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Chapter 547 - 547: 547: The Lonely King Zhongli, and the Secrets Between Him and Guizhong · Oct 25, 2026

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501 Chapter 501 - 501: 501: Thunder Above Watatsumi 2026-10-25
502 Chapter 502 - 502: 502: Kokomi: “Where Did These Dragonriders Even Come From?!” 2026-10-25
503 Chapter 503 - 503: 503: Kokomi’s Worries and the Shogun’s Decision 2026-10-25
504 Chapter 504 - 504: 504: The End of War 2026-10-25
505 Chapter 505 - 505: 505: The Alliance Mandate 2026-10-25
506 Chapter 506 - 506: 506: The Hidden Truth of Orobashi 2026-10-25
507 Chapter 507 - 507: 507: The Sleepless Land 2026-10-25
508 Chapter 508 - 508: 508: “The Meeting at Nazuchi Beach” 2026-10-25
509 Chapter 509 - 509: 509: The Goddess Who Conquered Kokomi with Kindness 2026-10-25
510 Chapter 510 - 510: 510: The First Gift of the Alliance 2026-10-25
511 Chapter 511 - 511: 511: Inazuma Stabilizes 2026-10-25
512 Chapter 512 - 512: 512: The Alliance Begins 2026-10-25
513 Chapter 513 - 513: 513: The Shadow Who Arrived in Liyue 2026-10-25
514 Chapter 514 - 514: 514: Unauthorized Aerial Entry 2026-10-25
515 Chapter 515 - 515: 515: Sara’s Dream: Strong as Liyue! 2026-10-25
516 Chapter 516 - 516: 516: Liyue’s Seven Great Legions 2026-10-25
517 Chapter 517 - 517: 517: Dreams of Dragonflight 2026-10-25
518 Chapter 518 - 518: 518: Liyue’s Strongest Legion: It’s People 2026-10-25
519 Chapter 519 - 519: 519: The Return to Ryen’s Courtyard 2026-10-25
520 Chapter 520 - 520: 520: Zhongli’s Only Weakness: Guizhong 2026-10-25
521 Chapter 521 - 521: 521: “Ryen: Welcome to My World” 2026-10-25
522 Chapter 522 - 522: 522: Eula’s Arrival 2026-10-25
523 Chapter 523 - 523: 523: “Kokomi: Lady Makoto Is So Kind, I Could Cry!” 2026-10-25
524 Chapter 524 - 524: 524: The Gentle Strategist 2026-10-25
525 Chapter 525 - 525: 525: Eula’s Outrage: ”My Precious Alchemy Potions Are Worthless?!” 2026-10-25
526 Chapter 526 - 526: 526: Collei’s Eleazar… Cured? 2026-10-25
527 Chapter 527 - 527: 527: Alhaitham Is Stunned: A Bucket of Milk Cured Eleazar?! 2026-10-25
528 Chapter 528 - 528: 528: The Monster Wearing the Sage’s Robes 2026-10-25
529 Chapter 529 - 529: 529: Sending Nilou and Dehya to Liyue 2026-10-25
530 Chapter 530 - 530: 530: Ei: Let Makoto Be Covered in Totems of Undying 2026-10-25
531 Chapter 531 - 531: 531: The Expedition of Embarrassments 2026-10-25
532 Chapter 532 - 532: 532: Dehya Takes the Bait & A Chase Across Sumeru 2026-10-25
533 Chapter 533 - 533: 533: Nilou: You want me to overthrow the Akademiya?! 2026-10-25
534 Chapter 534 - 534: 534: Winds Stir in Sumeru 2026-10-25
535 Chapter 535 - 535: 535: Ei Witnesses The Enma Blade“Starshatter!” 2026-10-25
536 Chapter 536 - 536: 536: The Giant’s Sword, A Thousand Tons?! 2026-10-25
537 Chapter 537 - 537: 537: The Final Stop: The Final Castle 2026-10-25
538 Chapter 538 - 538: 538: The Final Boss of the Final Castle 2026-10-25
539 Chapter 539 - 539: 539: The Goblin’s Power, and a Second Draw-Blade Sword 2026-10-25
540 Chapter 540 - 540: 540: Clearing the Twilight Forest 2026-10-25
541 Chapter 541 - 541: 541: The Fate of the Draw-Blade Sword 2026-10-25
542 Chapter 542 - 542: 542: The Demonic Blade Sizhi 2026-10-25
543 Chapter 543 - 543: 543: Nilou: “She cured a Withering Disease… with a bucket of milk?” 2026-10-25
544 Chapter 544 - 544: 544: Reviving Guizhong? Zhongli is… anxious? 2026-10-25
545 Chapter 545 - 545: 545: Guizhong’s Return, Zhongli’s Long-Standing Wish Fulfilled 2026-10-25
546 Chapter 546 - 546: 546: Guizhong Returns… and Immediately Retires? 2026-10-25
547 Chapter 547 - 547: 547: The Lonely King Zhongli, and the Secrets Between Him and Guizhong 2026-10-25
548 Chapter 548 - 548: 548: Guizhong: “Ping’er Is My Wife!” 2026-10-25
549 Chapter 549 - 549: 549: Guizhong, Pioneer of Redstone Technology 2026-10-25
550 Chapter 550 - 550: 550: Guizhong: “All Former Dust, Now Only Floating Ash” 2026-10-25

