I would like to apologize for this video coming out so late. I did not realize it would take so long for the quest to be fixed. I am really sorry, i'll do better next time. I am going to be working hard to get the Dragonspine videos out as soon as I can. Thank you for your patience.
@@CandyApples4ever ah yes causing an economic disaster and getting rid of a very magical currency just because he wanted to retire and then make the entire world in to a desert just so the the belonging of a God don't get discoverd
So, when a god dies, an crazy amount of power its releases, with Hivra was salt, so, with that info we can deduce how "Rex lapis assasinating" didnt turn Liyue into a mountain
this quest kinda breaks my heart, i know we often joke about “where are those wo share the memory”, but lets be real: pretty much no one does maybe except for venti and its just so sad
@@ashtheintroverted7204 Ei was Makotos kagemusha, which means that during archon war she could have encountered Morax even more than Makoto who's peaceful god. Ei won a seat for her sister from her name, Makoto herself never fought in archon war.
@@ashtheintroverted7204 just because she wasn’t part of the original 7 doesn’t mean she doesn’t know anything and her predecessor is her twin so literally the same age and was born the same time
@@ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou I leveled up Barbara because I somehow max Constellation her in 1 month...why Mihoyo...those were all F2P primogems, I have never even bought a primogem.
Some people may think that this quest has nothing do to with Zhongli, I think not. The story of Zhongli is obviously going to be very long, thus it cannot be revealed to the audience directly. The story of Havria gives the audience a little taste and sets up the attitude and tone of what Zhongli's story will be in the future. The most important thing is that Zhongli's attitude during the archon war is revealed in this quest, which is "yield to your enemies won't save yourself", "during an era of a chaotic time, it's not about the simple good-evil concept", etc., the part of the reason why he survived the archon war. As he said, the story of Havria gave him a warning. We can guess that Zhongli too, tried to do the same as Havria until she was killed, and that's when he became ruthless towards the aggressors. The characters like the girl and the so-called archeologists on the ship are living examples of various types of ignorant people when it comes to history, who only believe what they want to believe and have a very twisted way of looking at history. This tells the audience that they too need to think about how they should look at the history of Zhongli. He might not be a total bad guy like the girl said he was, he was also not a powerful saint like the archeologists thought he was, but he's trustworthy for he values the contracts. In general, for a prologue for Zhongli's legend, I think it's a very good start.
tbh i would rather like knowing more about him before meeting his love and after she was killed because that is literally when he changed his view on which Liyue he was supposed to protect and made him question the validity of his contracts.
"Right, the Lord of Geo wouldn't kill the innocent." Me, when I first did this quest: Yeah that's right. You tell her, Paimon. Me, now: *sweats nervously*
If my kids will ever ask me how the seawater is salty, I will tell them this story. "Once upon a time, there's a broke man tossed a divine chalice and ruler that have the power to produce infinite salt into the sea....."
To be fair...Oceanid is considered the worst enemy in the game by MANY, and even those who don't struggle too much are still traumatized by angry waddling ducks, tailslapping squirrels and divebomb birds (and omg those carwash crabs, they are the worst imo x.x)
I love fighting it but yeah, when he figures out the fight he be higher AR, i would even hate to be world lvl 5+ and randomly fight oceanid first time.
She’s also a hypocrite too. She said something about judging fairly about whatever happens about Morax, apparently it only applies to people who worships Morax and not her & her Salt God.
I also recognized the story of Havria and her people from one of the diaries we find during our exploration. While I hated how Wanyan was so adamant that Morax (Zhongli) killed Havria and couldn't accept the truth when she told him to accept the truth, I could only blame her people for distorting the truth to their younger generation.
Agreed. However, I do like how the devs have incorporated a religious system with characters who feel deeply for the gods they worship. It's actually quite fascinating that the game quite literally revolves around the people of the world of Tevyat worshipping seven (or possibly more than one) gods. I also realized that Venti seems to represent the Christian God. He is out of sight but comes in forms to aid the people he deems worthy and there is a church and statue in Mondstadt erected in his honor
Pretty sure that he, like Venti, can sense that you are not from this world. Also Venti granted you the power of wind, so more than likely when you attuned to geo, you borrowed power from Zhongli/Morax, hence why he knows.
@@typhir5911 and morax didn’t grant the traveler the power of geo. More so the traveler took it without permission. Or maybe paimon is the one who gives/guides the elemental power to the traveler like albedo suggested.
34:42 "Faith in a god who has already passed will do you no good." hits different when you go to sumeru where that's quite literally the entire plot. their loyalty to their first archon blinded them so much that they were willing to do everything to kill and despise their current archon (which spoilers is literally the same person they just dont know that). so to think that this one line would be brought back in such a major way is so rewarding
ironically being how he is the creator of mora, commerce and stability - Zhongli cant be trusted with a purse, has no understanding of monetary value and cant haggle for his life.
Zhongli will probably become the next Manager after Hu tao dies, though it would be strange to see a guy that is still in is 20s-30s after people that were younger than him died lol
History is sad, even if one was victorious another must have suffered the loss, not to mention all nations have a lot of both loss and victory, some in different ways, some more than others. We may only learn from them, to respect one another, and yet we haven't, perhaps this is yet another tragedy that will enter History for more generations to learn a lesson, that will yet again ignore, for even while learning doubt and dinal however small will gradually eat away at the wisdom gathered by the old and by the ancient.
@@SOLO.DANDELION Well-said dude, what we learn from history will decide our future. history is never a simple cycle, slowly but surely, we are moving ahead.
@@colinzou2803 I don’t know. The more I learn about history, the more I realize history repeats itself with a more modern system each time. It’s kind of depressing honestly.
