Along with that voice, a woman with golden-orange eyes, long white hair, and a spatial cube swirling with deep brown and dark red in her hand appeared within the rift in the sky above everyone...
Everyone stared tensely at this powerful figure emanating a terrifying presence...
Su Yuan looked up at the figure and instinctively swallowed hard.
Is that... the Heavenly Principles?
Su Yuan couldn’t understand.
Wasn’t the Heavenly Principles supposed to be dormant?
Back in Fontaine, even with all that chaos, they hadn’t shown up—so why now?
Why appear so quickly, when their current actions had barely even begun?
He pondered a bit more.
Why does this "Heavenly Principles" person look so familiar...?
It felt like he had seen her a long time ago...
The white-haired woman before him wasn’t the Heavenly Principles themselves—she was the one who appeared at the beginning of the game, the one that Aether and Lumine encountered—
The "Sustainer of Heavenly Principles"!
It was because of her that Aether and Lumine were separated and forced onto their own respective journeys...
Still, Su Yuan couldn’t wrap his head around it.
Even if this wasn’t the Heavenly Principles showing up in person, the Sustainer alone seemed way beyond anything they could handle...
So why had she appeared here now?
Wait a minute—Su Yuan suddenly recalled something.
Did the Sustainer just mention "Abyssal Power"...?
Celestia had always been a sworn enemy of the Abyss.
Five hundred years ago, the destruction of Khaenri’ah and the united suppression of the Abyss by the Seven Archons all pointed to the deep enmity between Celestia and the Abyss...
Back when they used Eerie Power to corrode the Geo Archon’s throne—nothing happened.
But the moment Su Yuan let Tartaglia use Abyssal Power to attack the throne...
The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles appeared immediately...
So it was the Abyssal Power that was the true culprit...
At that moment, the effects of Tartaglia’s powerful attack had already begun to show—
Visible cracks had appeared all over the Geo Archon’s throne.
Evidently, the Abyssal Power was proving even more effective at damaging the throne than the Eerie Power!
In the next instant, the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles lightly waved her hand.
Countless dark red spatial cubes instantly appeared around Su Yuan’s body—
He immediately felt himself completely immobilized, unable to move a muscle...
"You seem to carry the scent of the Abyss upon you..."
The Sustainer spoke softly as she descended from the sky, slowly approaching Su Yuan...
"Bearer of the Abyssal Power... your journey ends here. Come with me."
But Zhongli did not hesitate—he summoned his Geo spear and stepped forward to block the Sustainer’s path, shielding Su Yuan behind him.
"Morax, what is the meaning of this?"
The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles looked at Zhongli and spoke coldly and indifferently:
"I have not held you accountable for your dereliction in guarding the throne...
And yet you now dare to protect the Abyss and stand against the Heavenly Principles?"
"Have you forgotten the contract you signed with the Heavenly Principles...?"
"Zhongli, don’t do this!"
Seeing the situation, Su Yuan quickly spoke up:
"If you break that contract yourself, it means you’ll have to carry out the Judgement of the Warth of Rock on yourself.
How is that any different from suicide?!"
"But... I can’t just stand by and watch this happen to you..." Zhongli replied.
"So what? You’d rather make a pointless sacrifice in the name of so-called friendship?"
Su Yuan shouted at Zhongli:
"If you break the contract and end up killing yourself, it won’t change anything!
You still won’t be able to stop any of this from happening!"
"The only difference is—either you stand by and watch me get taken away by the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles...
Or you die, and don’t see me get taken away."
"Either way, I’m going to be taken away!"
"This was all my mistake—my responsibility.
It was I who suggested using the Abyssal Power, which led to the current situation."
Su Yuan thought to himself,
If I’m going to be taken away, then so be it.
It doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll die anyway—there’s no need for others to make meaningless sacrifices...
Zhongli’s movements froze.
He stood still, no longer trying to stop it...
It wasn’t because he feared the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles—
But because he felt that Su Yuan’s words made sense.
There was no need to make a meaningless sacrifice...
The Eerie force was still ravaging Liyue.
He had to conserve his strength.
He couldn’t act on impulse... nor violate his contract...
But still, Zhongli couldn’t help but question:
"The Eerie plague is spreading across all of Teyvat.
Are the beings of Celestia truly blind to this?"
To which the Sustainer replied coldly:
"The only enemy of the Heavenly Principles... is the Abyss."
"Everything else—so long as it does not threaten the foundation or stability of Teyvat—we will not interfere with."
As the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles spoke, she stepped past Zhongli and came before Su Yuan, placing her hand on his forehead as she began to channel a strange and mysterious power...
Su Yuan thought to himself,
Am I... about to be taken to Celestia?
What is Celestia even like? What will I go through there?
I have no idea at all...
And another thing—if she was just going to take me away, why not just do it?
Why place a hand on my forehead , as if performing some kind of strange ritual...?
In the next moment, a radiant light shone from the Sustainer’s palm and from within Su Yuan’s mind, Tartaglia’s agonized scream erupted:
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Then, a faint, spectral image of Tartaglia’s soul was forcefully torn from Su Yuan’s consciousness and seized by the Sustainer. Discover more novels at novel·fire.net
Grasping his soul tightly, the Sustainer ascended into the sky and vanished into the spatial rift overhead disappearing without a trace, as if she had never been there at all...
Su Yuan stood frozen for a long moment, stunned by what he had just witnessed...
So that was it— The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles wasn’t after him... she was after Tartaglia.
Now Tartaglia had been taken away, destination unknown, fate uncertain—alive or dead, no one could say...
Su Yuan could only curse himself for not thinking things through more carefully before using the Abyssal Power...
He could only hate that he didn’t have enough rewind chances left— to change any of this...
"Mr. Tartaglia’s presence is gone. I can’t feel him inside your body at all anymore..."
Xiangling’s voice echoed in Su Yuan’s mind.
"So Celestia has such methods... the ability to directly extract someone’s soul from their physical body..."
The young boy, Youngtore, muttered softly to himself.
"Su Yuan, we don’t have time to mourn for Tartaglia..."
Baizhu stepped forward, patted Su Yuan on the shoulder, and said:
"Though strictly speaking, ’mourn’ might not be the right word either—
Mr. Tartaglia was taken away and is missing, but he hasn’t truly died..."
"Since Abyssal Power is no longer an option, let’s focus on gathering more Eerie Power and destroy the Geo Archon’s throne!"
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