In the real world, hearing the Lion King's theory that gods loved all people, people felt that "gods love all people" truly was real—it was simply that this love was far too heavy, making it difficult to accept.
And she actually said that gods needed humanity too, so was it true that gods existed by relying on human faith?
But that wasn't right either!
Before the age of humanity arrived, the world belonged to the gods. In that ancient era, humanity held no status at all. Only after the Age of Gods ended did humanity gradually become the world's protagonists.
Moreover, the Light Screen had long explained that, aside from modern-day humans, countless intelligent races and civilizations had once existed on Earth. They had merely perished for various reasons, most of them because they had failed Honkai's "trials."
Furthermore, the information that Earth's gods were supernatural lifeforms created by the planet itself had also long been revealed by the Light Screen.
Likewise, because they were supernatural lifeforms created by the planet, when the age in which the world needed gods came to an end, the gods—despite possessing terrifying power far beyond humanity's, enough to easily wipe humans out—could only obediently head to the Inner Sea of the Planet.
Even when they struggled, all they had done was create sanctuaries for gods like the world of Teyvat. They did not dare oppose the will of the world.
It could be said that what the gods truly needed was the world's acknowledgment, not humanity.
So, the Lion King's claim that gods needed people was a complete paradox.
On the other hand, the claim that people needed gods was not wrong in a sense—mainly because of religion. Even in modern society, where scientific thinking was widespread, faith permeated every corner of human society.