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"The Flower God died a long time ago, and the Scarlet King died soon after. As a result, the residents of the mountains and deserts are now without a god to believe in. The rainforest, with its Grass God, holds the highest status among the three factions of Xumi. Therefore, they look down on the other two, and there has always been friction between them. Other than that, the locals in the rainforest haven't reported anything unusual, and there's even a strong academic research atmosphere."

Wendy's explanation helped everyone better understand the situation in Xumi. This place is much more complicated than the free Mondstadt and the contracted Liyue.

"After listening to what you said, I feel a little dizzy."

The unknown passenger on the Starry Sky Train is a good person, but being a good person also depends on the situation. You can't just think about helping to rescue someone when you see him being imprisoned. If the other person is one of your own, it's okay, but if the other person is a complete stranger, you have to at least find out the situation first.

"So, let's go to the Ordinary Court today and meet the great sage of the Ordinary Court."

"Then do as you say."

San Yueqi also realized that his ideas were too naive, so he chose to follow Qiong's advice.

A group of people set out from the hotel and went directly to the Ordinance House.

The location of the House of the Decrees is right above Xumi City and above the Holy Tree. The construction design of Xumi City is like this: the lowest level is the dock next to the river. From the dock upwards are ordinary residential and commercial areas, and downwards is Xumi City’s famous Grand Bazaar, an area that integrates commerce and performing arts. Above that is Xumi City’s high-end residential area. The reason why it is called high-end is because those who live here are all rich or prestigious people, such as the eldest lady Dina Zedai in the plot, their home is here, and the secretary Elhaisen’s home is also here.

Going up further, there is the Ministry of Education, the power part of Xumi.

Everyone went up all the way and arrived at the door of the Church of the Lords. They submitted their application to the inside through the receptionist at the door of the Church of the Lords.

Soon, the receptionist came back with a response.

"I'm sorry, but the Great Sage refuses to receive you."

The response was different from what everyone expected.

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Chapter 246 is the Force, I used the Force.

The House of Representatives refused to meet with the train crew.

This situation was beyond Qiong's expectations. Logically speaking, the train crew had been in Teyvat for a while, and had done quite a few major things in Liyue. Now the two Fatui in Mondstadt would say: "Have you heard? In Liyue..."

As long as a country is not completely closed, it will get information about the Starry Sky Train, and Xumi will naturally get information about the Starry Sky Train as well.

Of course, ordinary Xumi people may not know, especially those in the rainforest or desert. The special terrain and political system of Xumi lead to very little communication between ordinary people and the outside world. But the Order of the Lords cannot have such a problem. As the official organization of Xumi, the Order of the Lords must be very well-informed about the intelligence of the outside world, so the top leaders of the Order of the Lords definitely know about the Starry Sky Train.

On this basis, it is very interesting that the great sage of the House of Lords actually chose to refuse to receive the Star Train.

"Can you tell me why the Great Sage refused to receive us?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not very clear about this either."

The receptionist's attitude was very gentle. He did not speak harshly to Qiong or look down on him just because the great sage refused to receive him.

"After I informed the Great Sage, he simply said, 'Star Train? No audience.' Then I came over to respond."

It was obvious that the great sage knew about the Starry Sky Train, but he did not seem to have expected that the Starry Sky Train would actually come to Mount Sumeru.

The reason why the other party didn't know about the arrival of the Starry Sky Train was probably because the train crew didn't wear the void terminal when they went to sleep last night, so the Church of God didn't detect any relevant clues about the Starry Sky Train in the void. After all, controlling the dreams of the Xumi people is only something that can be done every night. Everyone still has to work and live during the day. If they take action directly during the day, it will be difficult for the Church of God to explain if it is exposed.

When the great sage heard for the first time that the Star Train was coming to Xumi City, he chose to refuse the meeting after a brief thought.

Qiong didn't know what the great sage was thinking, but that didn't stop him from being very dissatisfied with him. Originally, Qiong was going to give the great sage some face and ask you to find a way to formally give him a document to facilitate our exploration on the ground of Xumi. Although the desert and mountains would not give this document face in essence, it would not prevent this document from being of some use in the rainforest.

But now the great sage directly refused, which made Qiong very unhappy and the consequences were serious.