37:56 there's alot of memories zhongli wants to forget from a thousands of years ago. It's like a type of erosion he endured for a very long time but it still keeps coming back to him. I still remember what he said during the "beneath the light of jadeite" quest, "Personally sealing away an old friend is one form of erosion i had endured" with a sad expression on his face :( he even lost some of his fellow god buddies, he even lost 'her' during the archon war. It must've been tough for morax to live for another thousand years traveling and going back to places he once went with his friends :((
This storyline is surprisingly dark You are walking around an abandoned city, filled with the petrified remains of people who were dead before they even knew it
@@professorkirby9079 what lol meant was that the people inside of the statues (especially the ones near the center of the incident) got petrified so quickly to the point where they couldn’t process that they were dying, evidenced by their panicked body postures which imply that they were too busy running away
@@haxosop7648 You misunderstand. Of course they know what’s happening, it’s just they are panicking too much to process what is going on rationally. Imagine yourself in that situation and see if you have enough time to think about anything else except for running
When I first went through this story, I thought that Zhongli was being too anal for really odd reasons - but the more I think about it, the more I think that this was his round-about way of protecting the relics and the God of Salt's resting place. He knew that the two would break the contract, so it was meant to make sure Havria's relics were left untouched and abused
the rules of the contracts were awfully specific to the point where you know he went down there countless times to see and maybe grieve over the loss of Havria.
@@rosem.gottschalk9528 if you own him tho in his character description About Us- Confusion he says Contracts can not be used to define friendship, nor measure sentiment. So just what can we use to measure the weight of our emotions? Do you know the answer, friend? He’s basically saying he’s growing attached to the traveler.
The fact that everyone thinks how Zhongli is just an old man forgetting his money all the time, but after this storyline, we really do realize how much knowledge and burden he carries on his back for the rest of his life, not being able to forget. I have deep respects for him. He might be a god like Venti. But he's on a different level, and that makes him so special.
Venti and zhongli is the two oldest archon and back in the archon war venti blew a mountain up and killed a few gods too they're also one of the original seven that survived the archon war (kinda hard to believe on how the way venti act)
Venti's and Zhongli's stories left me feeling kinda sad so after the end of their tales, I just stood besides them, not wanting to leave them alone. They are so precious
This is why i love this game. The whole open world that you constantly wander has history in it. And you find out that history from either messing around in the areas, reading old texts throughout the land, or just talking with characters that can explain the history. And despite its vibrant anime look, this history is depressing/relatable as fuck, therefore making us more attached to the characters. Beautiful
@@thorsal6208 A lot of stories in the game are just morbid. There is one where a girl killed herself at the Liyue water source and the body started polluting it, and they just slapped it onto the billboard in town. It's not even a quest I wouldn't have known abt it if I didn't randomly start talking to an NPC
I'm so late to comment! But this story quest is by far the deepest and most thought provoking on tackling the problem of doing history, such as believing and recording only "truths" that you want to believe in, or doing it solely for wealth or other interests, and so on. I love this story quest as a history student
@@afellowhuman8944 that reminds me of something that charlie chaplin did, he entered in a contest, chalie look-alike and he lost geting the 20 th place, zongli must have felt like chaplin when they were talking about him.
You know what? I wanna see the genshin prequel, especially the archon war. Maybe as a manga or just they make a long storytelling in their youtube channel just like they explain the honkai impact lore.
Rite. Me too. At first, I was like feeling all these negative things about her like why is she like that. I know she's a god that loves her people but love wasn't just enough especially at that time to protect her people. But I keep coming back to read her story quest and the more I know the more I feel sorry towards her. Like she's just that kind of god who is gentle and approach war differently from the other god but unfortunately, her believe don't really fit in at that time and it is the sole reason why she was betrayed. Her story are the most touching for me of all the story quest in this game.
In his story 2, it's said that there's almost always someone -- mostly from one of his elite friends -- who will pay for his dues. He likes all kind of rich-related things like watching an opera or eating at a 5* restaurant on a regular basis. However, the dude doesn't even know the actual value of mora the way the people of Liyue does... he saw something, he wants it, then he gets it like Ariana Grande. He will even pay for it a lot more generously than the actual price because there's always someone who will shoulder it for him (because grandpa always forgot to bring mora with him). Dude's an actual bourgeoisie parasite, that’s why he got butthurt when Paimon implied him as a parasite to the society, -because he’s unironically one.-
@@morax9758 Guizhong is an old friend of Zhongli! she was the Goddess of Dust and got killed for possibly unknown reasons during the archon war, and she was also the one who made the Ballistas I think? hence why it's named after her!
@@swervesbar I don't know who killed her but it has something to do with ocean, It was mentioned that the Guili plains was drowned and it also has something to do with Zhongli's hatred for sea food which he said he doesn't want to talk about. I'm guessing it has something to do with Osial since Xiao also said he is familiar with Osial's powers and he is a Yashka from the Guili plains
Zhongli's retirement inadvertent consequences: 1) Destroyed Liyue's mint and mora production 2) Made the sea saltier by throwing the salt production relics into the sea. Soon it shall be the Guyun Dead Sea.
@@RazanAr51 Then he officially destroyed one of the biggest ecosystems of the whole continent, started the possibly biggest species extinction in the history of the whole world (yes, bigger than the archon war) and caused a catastrophe for the fishermen of the whole continent (since their main income is floating belly-up on the ocean), including lots ob jobless people falling into poverty. This is the stepping-down-without-saving-money-for-himself-first situation all over again
Is there anything canon about them being in a relationship though? I mean don't know of one but would LOVE it if they were together in the past. I know they were allies but that's just really it
@@whiteliliath4824 I know right? I‘m really getting tired of all those shippers in almost every Zhongli video. „Guizhong abd Zhongli are canon!!“. No they are not, its only fanfiction. As long as the developers arent saying that its canon, its not. Apperently, a frienship can‘t exist, no two people in this game must be lovers smh. Its quite sad bc I think friendship plays a huge role in this game
How to be an archon god: -be useless as a human - be broke as a human - have a tragic event happen to one of your friends Edit: Come Inazuma, this comment holds true with Raiden too.
