After the light rain, the sky returned to its usual sunny brightness. The warm sun cast a brilliant rainbow over the grassland, and raindrops slowly dripped from flower petals.
Rumble!!!
A thunderous sound shattered the quiet of the Guili Plains. Morax raised his hand slightly, erecting two tightly sealed stone houses where Guizhong and Marchosius lay.
In this era, there was no concept of burial, nor of laying the dead to rest beneath the earth.
Morax had done this simply because he did not want their bodies exposed to the wind and rain anymore. These houses would become their final resting places.
"Geo Lord..." Everyone turned their eyes toward him.
"I'm going to find him," Morax said solemnly.
"The King couldn't possibly have done something like this. He's not that kind of person," Ganyu said firmly.
At her words, the Adepti and Yakshas all nodded. They knew Xiu Yuan's character very well.
"I know. Of course I know."
"That's why I need to find him. I want him to tell me himself that he didn't do any of this."
Morax looked at the stone house that held Guizhong, his eyes filled with conflicting emotions.
Deep down, Morax knew perfectly well that anyone who could enter the Guili Plains unnoticed could not have been an outside Demon God.
Either Xiu Yuan himself had done it, or one of the Yakshas beside him had disguised themselves as Xiu Yuan and committed the deed.
He could think of no other explanation.
The Yakshas had lived alongside him for a long time, and he saw them every day. He knew very well that they had no reason to do this.
But Xiu Yuan did. He had once said that he wanted to seize the lands neighboring Liyue so that they could all become members