Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

"I'm fine," Shen Liang said softly. "I don't feel uncomfortable at all, you don't need to comfort me."

Rosalia rolled her eyes. "Dude, you really overthink things... Rosalia has no idea what you're doing over there, how am I supposed to comfort you? Rosalia just thinks..."

The pink-haired little girl suddenly paused, then scratched her ears and cheeks.

"what happened to you?"

“Sister’s language skills are too poor, let Lilia speak,” the blue-haired loli said softly. “Lilia thinks that brother is more like a child from the Cocolia Orphanage now. Brother… is sometimes too gentle, thinks too much, and is indecisive.”

"Is not it good?"

“But Lilia felt that her brother wasn’t like that at heart… He wanted to be a leader or a hero.”

Shen Liang looked at his two younger sisters.

"Lilia felt that her brother lacked a bit of madness. A great hero or leader needs to show some madness occasionally."

"But now you did it, brother! You're so handsome and cool today, Rosalia loves it!" The pink-haired girl jumped out and hugged her sister, blinking her big eyes at Shen Liang. "Although I liked you before too... but you're so incredibly handsome now! Rosalia wants to kill Lilia and have you all to herself!"

Shen Liang didn't know how to respond, so he pinched their little noses, glanced at the last can of gasoline, and stepped into the teleportation screen again.

All that could be seen was a river of blood.

The shallow puddles of Nashiina Beach were almost entirely red, the battlefield had been burned to the ground, and the fact that more than twenty napalm bombs were concentrated in this small area of ​​Nashiina Beach was hardly anything to explain.

Xue Yuan carried Shen Liang as they slowly descended through the heatwave, stopping about a hundred meters away. Below them, only one chariot remained—a well-protected defensive chariot bearing the banner of the Heavenly Territory.

Kujo Sara knelt before the chariot, her face pale. She was an iron-willed warrior, but now she could only kneel before the enemy... because what was happening before her eyes was beyond her understanding of war and beyond her psychological capacity.

She wasn't kneeling to survive for herself, but for the sake of the surviving shogunate soldiers.

For the few remaining survivors.

But Shen Liang didn't pay attention to her; he just looked at the chariot.

“Nine acts of filial piety,” he said calmly.

"No!" Kujo Sara cried out in near despair. She had never imagined that one day she would beg for mercy from the enemy, but at this moment she had lost all will to fight. "No! Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen! I only beg you to spare my father. This war was led by Sara, it was..."

"I'm not just doing this for revenge." Shen Liang's tone was neither impatient nor murderous. He glanced at Kujo Sara, "However, your father must die today."

An old man crawled out of the overturned chariot; it was General Kujo Takayuki, the Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Command.

Just moments ago he was full of vigor, but now his face was filled with numbness and fear. He looked at Shen Liang with pleading in his eyes.

He knew Shen Liang was determined to kill him. He had personally killed Coral Palace Liu Ge, and Shen Liang was the young man most favored by Coral Palace Liu Ge, their relationship even like that of mother and son. Shen Liang had already killed so many people; there was no way he would let him go.

But Shen Liang just looked at him expressionlessly, walked over, drew his sword, and chopped off his left arm.

Kujo Sara's eyes were bloodshot, but she dared not move or even get up. The Sangokami army, which had surrounded her during this time, had gained an absolute advantage.

Kujo Takayuki could only endure the pain of his severed arm, gritting his teeth, but dared not utter a single word.

"This is Aunt Ti Liuge."

Another cut, to the right arm.

"For Xinhai."

Left leg.

“The people of the sea.”

Right leg.

"In my place."

"Spare... Spare..." Kujo Takayuki lived up to his family's reputation as a soldier. Even in this pain, he did not faint, but just murmured these two words.

"With this, our grudges are settled." Shen Liang said calmly, "You killed Aunt Liuge, but you should have some understanding of killing and being killed on the battlefield. Our hatred ends here."

