[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-chat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer-":3,"chapter-chat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer--chat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer--chapter-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Chat Group: The Envoy of Wisdom Seeks to Conquer the Myriad Worlds",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2331403,4559,"Chapter 44: Baelzebub","chat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer--chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>After all, Mondstadt is going to have to go beg for scraps under some big shot’s command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t wait until the big shot takes one look and goes, “Holy hell!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look at this place—full of drunkards and freedom (laxity). What will the big shot think?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the big shot went to great lengths to pull Teyvat ashore—not so they could sit around eating without working!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, everyone exchanged uneasy glances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Diluc took a deep breath and roared in fury: “What else could the reaction be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mondstadt right now? Mud that won’t stick to a wall!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve long proposed reforming the Knights of Favonius, but Itachi all kept stalling and dodging—now look! When we reach the new world, where will Mondstadt even have a place to stand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with Diluc’s rage, everyone was left speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, their leader was about to change—and the new leader wouldn’t be like the old one, content to loaf around all day…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lisa, the Rose Witch, upon hearing of the Genius Club’s situation, felt a deep yearning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once hailed as a once-in-two-centuries genius, it was tragic that her Celestial Seat was the Hourglass…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more one chases knowledge, the heavier the cost one must bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only this curse of knowledge could be solved…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Rose Witch’s lips curled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could one suppress the hunger for knowledge when one is cursed by it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever there is a sleeping dragon, a phoenix chick is sure to appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Mondstadt was in tense session, Raiden Shogun, having returned to Inazuma and preparing to summon her high council, stood above Inazuma, surveying its current state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inazuma instantly erupted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vast, boundless thunderclouds surged violently; thunder dragons pierced the sky, revealing the Shogun’s endless fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“General! Is this the Inazuma Itachi’ve ruled for five hundred years—peaceful and prosperous?!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raiden Shogun’s grip on Yashiro’s Dream One trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resentment of Inazuma was so thick it choked the air; her eyes reflected the land, and the population of its people was so sparse it shocked her to the core!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one who could collect and harness wish-energy, Raiden Shogun didn’t need to painstakingly gather intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single glance from above Inazuma was enough to reveal far more than she wished to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially since she had been sealed away for centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply comparing present-day Inazuma with the Inazuma of five hundred years ago…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart turned half-cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Internally, this is the governance strategy Itachi set for me—perfectly aligned with the Path of Eternity. What’s wrong with it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raiden Shogun replied coldly: “I merely followed the Path of Eternity Itachi left me, ensuring Inazuma walks an unchanging road for ten thousand generations.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isolationism, severing all physical contact with the outside world, forcibly freezing societal development to achieve static eternity—that was the Path of Eternity she had distilled from Ina’s legacy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening as Raiden Shogun methodically explained her governance strategy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had she not seen Inazuma’s current state with her own eyes, she might never have recognized the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the problem was this: if things continued, Inazuma’s chance of collapse was far greater than its chance of preserving eternity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And by a monstrous margin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, the enraged Raiden Shogun crushed the will to preserve the [Path of Eternity].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, tightening her grip on her blade, she coldly began sifting through the information recorded in the ley lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a terrestrial administrator, she had this much authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the past five hundred years of Inazuma’s development flashed before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the first hundred years, though Inazuma had been devastated, those who survived worked diligently to rebuild their homes—nothing could be faulted here; they had perfectly fulfilled the duties she entrusted to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after a hundred years, the conduct of the Three Ministries and the nobility began to subtly shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They began tentatively manipulating prices to reap exorbitant profits—though their actions were still restrained, the people’s burdens grew heavier, yet life remained bearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this unchecked exercise of power only emboldened them; their hands grew longer and longer…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And things spiraled completely out of control!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the two-hundred-year mark, their audacity reached its peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, they had done nothing of substance—yet oppressing the people and deploying troops to suppress them? They did none of it sparingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this period onward, Inazuma’s population began to decline…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, under Yaoyao’s control, the shrine system still maintained the suppression of ley lines, and the resentments of the ancient gods remained firmly contained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the past one or two centuries, these very people had begun meddling with the materials used to sustain the seals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This left the shrine’s miko, sent to build and maintain the seals, overburdened and unable to cope, causing frequent seal failures and rampant malevolent spirits across the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>came the recent decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raiden Shogun stared at the record in the ley lines: the [Rescue of Himegami Village] request, followed by the Shogunate’s subsequent actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First came the reply:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Do not panic, residents of Hachinoshima… the Kujou Heavenly Domain Office…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Raiden Shogun’s eyes turned red, nearly dripping blood, as she fixed her gaze on the final entry:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【…any refugees or sick fleeing the island shall not be spared; gather them swiftly at the docks, sink their vessels mid-journey, and if questioned, claim they were attacked by rebels…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the final memory in the ley lines—the people’s boats destroyed by Shogunate soldiers, sinking into the sea as they screamed in agony and died…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raiden Shogun could not bear to look further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thunderclouds above Inazuma churned violently; lightning writhed within them. Nearly out of control, Raiden Shogun raised her blade to the heavens and slashed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slash, embodying the Unthinkable Art, cleaved sky and earth, mirroring the near-mad fury of the god Baelzebub!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gods of Teyvat, fundamentally, are all lovers of humanity—this is undeniable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps Raiden Shogun’s seclusion stemmed from her grief over the deaths of her sister Raiden Makoto and her friend Kujou Saki…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raiden Shogun was still the ruler of Inazuma—her heart still loved this nation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She regarded her people as her treasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after her heart shattered five hundred years ago, she still poured her soul into crafting the Raiden Shogun to protect her people in her stead…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, in the ley lines, over centuries of Inazuma’s history, countless people died in agony and helplessness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, a hundred… even millions upon millions of her people, perished helplessly before her eyes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps mortals could not see how many innocent souls had perished in past ages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But administrators were different—so long as they chose to, the past hundreds or thousands of years felt as vivid as yesterday!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking across Inazuma’s land, everywhere were starving corpses piled high, ancient godly resentments and malevolent spirits rampant, the people’s resentment thick as solid matter.\u003C\u002Fp>",1136,"2026-06-20T20:31:23.534Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d06e82497cb76749c4fd377ae352ce5ff63f8ca1eaaf551824750f57846da19e","chat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer--chapter-45","chat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer--chapter-43",514,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fchat-group-the-envoy-of-wisdom-seeks-to-conquer--cover.jpg"]