The Heavenly Principles Were Predators! Salt God Heulia, Driven to the Brink, Sought Peace-Only to Die by the Hands of Her Own People

"Resentment... such terrifying resentment... the whole world... is wailing..."

Niu Tian and Tai Tan, the two Great Beasts, stared in fury, their eyes nearly splitting. They revered strength, but they revered life even more. This act of dragging the whole world into war and treating countless living beings like weeds had thoroughly enraged them.

Iron-Blooded Monarchs like Dai Hao and Xue Ye fell silent. They had waged wars and witnessed mountains of corpses and seas of blood. But compared to the scene before them, those were child's play.

This wasn't a war. It was the complete cleansing of an entire world, an entire civilization.

Above the Light Screen, the final line of golden text slowly seared itself into everyone's hearts, carrying the unmistakable weight of a judgment.

[This war will last a thousand years, until the Seven Archons of the Mortal World are born.]

A thousand years!

Those two words left everyone reeling.

Such a brutal war would last a full thousand years!

What kind of despairing, endless age would that be? Would the people of Teyvat Continent have to struggle through a thousand years of unending darkness?

The Dragon God's majestic golden eyes had remained still as a tranquil well, but now they suddenly narrowed. In that scene, he had sensed an aura both familiar and deeply alarming.

It was an absolute "Heaven's Will," transcending all Laws, regarding all things as Chess Pieces to be arranged at will.

The former Supreme God King slowly spoke. His voice was low, yet it shook the entire God Realm Central.

"This 'Heavenly Principles'... is a predator."

The Dragon God's words—"This 'Heavenly Principles'... is a predator"—boomed through the Gods' hearts like thunder.

A predator?

The word was colder and more naked than "enemy" or "ruler," steeped in the most primal, emotionless cruelty. It