Chapter 382

Xu Mi Cheng here.

Luo De couldn't see how things were over at Zhongli's side.

However, with Zhongli holding down the fort, there wasn't really anything to worry about.

Especially after seeing the disturbances caused by Duotuo Lei's slices inside Xu Mi Cheng quelled, he became even more certain that Zhongli's side was fine.

Given Duotuo Lei's personality.

His arrangements in Xu Mi Cheng here had all come to nothing, and as a result, his side still hadn't stirred up any trouble.

Then his failure was already a definite statement.

Whoosh—

The biggest hidden danger had finally been eliminated, and the heavy burden that had constantly weighed on Luo De's mind could finally be set down.

What Duotuo Lei said was correct.

He really is a madman.

But the premise of his madness is that he truly has the confidence to face off against Duotuo Lei in this showdown.

Looking at everyone Luo De knows.

The two that evoke his strongest aversion are Sanbing and Duotuo Lei.

Compared to the two of them.

Even the lady causing trouble everywhere has to step back.

Luo De's reason for disliking Sanbing is simple.

This guy is pure evil spawn, with bizarre reasons giving rise to the purest evil, full of arrogance and hostility toward humanity, and can even arbitrarily abuse his loyal subordinates for his own pleasure.

In Luo De's view.

This guy is nothing but a blockhead with a brain full of holes.

If such a blockhead really stays alive, he'll surely be played for a fool, ending up buried and still having to pay others' money.

So Luo De initially killed him without hesitation at the keep.

Although this also provoked the dissatisfaction of Leidiany ing.

But that's only because the Creator still harbors a hint of affection for his creation.

Let's draw an analogy.

It's roughly like if Laiyin Duote saw Albedo being killed, he would also feel resentful.

However, on this point.

Yae Miko and Luo De share the same view.

When Leidiany ing absolutely abandoned Sanbing at first, she felt that this puppet would likely bring disaster to Inazuma in the future, and advised Leidiany ing not to be merciful but to outright kill him.

It's a pity.

At that time, Leidiany ing, grieving from the successive deaths of friends and family, actually developed a mother-like affection for this puppet, and thus did not adopt Yae Miko's suggestion.

And facts proved.

What Yae Miko said was correct.

After Sanbing grew up, he truly became a disaster, or rather a disaster that had liberated the Electro Archon's power and become extremely difficult to handle.

Luo De killed him, and Yae Miko wholeheartedly approved.

Aside from Sanbing.

What Luo De fears most is Duotuo Lei.

This generation's fear didn't even start from when he met Ke Lai; it began when he realized he could obtain an all-elemental Vision, at which point he felt an indescribable dread toward Duotuo Lei.

It's not for any other reason.

It's simply because this guy is truly anti-human.

He, who always proclaimed that the human body is nothing but a slightly more precise machine, had not the slightest awareness of treating people as people.

Whenever he encountered an interesting test subject or launched a new research project,

he would inevitably go capture live people to complete his experiments.

Moreover, this guy is an extraordinarily powerful and terrifying thug, so powerful that even the Westwind Knight Order, with the Northwind Knight Falg stationed there, had to turn a blind eye to his killing of the old master of the Morninglight Winery, Kelipusi·Laigende.

Furthermore, let alone his attempt to seize control of Sanbing, which nearly destroyed the Tatara Sands Great Blast Furnace, the lifeblood of Inazuma, and his setting up a human experimentation lab in Sumeru to experiment with Archon remnants.

All of these.

Even just understanding the tip of the iceberg about him continually makes Luo De feel dread, worrying that he might at any moment lash out and wreak havoc on the hard-won achievements he had built in Sumeru.

Such worries have always lain hidden in Luo De's heart.

Even though Azhaer has already fallen, theoretically in the short term Duotuo Lei has no reason to move against Sumeru.

But after careful consideration, Luo De still decided that, with Zhongli as his backing, he would take the initiative, directly challenge Duotuo Lei, and force that guy to respond.

Luo De had to admit that he had indeed played a big move at the time.

