"Why are so many people gathered together?"
From afar, Cloud Retainer had already spotted the densely packed crowd as she hovered in the air.
At the sight, Bosacius frowned slightly, an inexplicable unease rising within him.
He recalled the person he had seen in Liyue, kowtowing before him and pleading.
Bosacius felt that something was wrong.
"Hurry." With those words, he unleashed his power and shot forward.
Cloud Retainer seemed to vaguely sense something as well, and she too unleashed her power and rushed over.
When they reached the sky above the Guili Plains, they spotted two conspicuous circles amid the dense crowd.
As Bosacius and Cloud Retainer looked closely at those circles, their pupils contracted sharply, and they shuddered in body and soul.
Lying at the centers of the circles were Guizhong and Marchosius!
"Guizhong! Guizhong!!!" Cloud Retainer landed beside Guizhong, frantic with alarm, and hurriedly called out to her.
She gently touched Guizhong and found her body frighteningly cold. There was no doubt-she was dead.
"How could this happen... It shouldn't have. It shouldn't have been like this..."
"Demon Gods invaded. Why weren't we warned?"
"Why didn't even the Sovereign notice!?"
"Why..."
Cloud Retainer's mind was a tangled mess. Endless fury surged within her. Never since her birth had she been so angry.
Her overwhelming aura frightened the people around her into retreating several steps.
On the other side, a towering surge of baleful energy suddenly shot into the sky.
It was Bosacius's aura.
The same questions and the same fury had arisen within him.
Rage. Uncontrollable rage.
Their eyes were bloodshot, and everything they saw was tinged with red.
Rage overwhelmed their minds.
They wanted to know who had done this!
They would tear that person into pieces! Grind them into pulp!
At that moment, their fury