[Hiruzen: "I guess it's because the students of the Sages have a higher social status."]

[Coral Palace Heart Sea: "That's normal. The Sage's student is most likely assisting the Sage with something. If he were facing the Disciplinary Officer, he might say something wrong."]

[Coral Palace Heart Sea: "I'm afraid someone will come to cause trouble for the Sage, so to avoid this trouble, that's why the Disciplinary Officer can't judge the students of the Sage's lineage?"]

[Sino: "Yes, according to Hazard, the power of the disciplinary officers is granted by the sages, so the disciplinary officers have no right to judge the sages, or even their students."]

[Ying: "Is this what they call layer upon layer of protection? One ring after another, safeguarding each other."]

Paimon: "No, this is utterly unreasonable! They did something wrong, and they won't even let us investigate?!"

[Abedo: "No wonder everyone who's been brought to trial knows about the god-making plan and its dangers, yet they didn't oppose it."]

[Abedo: "In other words, they all knew what they were doing, but self-interest made them choose to remain silent, and they showed no mercy to the people who died."]

Klee: "These guys! They're all awful! Why do they all know they're wrong, but they don't stop them?!"

[Klee: "Mom, Captain Jean, Brother Kaia, and Aunt Lisa all told Klee that she shouldn't do bad things and that she should apologize if she does something wrong!"]

[Ayaka Kamisato: "Perhaps they think they are superior beings."]

[Ayaka Kamisato: "Just like Takayuki Kujo back then, he thought he was supreme, but when judgment came, he realized he was nothing."]

[Kuki Shinobu: "Perhaps this is what people are like."]

[Yae no Miko: "Hehehe~ Indeed~ Once people have power, they start thinking about other things."]

[Yae no Miko: "However, not all humans are like that."]

[Yae no Miko: "Look, there are so many people here: Su Hao, Ella, Shen He, Ren, Xin Hai, and others. Are they people who crave power?"]

[Zhongli: "Yes, even among demons, there are good and bad. In the Demon God War of that time, there were also evil demons."]

[Zhongli: "Or perhaps, in their eyes, their actions are righteous, but in our eyes, they are evil."]

[King Ruoduo: "That's true. During the war between the demons and gods, many demons took pleasure in destroying others, believing it to be a matter of the survival of the fittest."]

[Nagarjuna: "But when death came upon them, they all began to feel fear."]

[Abedo: "No one can face the threat of death calmly, but those who disregard the lives of others and trample on their very existence fear the coming of judgment even more."]

[Abedo: "Perhaps this is why these scholars are so terrified."]

[Nasita: "During this time, I will change Sumeru and the Order of the Church, preventing them from going further down this wrong path."]

The Great Tree King: "Sigh, it's all up to you now. There's nothing more I can say about this."

[Raiden Shin: "@Great Kindness Tree King, can you feel how heartbroken I am?"]

[The Great Tree King: "I felt it, and to be honest, it's really quite painful."]

Wendy: "Hahahaha, don't think too much about it~"

Wendy: "There's no use in overthinking. We might as well let our people manage everything themselves."

[Sino: "……………………"]

[King Nagata: "I must say, Barbatos, you really know how to hurt someone."]

[Nagarjuna: "Isn't this situation with Mount Sumeru just like the situation where the people manage themselves?"]

Wendy: "Ahem, that's not what I meant. I meant, to free the people from the gods, to prevent them from blindly pursuing the world as seen through the eyes of the gods."

Wendy: "Isn't the current state of Sumeru a consequence of its excessive pursuit of divine wisdom?"

Narcida: "Wendy is right. Perhaps it's because I didn't impart the so-called divine wisdom to the Sages of the Council that they've become so extreme."

[Su Hao: "Don't take all the blame upon yourself. The Order of the Church is too greedy, wanting everything, which is why it has ended up like this."]

[Su Hao: "They don't understand taboos? Quite the opposite, they do know them, they're just using the guise of curiosity to satisfy their own selfish desires."]

[Sino: "Yes, Su Hao is right."]

[The Great Compassionate Tree King: "Fortunately, Su Hao is here. Otherwise, if Nasida wanted to quickly resolve the issues of the Order of the Church and Sumeru on her own, it would probably have taken an unimaginable amount of time."]

[The Great Tree King: "@Su Hao, why don't you become the acting Grass God before becoming the next Thor?"]

[Nasita: "I'm fine with that."]

[Lei Movie: "???"]

Zhong Li: "……………………"

[Raiden Shin: "I disagree!"]

[King Nagata: "I disagree too!!!"]

Wendy: "You've given yourself away! Great Tree King!"

