Genshin Impact, it's you who rejected me, why are you all in such a hurry if I just give up?

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The rebel leaders and the priestesses of the Coral Palace thought the same thing.

Unlike Lin Jiu'an, who was waiting to 'gather monsters'.

If at the beginning, the numerous soldiers and civilians from Haiqi Island who flocked to the Coral Palace still carried trust, hope, and expectation for the Coral Palace, then after calling out to the Coral Palace for many days without success...

These people who flocked from all directions were completely disappointed with their leader, Coral Palace Heart Sea.

They also accepted the fact that the other party had 'betrayed' their faith.

"It was Lord Orobas who cut off the coral on his body and brought us to land, giving us the land to live on."

"It was Lord Orobas who taught us weaving, planting, animal husbandry, and metallurgy; he taught us how to survive."

"It is Lord Orobas who is protecting us now."

"It's Lord Orobas..."

An elderly man with white hair and beard, who was squeezed at the front, raised his arm tremblingly and shouted excitedly and angrily.

"Now."

"Our 'Current Human Goddess,' who should have been most loyal to Lord Orobas."

"They actually did it for their own benefit."

"Are we, the children of Lord Orobas, to be offered up to the Thunder General who killed Lord Orobas?!"

"Should we submit to the Inazuma Shogunate, which oppresses and exploits the people?!"

"Used as a tool for her own and her descendants' advancement?!"

"You are not worthy to be Lord Orobas's follower!"

"You are unworthy to be the 'Living God Priestess' of the Coral Palace!"

"You are a disgrace to our Coral Palace and Haiqi Island!"

"Get out of Haigi Island!"

The crowd joined in, shouting excitedly, "Get out of Haiqi Island!"

"We are Lord Orobas's children!"

"Even if we shed our last drop of blood, we will never change our faith or submit to any other person or god!"

The crowd joined in the chant.

"Draw until the last drop of blood!"

"We swear to defend Haiqi Island to the death!"

Just as the excited crowd was about to rush into the Coral Palace.

The ground suddenly trembled.

Everyone was thrown about, and then they realized that they seemed to be in a huge, rising shadow.

Looking around.

Countless massive stone walls, each tens of meters high, stood tens or even hundreds of kilometers away around them, enveloping them like rats in a cage at its center.

"what is that?"

The dense crowd surrounding the Coral Palace immediately panicked.

"Look there!"

Suddenly someone screamed and pointed to the sky.

Everyone looked at it.

Then they saw a black-haired, black-eyed man standing dozens of meters above them, one hand in his pocket, looking down at them with a faint, enigmatic smile on his face.

"Let's play a game."

Lin Jiu'an, who was standing in the air, raised his hands, and the cloudless sky quickly darkened, with purple lightning swirling around him and in the sky.

"Just wait and see before I kill you all."

"Will your Lord Orobas come to save you?"

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That demon is finally gone.

Hearing Lin Jiu'an's departing footsteps, Bei Dou felt a surge of joy that brought her to tears.

She can no longer think about hatred or grudges.

Although she hadn't experienced these days, she always felt as if she were being pounded with rice by dozens of fierce men. Just thinking about the 'torture' of those days and the exhaustion of her body now made Beidou's pupils tremble.

I was exhausted, but I was sweating profusely and couldn't fall asleep.

Hearing the rustling sounds, Beidou groggily raised his head and saw Coral Palace Heart Sea cleaning her lower body.

"What are you doing?" Beidou asked hoarsely.

"My elder brother doesn't like having children too early."

Looking at the smiling Coral Palace Heart Sea, Beidou thought she was probably crazy.

Hearing the screams outside, Beidou finally confirmed that Lin Jiu'an had really left. He tried to get up with his last breath, but then he heard the sound of chains being pulled and realized that one of his hands was already bound by a chain.

In the past, such chains would have been a joke to her; she could have easily broken them with a little force.

But now, her divine eye has been stripped away, her elemental power has been completely drained, and the 'torture' she has been subjected to like a bitch for days has made her already low physical strength even worse.

"We can take this opportunity to sneak away."

Beidou saw the key on the table and her God's Eye.

"leave?"

Coral Palace Heart Sea murmured, looking at her with a puzzled expression: "Why do you want to leave?"

Beidou was momentarily stunned.

—Has she really gone mad?

After hesitating for a while, Hokuto ultimately couldn't tell her about the grudge between Kaedehara Manyo and Goro. Instead, amidst the screams and pleas outside, he pointed to the window.

"Are you just going to watch your people be slaughtered by him?"

Coral Palace Xin Hai remained silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Beidou stared wide-eyed in disbelief. She thought she must have been so tired that she fainted without realizing it, which led to this vivid dream. Was this still the Coral Palace Heart Sea she knew who loved the people like her own children?