In essence, the Great Sage did not do anything excessive except using the void terminal to utilize the dreams of the Sumeru people as an experiment to verify the computing power of the gods and imprisoning the little grass god.

Oh, if we have to say that he did something else excessive, it was that he restricted everything related to the Grass God, such as restricting the Flower God's dance on the Flower God's birthday, because he wanted to weaken the influence of the Grass God so that people would forget the existence of the Grass God and let Xumi have only one sun, the Temple of the Order.

However, in the theocratic continent of Teyvat, it is a false proposition to let people forget the Grass God. As long as the gods of other countries still exist, the Grass God of Xumi will definitely be brought out for comparison, and the people of Xumi will definitely know that they have a Grass God.

Since the great sage doesn't give face, then Qiong won't give face to the great sage either.

"We understand. Thank you."

"You're welcome."

The receptionist nodded very politely and left, as he had other things to do.

"The House of Lords refuses to receive us. What should we do?"

Qiong did not answer, but looked at Xiao Guizi next to her.

"Xiao Guizi, what do you think?"

"Sir, there must be something fishy about this matter!"

Xiao Guizi caught the joke very easily, worthy of being an anchor who has been active on Xianzhou Network for many years!

Qiong nodded in satisfaction.

"That's right. According to common sense, this shouldn't happen. And this incident is obviously not in line with common sense, so there must be something fishy going on."

"Then we are going to..."

Xiao Guizi cooperated very well and raised her right hand to her neck, then shook it.

"Are we going to take action now?"

March 7th opened his eyes wide beside him.

"There's no other way. The situation is so urgent, we have to take action."

Qiong said this and walked straight towards the House of the Decrees. Although the great sage of the House of the Decrees would not receive Qiong and his group, it did not mean that Qiong and his group could not enter the House of the Decrees. Normally, people could enter and exit the House of the Decrees freely. Of course, this was only the outer area. The inner area contained the senior offices where the great sage was located, and no one could enter without permission.

Everyone entered the Temple and, led by Qiong, headed directly into the depths of the Temple.

"Ladies and gentlemen, only members of the Order House can enter here. You are not allowed to enter."

As Qiong walked towards the entrance leading to the depths of the House of the Lord, a scholar came forward and raised his hand to stop Qiong.

Qiong raised his hand directly.

"We can come in."

The scholar was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly.

"Yes, you may enter."

After saying that, the scholar stepped back facing the crowd, while Qiong led everyone directly inside.

"Hmm? Who are you?"

As soon as they entered the inner area, new scholars came up to Qiong and asked him questions, and Qiong answered them directly.

"We are guests of the Great Sage."

"You are guests of the Great Sage."

"Yes, how do we go to see the Great Sage?"

"Go that way, then take the elevator to the Great Sage's office."

"OK, thanks."

The scholar once again faced the crowd and slowly retreated, while Qiong continued to lead everyone towards the elevator in the depths.

"What was that just now?"

Looking at the scholar's strange behavior, even March 7th could tell that something was wrong.

"It's the Force. I used the Force!"

Qiong answered immediately, but what she got was the look on San Yue Qi's face.

"Do you think I'm a fool? When did you learn something called the Force? It should be Harmony, no matter how you think about it. You must have used the power of Harmony."

"March, you have grown up, and I am very pleased."

"No, this kind of thing can be seen at a glance!"

March 7th was complaining very competently.

"In short, I used the power of harmony to change their mindsets, making them agree to my entry and feel that it was completely fine for us to enter."

"Wouldn't this be good?"

"Of course not, because they themselves are controlled."

"What?"

March Seven was completely bewildered. As smart as March Seven was, it was obvious that he couldn't understand what Qiong said.

Dan Heng understood what Qiong meant.

"Have they been controlled by that void terminal?"

"Yes, I studied the Void Terminal last night. Starting around 10 pm, it began to emit a special energy."

After the lady left last night, Qiong didn't do nothing.

"That energy will invade the brains of the Sumeru people and control them. The thoughts of those Sumeru people wearing the Void Terminal will all converge towards the same frequency, as if they were connected."

Qiong briefly explained the situation.

"In short, their thinking has long been influenced by the Void Terminal."