I would like to apologize for this video coming out so late. I did not realize it would take so long for the quest to be fixed. I am really sorry, i'll do better next time.
I am going to be working hard to get the Dragonspine videos out as soon as I can. Thank you for your patience.
Ok bwaap
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Gud
It is fine my epic man I blame paimon for being too nervous to talk around daddy dhongli
No problemo dude
Archeologist : i wish i could meet rex lapis in real life
Zhongli : hi
Archeologist : no
Zhongli : im literally that guy
LMAO 😂
Part 2
Barbara:- Barbatos, forgive me
Venti:- hi
Barbara:- no
Venti:- I’m literally that dude
@@celeste6097 that was part one actually :)
@@celeste6097
Venti: *fixes the Holy Lyre*
Barbara: ..so anyway
yes.
Zhongli looks like 20 year old genius billionaire gentleman.
@Maria Alghazal AHAHAHAHAHAHA
except he's not a billionaire
Liyue's Tony Stark, except he's broke and a grandpa.
@@risangayatul let's just say he "was" but he's not now.
@@risangayatul he’s also not 20
If I had Zhongli's voice.....I would never shut up
I still don’t shut up, I would just be more confident
@@TheSilly. This made me laugh
@@Brightly-Colored_Goth yay
@@TheSilly. Please, tell me, osmanthus wine still taste the same as you remember?
@@izukumidoriya7552 yes, but I cannot find those who share the memory
"Right, the lord of geo wouldn't kill the innocent"
Meanwhile my Zhongli: *Kills 400 of Timmy's bird*
Assasinating Timmy's birdies for the sake of Fowl treasure in front of Mondstadt where Venti is.
Venti be like: Bruh-
ZhongLi: "I will have....Chicken!!!!"
as he should
The pigeons are evil.
Those birds where in league with the fatui
Alternate title: Local funeral parlor consultant destroys archaeologists with facts and logic
Zhongli be like: Facts don't care about your feelings.
The comments above me are genius, Zhongli must be proud.
Ben Zhobglipiro turns out to have been his real name huh?
@@claudiovaldivia583 ben zhongliro
AND R O C K-
Fatui: "haha i break contract"
Zhongli: "R O C K"
Fatui: “lol ur god not real”
Zhongli: “R O C K”
Fatui:haha now i want this relic too!
Zhongli: so you have chosen!
*_R_* *_O_* *_C_* *_K_*
Fatui : "IM FROM SNEZHAYA, IM-"
Zhongli : **R O C K**
Hehe, rock go boom
Fatui: *Breathes*
Zhongli: You'vr been hit by
You've been struck by
Rock
Wait, Zhongli just threw a chalice that produces infinite salt into the ocean....
That is how the ocean became salty. It's all their fault.
@@Kureemy
Zhongli why!?!
if salt absorbs water but theres infinite salt wouldnt it just suck up the whole ocean
@@YeetingYEET
Oh fuck. In 1000 years we gonna have deserts instead of oceans. Oh god! Zhongli accidentally killed everything!
This was a mistake!
@@CandyApples4ever ah yes causing an economic disaster and getting rid of a very magical currency just because he wanted to retire and then make the entire world in to a desert just so the the belonging of a God don't get discoverd
"REX LAPIS WOULDN'T KILL THE INNOCENT-"
*the new archon quest*
I believe that the gods did it for a good reason.
I think it was more that Celestia forced the Archons.
@@Cronomancer I feel like at least one did it out of revenge. Ei avenging Baal.
Khaenriahns: *am i a fucking joke to you*
he complimented us.
*he complimented us.*
he complimented us.
yes
***Traveler.Exe Has Stopped Working***
he complimented us.
*He complimented us.*
Zhongli is a walking
*"I was there when it was written."* meme
Correct
Yes
Narnia Yeet
As who tao said, *HE IS A WALKING*
*E N C Y C L O P Y D I A*
@@pusikatus Hu Tao*
“He used this first mora to enhance a dagger and a sword.”
Zhongli: did I?
3:33
Zhongli: “Well, of course I know him. He’s me”
Id like to salute u for that beautiful reference, good sir
"We were just discussing the history of Rex Lapis"
-Rex Lapis
**confused barbatos noises**
It must be fun to gossip with people about yourself while nobody knows you are actually... You.
The same energy as Barbara hugging the Lyre saying “THANK BARBATOS!” In front of Venti
@@iju5937 omg i remember a fanart where barbara sneeze below the barbatos statue and venti sitting on the hand statue hand say "bless u" lmao
Snahke true
Archeologists: I greatly disagree with zhongli’s hypothesis
Zhongli: *Wanna bet*
hoooo, so there's where he got all his money from
“Don’t cite deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written” - Aslan.
Let make a contract lol
Too bad he didn't think of it before. That why he is always broke lol
L
Zhongli: *Throws the artifacts into the sea
Traveler: **Swim to get it back in the next morning*
But logically in terms of game mechanics
Can you dive underwater tho???
All because paimon gave you a quest to do so
@@shanedoesyoutube8001Well we can now…
in Fontaine.
