way to do something so dangerous."

Bai Ye would not do dangerous things for no reason.

After all, he was not alone now.

He still carried his teacher's hopes on his shoulders.

"Mm, that's good."

Ganyu was very satisfied.

She pointed ahead.

"Let's continue onward. There are still many places we need to cover, and we have to complete our patrol on time."

"Mm."

Bai Ye wore a bitter expression.

Hearing Ganyu say they still had more walking to do, Bai Ye could not help but feel it would be difficult.

After all, acting together with Ganyu meant there could be incidents requiring their attention at any moment.

"After making the rounds like this, won't we be out until nightfall?"

Bai Ye asked Ganyu.

"Mm, more or less..." Ganyu thought for a moment. "I calculated it. Unless something unexpected happens, we should finish by around nine tonight. Then, Bai Ye, you can rest while I go to Yuehai Pavilion to handle work."

"You still have work to deal with!?"

Bai Ye swallowed.

"Mm, yes. After all, I have not finished handling my affairs yet." Ganyu nodded seriously. "But after the Rite of Descension, I should be able to relax a little."

"That's way too miserable."

Bai Ye could not help saying to Ganyu.

She worked from morning to night and never rested.

Ganyu smiled and nodded. "Mm, it is indeed a little tiring. So, Bai Ye, would you consider coming to Yuehai Pavilion to help me with my work?"

"Forget it, forget it. I would rather search for wild Treasure Hoarders every day than do that kind of work."

Bai Ye hurriedly shook his head.

He could accept heavy work, but he could not accept doing the same thing day after day.

Only constant development and an unknown future were what Bai Ye wanted.

Of course,

there also had to be enough money.

So Bai Ye said to Ganyu,

"As for me, I'm not the type of person who likes working diligently. Whenever I do anything, all I think about is how to slack off."

Ganyu let out a snort of laughter, then hurriedly covered her mouth.

What Bai Ye said was not that funny, but when Bai Ye said it, even slacking off naturally took on an adorable quality that made Ganyu very happy.

Still, she seriously told Bai Ye,

"Bai Ye, some things can only be done diligently. Look at these streets. To prevent anyone from secretly sabotaging the Rite of Descension, we can only keep searching them."

Bai Ye began to think.

Suddenly,

he glanced at Liyue's buildings, with their carved beams and painted rafters,

and inspiration struck him.

"Who says we can't slack off?"

He looked at the streets that needed patrolling.

An idea formed in his mind.

Install some cameras or something.

That would be far better than patrolling all day.

If someone really did something bad in secret,

thinking no one was inspecting the area,

they would actually be captured clearly on camera.