Fortunately,

He succeeded.

Given Duotuo Lei's personality, when faced with an out-of-the-blue, inexplicable challenge from an unknown human, he indeed chose to accept this challenge.

And as long as he accepted Luo De's challenge,

then Luo De would have a legitimate opportunity to kill him.

"Successful?"

In the midst of the fight cooperating with Apei Pu's act, the Great Merciful Tree King took a moment to ask.

"Hmm."

"Depending on the situation."

Luo De glanced toward Lidugu not far away.

It was quiet there.

The battle imagined to possibly break out did not occur.

Either Zhongli's strength crushed Dottore, taking him down without bloodshed, or my speculation proved true, breaking Dottore's last pride, leaving him unable to accept it and ultimately choosing suicide.

"Finally over."

Nadixa beside him let out a long sigh.

Unlike Luo De.

Her gaze remained fixed on Xu Mi Cheng.

The unrest below had already exceeded her expectations.

Originally she deployed the Illusory Realm Hall to prevent casualties should a riot break out.

But despite various mishaps piling up, she still failed.

The Apep's destruction of the Illusory Realm Hall's barrier was something already anticipated in the plan.

Moreover, the barrier Apep destroyed was merely the outer layer.

Inside, Nadixa had also constructed another layer of the Illusory Realm Hall.

It was precisely this layer of the Illusory Realm Hall that brought Xu Mi Cheng's populace into a dream, guaranteeing that even if they fought with knives, no lives would be lost.

But the appearance of Dottore's self‑explosion fragments.

This ruined Nadixa's original plan entirely.

Dottore's self‑explosion fragments are at least of Archon‑level strength.

In pure power and explosive force, they are beyond what Nadixa can match.

Had there not been other Worldly Overseers in the city, just this great explosion alone would have killed an unknown number of people.

But even so.

All the gods could do was restrain their self‑explosion process before the fragments detonated, but they could not stop them from destroying the Illusory Realm Hall's barrier.

Then the situation turned into the rioters who had been in the dream abruptly returning to reality.

Based on dissatisfaction with Luo De impersonating the Red King.

After the city's explosion sounds subsided, this group dared, right before the three gods, to draw blades against their own kin.

The incident happened so suddenly that Kantisi and Dixiya could not possibly respond to such a large area.

Only a few breaths' time.

Xu Mi Cheng immediately saw massive bloody clashes.

Moreover, the gods who had previously gone to suppress the self‑explosion fragments now did not lift a finger, merely watching with amused expressions as they waited for Luo De and the others to finish the job.

Seeing this.

Luo De, not lingering, delivered a seemingly fierce heavy blow that sent Apep flying; then, like a mountain range, Apep raised its head and let out a long roar, the ancient dragon king's bloodline pressure instantly putting both sides of the city's conflict under a hard hold.

Afterwards, she, now in place, ceased her disturbance, turned and flew away without delay, her massive form not even stirring a storm like Tevarin's rampage, simply departing nonchalantly.

As soon as she left,

Luo De and his two companions, no longer needing to act, immediately turned their gaze downward.

Compared to the Dragon King's majesty, the three gods' awe was no less; in an instant the whole city fell so silent that the drop of a pin could be heard.

Next,

Luo De did not speak amid the gazes of the desert folk, the enthusiastic, or the hostile; instead, based on the data provided by the Void Terminal, he slowly raised his hand.

A soft green light appeared quietly, converging eagerly in his palm.

When Luo De raised his right hand high,

these green lights had already become like a small sun.

Then he held his right hand aloft, letting the newly formed green light explode, countless green meteors trailing long tails falling upon the injured Sumeru people from the recent clash.

The gods returning to the Pure Benevolence Palace saw this and burst into applause and praise.

"This trick is not bad."

"Kind of interesting, who taught him this?"

"Does he still need teaching? With Amon's legacy and Bureyer's guidance, isn't this obvious at a glance?"

"That makes sense."

The gods naturally found such faith‑gathering maneuvers unsurprising.

But for the Xu Mi Cheng populace gathering here,

Luo De's move.

