Morax Recounts the First Archon War: After Seeing a Tribe Slaughtered, He Founds the Geo-Contract and Invites the Adepti to Protect All Life

Ning Tian's words were like a pebble dropped into a still lake, sending ripples through everyone's hearts.

Yes. If North Wind's Wolf King Andrius hadn't chosen to give up, hadn't chosen to vanish into the snowstorm, what would have become of him?

Would he have ended up like those Archons impaled by Rock Spears, a cold corpse? Or... would he have survived the endless slaughter and become like Morax?

A king who, in order to protect others, had no choice but to shoulder everything and become an Asura.

The thought sent a chill through many hearts.

As everyone pondered, the Light Screen, still fixed on the forest of spears and corpses, changed once more.

The scene didn't move forward. Instead, it began rapidly rewinding.

The shattered earth mended itself. The Rock Spears vanished into golden light. Countless Archons' corpses came back to life in reverse, roaring as they flew back into the sky. The churning sea calmed, the blood-red sky faded, and the clear heavens gave way to a chaotic flood of elemental energy.

Time was rewinding.

The scene on the Light Screen returned to the earliest moments of the catastrophe known as the "Archon War."

Back then, Liyue wasn't yet a unified land. Tribes of all sizes dotted its mountains, rivers, and valleys, and humanity struggled to survive between the gods and the beasts. Hundreds, even thousands, of powerful Archons ruled the skies above, waging endless wars against each other for the few Authorities the land had to offer.

It was an age more brutal and chaotic than any war Marshal Dai Hao had ever experienced. There was no order, no Rules—only the most primitive Law of the Jungle.

"So this... is what it looked like before the war began?" Huo Yuhao murmured. His Spiritual Detection simulated the scene