Genshin Impact: I, Heavenly Principle, Will Make Teyvat Supreme-Chapter 183: This One Arrow Wiped Out Half the Pantheon

Buzz...

Two of Olympus's laws were forcibly dominated. The very essence of those laws turned into arrows, descending from the heavens toward the earth.

As the arrows fell, one split into two, then four, then more.

There was no dazzling light or spectacular visual effect. These glass-like arrows looked completely ordinary.

But the pressure they emitted surpassed even that of Primary Gods.

Even Primary Gods couldn't fully evade the lock-on of these Law Arrows. While they might not kill an Primary God outright, they would undoubtedly cause serious injury.

For any god below Primary God level, these were certain death.

Such was the nature of supreme law—absolute and final.

Each of the Justice Arrows carried Furina's divine will.

In the Teyvat Pantheon, the gods were heavily influenced by Noah's concept of "loving humanity."

But in Olympus, gods lacked even the notion of such love. Humans here were treated like animals in a divine courtyard, mere tools and entertainment.

While many pantheons looked down on humans to some degree, Olympus was by far the worst.

Humanity's rise in recent times was largely thanks to the God of the Bible, who indiscriminately granted miracles—giving humans divine-like strength through artifacts.

In that regard, the Biblical pantheon was the most benevolent to humanity.

Thus, gods who defied Noah's core principle of cherishing humanity—especially those who abused and toyed with mortals—would never be permitted into the Teyvat Pantheon.

Zeus and his two brothers were the worst offenders. After becoming King of Gods, Zeus found that humanity no longer worshiped him but clung to the old gods. In response, he exterminated the old generation of humans.

Buzz... Buzz... Buzz...

The Justice Arrows, moving faster than even Primary Gods could track, flew toward the condemned gods.

The four primordial gods immediately sensed impending death.

Nyx's face paled. "We're under attack! The invaders have begun their assault! I can't even perceive where the attacks are coming from!"

"Everyone, scatter!"

Tartarus vanished into the air.

Erebus faded into the shadows.

The rest of the Olympian gods panicked, fleeing the palace like startled birds.

Colorful streaks flew from Mount Olympus like meteor showers.

But before they even cleared the mountain's boundaries, those fleeing gods were pierced in the chest by transparent, glass-like arrows.

Upon impact, the arrows dissolved into glowing fragments that disintegrated the gods' bodies along with their divinity.

Olympus's lower gods, possessing only thrones and divine energy, lacked true authority over laws.

Only Upper Gods were true incarnations of law. For them, a single arrow wasn't enough, so most arrows were concentrated on these targets.

Zeus and his brothers plummeted from the sky.

Zeus looked in terror at the three transparent arrows lodged in his chest.

"What... what is this?! Where did it even come from?!"

Before he could scream again, more than ten arrows pierced him from all directions.

His consciousness was shattered in an instant.

In the next moment, his divine body disintegrated, and his existence returned to the world as pure lightning law.

Nyx was horrified. "Those are arrows formed by law itself!"

As one of Olympus's Primordial Gods, she understood Olympus's laws better than anyone.

She had assumed the enemy had suppressed the world to weaken its rule-based vitality.

But now, she realized—the invaders could directly command the laws.

Which meant... the entire world had become a slaughterhouse.

"Aaaaaah... Save me, please!"

BOOM

Amid the chorus of terrified screams, Poseidon and Hades were struck down. Their divine bodies and consciousness dissolved into pure world law.

Ahhhhhh...!

Wails of agony echoed across the skies of Mount Olympus. Streaks of falling stars blazed downward.

Each falling star was an Olympian god.

From the moment Nyx had shouted for everyone to dodge until now, barely ten seconds had passed. And in that short time, one-third of Olympus's gods had been annihilated by an unknowable force.

Buzz...

The cloud cover above was ripped apart under immense pressure.

Nine divine auras, each burning like a miniature sun, descended upon Olympus. The remaining gods of Olympus were forced down by the sheer pressure, plummeting like meteors.

