"Without the flood Chi caused, I can barely recognize the roads..." Xiu Yuan was wandering aimlessly north of the Guili Plains.
Before the flood spread through this area, there had been several crystal-clear rivers here, along with a vast meadow of blooming glaze lilies.
Farmland had therefore covered almost every available patch of ground, all cultivated by Guizhong's people.
According to the original story, Guizhong would die in a great flood. The terrain here would then be completely washed away, and the wild glaze lilies would disappear with it. Finding wild glaze lilies after that would become extremely difficult.
The one responsible for that flood was probably Chi in Qingce Village.
The flood that occurred before Liyue was established had almost certainly been its handiwork too.
Xiu Yuan was so certain because he knew that, in the original story, Chi was the only Demon God Morax had torn limb from limb.
Morax had dismembered its body and sealed the pieces in different places.
Surely killing Guizhong was the only thing that could have enraged Morax, the God of War, to that extent.
That was why Xiu Yuan suspected that Chi in Qingce Village was both the culprit behind the flood and the monster that killed Guizhong.
Although Xiu Yuan knew all this, he could not lay a hand on that creature.
After all, Morax would tear it limb from limb to seal it away. There was no way it would not trigger karmic debt resonance.
Lost in these thoughts, Xiu Yuan had somehow wandered all the way here.
"This should be Stone Gate, right?" Xiu Yuan murmured to himself. The area had changed so much that even he struggled to pinpoint roughly where he was.
But he had not received any notification from his mission, which meant he was still