CHARACTER INFO
- Birthday: December 31
- Star Rank: 5 ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦
- Alternative Names: Shouri
- Title: Wangsheng Funeral Parlor Consultant
- Organization / Circle: Wangsheng Funeral Parlor
- Origin: Liyue
- Constellation: Lapis Dei
- Vision / Element: Geo / Earth
- Weapon: Polearm
- Primary Attribute: Geo DMG Bonus (%)
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
Zhongli is the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor’s mysterious consultant. Handsome, elegant, and surpassingly learned.
Though no one knows where Zhongli is from, he is a master of courtesy and rules. From his seat at Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, he performs all manner of rituals.
TALENTS/ABILITIES
Rain of Stone – Normal/Charged Attack
- Normal Attack: Performs up to 6 rapid strikes.
- Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to lunge forward, causing stone spears to fall along his path.
- Plunging Attack: Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.
Dominus Lapidis – Elemental Skill
- Press: Commands the omnipresent power of the earth to solidify into a Stone Stele, standing 30 seconds, dealing AoE Geo DMG at the creation.
- Hold: Causes nearby Geo energy to explode, causing the following effects:
- If their maximum number hasn’t been reached, create a Stone Stele.
- Stone Stele: When created, deals AoE Geo DMG. Additionally, every 2 seconds, it will resonate with other nearby Geo Constructs, dealing Geo DMG to surrounding opponents. Stele creation and Resonance generate 0.5 elemental particles.
- The Stone Stele is considered a Geo Construct that can both be climbed and used to block attacks.
- Only one Stele created by Zhongli himself may initially exist at any one time.
- Creates a shield of jade. The shield’s DMG Absorption scales based on Zhongli’s Max HP. Possesses 150% DMG Absorption against all Elemental and Physical DMG.
- Jade Shield: Possesses 150% DMG Absorption against all Elemental and Physical DMG.
- Characters protected by the Jade Shield will decrease the Elemental RES and Physical RES of opponents in a small AoE by 20%. This effect cannot be stacked.
- Deals AoE Geo DMG.
- If there are nearby targets with the Geo element, it will drain a large amount of Geo element from a maximum of 2 such targets. This effect does not cause DMG.
- If their maximum number hasn’t been reached, create a Stone Stele.
Planet Befall – Elemental Burst
- Brings a falling meteor down to earth, dealing massive Geo DMG to opponents caught in its AoE and applying the Petrification status to them.
- Petrification: Opponents affected by the Petrification status cannot move.
Resonant Waves – 1st Ascension Passive
- When the Jade Shield takes DMG, it will Fortify:
- Fortified characters have 5% increased Shield Strength.
- Can stack up to 5 times, and lasts until the Jade Shield disappears.
Dominance of Earth – 4th Ascension Passive
- Zhongli deals bonus DMG based on his Max HP:
- Normal Attack, Charged Attack, and Plunging Attack DMG is increased by 1.39% of Max HP.
- Dominus Lapidis Stone Stele, resonance, and hold DMG is increased by 1.9% of Max HP.
- Planet Befall deals additional DMG equal to 33% of Zhongli’s Max HP.
Arcanum of Crystal – Utility Passive
- Refunds 15% of the ores used when crafting Polearm-type weapons.
CONSTELLATION
- Rock, the Backbone of Earth – Increases the maximum number of Stone Steles created by Dominus Lapidis that may exist simultaneously to 2.
- Stone, the Cradle of Jade – Planet Befall grants nearby characters on the field a Jade Shield when it descends.
- Jade, Shimmering through Darkness – Increases the Level of Dominus Lapidis by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
- Topaz, Unbreakable and Fearless – Increases Planet Befall’s AoE by 20% and increases the duration of Planet Befall’s Petrification effect by 2s.
- Lazuli, Herald of the Order – Increases the Level of Planet Befall by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
- Chrysos, Bounty of Dominator – When the Jade Shield takes DMG, 40% of that incoming DMG is converted to HP for the current character. A single instance of regeneration cannot exceed 8% of that character’s Max HP.