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 well yes but actually no
@@shadowphoenic after a year of questioning
More like with Fontaine out, "yes, but only there"
"May the Lord of Geo strike me down"
Zhongli: *Ahaha as you wish*
Someone: Breaks Contract
Zhongli: I diagnose you with ROCK
He’ll get the rock bonk
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)👍
*I WILL HAVE ORDER*
*ORDER GUIDE YOU*
I laughed more than i probably should have
The god of salt didn't die, she's just the god of gacha now.
Imagine how powerful she would have been if she is still alive from the amount of salt we produce everyday
amen
She's become the god of MSG
@@mza.2 uncle Roger love her
The gamer god
Someone: ((Breaks a Contract))
Zhongli: "So uhmm, yah like Rock?"
So, when a god dies, an crazy amount of power its releases, with Hivra was salt, so, with that info we can deduce how "Rex lapis assasinating" didnt turn Liyue into a mountain
Same thoughts!
Like why didn't Rex Lapis' corpse explode or something? It should've destroyed the harbor in a flash.
@@VanrougeSimp Cause it was a fake corpse
Oh yeah, as a part of his plan to retire, Zhongli, or Ex-Rex Lapis, faked his own death
@@ToSP. Ex-Lapis
@@ShaneSDCR 💀💀
Them: Rex Lapis was a genius and gave a hidden meaning to mora
Zhongli: i cant even remember to bring money
That's true but he didn't bring money because he wasn't used to not being able to create it whenever he wants
He didn't remember cus he's trying to be one with dem mortals
@@Marmag8 i mean zhongli isnt necessary smart either, venti call him blockhead and theres a reason for that, too obsessive with contract.
@@r3zaful true, I love him as a character though. Especially after hearing "more about Zhongli V", it was great.
.
.
Them: wHaT?
Zhongli: Uh... nothing.
"I swear. If I'm lying, may the lord of geo strike me down"
Zhongli: with pleasure
Lmaoooooo
HAHAHAHA
*I WILL HAVE ORDER*
O R D E R G U I D E S Y O U
[razormind intensifys]
Ever since I started playing Genshin impact it is slowly consuming my recommended section lol
same
same
same, except it was an instant switch for me
same
Same,it’s making me go insane
this quest kinda breaks my heart, i know we often joke about “where are those wo share the memory”, but lets be real: pretty much no one does maybe except for venti and its just so sad
@@Gamfluent Ei wasn't even part of the original 7 though- she was not there for all of their history
The adepti do!
@@ashtheintroverted7204 but she is her predecessor's (Raiden makoto) *twin.* Chances are ei could've remembered as much as zhongli
@@ashtheintroverted7204 Ei was Makotos kagemusha, which means that during archon war she could have encountered Morax even more than Makoto who's peaceful god.
Ei won a seat for her sister from her name, Makoto herself never fought in archon war.
@@ashtheintroverted7204 just because she wasn’t part of the original 7 doesn’t mean she doesn’t know anything and her predecessor is her twin so literally the same age and was born the same time
"Salt. And Betrayal"
Anyone hoping to get a five star in any banner can relate to this
It’s funny to me because I got a gold on Zhongli’s banner, but it wasn’t Zhongli
i laughed the fuck out for some reason XD
@@b3rrykinvids360 Same. It was Jean. You?
Also had the same thing happen during Venti's banner, but it was QiQi.
@@LucarioDoT same bruh
I just thought of Among Us lol
"I've never even faced these enemies before"
now we know why his Barbara still lv 1
To be honest I only ever leveled up Barbara to help in getting materials for my pyro units (Benny and Amber),also because I like her.
@@ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou I leveled up Barbara because I somehow max Constellation her in 1 month...why Mihoyo...those were all F2P primogems, I have never even bought a primogem.
i have mona and barbara in my team, its so painful
@@aurel9289 I think they meant Barbara
Oh dear, bwaap pure souls will get splashed by Oceanid
Some people may think that this quest has nothing do to with Zhongli, I think not. The story of Zhongli is obviously going to be very long, thus it cannot be revealed to the audience directly. The story of Havria gives the audience a little taste and sets up the attitude and tone of what Zhongli's story will be in the future. The most important thing is that Zhongli's attitude during the archon war is revealed in this quest, which is "yield to your enemies won't save yourself", "during an era of a chaotic time, it's not about the simple good-evil concept", etc., the part of the reason why he survived the archon war. As he said, the story of Havria gave him a warning. We can guess that Zhongli too, tried to do the same as Havria until she was killed, and that's when he became ruthless towards the aggressors. The characters like the girl and the so-called archeologists on the ship are living examples of various types of ignorant people when it comes to history, who only believe what they want to believe and have a very twisted way of looking at history. This tells the audience that they too need to think about how they should look at the history of Zhongli. He might not be a total bad guy like the girl said he was, he was also not a powerful saint like the archeologists thought he was, but he's trustworthy for he values the contracts. In general, for a prologue for Zhongli's legend, I think it's a very good start.
tbh i would rather like knowing more about him before meeting his love and after she was killed because that is literally when he changed his view on which Liyue he was supposed to protect and made him question the validity of his contracts.
"Right, the Lord of Geo wouldn't kill the innocent."
Me, when I first did this quest: Yeah that's right. You tell her, Paimon.
Me, now: *sweats nervously*
zhongli: _confidently speaking abt rex lapis (a.k.a himself)_
the people: kinda sus
@@aventurinelover1234 dafuq
@@aventurinelover1234 are you okay?
@@aventurinelover1234 This kinda enthusiasm is so rare yet so precious 😂
@@aventurinelover1234 sounded like sarcasm
@@melomaloi maybe
Wanyan: **crying**
Zhongli: continously stating the fact
Sule
@@user-tj6gp4nt5u prikietiew
Anjer sule ikut main genshin impact
Menurut buku tatang sutarman benar
Me when im arguing with my family especially my mother
“Rex Lapis has amazing foresight!”