The gods stared at the sky in utter horror.

This was the most terrifying moment in their long, divine lives.

Nyx, Tartarus, Erebus, and Gaia broke into cold sweats as they looked upward.

Nyx clenched her teeth upon recognizing three familiar figures among the nine radiant forms.

"Odin! Vidar! Surtr!"

Seeing them standing beside the invaders left no doubt.

It was obvious now—the Norse pantheon had surrendered and become guides for the enemy.

And the destination they guided them to... was Olympus.

...

In the skies above, Furina's bow dissolved. She wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Using a Supreme Art really drains the spirit."

To master a Supreme Art was to truly step onto the path of a Supreme God.

Naturally, not all Supreme Arts were equal. The more rules one mastered, and the higher the conceptual level of those rules, the stronger the art would be.

Currently, nearly all of the original Seven Gods of the Teyvat Pantheon had mastered their own Supreme Arts.

Odin, Vidar, and Surtr stood there sweating profusely.

Especially Odin. He remembered now—when he was defeated by his now-sworn brother Barbatos, it was with this very technique.

He had known it was powerful, but not this powerful.

Just one arrow. A simple shot. And so many gods of Olympus had been erased.

And judging by Furina's condition, it hadn't even cost her that much.

That could only mean she hadn't gone all out. If she had, even Primary Gods could be instantly killed.

Furina turned to Odin. "Old man, it's your cue."

Odin snapped out of it and looked toward the four remaining primordial gods of Olympus, who looked at him as if they wanted to eat him alive.

He adjusted his monocle with one hand. Light reflected off the lens like some villainous mastermind.

"Long time no see, Gaia, Nyx, Erebus, Tartarus."

"No need to look at me like you want to tear me apart."

"This time, I'm merely acting as a peace negotiator."

"After all, you wouldn't want the entire Olympian pantheon to vanish completely, now would you?"

When Odin spoke those words, the four primordial gods who had been glaring at him with anger immediately felt like they were having heart attacks. Their expressions froze.

Odin continued, "I'm doing this for Olympus' sake. After all, it's either join or be completely destroyed. I don't want my old friends of tens of thousands of years to just vanish."

Nyx looked up at the sky, at the large number of foreign gods watching over Mount Olympus. She swallowed hard, the tough words she had prepared were swallowed back down.

That arrow earlier was simply too terrifying—it wiped out nearly half of Olympus' gods. Even high-tier gods like Zeus and the others were instantly killed without resistance.

If that arrow had been aimed at her, she probably wouldn't have escaped either. At best, she would have been severely wounded and left defenseless.

Tartarus whispered, "Then, if we surrender, what happens to us? What happens to Olympus?"

Gaia and Erebus also nodded.

In the face of certain annihilation, what they cared most about was their own survival and that of their pantheon.

The surviving gods atop Mount Olympus also perked up their ears anxiously.

Focalors descended from the sky, looking at the four primordial gods who clearly wanted to surrender.

"Everything you want to know is in here," she said, presenting a glowing orb to them.

Nyx cautiously reached out and touched the orb. Immediately, a torrent of information flooded her mind.

Seeing that nothing happened to her, the other three gods also touched the orb.

The massive influx of knowledge made them all breathe sighs of relief. Then came realization, followed by gratitude, and finally trembling excitement.

After coming back to their senses, the four gods looked at each other with firm resolve.

In unison, they declared, "We, representing the entire Olympian Pantheon, surrender! We willingly merge into the Teyvat Pantheon!"

Nyx pulled out a small handkerchief to dab at nonexistent sweat. "Ah, if only you had said so earlier—we would've surrendered right away. I thought you were here to destroy the world."

Tartarus: "Exactly. You're so powerful, if we had known you just wanted us to join you, we wouldn't have been stupid enough to oppose you."

Gaia nodded. "That's right."

Erebus: "Same here."

The remaining gods of Olympus felt utterly drained.

If their chief gods had chosen to fight to the death, they all would've perished.