ASCENSION MATERIALS
Ascension 1: Level 20 – Level 40
- Cor Lapis ×3
- Prithiva Topaz Sliver ×1
- Slime Condensate ×3
Ascension 2: Level 40 – Level 50
- Cor Lapis ×10
- Prithiva Topaz Fragment ×3
- Slime Condensate ×15
- Basalt Pillar ×2
Ascension 3: Level 50 – Level 60
- Cor Lapis ×20
- Prithiva Topaz Fragment ×6
- Slime Secretions ×12
- Basalt Pillar ×4
Ascension 4: Level 60 – Level 70
- Cor Lapis ×30
- Prithiva Topaz Chunk ×3
- Slime Secretions ×18
- Basalt Pillar ×8
Ascension 5: Level 70 – Level 80
- Cor Lapis ×45
- Prithiva Topaz Chunk ×6
- Slime Concentrate ×12
- Basalt Pillar ×12
Ascension 6: Level 80 – Level 90
- Cor Lapis ×60
- Prithiva Topaz Gemstone ×6
- Slime Concentrate ×24
- Basalt Pillar ×20
BUILD GUIDE
For a complete guide on Zhongli, please check our Zhongli Best Build Guide page.
CHARACTER OUTFIT
Hermit of Mortal Life – Default Outfit
Description:
Zhongli’s outfit. This is the leisurewear of choice for Zhongli, the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor’s consultant.
How to Obtain:
Unlocked upon obtaining character
CHARACTER LORE
In Liyue’s traditional customs, “receiving adepti” and “sending adepti off” are equally important.
The Hus of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, who have been in this business for 77 generations, are the masters of handling funerals. However, Hu Tao, the current owner of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, primarily focuses on the art of sending mortals on their way.
For the various ceremonies for sending adepti off, Hu Tao usually employs the help of a friend in more or less the same business. That person’s name is Zhongli. The adepti have been with Liyue for millennia, but only a handful have ascended in the past three thousand years, which means that everything regarding the traditions now only exists in texts. This is not something one would likely witness twice in their entire lifetime.
Not even the most particular and learned of researchers or scholars could find one fault in Wangsheng Funeral Parlor’s ceremonies for sending adepti off.
Everything must be perfect, from the costumes, the time, the place, the items, the weather, the scheduled length, the size of the permitted audience, to the stature, profession, and age of the said audience. Nothing can be overlooked.
When folk describe Zhongli as “living history,” the latter usually only smiles and sighs.
“I… just have a good memory.”
In Liyue, if a person pays great attention to details, and has insuperable criteria by which they judge certain matters, then they are called “particular.”
In truth, everyone is “particular” about something. Some people hate spicy food, others don’t eat fish, and some want their tofu served sweet…
But as for Zhongli, he is particular about everything. He must attend operas by the most celebrated performers, take the most luxuriant thrushes out for walks, and he must go into the kitchen personally to instruct the cooks as to the ratio of scallops and fish required to make the most authentic Fullmoon Egg.
Zhongli has expertise in all manner of things: from fashion to daily necessities, wine and snacks, teas and spices, flora and fauna, and he will even actively debate affairs of trade, state, and international relations.
But he only ever fills you in on some useless trivia, because he enjoys sharing such interesting things with you.
When making a purchase, look to slash prices.
This is common knowledge among the people of Liyue. No matter what high heavens the store owner praises their product to, no matter its ancient history or classical value, prices are always flexible. Half the stated cost is a good place to start.
But when Zhongli pays up (or rather, calls for someone else to pay up on his behalf,) he never looks at the price tag. As long as it catches his eye, Zhongli will pay as much as the owner asks.
Indeed, he will even buy it at a premium sometimes.
But for some reason, Zhongli always forgets to bring money.
For small purchases, he has friends to help him out, and large bills he somehow finds ways to have written off.
To those merchants who secretly pride themselves on their powers of flattery, Zhongli is a man of strange proclivities: in truth, he knows a great deal about the value of money and finance, and he also understands the suffering of the people.
However, he seems to not understand that poverty is part of the human condition.
Or perhaps it might be said that he cannot imagine himself being poor.
How has such a person not died of hunger yet?
There is no way Zhongli can starve.
Such concerns as profit and loss are beneath his notice. The Seven Nations and the world itself are where his efforts are directed. As for wealth… He is wealth itself.
He is Morax, the overlord Rex Lapis who rules Liyue, and the Geo Archon of the Seven Archons. The very money that circulates throughout Teyvat, Mora, is named after him.
When night falls, and bustling Liyue begins to slumber, he will sometimes stand atop the towering mountains and gaze upon this city, which he made with his own hands.
To the people of Liyue, Rex Lapis has many divine titles.
When he laid down Liyue’s laws by his divine might, he was the God of Contracts. When he minted the first Mora and made Liyue strong by dint of commerce, the merchants revered him as the God of Commerce.