Ningguang accepted the Memory of Dust with a gentle smile.

”I have long heard,” she said, ”that among the demon gods, Guizhong’s mastery of mechanisms was unparalleled. They say the people of Guili Assembly thrived under your designs.

Even if eras have changed, knowledge like this remains priceless. We will treat these gifts with care. Thank you.”

Guizhong waved it off with airy indifference.

”No need to comfort me! I’ve already seen it through the sands… Liyue today is run far better by the Qixing and the Ministry of Civil Affairs than anything I ever managed.

And those strange machines floating in the sky, your new devices are leagues beyond my old mechanisms.”

She tapped her chin, eyes brightening.

”I suppose I’ve fallen behind the times. But give me a bit of study… I will produce something even greater!”

She was not someone who wallowed in self-doubt.

In only a few breaths, she had fully reset her outlook.

After all, Liyue no longer needed the guidance of gods, was that not itself a triumph?

During the Archon War, every god believed their philosophy alone would best guide their people.

Their affection was genuine, rooted deep in their being, like the love of devoted parents.

But even parental love takes many forms.

Guizhong and Zhongli belonged to the kind who looked far ahead.

Open-minded, they trusted the limitless potential and intellect of humankind, and sought to cultivate a future humans could direct for themselves.

By contrast, the tyrant who once ruled Old Mondstadt, the High Tower King, also loved humanity, but with the smothering certainty of a domineering parent.

To protect meant to confine; to guide meant to dictate; and so came Mondstadt’s era of suffering within that tower…

and the rebellion of mortals who finally rose to shatter it.

From that view, the High Tower King’s death had been less a defeat than a breaking of his heart, betrayed by the very humans he cherished.

After all… could a mere wind spirit, even with human support, truly have toppled a peak-ranked demon god?

Without the High Tower King’s own despair, even Venti’s full strength would not have sufficed.

Thus, neither party was truly ”wrong”, merely bound to their natures.

Ryen wrinkled his brow.

”So what you’re telling me is… there really was nothing between you and Zhongli?”

Zhongli calmly sipped his tea.

He had answered this question hundreds of times.

Now, Zhongli let Guizhong do the explaining.

Guizhong puffed out her cheeks and shook a tiny fist, an attempt at intimidation that only made her look more adorable.

”There! Was! NOT!”

”If you keep slandering my innocence, even though you revived me, I’ll still punch you!”

Ryen lifted his chin proudly.

”You can’t beat me.

So, be good and explain things clearly.

Otherwise, I’ll have to teach you a lesson.”

”Eh, ??!”

Guizhong stared at him in disbelief.

Her eyes gleamed; then she instantly slipped into a pitiful pose, big eyes shimmering with tears.

”You’re threatening a poor little girl…?”

Ryen rolled his eyes.

”In my world, unless it’s Ganyu and the others, I treat men and women the same.”

”So, explain. Unless you want a beating right after revival.”

Guizhong pouted, then turned toward Zhongli.

”Morax! He’s threatening me! Aren’t you supposed to help me defeat external foes while I help you govern?

That was our alliance! Help me fulfill it already!”

Zhongli exhaled quietly, drinking his tea.

”By universal principle…”

”One: clarifying this matter restores your reputation, and mine. Appropriate.”

”Two: Liyue is now under human governance. Its people manage themselves, and defend themselves.”

”Three: my name now is Zhongli.”

”Four: I cannot defeat him.”

Guizhong froze.

”You’re joking, right?”

In her memory, the only being Zhongli openly admitted he could not defeat was the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.

Against several peak demon gods he would still say, ”The tides favor me; this battle will be won.”

Yet now he openly stated he could not beat Ryen?

Zhongli simply shook his head.

