In the pleasantly warm afternoon sunlight, the Yuheng and Tianquan of the Liyue Qixing quietly listened to Li Qiuzhi's account.
Before long.
Li Qiuzhi finished briefly recounting the Fatui's misdeeds in Mondstadt.
"So that's what happened. The Fatui are collecting Gnoses. In that case, there's a strong possibility they're the culprits."
Ningguang spoke with a slightly thoughtful expression.
But mere speculation without evidence seemed of little use, since they could not go after the Fatui based solely on Li Qiuzhi's word.
"Damn them! They even wanted you to drive a wedge between the Liyue Qixing and the Three-Eyed Five-Manifestation Immortals!"
Anger appeared on Keqing's fair, pretty face.
As a relatively radical reformist, she did not think particularly highly of those adepti who hid deep in the mountains and forests yet could still influence Liyue.
But she also knew that turning Liyue into a nation governed entirely by humans required waiting for the right opportunities and proceeding gradually.
Nor was reform something to be achieved through force.
Those Fatui really were up to no good. Although the Liyue Qixing were already highly wary of them, she had never expected something like this to happen anyway.
Seeing that Ningguang and Keqing seemed to suspect the Fatui of murdering the Geo Archon.
Li Qiuzhi said nothing more.
Although this differed somewhat from the actual truth, the Fatui would indeed play a very important role in the events that followed, even releasing a sealed god.
Of course, all of this was under Rex Lapis's control, and it was more or less what he had arranged.
He wondered whether events would still develop this way after he had warned Ningguang and the others. Uh, actually, Rex Lapis held all the initiative.
No matter how many twists and turns the process took, what was meant to