Zhongli: I can’t even plan dinner tonight, what makes you think-
If my kids will ever ask me how the seawater is salty, I will tell them this story.
"Once upon a time, there's a broke man tossed a divine chalice and ruler that have the power to produce infinite salt into the sea....."
Me too
YES!!
Yes
the tea doesn’t have sugar cubes in it, theyre actually just rocks
geo rocks 😻😺
"were you wondering why I was eating those rocks?"
That's the vibe I'm getting here
@@descendeus9679 diosaur
@@zi7o lmao yes
Like eating chicken nuggets but they are dinosaur-shaped?
Bwaap: "I never faced such strong enemies before"
The enemy: **Waddles Menacingly**
Jojo intensifies
To be fair...Oceanid is considered the worst enemy in the game by MANY, and even those who don't struggle too much are still traumatized by angry waddling ducks, tailslapping squirrels and divebomb birds (and omg those carwash crabs, they are the worst imo x.x)
Screw those birds that thing spawns
@@sleepysera and the goddamn frogs that frogs is a combination of the bird the squirrel and that thing who jumps and die with an wet explosion
I love fighting it but yeah, when he figures out the fight he be higher AR, i would even hate to be world lvl 5+ and randomly fight oceanid first time.
the entire quest is just
when all the “smart kids” get a different answer on the question
"We.. We hate him!"
Zhongli, listening: Oh
her: i want truth of salt god
him: tells truth of salt god
her: no
basically the situation i guess lol
She’s also a hypocrite too. She said something about judging fairly about whatever happens about Morax, apparently it only applies to people who worships Morax and not her & her Salt God.
Todays version
Flat earthers: I want to know if the earth is actually round
All the evidence in the world: The earth is round
Flat earthers: no
“It takes a strong man to deny what’s in front of him...”
-John Konrad
Women in a nutshell lmao
@@ResidentEvilfan2012 Is 2012 your birth year? Because that's how you talk like
"Do you think you understand the Lord of Geo more than me?"
Zhongli: 👁️👄👁️ I-
yes
yes
*YES*
yes
100 \_i|⟨e
I also recognized the story of Havria and her people from one of the diaries we find during our exploration. While I hated how Wanyan was so adamant that Morax (Zhongli) killed Havria and couldn't accept the truth when she told him to accept the truth, I could only blame her people for distorting the truth to their younger generation.
Agreed. However, I do like how the devs have incorporated a religious system with characters who feel deeply for the gods they worship. It's actually quite fascinating that the game quite literally revolves around the people of the world of Tevyat worshipping seven (or possibly more than one) gods. I also realized that Venti seems to represent the Christian God. He is out of sight but comes in forms to aid the people he deems worthy and there is a church and statue in Mondstadt erected in his honor
Nah I like that part. People are like that irl. People are super committed to lies especially if it was fed to them as a kid or for years.
"If I'm lying, may lord of Geo strike me down!'
Zhongli: *Then perish*
Girl: "Morax used a rather underhanded trick to... assassinate her."
Morax: "👀"
**RISE!**
Morax used a rather underhanded trick to... assassinate her.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@xanderliow105
No. Nonononono-
@@xanderliow105 give me codes.
@@xanderliow105 THE NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES MASON, WHAT ARE THEY!?!?!?!
The fact that zhongli knows about traveler being able to freely cross between worlds ._.
Pretty sure that he, like Venti, can sense that you are not from this world. Also Venti granted you the power of wind, so more than likely when you attuned to geo, you borrowed power from Zhongli/Morax, hence why he knows.
@@typhir5911 venti didn’t grant the traveler the power of ameno
@@typhir5911 and morax didn’t grant the traveler the power of geo. More so the traveler took it without permission. Or maybe paimon is the one who gives/guides the elemental power to the traveler like albedo suggested.
@@flameking6553 very true. I think I misinterpreted the time when you went to Venti to apologize for taking the power of wind.
@@flameking6553 well venti definitely gave him the air machine gun he used against divalin. he said so himself
34:42 "Faith in a god who has already passed will do you no good."
hits different when you go to sumeru where that's quite literally the entire plot. their loyalty to their first archon blinded them so much that they were willing to do everything to kill and despise their current archon (which spoilers is literally the same person they just dont know that). so to think that this one line would be brought back in such a major way is so rewarding
Zhongli before: I am Mora
Zhongli after: Hey master Hu Tao, my salary when?
ironically being how he is the creator of mora, commerce and stability - Zhongli cant be trusted with a purse, has no understanding of monetary value and cant haggle for his life.
Zhongli will probably become the next Manager after Hu tao dies, though it would be strange to see a guy that is still in is 20s-30s after people that were younger than him died lol
Zhongli’s quest mission is basically a history lesson. A sad one at that.
History is sad, even if one was victorious another must have suffered the loss, not to mention all nations have a lot of both loss and victory, some in different ways, some more than others. We may only learn from them, to respect one another, and yet we haven't, perhaps this is yet another tragedy that will enter History for more generations to learn a lesson, that will yet again ignore, for even while learning doubt and dinal however small will gradually eat away at the wisdom gathered by the old and by the ancient.
The fact that all gods in Genshin Impact Fighting each other make me sad so many good gods got killed
@@SOLO.DANDELION Well-said dude, what we learn from history will decide our future. history is never a simple cycle, slowly but surely, we are moving ahead.
So was venti's if u get to the end part
@@colinzou2803
I don’t know. The more I learn about history, the more I realize history repeats itself with a more modern system each time. It’s kind of depressing honestly.
