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"Then Clement's salt cup will be taken over by the next group of travelers." Zhongli handed the salt cup to Su.

"It turns out that no one in this makeshift archaeological team is here for serious archaeological research." Paimon was speechless at this scene.

"Why, why do you say that?" Wanyan felt extremely guilty.

"Ma'am, you lack basic archaeological knowledge, but you are particularly proficient in the knowledge of the Salt Demon. Compared with archaeology and cultural relics," Zhongli smiled faintly, "you are more interested in the Salt Demon itself."

"As far as I know, the legends about the Salt Demon God that you mentioned in Zhudianfang are most widely spread in Yinyuan Hall."

The Yinyuan Hall, which is in charge of the salt industry, was originally composed of the people of the Salt Demon God who were accepted by Liyue.

"Sir, your guess is correct." Since she has been completely seen through, Wanyan no longer pretends, "I am indeed a member of the Silver Origin Hall. Our ancestors were the people who were protected by the Salt Demon God during the difficult period when the Demon God War swept across the continent."

"During the war, Morax assassinated our god! He was jealous of the power of the Salt Demon God and made us homeless!" Wanyan choked up, "We hate him! But Liyue is Morax's Liyue, and history must be whitewashed by him!"

So Wanyan wants to prove Morax's crimes, let the people of Liyue see the blood on his hands and see his cruelty and ruthlessness!

Su had a question mark on his forehead and even found it funny.

"Then why didn't you take revenge before?" Su looked at Wanyan.

"I...we are just mortals! How...how can we have the ability to take revenge on God!" Wanyan felt that this girl was being too unreasonable and started to get angry.

"Oh..." Su nodded in a long voice, "The difference in ability is too great, I can understand. So while Rock God is dead, I quickly came out to expose his true face and destroy his image, which can be regarded as revenge for my god."

“······That’s it.” Wanyan felt that the girl was not so bad.

"Then - the Rock God killed your god, but you have lived and multiplied in Liyue under his protection until now," Su tilted his head, "Isn't this like recognizing a thief as your father?"

“Accepting the people of the defeated Demon God and making them civil servants of Liyue, is this called Dongguo and the Wolf? Oh, Dongguo refers to the God of Rock.” Seeing Wanyan’s face turning red and white but irrefutable, Su added an explanation as if he was afraid that she would misunderstand.

Wanyan felt like her blood vessels were about to explode!

But when he saw her companions standing beside the girl, he thought about their fighting power, and then thought about the most important thing that had not been completed...

Wanyan felt that she could still endure it!

"Mr. Zhongli!" Wanyan simply ignored the harsh-speaking girl and looked at Zhongli pleadingly, "We signed a contract to face the truth! You will definitely make a fair judgment! Right, Mr. Zhongli?"

“Of course,” Zhongli reassured Wanyan, and emphasized, “and Liyue is no longer Morax’s Liyue. Let’s keep going, the answer is ahead.”

Looking at Zhongli and Wanyan's backs, Paimeng complained in a low voice, "Is this the point? How much do Mo and Zhongli not want to go to work..." He even had to specifically point out that Liyue was no longer under his jurisdiction.

Kong and Su looked at each other and followed together. No matter what, the story must have an ending.

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The third altar contained not any treasure of the Salt Demon, but a rusty sword broken into two pieces.

Wanyan was so excited as if she had found key evidence, "It's the broken sword! This must be the evidence! It proves that the Salt Demon God resisted! But he couldn't resist Morax's murderous hand!"

"Compared with the salt cup and salt ruler, this sword must have the power to fight the Salt Demon!" Wanyan looked at Zhongli, expecting the knowledgeable Mr. Zhongli to tell her what specific divine power this broken sword possessed.

"Unfortunately, the Salt Demon Goddess Heulia is not a powerful demon god." Zhongli looked at the broken sword and told the truth of the past, "She is too weak and is a loser who has no chance of ascending the throne of the Seven Gods."

"What did you say?" Wanyan trembled and was unwilling to believe it.

"During the Demon War, the demons in the mortal world used all their strength and wisdom to fight for the position of the Seven Gods. But Heulia chose to escape." Zhongli sighed, "She believed that as long as she gave up before the fight, the war would never affect herself and her people."

But there is no end to concessions.

"In her endless retreat, Heulia lost all her lands, leaving only her last shelter. Even at the last moment of the war, she didn't even have a weapon to raise to protect her people."

"Not even a weapon? Then what about this sword..." Wanyan looked at the broken sword in disbelief.

"Yes, this broken sword is not a relic of the Salt Demon God, but," Zhongli said the cruel fact, "the weapon that killed her."

“No...no!” Wanyan shook her head and kept denying, “This is fake! You are lying to me! You want to confuse my faith in God!”

"You are also a believer of Morax! Don't try to lie to me!" Wanyan was unwilling to believe what Zhongli said, and ran to the deepest part of the ruins in collapse.

These people are liars! She is going to find the truth! She will find the truth!

"Hey! Don't run around!" Who knows what dangerous ancient ruins there are here! The kind-hearted Paimeng hurriedly urged everyone to follow. They couldn't really let an ordinary person like her get into an accident.

Everyone chased Wanyan into the depths of the ruins. Along the way, they saw more and more salt man statues, and their shapes became more and more terrifying.

The struggling posture and the salt that collapsed and scattered all over the ground made Paimeng feel extremely creepy, "What... is ahead?" Isn't Wanyan afraid?

"It's salt and betrayal." Zhongli looked at Wanyan who was kneeling on the ground in the distance, "and the truth that she had to accept no matter what."

At the deepest part of the ruins, on the huge altar, radial salt marks were scattered all over the ground, indicating that a violent explosion had occurred here, but a salt man statue in the center was well preserved.

He maintained the posture of stabbing forward with the sharp blade in hand, forever frozen in that moment.

"This is the scene where Heulia died." Zhongli calmly recounted the fall of a demon god. "Heulia's body collapsed, leaving only these traces of salt."

"Only traces of salt are left?" Paimon was puzzled. "I remember that after the death of the demon..." There would be remnants of the demon left to harm the world.

"The sequel to the story is: The people of the Salt Demon God finally realized that this kind but weak Demon God could not protect anyone in the war."

"The Demon God War is very cruel. Rather than letting her suffer the torture after defeat, it is better to give her a relatively easy relief."

In the end, the Salt Demon's lover, her last guardian, killed her with his own hands.