He's been called "Heaven's Star" in the lore for a while, at least in Chinese, so it's kinda funny for the fandom to have their mind blown over this one.

“A sun 8 times greater than our own” He’s definitely a big star out there in the galactic sea. A real sun of a beach.

Yay you’re backkk!
Also in regards to his age, I don’t think he lied to us about it. He said “As you know, I have dwelt upon this world for more than six thousand years.” (I screenshot the quote), which people seemed to misconstrue as him being only 6000 years old. But he already himself said he is older, and that timeline is only the amount of time he has been in Teyvat.
His age could be wayyyy more than that, especially if he might have come from another world or even if it’s kid f reference to where he was before he descended/was demoted

You know what part left me startled ?
When he was teaching Zibai the "ancient" art of Trifactor Excision, she wouldn't sever her three deadly selves and then he said :
"The will of heaven shifts and does not stay, while white clouds drift and turn to hounds of grey."
bro literally KNEW something was going to befall teyvat, he also knew that there will come time when she will be able to use that technique, bro is way too familiar with the heavens and their shenanigans...

It's not that suprising that they made Chinese like archon much more important than others.
Especially with the constant lantern events

Neuvillette calls him Deus Auri which means "God of Gold".

All thats left is investigate if there was more than one Morning Star title holder, or another dead-end expectation.

Do you think that unlike Columbina, who was rejected by teyvet, that the sun was never rejected. Which is why Zhongli never lost his power? Maybe he chose to become an archon after defending humanity?

Then we’ll all be shocked as heck if the Tsaritsa completes all the chess pieces and then zhongli casually walks in and say, “You have done well, my child.” Lol

to the interesting fact about Melusine, you can add the name of the achievement "Gold of the Sun, Together with his Blood", which is available in natlan.

i have not seen bro for like 3 years 😭🙏🏾

He also gets called the Golden god

Maybe Zhongli's current self is 6000 years ago. In CN (and JP) Zhongli has been described as "demoted" (rather than descended), so maybe something happened around that time/Zhongli was demoted to Teyvat after the war, so he counts his age based on that. But he has been around as a previously higher being for many years before that?

MY GOATTTTT 😭🙏

Excising the three deadly self or Cutting the Three Corpses (斩三尸) is actually a very well known method among certain Daoism sect aiming to purify oneself by eliminating self desire and attachment.

you don't know how happy i am that ur back my goat 🥹✌❤

Not popular opinion,I do my own research about Zhongli clothes "dragon robe" and it was mind blown, I haven't seen any video explain about Zhongli dragone robe. Hope you can make one

Loved the video! Welcome back 😄

he said he was descended more than 6000 years ago in the archon quest, he's way older than 6000

The goat is back 🗣️🔥