[Great Kindness Tree King: "@LeiMovies @LeiDianZhen, don't doubt me, I'm just letting Su Hao temporarily take over the position of Grass God so he can learn some experience."]

The Great Tree King: "I absolutely did not intend for him to become a true grass god."

Narcida: "There's still so much I need to learn, so if Su Hao temporarily takes over as the Grass God, I might be able to play with Klee a little longer."

Klee: "Yay!!!!"

[Lei Movie: "Impossible."]

[Raiden Shin: "Yes, that's absolutely impossible."]

[King Rudra: "You should ask the people of Liyue if they agree!"]

[Rotaka Dragon King: "@Zhongli@Guizhong@Fushe@Keqing@Shenhe@Aila."]

[Yae no Miko: "My Inazuma family has quite a few subjects too~"]

[Yae no Miko: "@Ella@Kuki Shinobu@Kamisato Ayaka@Sango Miyako no Kokomi."]

[Vendy: "I have many people in Mondstadt too! @Klee @Abedo @Yura."]

[The Great Compassionate Tree King: "My people, the people of Sumeru... @Seno!"]

[Fu She: "Ah, this..."]

[Ayaka Kamisato: "I've been inexplicably drawn into this conflict."]

[Yura: "Yes."]

[Gui Zhong: "Yes, but we in Liyue will never let go of Su Hao!"]

[Sino: "Although I'm the only Sumeru member in the group, given the current situation in Sumeru, it would be best if Su Hao could stay."]

[Su Hao: "Let's talk about it later, let's talk about it later, no rush."]

In the chat group, they inexplicably started arguing again about Su Hao.

Su Hao himself felt helpless, but he could understand why the Great Compassion Tree King wanted him to stay.

Nasita's prestige is too weak; she can use her demonic powers to forcibly control her people.

But this is tyranny, and it will bring Nasita no good in the future, or even any day.

If the true Sumeru [Rebel Army] rises up, even if the Great Compassion Tree King is resurrected, it will probably be too late to reverse the situation.

Therefore, the use of force to deter others, like Su Hao, is necessary. He is the next Thunder God of Inazuma, and no matter what he does in Sumeru, others dare not speak out against him.

Because... the Order did indeed take the Heart of Thor from the Fools and give it to the God of Righteousness as an energy core.

Su Hao has already said this, so he has the right to witness the true end of the "God-Making Project" and the fate of those who participated in this experiment.

As one person after another refused to tell the truth, Nasita gradually revealed her inner thoughts.

The disciplinary officer was in charge of making arrests, but there were just too many people behind him, so a group of thirty came to make arrests.

More than eighty elite scholars from different fields were all sentenced to death.

More than 150 scholars participated in important experiments without their knowledge.

Although they were not sentenced to death, their status as scholars of the Church was revoked.

This caused an unimaginable uproar; being stripped of one's academic status is far more terrifying than death.

Their being alive was tantamount to being dead.

This is tantamount to stripping them of everything they have done so far.

This caused a commotion, but under Su Hao's suppression, they all fell silent.

To reiterate, compared to those innocent people who died knowing nothing, your punishment is much lighter now.

All the scholars remained silent in response.

Chapter 360 Trial Ends

With numerous punishments handed down, the trial of the scholars soon came to an end.

So many scholars were sentenced to death, while others who were unaware of the situation were stripped of their academic status.

Today's trial is tantamount to wiping out half of the scholars in the Papal House.

Meanwhile, the other scholars who were not involved in the deification project couldn't help but gasp in shock.

Because there were so many people in the know, why did nearly half of the scholars in the Academy of Religion participate in the god-making project, while the others had no news at all?

And they knew about their ongoing deification project, yet after killing innocent people, they remained completely silent, even choosing to conceal their crimes during the trial.

But concealment was futile; faced with Nasita's power, everything they tried to hide was exposed.

When all these things that couldn't be exposed to others were revealed, everyone realized... that the Order of the Fathers had completely changed.

"Next up are the sages."

Su Hao turned his gaze to the sages and great sages in front of him. Azar remained silent, and the other sages who had committed offenses also closed their eyes, awaiting their judgment.

They knew what their fate would be, but now, did they really realize they were wrong?

No, the best answer is that Hazard and the sages chose to remain silent; they didn't think they were wrong.

They only felt that the winner takes all and the loser is condemned; if they had won, the people who needed to be judged today would have been a different group.

“Great Sage, Hazard.” Su Hao looked at him and addressed him directly, “Are you truly without guilt?”

"Now that things have come to this, there's no need to humiliate Hazard anymore."

An unknown sage spoke up, looking at Su Hao and Nasita with a complicated expression, and sighed, "We accept all the blame."

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