”What is strange? Between heaven and earth, there are foes even I cannot best. Ryen commands a world, he is its master.”

Guizhong blinked, scratched her cheek, and muttered:

”…When you put it that way, I suppose it makes sense.”

Immediately afterward, she brightened again and hopped closer, pulling out a scroll.

”Ryen, Ryen!

Want to sign an alliance with me? You help me handle enemies, and I’ll help you govern your world!”

Ryen nearly laughed out loud.

If he didn’t know she was a demon god, anyone would assume she was Hu Tao’s age, with the same chaotic energy.

”No need for an alliance. My world is too strange to govern.

But protecting you…”

He drew out a string of Totems of Undying.

”This, keep these on you.

Each totem can save you once from fatal harm.”

”And if something arises that even you all cannot handle… I will intervene. After all, you were revived through my world.”

Guizhong’s eyes sparkled.

Once again, the eccentricity of Ryen’s realm astonished her.

Without hesitation, she pocketed the totems happily.

”Now that I’ve accepted your gift,

time for you to tell me the gossip!”

Ryen smirked.

Guizhong froze.

Her gaze darted sideways, and locked onto Ganyu.

In an instant her expression blossomed into honey-sweet affection.

”Well, if it isn’t little Ganyu!

You’ve grown so beautifully!

Back then you were such a chubby little qilin, rolling down Cloud Retainer’s mountain every other day!”

Ganyu collapsed inwardly.

Cloud Retainer’s poor conversational habits…

Were they inherited from Guizhong all along?

Ryen rolled his eyes and pulled Ganyu into his arms.

”Don’t use my Ganyu to dodge the question. Even if she were still a chubby little qilin, I’d love her just as much. Soft and round is adorable.”

In an instant, Ganyu’s despair evaporated.

Her eyes softened into delighted affection.

Her chubby qilin youth?

None of it mattered.

She had long since grown into a graceful qilin woman, and she had someone who cherished her.

As long as Ryen liked her, any past embarrassment was irrelevant.

Guizhong blinked, then grinned mischievously.

”So little Ganyu already found herself a man… Congratulations, truly.”

Ganyu nodded happily.

”Thank you, Lady Guizhong.”

Ryen exhaled in helpless frustration.

”Can we not derail the topic? All we want is a clear answer!”

Guizhong puffed up in irritation.

”Why are you so obsessed? This is where you’re supposed to follow my lead and forget the entire thing!”

”Not a chance.”

Ryen chuckled.

”I’ve waited ages for the gossip about Zhongli, Liyue’s six-thousand-year-old bachelor dragon. Right, Venti?”

Dragged into the crossfire, Venti stiffened.

He felt Zhongli’s icy gaze stab into him.

With a forced laugh, he whispered, ”I, I’m not that curious. Only… the tiniest bit… a tiny…”

Ryen slapped Venti’s back.

”See? Barbatos is dying of curiosity. Speak!”

Venti nearly wept.

Ryen could afford Zhongli’s anger, he could not.

Those ”drinking sessions” Zhongli demanded afterward were terrifying.

Feeling herself cornered by the crowd’s eager stare, Guizhong sighed in surrender.

”Fine, fine. I’ll talk. I don’t know what Morax thought back then, but I only ever saw him as an older brother. A confidant.”

Then, with hands on her hips, she added proudly:

”Of course, if Morax did like me, that’d be understandable. I am a youthful, unbeatable beauty!”

Zhongli calmly sipped his tea.

”By universal principle, you are overthinking it. I saw you, as you saw me, as a confidant and younger sister. And I am called Zhongli now.”

”Yes, yes, Morax, I hear you.”

Zhongli sighed.

So long as she didn’t shout his old name in front of Liyue’s citizens, he could endure it.

Ryen squinted.

”Really?”

Guizhong shrugged.

”Of course! It was the Archon War. Battles every day, demon gods everywhere, and I still had my people to protect. Who had time to worry about romance?”

Ryen frowned.

”I don’t believe you.”

”You, ! You stubborn rock! Can I punch him?”

”You can’t beat me.”

”Can’t you at least pretend to lose? I’m a girl!”

”What’s this? You’re challenging me to an honorable warrior’s duel?”

”…How did a heartless brute like you ever win over Ganyu? You didn’t drug her, did you?!”

”Hah. Natural charm. Not just Ganyu, Hu Tao, Ningguang, and Lisa too!”

The two were moments away from a full verbal brawl.

Everyone else watched, torn between laughter and disbelief.

Zhongli observed quietly.

In the past, Guizhong had always been sharp-tongued and impossible to handle.