Yeah. Unless you want to get high, but you'd need about two years of lessons before we could go that route. [He cracks a grin like he's joking even though he isn't. Don't worry about it. Moving on--] It'll be easier to concentrate on purifying if we can mitigate the level of damage we're taking on, which should happen naturally with all three of us. But if you end up needing to do this again, I don't think you'll need to worry about doing any special rituals--that's part of what I was testing. It seems like those "shards" are pretty eager to soak up all of this energy.

[Which is both reassuring and concerning?? Reassuring because it means he won't have to put toddler leashes on their souls, but concerning because why is this dang shard so eager to get gunked up...

But he holds out his hand for Zhongli to take.]

Just concentrate on not getting too overwhelmed by the pain. Let go if it gets to be too much and we'll stop.