Seeing the four gods surrender so readily, Focalors smiled.

Her mission was now complete.

After all, in the face of absolute power, unless one was truly willing to die, no one would choose certain death.

Focalors then integrated all the Olympian gods into the Teyvat Pantheon.

The moment they were added, every Olympian deity was automatically ranked within the system.

Currently, Olympus had four primordial gods at the Primary God level: Nyx, Gaia, Erebus, and Tartarus.

There were also Upper Gods like the Monster King Typhon, Apollo the Sun God, Artemis the Moon Goddess, Athena the Goddess of Victory, Hephaestus the God of the Forge, Hermes the Messenger of the Gods, Astraea the Goddess of Justice, and Hestia the Goddess of the Hearth...

Olympus had quite a few Upper Gods—more than forty in total.

And there were even more Middle Gods.

Once Olympus became part of the Teyvat Universe, the rights and authorities of the Olympian Pantheon were absorbed by the Pantheon Blueprint.

Unlike ancient times, the Olympian gods, having lived in a modernized human world (21st century), weren't entirely out of touch. They had some exposure to things like smartphones and computers.

So upon joining the Pantheon system, they immediately started having a blast.

With many familiar gods present across the various chat groups, the Olympian deities quickly integrated into the unique atmosphere of the Teyvat Pantheon.

Only one god in Olympus remained despondent.

Hermes sat on the ground drawing circles in frustration. "With such a convenient communication tool, my glorious job as the 'Messenger of the Gods' is finished."

He had made a fortune over tens of thousands of years acting as a courier and charging premiums for passing along information. He had hoped that after Olympus merged with the new Pantheon, he could make even more profit.

But he hadn't expected the new Pantheon to have such efficient communication tools—and packed with features at that.

Meanwhile.

In the Human Realm.

Noah stood in a bubble tea shop, buying a cold drink. He casually handed one to the ever-present little dragon, Ophis.

"This thing may be meaningless to you, but in an infinite life, it's not just 'meaningless things' that can be ignored..."

"We can find joy ourselves, seek out pleasures. Joy, from a certain perspective, is the ultimate destination of all things."

For gods whose lives are endless—after experiencing countless events and finding nothing left that moves them—what happens next?

Only two possibilities.

First, they fall into eternal slumber or self-destruction.

Second, they shut themselves away to amuse themselves, or find companions to bring each other joy.

The most classic examples: the Toaru (A Certain Magical Index) world and the Little Garden (Mondaiji) world.

The Toaru world represents gods locking themselves in to amuse themselves.

The Mondaiji world is gods creating a playground together, making up game rules to entertain each other.

Except, in the process of creating their amusement, the gods of the Mondaiji world stumbled upon even greater realms and uncovered countless secrets.

That was when the gods truly became ecstatic.

Ophis hugged the milk tea with both hands. "Joy?" Her eyes, usually indifferent to the world, now showed a flicker of confusion.

Noah looked off into the distance, stroking his chin.

"Olympus is in the bag as well."

"An unbalanced war is like dominoes. Once the first piece falls, the last one is destined to follow."

Just then, Noah sensed a sudden fluctuation within the Teyvat Universe.

He was stunned.

He quickly opened the Divine Pantheon Blueprint and checked the rankings.

The number of Upper Gods and Primary Gods was increasing rapidly.

Simultaneously, the tree diagram in the Divine Pantheon Blueprint kept expanding.

Something unusual was happening within the Teyvat Universe.

It was a framework—a blueprint, a schematic—emerging from the very foundational logic of the Teyvat Universe.

Alongside its appearance, a concept was forming—one that encompassed human and divine cognition of the cosmos.

When the Norse Pantheon joined the Teyvat Universe, the cosmos had shifted.

Noah had thought it was just a normal enhancement of the universe.

But now, with Olympus added, the fluctuation became a seed of a new conceptual whole.

Only now did Noah realize its significance.

"This... this thing? The foundational blueprint of the Teyvat Universe?"

"Why does it look so much like the 'Cosmology' I know?"

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