Kujo Takayuki revealed a look of relief and joy... and a barely perceptible trace of resentment.

"But to quell the hatred of the million people on Haiqi Island, your life will be needed."

Kujo Takayuki's pupils widened instantly!

"You can't do this..."

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Liang beheaded him with a single stroke.

"Compared to Aunt Liuge, you talked too much before you died."

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Chapter 82 Thor! Come out and see me!

"Ahhhhh..." Kujo Sara was in tears. She wanted to yell and curse Shen Liang for going back on his word, but she was tied to the ground by the Coral Palace army and her mouth was stuffed with a strip of cloth so she could not make a sound. She could only stare at him hatefully.

Shen Liang revealed a sarcastic smile, "What do you have to hate me for? It's only natural to be killed on the battlefield. I did it for peace."

"Peace my ass!" Kujo Sara finally bit through the strip of cloth, her beautiful eyes filled with tears as she stared at him. "You executioner...you've only made us truly mortal enemies from now on!"

"How can I see it?"

"Do you know what you've done! Eighty thousand people... a full eighty thousand! Eighty thousand Shogunate soldiers, your fire killed eighty thousand soldiers! They were indeed your enemies, but did they deserve this? The Shogun will not let you off the hook. Someone of your caliber interfering in the war of mortals... you will be personally annihilated by the Shogun!"

"My level? I'm just an ordinary person." Shen Liang said calmly. "What made you misunderstand? I am indeed an ordinary person, even much weaker than you... Never mind, there's no need to explain. You'll understand. Aunt Liu Ge and I are similar in many ways, but there's one difference—I can stop this war."

Kujo Sara watched his every move.

This day will be recorded in the history of Inazuma. The army of 145,000 men, consisting of twelve divisions, was wiped out by a young boy at Nashiina before it could launch a full-scale attack.

The elite troops of the Tenryo magistrate, the regular army of the Inazuma Shogunate, were wiped out. They were a military force capable of taking over the entire Kaigoshima Island!

Killing a shogunate soldier means being a surviving veteran.

A centurion who can kill ten shogunate soldiers and experience the ravages of war.

Killing a thousand shogunate soldiers, he could become a general based solely on his military achievements, a fierce general worthy of being recorded in history books.

But what about the more than 80,000?

He is a beast who eats raw meat and drinks blood, a demon among demons, a great demon who walks among humans and has not yet been sealed away! He is the executioner of 80,000 wronged souls, the hatred that 80,000 ordinary people in the countryside wish they could eat his flesh and sleep on his skin!

Such a person...talks about peace?

You dare talk about peace? ...What a joke!

Kujo Sara stared at him with bloodshot eyes, but saw that the boy's eyes were completely devoid of any emotion—no hatred for losing Sangokami Ruka, no joy at killing Kujo Takayuki... nothing at all.

He simply gazed at Kujo Sara, his eyes calm, a calmness that revealed only one emotion—an emotion that Kujo Sara could never comprehend…

--pity.

Sympathy for everyone in this world, whether they are the Shogunate army or the Sangokumiya army.

She froze.

Shen Liang stopped paying attention to her, and to everyone else. He stood in the center of Mingzhui Beach, amidst the still-burning fire, surrounded by the Coral Palace army, and looked up at the horizon.

Then he faced east, towards Narukami Island, watching the dusk about to be swallowed by the night, took a deep breath, and then suddenly shouted!

"Thor! Come out and see me!"

Even though Kujo Sara was currently in a hostile mood, she was still stunned by his words. Not only her, but the surrounding Sangokyu soldiers were also stunned! But before they could stop Shen Liang, Shen Liang repeated it again!

But nothing has changed.

As darkness continued to fall, such a disrespectful and arrogant statement failed to elicit any action from the gods. The once bustling battlefield fell eerily silent, save for the crackling sounds of flames burning wood and corpses.

