What are demons, if not gods painted with a different brush?

[ Morax would never say such a thing, but Zhongli the mortal would. ]

For those as eternal as Heaven, they rarely tolerate dissent, or consider it productive. And when words fail to sway the hearts of the prideful, then only surreptitious change remains....

[ He ends the statement with a sigh, as if he had been contemplating it all as some sort of hypothetical. ]

Perhaps the outlanders are capable of overturning their perspective without bloodshed.