"If Im lying, may the Lord of Geo strike me down!"
" *I WILL HAVE ORDER* "
LMAO
*ORDER GUIDE YOU*
Chicken nuggets pls
@@gamergaming6604 what
@@gamergaming6604 I- 😂😂😂😂
Why does zhongli gave me so many life lesson especially when he said "Someday, we may all disappear"
Archeologists: Say very interesting and unique theories about the first mora
Zhongli: Gives sensible and realistic answer about first mora
“We hate Morax!”
Zhongli: *at least say it behind my back*
I bet it hurt his feelings
heart been broke so many times-
@@yumikosoup i-I dont know what to belie-e-eve yea-
Meh his feeling is already broken many times example is the God of Dust ;3
@@Meh-nv6id mama 🤡say 😗it’s😪 my 😰fault 🙄it’s ✌️my ❤️fault 😭
Shh, don’t tell him about oceanid
we should though. If not for the artifacts, for the experience in case he ever faces those things again
@@floricel_112 i agree
What he doesn't know can't hurt him.
...Actually it can hurt him. A lot, evidently.
He doesn’t use any hydro characters because he only uses the starter characters, so I guess he won’t really fight the oceanid any time soon.
@@liszst all you need is Lisa, Kaeya, Barbara and Noelle.
I just noticed that Zhongli keeps his head down since they found the salt statues
37:56 there's alot of memories zhongli wants to forget from a thousands of years ago. It's like a type of erosion he endured for a very long time but it still keeps coming back to him. I still remember what he said during the "beneath the light of jadeite" quest, "Personally sealing away an old friend is one form of erosion i had endured" with a sad expression on his face :( he even lost some of his fellow god buddies, he even lost 'her' during the archon war. It must've been tough for morax to live for another thousand years traveling and going back to places he once went with his friends :((
The Fatui guy looks like he ain't got no eyebrows
In Soviet Russia, people don't have eyebrows.
@@jimwhite2049 eyebrows have people
In mother Snezhnaya, people don’t have eyebrows, eyebrows have you
He's a close relative to Akutagawa then
E
This storyline is surprisingly dark
You are walking around an abandoned city, filled with the petrified remains of people who were dead before they even knew it
They knew, and that’s what makes their petrified statues all the more haunting
@@professorkirby9079 what lol meant was that the people inside of the statues (especially the ones near the center of the incident) got petrified so quickly to the point where they couldn’t process that they were dying, evidenced by their panicked body postures which imply that they were too busy running away
@@momsaccount4033 if they were running away does that not mean they knew what was happening?
@@haxosop7648 You misunderstand. Of course they know what’s happening, it’s just they are panicking too much to process what is going on rationally. Imagine yourself in that situation and see if you have enough time to think about anything else except for running
@@momsaccount4033 ok
“enemies ive never faced before”
so, any other Xingqiu mains want to introduce themselves?
*Raises hand*
Present
Why hello
Hello :D
*Raises hand*
Zhongli:"Shall suffer the wrath of the rock"
Bwaap: You're going to drop an actual meteor on him
Also Bwaap: Cuts to dropping a meteor on him
*Throws chalice of infinite salt into the ocean*
The ocean's ecosystem: oH No
NOT THE BARBARA VOICE LINE FJSNSKSNN
According to some legends our oceans are salty because of that
I'm gonna tell my kids this is how the ocean turns salty lol
@@anormalcorpus4804 lol there is an ukrain legend of this topic
E
Kliment: That is one of your Liyue gods. I am from Snezhnaya, I-
Zhongli: -will suffer the Wrath of the Rock
I'm sorry I'm wheezing
Zhongli boss music played inside my head when he dropped that line.
I really wish you could say "are you in snezhnaya"
23:39 For anyone who is too lazy to find it
@@CarassiusAu thank you. This is actually my second time in this video lol
Zhongli really said “bitch did I stutter”
When I first went through this story, I thought that Zhongli was being too anal for really odd reasons - but the more I think about it, the more I think that this was his round-about way of protecting the relics and the God of Salt's resting place. He knew that the two would break the contract, so it was meant to make sure Havria's relics were left untouched and abused
the rules of the contracts were awfully specific to the point where you know he went down there countless times to see and maybe grieve over the loss of Havria.
"Osial you and i were foes, but we could have been bros"
He complimented us.
He complimented us.
He complimented us.
He complimented us.
He complimented us.
your profile pic says it all
God he basically called us called a gravedigger or grave robber?
@@rosem.gottschalk9528 if you own him tho in his character description About Us- Confusion he says
Contracts can not be used to define friendship, nor measure sentiment. So just what can we use to measure the weight of our emotions? Do you know the answer, friend?
He’s basically saying he’s growing attached to the traveler.
Seeing the duck waddling furiously behind him, while he's gasping is so funny.
SHUBA SHUBA SHUBA
What's the time stamp again??? 😂😂😂
@@kaiaustria7779 11:12
@@xueye ty
Its all those cranes he killed
I feel so grateful having zhongli in my team
but
it’s a bit terrifying when a contract is
*B R O K E N*
ORDER GUIDES YOU
THIS IS ORDER
*I WILL HAVE ORDER*
Zhongli: So you want to break the contract?
Fatui: So what if I break it?
Zhongli: Seriously? Right in front of my salad?
The fact that everyone thinks how Zhongli is just an old man forgetting his money all the time, but after this storyline, we really do realize how much knowledge and burden he carries on his back for the rest of his life, not being able to forget.
I have deep respects for him.
He might be a god like Venti. But he's on a different level, and that makes him so special.
Well Zhongli is among the oldest Gods/Archons. Venti in comparison is a lot younger.
