I, the Geo Archon Morax with 2.1 Billion Mora, Have Joined a Chat Group [51]

After exiting the chat group, Zhongli didn’t leave his home immediately.

Seated in his residence, he took a moment to organize the gains from this recent venture.

Through the chat group, entering Nana’s world had yielded benefits he could never obtain in Teyvat.

Whether it was the first successful revival of a specific individual from the river of time or the subtle new permissions within the chat room, these developments had far exceeded his expectations.

In particular, the act of reviving someone from the timeline for the first time revealed the errors of his past—such opportunities to manipulate time and use a world as an experimental field were exceedingly rare.

This experimental operation also clarified the challenges he faced in reviving Qingyun.

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First, the barrier of two thousand years.

Qingyun had passed two millennia ago, her life reduced to dust within the world.

This two-thousand-year gap was the greatest obstacle.
Although Zhongli had stepped outside the timeline, crawling back to that era would require thousands of years more.

Second, disrupting a stable timeline.

To revive someone from the timeline, one must stir the waves of the world, plunging it into chaotic, unpredictable futures.

This was similar to what he, Accelerator, and the others had done in Nana’s world.

Nana’s world had originally been exceedingly stable.
Without the presence of Accelerator and Zhongli, the oppressive treatment of espers might have persisted for another century.

Only after a century, when tensions reached a boiling point, would the future begin to blur, and diverging histories could emerge.

In such a scenario, it was possible that espers and ordinary people might unite to overthrow the corrupt upper class. Alternatively, the upper echelon’s tyrannical regime might join forces with certain espers, turning the world into a private domain of the oppressors.

Only under such significant upheavals could the future of the timeline ripple.

Reviving someone from the timeline required such moments of chaos.

Third, a significant anchor point.

Reviving someone also required memories of an individual deeply tied to the world, serving as an anchor.

In Nana’s world, Nana herself served as the anchor.

As one of the protagonists with access to the chat group, her memories were a natural foundation for reshaping the world.

Similarly, reviving Qingyun would demand an equally weighty "sacrifice."

After organizing this invaluable information, Zhongli clenched his hand into a fist.

He could still sense, faintly and from afar, another version of himself existing in Nana’s world.

It wasn’t accurate to call it “another him.” Perhaps it would be more correct to say they were both the same entity.

This sensation defied words or description.

In Nana’s world, with the chaos Accelerator had created, Zhongli had extended his presence backward by a century.

He had transformed into a seven-headed, seven-crowned dragon, crawling along the timeline, devouring the past of Nana’s world and coiling the future around his form.

This was the essence of a Demon God.

Merely stepping outside the timeline of a single world did not make one a true Demon God.

Only a serpent that slithered endlessly through worlds, voids, and timelines could claim the title of Demon God.

Such beings could return endlessly unless eradicated from every corner of existence across all timelines and worlds.

And now, Zhongli had brushed against this threshold—thanks to the chat group.

If his hypothesis was correct, without the chat group, he would have needed to engulf all past moments of his original world to extend his existence into another world.

He would have had to become the great serpent coiled at the origin of his world before accessing others.

But now, the chat group had bypassed this requirement.

He had become a Demon God stretching across the timelines of two worlds.

The advantages were indescribable.

One of the most basic was the possibility of eternal life.

Even if all traces of his history were erased in Teyvat, he could revive himself in any era he had covered in Nana’s world.

Exhaling a long breath, Zhongli closed his eyes.

He melded his recent thoughts into a unified plan and made a decision.

This time, he would attempt to revive Qingyun.

The opportunity to disrupt the world had arrived.

The Traveler’s exploits in Mondstadt had reached his ears, and Barbatos’s tale had traveled on the wind to him.

The next step for the Traveler, unable to find the answers they sought in Mondstadt, would undoubtedly be to come to Liyue.

As a figure capable of shaking all of Teyvat, encountering the carefully crafted script of Rex Lapis’s death would surely spark unprecedented chaos.

With the involvement of the current Liyue Qixing, the Fatui Harbingers, and the adepti such as the Three-Eyed Five Manifestations, the resulting turmoil would be...

No, perhaps it wouldn’t be enough.

He could add more fuel to the fire.

For Qingyun, he could afford to go a bit further.

The likes of Accelerator, the Shrine Maiden of Gensokyo Reimu Hakurei, Chaos Dragon God’s Daughter Tohru, and S-Class Hero Puri Puri Prisoner from the chat group might all contribute to this grand event.

And as for the final offering—the memory to be burned as the sacrifice—he already had someone in mind.

Clap.

Zhongli pressed his palms together softly, as if sealing a pact with himself.

He closed his eyes, and the memory of his first contract rose vividly in his heart.

Wait for me, Qingyun.
This initial contract...
I will carry it out to the end.
Until the contract is fulfilled.
Wait for me, Qingyun.

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T/N: SHA NAQBA IMURU i have seen the future... I know who he sacrifices...

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