They were clearly trying to force a burden onto the shoulders of these two old men who only wanted to slack off and retire!!
Was this their way of working them to death?!
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Zhongli and Venti: Retirement Is Impossible, They Can Never Retire in This Lifetime
Venti and Zhongli's expressions both became complicated.
As the saying went, a new official always lit three fires upon taking office.
Since Qianyi had replaced Phanes, gained the submission of the Four Shadows, and become the legitimate new Heavenly Principles of the Teyvat Continent, then according to the logic of shifting power, what came next would inevitably be sweeping reforms—establishing new rules, fostering new customs, and settling old scores.
Now that the step of establishing authority—taking down the Extreme Evil Knight and Rhinedottir—had been perfectly completed, the next step would naturally be purging the old officials of the previous regime and cultivating new forces loyal to himself.
As members of the Seven Archons of the Mortal Realm under the previous Heavenly Principles, Phanes, Venti and Zhongli had an extremely clear understanding of themselves: they were the classic "leftovers of the former dynasty."
In a normal political script, the best outcome for remnants of the old era like them would be marginalization. A slightly worse outcome would be liquidation.
Dismissal? They did not care.
Exile? No problem.
Even if their Gnosis were taken away and they were demoted to mortals? They would welcome it with open arms!
After all, one of them was a bard who had slacked off for a thousand years, while the other had gone to work as a consultant at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and was secretly preparing his own funeral—a reserve retiree grandpa. With the wonderful situation of "Qianyi, the tall one, will hold up the sky if it