The Void Terminal can not only control people's brains as computing resources at night to help the Academy perform calculations, but it can also control other people's bodies and minds during the day. Both the Doctor and Cao Shen have done this.

"So, I just used the power of harmony to modify them, who were originally controlled by the Void Terminal."

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Chapter 247: Now that you are here.

By harnessing the power of harmony to tune the Xumi people's brains, Qiong led the train crew easily into the depths of the Ordinance Hall. No one stopped them along the way, and any scholars who approached with questions politely left, giving the onlookers the illusion that, "Oh, these people didn't stop them, so they should be fine."

Although most people in the House of Lords were puzzled, they did not care. After all, they were busy enough doing academic research and writing academic reports. Such matters deep in the House of Lords were obviously related to the sages, and were not something they could control.

But some people are very confused about this, such as Elhaisen, the clerk.

Elhaisen is the clerk of the Church Court, mainly responsible for clerical work. Today, as usual, after finishing his work, he immediately sat in a corner of the Church Court to read his book, but the movement in the Church Court made him look up, and then he saw a group of people in strange clothes walking in from outside, walking all the way towards the elevator. Several scholars went up to ask questions, and even the assistant of the great sage went up to ask questions, but they all left after asking, and did not stop them.

Out of curiosity, he watched all the way down and found that the group of people had a very clear goal, which was the direction of the elevator. They also got on the elevator under his gaze, and then took the elevator all the way up to the office of the great sage.

"A guest of the great sage..."

They were wearing clothes he had never seen before. One of them looked like a Liyue person, one looked like a Fontaine person, one looked like a Mondstadt person, and the others did not look like they were from any country on the continent of Teyvat. When did the great sage get to know these foreigners? And if nothing unexpected happened, this should be the first time for them to come to Xumi.

As a clerk, Elhaisen was responsible for clerical work. All the work in the Xumi Order House would eventually be archived in paper form, and he was responsible for this kind of work, so he knew basically everything that happened in the Order House. Except for top-secret matters that were not archived, he could guess something about other things through the documents. As for the fact that this group of strangers entered the Order House, it was obvious that they had not informed each other in advance, because there was no mention of this matter in the documents.

Although he was confused, he could only be confused for a while, after all, that was the guest of the great sage.

And the group of guests of the great sage in his mind also came to the great sage's office through the elevator.

The office of the Great Sage is an independent space on the first floor of the House of Ecclesiastical Affairs. The space here is very huge. Although it is called an office, it is actually large enough to be used as a banquet hall. It is no problem to hold a meeting of a hundred people here.

This empty hall welcomed the special guests, the Starry Sky Train.

"Ok?"

The sudden movement of the elevator also made the great sage sitting in the chair confused. Who was coming up? He didn't receive any information in the void terminal that anyone was coming up.

Yes, the Great Sage's void terminal is open in real time, receiving messages from all over at any time, making it convenient for him to issue various commands on the void terminal. This is the efficient command method of the Xumi Teachings Academy.

He looked at the elevator entrance and witnessed Qiong and others slowly rising up and standing in front of him, then he recognized them at a glance.

"Is it you!?"

He had received the application before, and after receiving the application, the great sage naturally searched in the void terminal. He naturally knew the information about the Starry Sky Train. Now seeing the real person appear in front of him, he was very confused.

"Didn't I already reject your application? Who asked you to come?"

The Great Sage didn't even stand up, but sat there and questioned Qiong. At the same time, he was about to send a message through the Void Terminal, asking the people below to come up and drive this group of people out.

"Of course you let us in."

Qiong didn't give him a chance and used tuning directly to easily control his void terminal, and then used the void terminal to control the great sage.

It seems that the Great Sage himself has been controlled. As the owner of the authority, the Great Sage should not be controlled himself in theory. After all, it is impossible for him to use his own brain to conduct experiments.

But unfortunately, he was indeed controlled, but the purpose of controlling him was not to conduct experiments, but to open the door to another experiment, because the one who controlled him was the doctor.

Qiong looked at the great sage's changing expression and couldn't help but shake his head.

"Great Sage, am I right?"

"Indeed, you are my guests. I asked you to come up."

The order that was originally about to be issued in the void terminal was canceled, and the great sage's face was filled with smiles.