@@Tosmasta00 true, but he saw some real shit too through his life-
@@sxbiishi That is true. Might aswell be the reason why Venti does drink to maybe in a desprate attempt of trying to forget the past.
Venti and zhongli is the two oldest archon and back in the archon war venti blew a mountain up and killed a few gods too they're also one of the original seven that survived the archon war (kinda hard to believe on how the way venti act)
Dont forget that Venti takes form of a bard he witnessed die.
Bwaap: those are the scariest enemies that I've never faced in this entire game
Main Hydro: First time?
be me, a mona main, hydro mage and oceanid enemies *exist* me: fear
Beidou's counter go brrrrr
Buildin Childe, Mona, and Barbara : Guess i'll drown
@@ronnymahendra9035 childe still can deal physical damge as for Barbara and mona you know
@@storm9933 Yeah, but why would you use Childe if you're only using his bow basic attack?
Zhongli everytime someone breaks a contract: Your free trial of living has ended
wanyan had a great VA, especially with her breakdown scene
No literally that’s what i was going to say. Underrated performance
in regards to the first mora:
“Don’t put it in your pocket. Or else it will get mixed in with the others and becomes just a coin. Which it is.”
Noice reference
to what?
@@jalcome4201 A movie called “No Country for Old Men.”
hahahaha very lucky old man
I’m afraid now.
Venti's and Zhongli's stories left me feeling kinda sad so after the end of their tales, I just stood besides them, not wanting to leave them alone. They are so precious
Zhongli's quest is one of the darkest story so far in game imo. It's left me speechless after completing the quest.
This is why i love this game. The whole open world that you constantly wander has history in it. And you find out that history from either messing around in the areas, reading old texts throughout the land, or just talking with characters that can explain the history. And despite its vibrant anime look, this history is depressing/relatable as fuck, therefore making us more attached to the characters. Beautiful
yeah I did a 10 pull next to the both of them, Venti gave me nothing good and Zhongli gave me Albedo so I respect him more now
@@TheZSpawn standing next to the Lord of Geo gave you a 5 star with a vision of Geo
@@thorsal6208 A lot of stories in the game are just morbid. There is one where a girl killed herself at the Liyue water source and the body started polluting it, and they just slapped it onto the billboard in town. It's not even a quest I wouldn't have known abt it if I didn't randomly start talking to an NPC
26:30
“History is written by the winners. History is filled with _liars.”_
-Captain John Price
I'm so late to comment! But this story quest is by far the deepest and most thought provoking on tackling the problem of doing history, such as believing and recording only "truths" that you want to believe in, or doing it solely for wealth or other interests, and so on. I love this story quest as a history student
I too am commenting late but I have to this quest was my favorite of all the character story quest cause it had actual thought put into it
Someone: *breaks a contract*
Zhongli: ight, you're up
Dwayne the Rock Johnson: you got it
I can totally see this lol.
Please i can’t stop laughing
We need a meme of this 🤣
LMAO
stop it pls
Zhongli: oh rex lapis? Oh yeah he's a cool guy he created mora and other stuff.
Bruce Wayne: Oh, Batman? Oh yeah he’s a cool guy he fights criminals and other stuff
Venti: oh barbatos? Yea he defeated durin and blew snow and changed the entire scenery of mondstadt I guess.
Diluc: oh the Darknight Hero? yeah I guess I've heard of him, he saved a girl in mondstadt once
I love this thread lmao 😭😭😭
@@shymecha The best thread
I would listen to Zhongli talk for days and not be bored
"What if...they were in love?"
I WAS LITERALLY THINKING THAT
Imagine how Zhongli feels hearing them speak about stupid “research” they did about him XD
Dont forget how that one guy claimed he knows Rex Lapis than Rex Lapis himself lmao
poor decade long research, only to be thrown away in a blink of an eye
They must have been pretty *salty*
@@deadbunny2938 not pretty, definitely and absolutely salty XD
@@afellowhuman8944 that reminds me of something that charlie chaplin did, he entered in a contest, chalie look-alike and he lost geting the 20 th place, zongli must have felt like chaplin when they were talking about him.
"Can Archons date each other?"
Fanfiction writers: *Y E S*
Canon Writers and Theorists: Should we tell him?
*Reality can be whatever I want*
Zhongli's lover is Guizhong, and she died during the Archon War.
@@user-hu5dp2wx1z Is that canon or a misconception?
@@ninianeee_3480 This is written in a story book in game
Genshin Impact: a game where you can chat with gods.
it must be really awkward for Zhongli to speak about Rex Lapis since he’s literally Rex Lapis himself
Havria's makes me feel so bad for her. She was a kind god in an era of war. Even when betrayed she probably didnt mean to harm them
You know what? I wanna see the genshin prequel, especially the archon war. Maybe as a manga or just they make a long storytelling in their youtube channel just like they explain the honkai impact lore.
Rite. Me too. At first, I was like feeling all these negative things about her like why is she like that. I know she's a god that loves her people but love wasn't just enough especially at that time to protect her people. But I keep coming back to read her story quest and the more I know the more I feel sorry towards her. Like she's just that kind of god who is gentle and approach war differently from the other god but unfortunately, her believe don't really fit in at that time and it is the sole reason why she was betrayed. Her story are the most touching for me of all the story quest in this game.
@@thorsal6208 Same! I especially enjoyed the manga prequel cause like Vennessa and Venti screentime
As Zhongli said, right God in wrong Era. The statement serves both for Guizhong and Havria, both loving and gentle fallen Gods.
to quote a certain game:
"War..... War never changes...."