He has lived through countless years and is the eldest of the Seven, and so historian call him the God of History.
Thousands of years ago, the forbears of the citizens of Liyue Harbor struck stones together to start fires and used piled stones to create stove. These blessings derived from the Geo element led the Geo Archon to gain the title of God of the Stove.
People from other lands tend to call him Morax, though the people of Liyue prefer to use the term Rex Lapis.
But in the hearts of lovers of opera and children, Morax’s on-stage aspect, the all-conquering defender of Liyue — the Warrior God — is the most fascinating.
The delicacies that Rex Lapis discovered while lost in the streets, the plaques inscribed with his handwriting, a famous opera that he once starred in, playing the part of a warrior…
Many stories and tales of Liyue are, when studied closely, stories of people visited by their deity at some point — and the citizens of Liyue are most proud indeed of that history.
As the founder of Liyue Harbor, “contracts” are the most important thing to Morax.
From simple monetary exchange and agreements between merchants to the ancient laws that Morax himself laid down, there is no part of city life untouched by “contracts.”
To merchants, “contracts” are the most important standard that they hold themselves: deadlines, invoices, shipping destinations… Only a refined and strict order can sustain vibrant commerce, which is itself the lifeblood of Liyue Harbor.
Thus the Qixing punish violators of such laws unceasingly, not only to uphold the divine rulings of Morax but also to allow Liyue to maintain its vitality.
Through the millennia, every generation of the Liyue Qixing commits to interpreting the law, including subtle amendments to plug loopholes found in the law. Any loopholes that remain undiscovered are seen by the merchants as “permissible if unaddressed,” and they make killings off such holes until they are discovered and patched up by the Liyue Qixing.
Amid this game of cat-and-mouse, the book that collates such amendments has reached a whopping 279 pages thick.
The person currently responsible for maintaining this book, the Tianquan Ningguang, is secretly (and humorously) referred to as the “Tailor of Liyue,” in honor of her speed in patching these laws up, and for her sharpness of eye.
But no matter how complicated or tangled mortal laws become, one of these stands above all others in the eyes of Rex Lapis.
“The one who reneges on their words shall suffer the Wrath of the Rock.”
Rex Lapis, most ancient of The Seven, has lived far too long. Rex Lapis still remembers that moment when the final archon took their divine seat, thus ending the Archon War and the era of warring gods. The Seven were a diverse lot and dispersed far and wide, but they all shouldered the burden of guiding humanity.
As time passed, many of The Seven’s titles changed hands, and only two remain of the first Seven: Rex Lapis and the Anemo Archon.
The carefree Barbatos, the Anemo Archon, is the second eldest of The Seven.
When Barbatos first came to Liyue, Rex Lapis believed his fellow archon to have encountered some terrible crisis in pursuit of their duties, thus requiring his aid.
So when Barbatos descended in a gust of wind, the Geo Archon had already prepared himself to receive this neighboring deity and lend what help he may. But as he looked, the Anemo Archon tossed a wine bottle at him.
“Here’s some wine from Mondstadt. Care for a taste?” To forsake one’s duty to deliver a single bottle of wine — what a preposterous notion!
Yet the Anemo Archon kept coming to visit, to explore Liyue Harbor, all sorts of strange questions on his lips. The Anemo Archon’s questions knew as little limits as the wine in his hands.
From then on, the first Seven would often gather in Liyue. Rex Lapis still remembers how those wines tasted.
The world has changed much since then, and all that was once familiar has faded into memory. The seven seats changed and again were changed, till five of the seven at the table were all departed.
Nor would the duty of guiding humanity be honored by the new archons.
Even the hardest rocks may be worn down after three thousand years.
Nor would the wind ever return again.
One drizzly day, the ancient ruler was strolling about Liyue Harbor, and overheard a merchant telling one of his workers, “You’ve finished with your duties, go ahead and call it a day.”
Long did he stand amidst the milling crowd.
“Have I… already finished my duties?”
During the Archon Wars, every corner of Teyvat was consumed in the fires of conflict. Not only did gods fight amongst themselves, but countless wicked things also sought to expand their domains.
One such type of creature caused no end of woe for the Geo Archon, long before he took that title along with his place among The Seven.
These foul creatures, straight from the murky depth of the ocean abyss, had a squishy exterior, and possessed agile tentacles that would live on even after being cut off, even secreting some thick and revolting fluid in the process.
This alone would have been enough to make them the most monstrous of all creatures, and still it was not the pinnacle of their monstrosity.
