Chapter 743

Stelle: "She died at the hands of the Archery Sage she believed in!"

Paimon: "Wh... what?!"

Paimon: "How could this possibly happen??"

Sister Yukong: "...."

Sister Yukong: "I think I understand now..."

Sister Yukong: "Many years ago, in that war against the Abundance, the Alliance was nearly routed."

Sister Yukong: "At the critical moment, the Archery Sage manifested, and a bolt of light, like a meteor, struck down upon Fanghu."

Sister Yukong: "That single arrow slew every last one of the Abundance we could not withstand."

Sister Yukong: "But the mighty power that scattered outward also swept across nearly a fifth of Fanghu's territory!"

Furina: "Th-that is to say..."

Furina: "Everyone caught in it...!"

Sister Yukong: "That's right, all of them were sacrificed..."

Sister Yukong: "Hundreds upon hundreds, even up to tens of millions..."

Hu Tao: "Too cruel... truly far too cruel."

Sunday: "This is what gods are... They can unleash mighty power to annihilate all, yet they will not bestow a shred of compassion upon mortals."

Sunday: "Pitiful millions of lives, rendered utterly insignificant before a god's might..."

Brother Dan Heng: "The Archery Sage never speaks to mortal flesh and blood... It proclaims its will only through bolts of light."

Dr. Ratio: "In my view, this is perfectly normal."

Dr. Ratio: "Aeons, in the final analysis, are merely the manifestation of a rule."

Dr. Ratio: "How could one expect them to possess much sentiment?"

Ei: "Her dearest friend, in the end, died at the hands of the god she believed in... That feeling must have utterly broken her, don't you think?"

Miss Qingque: "So in the end she went dark and threw in with the Denizens of Abundance..."

Miss Qingque: "Sigh... truly tragic and lamentable..."

General Feixiao: "It is indeed tragic, but there was no other way..."

General Feixiao: "Back then, had the Archery Sage not loosed that bolt of light, the Fanghu Luofu Xianzhou would long since have been utterly wiped from existence..."

The video continues.

【You're not wrong. Then on to the third question.】

【The report claims that the Lord of Extinction 2.7, Huanlong, was the mastermind behind the conspiracy.】

【While traveling with your group, she presented herself as a certain Ferry Lady of the Skyward Commission, and then vanished without a trace.】

【This chief culprit comes and goes as she pleases — awfully convenient to pin the blame on and take the fall.】

General Feixiao raised the next question regarding the Lord of Extinction, Huanlong.

【That one is easy to answer.】

【We acted together with the Diviner of Luofu.】

【She also witnessed Huanlong reveal her true form.】

【You wouldn't distrust your own people, would you?】

To this question,

Stelle answered without hesitation.

【Diviner Fu Xuan is a high minister of Luo Fu; her testimony can naturally be trusted.】

【But... even what one sees with one's own eyes can still be deceived.】

【The chief culprit comes and goes freely, then vanishes in mysterious fashion — of course it breeds doubt.】

General Feixiao hesitated, feeling this reasoning was still not sufficient.

【Then let me elaborate a bit further.】

【Huanlong is an energy life-form that once stood against the Xianzhou, a member of the Suiyang.】

【These things are fickle and hard to pin down.】

Stelle brought up Huanlong's connection to the Suiyang, hoping to add some credibility.

【Little Miss Stelle is correct.】

【This time, when the Ambrosial Arbor was reborn, its roots spread out and even bored through Luo Fu's Furnace of Creation, accidentally unsealing the Suiyang demonfire sealed within.】

【This matter can serve as corroborating evidence.】

Stelle's account received General Huaiyan's endorsement.

【If Elder Huaiyan approves, I naturally have no objections.】

General Feixiao nodded.

【There is one more point — I fought Huanlong alongside General Jing Yuan.】

【She drew upon the Ambrosial Arbor's power and generated a body that was nearly impossible to destroy.】

【Perhaps from the very start, that was what she had come for.】

Stelle thought of something else and added once more.

【A pawn of Destruction craving a mortal body to live on?】

【That is an angle I had not considered. Interesting.】