After a moment of silence, Coral Palace Heart Sea gave a bitter smile.

"Actually, I can understand my brother."

"He still wanted people to live."

Beidou's head was spinning. She didn't know if she was driven crazy by Lin Jiu'an's relentless, day-and-night lifestyle, like a female dog that could be used at will, or if Coral Palace Xinhai had gone mad.

They were blatantly slaughtering unarmed civilians, yet Coral Palace Heart Sea claimed he wanted people to live.

Coral Palace Heart Sea seemed to have discerned what Beidou was thinking.

It was unclear whether he was explaining to her or talking to himself, as he hugged his knees, looked down at his own delicate, jade-like feet, and murmured to himself.

"If things continue like this, Haiqi Island is destined to not last long."

"Even if my generation can barely continue due to favorable timing, location, and human factors."

Coral Palace Heart Sea clearly understands why Haizhi Island was able to weather the crisis safely in its previous life.

Her excellent command and the heroic resistance of the people of Haiqi Island?

That's just a tiny, insignificant part.

If it weren't for the fact that the army under the Tenryo Regulations was mostly composed of incompetent drunkards except for Kujo Sara, whose frequent command errors gave them opportunities.

If it weren't for the fact that the Three Commissioners had a traitor within them, the Commissioner of the Society.

She not only provided money and manpower to Haizhi Island, but also continuously leaked Tianling Fengxing's military plans and internal affairs to Haizhi Island, allowing her to predict Tianling Fengxing's command in advance and thus strike precisely.

—It's like having a third eye, so how do you fight?

The main thing is.

An outsider's intervention.

If Lin Jiu'an and Ying hadn't thwarted the Fools' plot and persuaded General Raiden to leave the castle tower...

This led to the abolition of the "Eye Hunting Order" and the "Isolation Order".

If we keep dragging this out...

Even though Umijima is countless times smaller than Inazuma, it still can't be defeated and will eventually be dragged down by the Inazuma Shogunate.

—A war between a large country and a small country is impossible to fight.

Even though small countries achieved several brilliant victories in the early stages of the war, it was only because the larger countries did not take it seriously and were bogged down by other factors such as external interference and complex internal structures.

"But the future is so long."

"Who can guarantee that the next head of the clan might suddenly dislike Haiji Island?"

"Who can guarantee that the next generation of the Heavenly Commander will not have a leader who has reached the pinnacle of military strength and power?"

"And who can guarantee that the next generation of Haiqi Island won't produce a mediocre 'human god priestess'?"

"And who can guarantee that General Raiden won't suddenly change his mind and want to annex Umijima into Inazuma?"

"Integrating into one of the Seven Kingdoms and receiving the protection of an immortal god is the only way for the people of Umijima to survive in the long run, instead of living at the mercy of the Inazuma Shogunate as they are now."

Beidou gradually fell silent.

She had never considered such profound questions as those posed by Coral Palace Heart Sea.

But listening to her explanation, Beidou vaguely felt that she was right. Even Mondstadt, which is named after "freedom," has existed for thousands of years because it has the wind god Barbatos backing it up.

Look at Liyue, a country ruled by merchants for over three thousand years.

No sooner had the Rock King Morax died than Lin Jiu'an arrived and began a massacre, slaughtering all the merchants.

Do you think Liyue is still Liyue now?

Coral Palace Heart Sea continued, "However, the people of Haiqi Island, whether they are the priestesses of Coral Palace, the soldiers of the resistance army, or the ordinary people of Haiqi Island, are far too many and far too prejudiced."

"Whether it's top-down or bottom-up, it's impossible to have reforms without bloodshed."

"But if reforms are forced by force, rebellion is inevitable."

"When we search for those rebellious soldiers and civilians in the villages and mountains of Haizhi Island, many innocent Haizhi Island residents who are indifferent to the reforms will inevitably be implicated."

"On the contrary, more people may die."

"Politics, the economy, and people's lives will all plummet as a result."

"And now."

"Gather all the people of Haizhi Island who are extremely hostile to reform here."

"Just kill them all."

"Then no one will object to the reforms anymore."

"The rest of the people will obey."

"They don't care whether they worship Orobas, General Thunder, or their elder brother."

"All they need is a bite to eat."

"As long as the remaining people can feel that their living standards are gradually improving, they will not cause trouble."

“But these people are different.”

"Therefore, letting them die sooner is the only way to be responsible to the remaining innocent people of Haizhi Island, and to make the reforms proceed faster and more smoothly."

Then, Coral Palace Heart Sea looked at her, as if wanting to ask for her opinion, and asked, "Isn't that right?"

"Then let me go."

"No way."

Coral Palace Xin Hai smiled and shook her head: "My elder brother will be angry with me."