The Battle of Teyvat's Sky Collapse Revealed: Fought for Decades! Heavenly Scars Split the Firmament, Abyss Rifts Pierce the Earth Veins
"Such... such powerful dragons!" Tai Tan beside him, heir to the Mountain Dragon King Bloodline, nearly fell to his knees. It was reverence and yearning that came from the deepest depths of his bloodline.
The Dragon Legion's opponents were four indistinct shadows, each radiating the aura of supreme Authority. Around one shadow, space seemed as fragile as glass; wherever another passed, the flow of time for all things neared a standstill; with a wave of the third's hand, countless living beings withered away; the final shadow seemed to represent the most fundamental structure of the material world, utterly indestructible.
[The Four Reflections of Heavenly Principles were extensions of the Authority of Order, wielding the supreme Authorities of "space," "time," "withering," and "structure."]
Yet, facing such terrifying enemies, the Dragon Legion was not effortlessly crushed as the people of Douluo had imagined.
A colossal Fire Dragon King, crimson from head to toe as though formed from magma and flames, let out a roar. It used no soul skill or magic, instead directly detonating the Origin Fire within its body!
"Boom—!"
The space before it was not torn apart, but "melted" like a candle! The shadow that wielded the Authority of Space was actually forced half a step back by those unreasonable flames, and its power to stabilize space became distorted.
Elsewhere, a Grass Dragon King draped in vines and flowers, brimming with the aura of life, was enveloped by the power of the Shadow of Time. Its entire dragon body fell into absolute stillness. Yet in the next instant, endless Life Green Light erupted from within it, forming a profound cycle.
[Life Cycle. Using the power of life to construct an independent miniature Timeline, breaking free from the constraints of macroscopic time.]
On the screen, the Grass Dragon King's body shifted eerily between stillness and motion. It forcibly broke free from the Authority of Time Stop, then swept its tail and sent the shadow flying!
"Th-this is impossible!" Ice Empress cried out in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness. "They... they're fighting the Laws! They're using their own strength to fight the fundamental Laws of the world!"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also stretched slightly out of his spherical form, watching the scene in disbelief.
[To oppose Phanes, Nibelungen gave birth to the Dragon Clan. During the forty-year-long "Battle of Heavenly Overturning," the Dragon Clan explored methods of resisting the four supreme Authorities at the cost of countless lives. They might not have been able to defeat the Laws themselves, but they could use their own power to interfere with, distort, and even temporarily "deceive" them.]
On the screen, the slaughter between the Dragon Legion and the Four Shadows of Heavenly Principles had already reached a fever pitch. Every giant dragon used unimaginable methods to resist those seemingly unsolvable Authorities. The two sides traded blows, evenly matched!
This bloody yet magnificent scene rekindled a tiny spark in the hearts of the Douluo people, who had previously fallen into despair.
So... that kind of power was not invincible!
So, even when facing such beings, there were still living creatures willing to bare their claws and fangs and let out unyielding roars!
The Golden Dragon King Bloodline within Tang Wulin surged more fiercely than ever before. He seemed to hear dragon roars from distant time and space, filled with defiance and resistance! Gu Yuena looked at him, and the same light flickered in her violet eyes.
Yet this tiny spark was soon drowned by the crueler scenes that followed.
The view returned to the main battlefield.
[The Throne War lasted for several decades.]
That brief statement made everyone gasp. Several decades! That world-destroying battle had actually lasted so long!
The scene sped by, displaying the changes that the world called Teyvat had undergone over those decades. Continental plates were torn apart and reassembled; oceans evaporated, then gathered again in new lowlands; mountain ranges were flattened, while new peaks rose from the plains. The world's landforms were utterly reshaped countless times.
At last, the image froze on two enormous "scars" that pierced heaven and earth.
One was a golden fissure extending down from the highest reaches of the sky, nearly splitting the heavens in two. It was filled with the majesty of Order and Heavenly Principles.
[Scar of Heaven. The eternal mark left behind when Phanes's Spear of Heavenly Principles pierced the False Sky.]
The other was a vast ravine that spread out from deep beneath the earth, bottomless and constantly leaking a pitch-black, twisted aura.
[Abyssal Rift. Proof that Nibelungen's Abyss Power had torn open the foundation of the world.]
Above the Scar of Heaven, the shattered False Sky peeled away like an eggshell, revealing two utterly different scenes behind it. At times, there was the deep, cold starry sky of the true universe; at others, there was the Pitch Black Abyssal Realm, filled with countless eyes and representing Nibelungen's will. The two appeared in alternation, as though the sky were constantly switching channels between two worlds.
"The world... even the world's foundation has been pierced through..." A'Dai of the God Realm, once the God of Death, muttered to himself. His divine position as King of Underworld allowed him to sense the aura of death and ending leaking from the Abyssal Rift, but it was purer and more terrifying than any death he had ever known.
"Not just that." Chang Gongwei, the God King of Light, stared at the Scar of Heaven. "Look at their true bodies."
The image focused on the two supreme beings.
Phanes, pure white as wings, bore fine cracks across his holy, flawless divine body, like porcelain that had been shattered and reluctantly glued back together. The light of Order radiating from him was also clearly no longer as strong as it had been at the beginning.
As for Nibelungen's enormous body, which covered the sky and sun, it was still vast beyond measure. Yet most of the countless eyes composing its body had gone dark forever, losing all light. Its "will" had been continuously worn away through the prolonged battle, and its aura had weakened considerably.
They... had both suffered grievous injuries!
This discovery made the several God Kings of the God Realm exchange looks, each seeing the shock in the others' eyes. These two monsters could be worn down and injured!
"Great!" He Caitou could not help shouting from Douluo Continent. "They can barely keep fighting! As long as they perish together, we'll be safe!"
Quite a few people shared the same thought, relief at surviving the disaster appearing on their faces.
But Tang San, Huo Yuhao, and the others looked increasingly grave.
Because after suffering grievous injuries, Phanes on the Light Screen made a move that no one had anticipated.
He slowly raised the Spear of Heavenly Principles in his hand.
But this time, its tip was no longer aimed at his mortal enemy, Nibelungen.
It was aimed at... the Teyvat World below, already battered beyond recognition after being ravaged repeatedly for decades!
[Order had been damaged, and his divine body was shattered. Phanes decided to use the First Throne's true power to correct this world, which had accumulated far too many "errors."]
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