What made them so truly terrible was their small size, which gave them the ability to duck into unimaginably small nooks and crannies.
No space was too narrow for them, neither the wooden boards of tables and chairs, nor the seams of windows and doors and curtain folds, nor even books and brushes.
Many a poor soul had, on at least one occasion, unwittingly outstretched their hand, only to quickly retract it in horror with a blood-curdling scream at the sensation of something cold, clammy, and damp, while one or more these despicable creatures came crawling up their arm, leaving a shiny trail behind them…
At the behest of the people of Liyue, Morax agreed to wipe these creatures out. But these parasites upon civilization could not be destroyed like enemies on a battlefield, by simply summoning a storm of stone spears that would shatter the earth and churn the soil….
Still, he was the God of Contracts. His word had to be his bond.
So, he went through the town from house to house with prisons of stone, seizing these creatures one by one and locking them away for good…
This long campaign of pest extermination taught Morax the true meaning of “a burden lifted.”
The grueling campaign itself, and the terrible smell of those ocean creatures’ secretions, left a lasting impression on the deity.
Today, even when he goes out incognito as the mortal man, Zhongli, Morax gives those living, squirming seafood products a wide berth.
…Well, except for dishes where said seafood products have been sliced and diced into oblivion, such as seafood tofu. He’ll quite happily eat those.
Gnosis
Once the Rite of Parting, of which Zhongli was both director and star, was over, the Fatui Harbinger named Signora appeared before him.
By prior contract, she was here to claim the Geo Archon Morax’s Gnosis.
Before the Traveler and the two Fatui Harbingers, Zhongli related the truth that he had established a contract with the Cryo Archon. In his own words, this was his final “Contract to End All Contracts.”
Yet no matter how one looks at it, the loss of his divine ability to defend Liyue was too great of a price to pay.
Even amongst mortals, the basis of a contract is “equivalent exchange.”
And for the God of Contracts, who much have established countless such agreements in their long years of existence, such an important contract must have come with its benefits.
Now, the Geo Archon has given away his Gnosis as his part of the deal.
What, then, must the Cryo Archon have wagered to balance the scales?
NAMECARD
Zhongli – Planet Befall
Obtain:
Reward for reaching Friendship Level 10 with Zhongli
Description:
Stars fall, light dims.
SPECIAL DISH
Slow-Cooked Bamboo Shoot Soup
Description:
Zhongli’s specialty. The ham is a butt end selected according to Yuehai Pavilion’s gourmet standards. The fresh meat is pork belly, freshly hunted in Springvale, while the bamboo shoots are the densest you’ll find in Qingce Village. It is then heated, slowly, gently, and with the utmost care and technique… Such a “particular” taste may only be shared with those who know how to appreciate it.
Base Dish:
Bamboo Shoot Soup
Effect:
Restores 34% of Max HP to the selected character and regenerates 980 HP every 5s for 30s.
Dish Type:
Recovery Dishes
Rarity:
✦ ✦ ✦
TRIVIA
- Zhongli may be one of, if not the, oldest gods in Teyvat, at over six thousand years old.
- Zhongli calls Rex Lapis’ “corpse” an “Exuvia.” The word “exuvia” refers to the outer skin molted by some creatures as a new exoskeleton grows in.
- During the Rite of Descension, Ivanovich states that the Exuvia is what Rex Lapis “appears as” during formal events, and that it is a “celestial cross between two of Liyue’s celestial creatures” (which the Chinese version specifies to be a dragon and qilin). This suggests that the Exuvia is only one of potentially several forms Rex Lapis can appear in.
- In demonology, Morax is the 21st demon of the Ars Goetia and a president of hell, ruling over thirty (or thirty-two according to other authors) legions of demons. He teaches astronomy and other liberal sciences, and gives good and wise familiars that know the virtues of all herbs and precious stones. He is depicted both as a man with the head of a bull, and a bull with the head of a man.
- His title, “Vago Mundo”, is Latin for “I wander the world.”
- His Chinese title, 尘世闲游 Chénshì Xiányóu, means “leisurely wanderings in the mortal world.”
- His constellation, Lapis Dei, is Latin for “The Stone of God.” It follows the same pattern as Venti’s constellation, Carmen Dei.
- The meteor summoned by Zhongli’s Elemental Burst, Planet Befall, resembles a Burr puzzle, specifically the six-piece burr which is also known as the “Chinese Cross”.
- The name used in Zhongli’s sixth constellation, Chrysos, is known as the spirit of gold in Greek mythology.
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