Sal Vindagnyr and Khaenri'ah had been destroyed by the Heavenly Principles for the same reason.
They had grown too prosperous, too powerful.
If Teyvat were a water bottle, an overly powerful nation would be like a constant stream of water pouring into it.
Without intervention, the bottle would eventually burst.
The Heavenly Principles acted to keep that bottle from filling up.
If a nation grew too prosperous and powerful, it had to be destroyed, or all of Teyvat would go down with it.
In other words, either one died, or everyone died.
Clearly, the Heavenly Principles had chosen the former.
The [eternity] that the Electro Archon, Ei, pursued meant preventing her nation from developing any further.
That was why she issued the Vision Hunt Decree, confiscating those powerful ambitions, then sealing off her nation from the outside world to bring it to a standstill.
Only then would they escape destruction by the Heavenly Principles.
That was the Electro Archon Ei's [eternity].
In truth, Xiu Yuan believed that as long as he met the Thunder God and was pulled into her inner realm, his silver tongue would surely let him talk his way to victory.
Part of the reason Xiu Yuan trained so hard was to withstand the Raiden Shogun and thereby be brought before the true Thunder God.
But he kept feeling that things would not be so simple...
"Please don't let anything go wrong."
A vague unease stirred in Xiu Yuan's heart.
Xiu Yuan visited several key locations, only to discover that he had arrived too early.
The Vision Hunt Decree had only just begun, and the Resistance Army had not even taken shape.
These days, Xiu Yuan mostly lingered near Tenshukaku, where he occasionally saw people being brought in.
He also witnessed their Visions being embedded in the