"he complimented us!" aka "senpai noticed me"
zhonglis voice is so attractive PLS
Zhongli: "It's just an ordinary coin"
Me: GOD SAID IT'S NOT THAT DEEP
NGL I ONLY BEEN THINKING OF THAT ONE TIME WHERE BWAAP FELL IN THE WATER WHEN HE WAS GONNA SAY GOODBYE TO ZHONGLI AHH 😭🤚
THAT WAS SO CUTE 😭😭
LMAO I LOVE THAT PART STILL 😩🤚
I love that too XD
IT'S STILL LIVING RENT FREE IN MY HEAD
I literally think of it at random moments💀
I wonder how he's been paying for his meals and shelter all this while
Childe ofc
@@xyzafreya3963 lmao
The Northland Bank, Funeral parlor and the golden house pays everything for him I think
But he can create mora himself isn't he
In his story 2, it's said that there's almost always someone -- mostly from one of his elite friends -- who will pay for his dues. He likes all kind of rich-related things like watching an opera or eating at a 5* restaurant on a regular basis. However, the dude doesn't even know the actual value of mora the way the people of Liyue does... he saw something, he wants it, then he gets it like Ariana Grande. He will even pay for it a lot more generously than the actual price because there's always someone who will shoulder it for him (because grandpa always forgot to bring mora with him). Dude's an actual bourgeoisie parasite, that’s why he got butthurt when Paimon implied him as a parasite to the society, -because he’s unironically one.-
bwaap : *uses lisa to defeat the Hydro Mimics*
Kaeya : I'm not even here baby, I'm a hallucination
Zhongli's must have items:
Wallet=Childe
Memory Card= Traveler
-C. to someone who said this somewhere in the internet
I've learned more about Liyue History faster
than I learned a country's History in History Class
why can't all history classes be just archon quests?!
Same
If my teacher were Zhongli then I'd like learning about history too
Hello duchi beatch
same
"Sal terrae" is the Latin for "The salt of the earth"
sounds like 'salt terrain'
my blind ass thought it said "Salt Terrace" the first time
@@Alcyone_eta25 ngl same lmao
Land of the Salt sounds good too.
@@yuhnyuhn Yeah, it can be translated to many different forms
Wanyan: “WE HATE MORAX”
Zhongli: “I will have order” *drops meteorite*
I feel like zhongli is really sad about the war, as he may forced himself to kill his own friends during the war.
someone on twitter made a theory about guizhong possibly being corrupted by something! might be the abyss if gods can be corrupted...
@@swervesbar I'm sorry but what is Guizhong? Guizhong ballista?
@@morax9758 Guizhong is an old friend of Zhongli! she was the Goddess of Dust and got killed for possibly unknown reasons during the archon war, and she was also the one who made the Ballistas I think? hence why it's named after her!
@@swervesbar yup she was an excellent mechanic and made the Ballista
@@swervesbar I don't know who killed her but it has something to do with ocean, It was mentioned that the Guili plains was drowned and it also has something to do with Zhongli's hatred for sea food which he said he doesn't want to talk about. I'm guessing it has something to do with Osial since Xiao also said he is familiar with Osial's powers and he is a Yashka from the Guili plains
Zhongli's retirement inadvertent consequences:
1) Destroyed Liyue's mint and mora production
2) Made the sea saltier by throwing the salt production relics into the sea. Soon it shall be the Guyun Dead Sea.
But what if the sea in teyvat wasn't salty in the first place? And zhongli made the sea salty?
@@RazanAr51 Then he officially destroyed one of the biggest ecosystems of the whole continent, started the possibly biggest species extinction in the history of the whole world (yes, bigger than the archon war) and caused a catastrophe for the fishermen of the whole continent (since their main income is floating belly-up on the ocean), including lots ob jobless people falling into poverty.
This is the stepping-down-without-saving-money-for-himself-first situation all over again
Lol
@@soph6008 lmao
@@soph6008 I think this is gonna be Zhongli next chapter quest
Why is there no treasure anywhere?
traveler: *hides achievement sheet showing 882 chests opened in Liyue*
I got 1054 in Liyue. The highest record I see is 1100+ chests in just Liyue.
“can archons fall in love”
oh boy, who gonna tell bwaap about guizhong and zhongli 😬😬
Is there anything canon about them being in a relationship though? I mean don't know of one but would LOVE it if they were together in the past. I know they were allies but that's just really it
but they are not lovers? where did ya'll get this from
I thought that was his sister
@@whiteliliath4824 I know right? I‘m really getting tired of all those shippers in almost every Zhongli video. „Guizhong abd Zhongli are canon!!“. No they are not, its only fanfiction. As long as the developers arent saying that its canon, its not. Apperently, a frienship can‘t exist, no two people in this game must be lovers smh. Its quite sad bc I think friendship plays a huge role in this game
Not canon though. They were described as companions, not lovers.
I find it funny that he threw never-ending salt on top of Osial. Like one last ultimate burn.
Fatui: **Breaks contract**
Zhongli: *_SO YOU HAVE CHOSEN ROCK_*
Edit: Thank you sooo much for the likes!! I've never gotten 4k before :D
Moon comes closer
“ *da rock* ”
Xinyan: DID SOMEBODY SAY, "ROCK?"
*_zhongli kills fatui_*
Meteorite you mean
How to be an archon god:
-be useless as a human
- be broke as a human
- have a tragic event happen to one of your friends
Edit: Come Inazuma, this comment holds true with Raiden too.
Seems like I qualify then
Looks like a job for me
Finally a job i can do
@@cyberneticsquid-godofmassd3759 What happened to you?
@@darkqwartzsytal834 And... what happened to you?
"See, this goblet may have an infinite amount of salt, but it will never be saltier than McDonald's fries."
-bwaap