Revealing Teyvat's Supreme Descender, the Nail of Heaven Shows Its Might, a Descender Capable of Creating Laws

"Sin... Heavenly Punishment..." he murmured, his body trembling uncontrollably. It was not fear, but the helplessness and sorrow that rose from the depths of a mortal's soul when faced with the wrath of a God.

He had devoted his entire life to the empire and could say with a clear conscience that he had done nothing wrong. But before these so-called Heavenly Principles, what did the merits and faults of a mortal emperor amount to?

Beside him, Ning Tian, Ning Fengzhi's descendant and a leading figure of the current Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, wore an equally grave expression. She instinctively gripped her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, trying to draw even a trace of strength from it.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry." Ning Tian's voice was clear and resolute. "If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. Our Douluo Continent has never lacked people who stand tall against heaven and earth. Whether it was Ancestor Tang San ten thousand years ago or Ancestor Huo Yuhao ten thousand years ago, neither of them ever allowed this sky to truly collapse."

Emperor Xue Ye glanced at her and slowly nodded. Yes, this world always had heroes.

Greater Khingan Mountains, core region of the Lake of Life.

"Roar—!"

The earthshaking roar sent towering waves surging across the entire Lake of Life.

Niu Tian and Tai Tan, the two Divine Beasts, rose upright with their enormous bodies. Their eyes had turned completely crimson at the blood-red words "Heavenly Punishment."

"Sin?!" The Titan Giant Ape pounded his chest, producing deep booms like war drums. "Who dares to condemn our Dragon Clan?! If Lord Dragon God had not protected all races back then, this world would have long been destroyed! And now they want to judge us instead?"

"How is this so-called Heavenly Principles any different from those despicable Deities back then?!" Niu Tian, the Sky Azure Bull Python, spoke with boundless grief and killing intent.

They had only just rekindled hope because of the words, "We have thoughts of our own," as though they had glimpsed the dawn of the Dragon Clan's revival. Yet the words "Heavenly Punishment" were like a sharp blade, stabbing precisely into their most painful wound.

The Dragon Clan's tragedy had been an unjust trial from the very beginning!

God Realm Committee.

The dead silence was broken once more by Tang San.

"It showed us its plan and its weapon." His voice was not loud, yet it reached everyone's ears with perfect clarity. "This is not a bad thing."

Everyone looked at him.

"The unknown is the most terrifying." Tang San's gaze swept from Ji Dong and Lie Yan to Chang Gongwei and Ye Yinzhu, then across every God King present. "Now, we know the enemy's name and its methods. If it wants to bring down Heavenly Punishment, then we will take it."

He slowly raised a hand. The phantom of the Sea God Trident emerged in his palm, radiating a gentle yet steadfast glow.

"It has its Heavenly Punishment."

"We also have thoughts of our own."

Zhou Weiqing grinned. This time, his smile was no longer sinister, but filled with the wildness and fighting spirit unique to a Heavenly Bead Master.

"That's right! To hell with whatever plan it has—let's just fight!"

Before the God Kings could echo him, the enormous Light Screen hanging above everyone's heads changed once again.

The blood-red words "Heavenly Punishment" receded like a tide, replaced by several new words that radiated bone-piercing cold.

[Nail of Heaven—Cold Heaven Nail!]

Those few words alone seemed to carry an absolute will that stood above all else. A cold, deathly, utterly emotionless pressure descended through the Light Screen upon every world.

This pressure was entirely different from that of the Heavenly Principles. If the pressure of the Heavenly Principles was an aloof fury filled with judgment, then the Nail of Heaven was a pure indifference that regarded everything as dust.

Within the God Realm Committee, the fighting spirit that had just ignited was instantly doused cold by that chill.

Words began appearing on the Light Screen, line by line.

[Descender.]

[In Teyvat's worldview, this is a supreme status.]

[It is defined as an existence capable of matching an entire world by its own power.]

Matching an entire world!

Those six simple words made the hearts of every God King present, including Tang San, skip a beat.

They were God Kings, the pinnacles of their respective worlds, yet none of them dared claim that they could confront a complete world with their own strength! A world's Laws and its Origin Power were powers on the level of a Creation God!

"Matching a world..." God King Chang Gongwei frowned deeply. He had once fought to protect his own world and knew full well how vast and boundless a world's might was. How could a single living being contend against such power?

The Light Screen gave them no time to think and continued scrolling downward.

[They are 'foreign objects' from beyond the world. Their Life Essence and level of power stand above the foundational Laws of Teyvat World.]

[They cannot be bound by the world's Rules. Instead, they can use their own will to rewrite, overwrite, and even create the world's Laws.]

Boom!

If what they had felt before was shock, then this was complete upheaval!

"Creating... Laws?" Rong Nianbing, the God of Emotion, muttered in stunned disbelief. He controlled the Laws of emotion, yet he had never imagined that he would one day hear the words "create Laws." That was an authority belonging to the origin of the universe, the supreme Rules that God Kings like them could only follow and borrow!

"Monsters! These are fucking monsters!" Zhou Weiqing could no longer smile. The wildness on his face had turned into unprecedented gravity. He was not afraid of fighting, but how was he supposed to fight someone who could make the rules himself? If the other side said one plus one equaled three, then one plus one really would equal three in that world! How was anyone supposed to play this game?!

Tang San's expression changed completely as well. His greatest reliance had always been his understanding and application of Rules. Yet now, the Light Screen was telling him that there existed beings who could ignore Rules, or even... become the Rules themselves!

This was true dimensional suppression!

Douluo Continent.

Star Dou Great Forest, Lake of Life.

Niu Tian and Tai Tan's enormous bodies froze in place, their crimson eyes filled with bewilderment and disbelief.

Rewriting Laws? Creating Laws?

This had completely surpassed the limits of their understanding as Divine Beasts. In their inherited memories, only Creation Gods possessed such divine might.

"H-How is that possible..." Even the Titan Giant Ape's drumlike heartbeat became erratic.

Behind them, Di Tian, Zi JI, and the other Ferocious Beasts looked as though they had been struck by lightning, their thoughts seeming to freeze entirely. What they had pursued all their lives was breaking through the world's restrictions of Laws and attaining godhood. Yet now, there were beings who had been born above the Laws.

Such injustice made them tremble and despair from the depths of their souls.

The Light Screen's revelations continued.

A name appeared before everyone's eyes.

[First Throne Phanes was the first Descender, and also the most powerful Descender. His power far surpassed that of a single world.]

[By his own strength, he easily suppressed and defeated the native Planetary Will and its entire Dragon Clan, transforming the world into his 'divine kingdom.']