Rex Lapis Is Still Way Too Overpowered!

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As soon as the new A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation video was posted, hordes of viewers flooded into the comments.

"Another new video already?"

Cloud Retainer could not help looking surprised when she saw the video trending.

She had gotten herself a smartphone a few days earlier, so naturally, she had watched the A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation videos.

Both the Knight of Boreas's story and Asura Yaksha's story had moved her deeply.

Especially the story of Asura Yaksha.

For some reason, her memories of Asura Yaksha had always been hazy, but after watching the video, memories of the past had immediately come flooding back, leaving her shocked and nostalgic.

After all, Cloud Retainer had never expected that Asura Yaksha had willingly embraced death back then to wipe out all the lingering resentment of the gods.

Now that the new video was also about Asura Yaksha, she was genuinely curious what story it could tell this time.

"Lord Asura... For some reason, my memories of him are very hazy. If this video hadn't brought him to light, I would have nearly forgotten he existed," Mountain Shaper said quietly from beside her.

"You feel that way too?" Moon Carver said in sudden realization. "To tell the truth, if not for that video, I really would have completely forgotten Asura Yaksha existed, as though he had never appeared in the Archon War at all."

"Could all our memories have been affected?" Cloud Retainer could not help shuddering in alarm. "It would be one thing if it were just one or two of us, but surely we couldn't all have forgotten about Asura?"

"But... who could have affected the memories of so many of us adepti?"

Guizhong's pupils contracted sharply as soon as she spoke.

All the other adepti fell silent at once.

After all, if anyone had the power to affect everyone's memories on such a large scale and erase Asura Yaksha from them, it would likely have to be a being above the level of a god.

Without a doubt, that left only the four rulers who now controlled the laws of the world, or the Heavenly Principles itself...

Faced with such terrifying beings, even the adepti present dared not mention them in the slightest and could only watch the video before them in silence.

As an extra to the Yaksha Chapter, the new video was quite short, less than a third of the length of the full version.

The video also moved very quickly, but rather than deliberately picking up the pace, it seemed to be deliberately revealing fewer details.

First, the video gave a detailed account of a brutal Archon War, making viewers feel almost as if they were there.

It was an astonishing melee from when Liyue was still the Guili Assembly, with Rex Lapis leading the adepti against a host of gods.

Although Rex Lapis's power was beyond imagination, even he found it difficult to hold off every opponent when faced with so many powerful gods of considerable strength.

Among them, two major gods stood out in particular: the God of the Vortex and the Yaksha God.

Even if the two were not as powerful as Rex Lapis himself, no other god or adeptus could compare to them.

With the two major gods and the many other gods tying them down, the Guili Assembly's forces struggled to hold out. Eventually, after the enemy succeeded in drawing Rex Lapis away, it was completely overrun.

Unprecedented despair descended.

[Holy shit, was Liyue's Archon War really that dangerous? I already thought the description in the main Yaksha story was shocking, but now it looks like it was even more terrifying than I imagined.]

[One, two, three, four... Just how many enemy gods are there? There are enough of them to make a whole platoon. That's ridiculous!]

[No wonder Liyue has always been called the fiercest and most intense battlefield of the Archon War. This place was anything but normal...]

[Now I understand why, even after the Archon War ended, there was still enough lingering resentment from gods in Liyue to drown the country. So many gods died that there was nowhere to bury them all.]

[To win the war and even establish a nation under those circumstances, coming out on top-Rex Lapis really was way too overpowered!]

After seeing the brutality of the Archon War in the video, people from nations across the world were shocked by the devastating scenes in Liyue.

After all, outside Liyue, the Archon War in other nations was either less fierce or less intense. It was rare to see fighting on such a vast scale and at such intensity, with even the number of gods involved being frighteningly high.

Even the most ambitious person could not help feeling genuine terror at the sight of so many gods charging in like mad.

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"Even though I've heard storytellers tell it I don't know how many times, now that I'm actually seeing it, I still can't help marveling at how terrifying the Archon War was," Hu Tao said, unable to suppress a heartfelt sigh as she watched the video.

"Geo... Zhongli, I never expected you to have established Liyue under those circumstances. It's hard to imagine you're just an ordinary god," Ronova muttered, looking at the Geo Archon, who was concealing his identity beside her.

"It was not through my efforts alone." Zhongli sighed softly. "Only after countless people made sacrifices and countless others gave their all were we able to turn the tide and establish a new Liyue."

"Sacrifices... As I recall, quite a few people did die in Liyue back then. It seems even a god-level being died." Ronova fell into thought. "Speaking of which, what was the name of that god who died in Liyue's Archon War? Wasn't she called the God of Dust?"

"..."

Zhongli did not answer Ronova.

He merely looked at Ronova thoughtfully, and in the end remained silent, saying nothing.

When Ronova saw that he did not answer, she took it as confirmation.

Just then, the video continued playing.

After days of continuous fighting, the enemy gods succeeded in breaking through the gates of the Guili Assembly and fought their way into the city.

But they had not expected that most of the people in the Guili Assembly had already evacuated.

Only a handful had stayed behind to block the pursuing gods.

Standing at the very front was the being known as Guizhong, the God of Dust.

Although Guizhong bore the title of God of Dust, she was better at using her mind and inventing mechanisms. Her actual combat power fell far short of that of gods who truly specialized in warfare.

Thus, under the Yaksha God's leadership, Guizhong was quickly defeated. The god's spear even pierced her body, and she met her death.

At the sight, setting aside viewers from other nations, the entire Liyue audience could not help erupting in an uproar.

This was wildly at odds with the history they knew.

[What's going on? How did Lady Guizhong die in battle!?]

[That's not right. In the history of Liyue I learned, Lady Guizhong clearly survived the battlefield!]

[That's the story I heard too. Lady Guizhong narrowly survived the battlefield and made Liyue's mechanism technology advance by leaps and bounds, turning it into one of the leading nations in the study of mechanisms in Teyvat today.]

[This video has to be fake!]

[What despicable bastard made this fake video and slandered our Lady Guizhong! As one of Lady Guizhong's fans, I'll make that rumor-monger pay!]

[An adaptation isn't an excuse to make things up, and a dramatization isn't an excuse for nonsense. I demand to see their credentials!]

For a time, the people of Liyue were outraged. None of them could accept such a fabricated video, and they voiced all kinds of protests.