Shen Liang waited quietly for a minute, but there was no response. So he opened the teleportation screen and submerged half of his body inside to ensure his safety at any time.

Then he continued, “This is a teleportation screen that connects two spaces. I can use it to travel back and forth between two places that are infinitely far apart. However, no one else can pass through this screen except me. In other words, as long as I hide inside the screen, I am absolutely safe and can move to any place at any time.”

"The incendiary bombs that just killed 80,000 people were my specially made ones. They are very cheap to produce. I threw 24 of them, and I still have some in stock. Or rather, I can still make new incendiary bombs and keep throwing them. This batch of incendiary bombs has been thrown on the battlefield of Nashiina, where there is no population gathering. But I can't guarantee that the rest won't be thrown on the densely populated areas of Narukami Island or on Inazuma Castle."

Kujo Sara was trembling all over, filled with fear and grief. She wanted to protest, but could only wail silently.

"You can kill me now with your ruthless methods, but the people behind this teleportation barrier will remember everything I suffered in Inazuma, and they will exact revenge without restraint." Shen Liang's expression remained calm, even though he was currently using the information gap to deceive the god. "This is a threat. I know that as a god with a thousand hands and a hundred eyes, you can see us, but you don't respond because you have never taken the weak Haiqi Island seriously. But now, I am threatening you. If you continue to remain silent, I will take it as you not wanting to negotiate with me, and I will indiscriminately bombard Inazuma Castle on Narukami Island for the next ten days—I'll give you five seconds to think."

"five."

He had barely uttered the syllable "five" when everyone saw the sky freeze instantly.

Yes, it wasn't some "storm" or "drastic change in the sky," but rather the sky simply froze. The fiery sunset clouds were instantly frozen in place, and then the clouds were tinged with the purplish-black hues of lightning. These were dark clouds that had been spreading from the direction of Narukami Island all the way here. Although it was still daytime, the brightness suddenly dimmed, as if someone had splashed ink on the sky!

Thunder roared through the clouds! Bright lightning, accompanied by a deafening flash, covered the entire battlefield! Dusk instantly turned into pitch-black night, and then a towering Dharma image descended upon Nagasaki Beach from a bolt of lightning, hovering high in the sky!

The form of the Buddha was entirely covered in purple lightning, nearly the size of a small mountain. Its image was that of the thousand-armed, hundred-eyed deity from the Inazuma legend, with a hundred-eyed wheel formed by the seal of the Tomo no Mudra behind it, and in front of it holding a long sword in one hand and a vajra in the other, with both hands forming mudras. The two hands at the bottom were particularly huge, supporting the Thunder General who walks in the sky.

Everyone on the battlefield knelt down, even the Coral Palace army. No matter how much the Coral Palace rebelled, they still belonged to Inazuma in name. And the being before them was the Lord of Inazuma, the unchanging chief god for thousands of generations!

His honorific name is: Mitakenōjin no Sumitomo Omiya!

General Thunder!

This was Shen Liang's first direct encounter with a god from the continent of Teyvat. The awe-inspiring presence of General Thunder was almost too much for him to bear. But his pride as an Earthling kept him staring at her with wide eyes.

To Shen Liang's surprise, the God of Thunder was actually a stunningly beautiful woman. Her long, dark purple hair was tied back, adorned with gentian flowers and a folding fan. Her beautiful, lightning-colored eyes were devoid of emotion, and a beauty mark at the corner of her right eye added a touch of feminine charm to her icy demeanor.

She wore a purple Inazuma kimono, the front panel of which was not concealed, revealing her impressive curves. The long sleeves reached her ankles, and the sash at her waist was the style of an adult woman, perfectly blending divine majesty with feminine grace.

“Madman.” General Thunder stood atop the Dharma Image, looking down at Shen Liang. “To be a mortal and yet to use such despicable methods, you are the first exception in Inazuma in thousands of years… ‘Exception’ is the enemy of this body.”