None other than a divine manifestation.

Luo De's scattered green light was extremely precise, able to locate anyone hidden in a corner or even on their deathbed.

Anyone who touched the green light would be amazed to find their earlier injuries healed instantly, and even more, severed limbs could regrow within it.

Once the green light had fully dissipated,

those Sumeru people who had suffered moderate injuries in the conflict were now fully recovered, with no lingering disability or wounds.

This wasn't over yet.

Luo De this time intertwined his hands and condensed another mass of green light.

The difference was,

this time the green light's hue was dimmer, and up close one could see specks of light within it.

This move left even the worldly‑wise gods astonished.

Mavuika's first reaction was that Luo De's act of gathering souls with this move resembled the Natlan people's post‑death soul rebirth technique, yet was entirely different.

Natlan's resurrection.

After Natlan people die, their souls go to a special place to be preserved; later, they can be reborn using a soul-returning ritual.

This involves the authority of Death Authority Narwana.

Moreover, it's also because Natlan itself has no ley lines.

But the method Luo De is currently using is more like pure handcrafting.

In other words.

Luo De is simply forcibly imprisoning the souls of those who just died in his hands; looking at his current state, it seems he is preparing to forcibly stuff these people's souls back into his own body.

That's just absurd.

Looking across all of Teyvat, it seems hardly anyone can do this; moreover, those who can are all more or less related to either a living authority or a dead authority.

"This guy has quite a few secrets."

Maweika has to admit, her interest in Luo De is growing stronger.

At first it might have been just because this guy possesses the physique and divinity of the Flower God Nab·Malikatara, which is very useful for Natlan's current situation.

But as contact with him deepens.

Maweika increasingly feels that Luo De is likely not inferior to any generation of incarnators.

"Perhaps he could really help us completely eradicate the Abyss."

Maweika muttered to herself.

On the other side.

The Ice Empress rarely left her seat, gazing with great interest at Luo De, who was displaying tremendous divine might, and she couldn't keep the smile from her lips.

Duotolei is already dead.

Aside from the witness Zhongli, no one knows this better than her.

However, losing such a Second Seat Executor allows her to immediately gain another, stronger and more useful Second Seat Executor.

Just thinking about this.

She can't help but laugh.

Beside the Ice Empress are the once-again relaxed Furina and Ege liya.

Earlier, when the gods ran off to help deal with the self-explosion slices, she and the Ice Empress stayed in the Jingshan Gong and had a good conversation.

Although the pressure brought by the Ice Empress is extremely terrifying.

But Furina held up.

Whenever she feels she can't hold on, she feels a warm current flow through her body, allowing her to regain her spirits, so she won't be frightened into losing composure by the Ice Empress and thus reveal a flaw.

Just like that.

After they stalemated in conversation for a while, Furina finally could relax again, and even wouldn't tremble all over from getting too close to her.

Still the same as before.

Furina still doesn't understand what Luo De is doing.

At this point, the all-knowing Ege liya began to explain it to her.

Upon hearing that Luo De was reshaping life.

Naweilait, who always listened quietly and rarely interjected, had a somewhat strange expression.

Just like Maweika.

As the Dragon King who wields the Great Authority of Water, Naweilait clearly understands that reshaping life requires authority, whether deathly or lively, and at least some experience with it is needed.

At the very least.

At the very least, one must have a complete Great Authority of Water.

But now Luo De is openly demonstrating this technique.

This also caused Naweilait to fall into contemplation.

What exactly is special about this Luo De?

Luo De, who was in the high sky performing a divine feat, naturally did not know how much shock his action would bring to other gods.

He only knew.

He, who had nourished a branch of the World Tree, was practically adept at controlling souls.

Especially, he also had experience nurturing the Great Merciful Tree King, accommodating Huasanli, and reshaping lightning.

These further allowed him to smoothly restore life to these deceased people.

With both hands out like that.

When the dead rose again, the voices of doubt within Xu Mi Cheng had weakened to only a few extreme radical groups.

(End of chapter)