The world wills of the various works in the void sea each have their own characteristics.
The vast majority, the mainstream world wills, are those that lack any sentience and do not concern themselves with anything in the world, existing merely as a form of rules, essentially as if they don't exist.
These world wills are actually more akin to the universal laws in technologically advanced worlds.
Universal laws do not target anyone; they are like truths, waiting to be discovered and utilized by civilizations.
As for the world wills of some Xianxia worlds, they have given rise to beings akin to the Heavenly Dao.
They may lack sentience, but they possess the potential to unleash various heavenly tribulations based on their own preferences and instincts.
Some worlds have gone further, like the God Tomb world, where the Heavenly Dao has developed its own sentience and can be considered a life form.
The world in which Fang Ming is located, the Primordial World, its world will does not possess true sentience. Although it is at a fourteen-star level, it cannot be considered a true life form.
It is merely cruel in terms of its rules!
It can also be understood as the rules of the universe specifically targeting traversers, relentlessly trying to kill them, but without sentience, it merely acts on instinct to eliminate traversers.
This is instinct.
It is the instinct of a non-sentient life form.
Although not a true life form, with the aid of tools like the Ancient Sages, these sentient life forms, this Primordial World is firmly controlled by its fourteen-star world will.
Because it is instinctual.
This is why various rules restricting the Ancient Sages exist.
Why are there restrictive rules? It's akin to why universal laws dictate that water flows from high to low, and the sun rises in the east.
There's no "why."
They are simply rules generated by instinctual operation.
Ancient Sage Descent Rule One: Outer Heavenly Demons must reach the Immortal King realm to descend.
Ancient Sage Descent Rule Two: Only one Ancient Sage of the same name can descend at a time; there cannot be two Ancient Sages named Lu Ya descending simultaneously.
And Ancient Sages, holding their Dao fruits high and entrusting them to the Place of Nothingness, require a descent body of the same name to descend into the Chaos Era.
Only then can they descend.
Like Dao Monarch Lu Ya, without relying on the Golden Crow Lu Ya as his descent body, the power he could carry upon descending would not even reach the Great Emperor level.
It might not even be as good as the level of the Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao.
Descending in such a state would be meaningless.
It is precisely because Fang Ming specifically left behind the descent body of Lu Ya that he could lure Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch down.
After all, between seizing an Ancient Sage Lu Ya whose energy is insufficient to reach the Great Emperor level, and seizing an Ancient Sage Lu Ya whose energy reaches the peak Immortal King level.
Naturally, the benefits are different.
The former is useless to Fang Ming.
The latter allows Fang Ming to directly advance from an ordinary Immortal King to a peak Immortal King.
What Fang Ming covets is all the energy that Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch brought down from the Place of Nothingness.
This is equivalent to all of Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch's cultivation.
Although, just as the thoughts of all human citizens are entrusted to their soul cores, making them immortal,
The life determination of Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch does not lie in his primordial spirit core or outer core.
Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch's Dao fruit has long been entrusted to the Place of Nothingness. Only by breaking into the Place of Nothingness and shattering his Dao fruit can he be truly annihilated and completely perish.
Otherwise, he can only be killed but not die.
Even if Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch is killed by Fang Ming, he will merely be forced to withdraw from the Primordial World and return to the Place of Nothingness to cultivate again.
This is what is called the awakened.
The awakened cannot be completely killed by Outer Heavenly Demons, nor can they be killed by the sinking masses.
This is because their fundamental Dao fruit has long been entrusted to the Place of Nothingness.
Even if Fang Ming and Fu Meng join forces, they can do nothing about Lu Ya Dao Monarch's fundamental life.
This is because the intelligence-reducing halo has limitations; controlling the order of Ancient Sage descents is already the maximum extent.
To break into the Place of Nothingness, and directly under the gaze of a large number of Ancient Sages, tens of millions of them, to forcibly reduce intelligence, allowing Fang Ming to shatter Lu Ya Dao Monarch's Dao fruit...
This is something a pseudo-eleventh-tier true spirit life form cannot achieve.
If one does something too outrageous, the intelligence-reducing halo will lose control, and then all the Ancient Sages will regain their normal intelligence, leading to the self-destruction of Fang Ming and the human race.
The war between the Human Heavenly Court and Ancient Sage Lu Ya Dao Monarch is essentially a war where neither side can truly die.
This is a war of a collective immortal civilization against an individual immortal civilization.
As for the old era immortals, Buddhas, and deities who could truly die, both sides ignore them.
In this immortal duel.
What Fang Ming desires is all of Lu Ya Dao Monarch's cultivation.
With the energy converter directly seizing the cultivation, Lu Ya Dao Monarch's cultivation achievements from eighteen chaotic epochs will become Fang Ming's cultivation achievements.
And Lu Ya Dao Monarch will only be able to return to the Place of Nothingness and cultivate for another eighteen chaotic epochs to recover his former peak Immortal King strength.
This is the outcome Fang Ming covets.
And the meaning of this immortal war—it is true that no one dies, but I can gain eighteen chaotic epochs of cultivation achievements, while your eighteen chaotic epochs of cultivation have already been taken by me.
Between the increase and decrease, Fang Ming profits greatly, and Lu Ya Dao Monarch suffers greatly.
"Should I make a move now?"
Fang Ming gazed at the location of Lu Ya Dao Monarch, pondering in secret.
At this moment, he had two choices.
One: Sit and watch.
The human race has five Red Dust Immortals, and they can form a battle formation with a large army, tens of thousands of Great Emperors.
Even if Pangu were reborn, under the battle formation of tens of thousands of Great Emperors, he would be frustrated and utterly annihilated.
Lu Ya Dao Monarch is at the peak Immortal King level.
According to the Human Heavenly Court's estimation, excluding Fang Ming, the entire human race working together, even with battle formations, could not deal with Lu Ya Dao Monarch and would be easily killed by him.
But the Human Heavenly Court is immortal and can be resurrected directly in the Primordial World.
And although Lu Ya is immortal, once killed, he must obediently return to the Place of Nothingness and cultivate for another eighteen chaotic epochs.
This resurrection efficiency means.
If the resurrection frequency remains unchanged,
One resurrection cannot kill Lu Ya.
What about two?
Three?
Ten?
One hundred?
Suirenshi's report to Fang Ming from the Human Heavenly Court estimates that there is a 30% chance of exhausting Lu Ya within a hundred years.
Within five hundred years, Lu Ya would be exhausted to death by the Human Heavenly Court, his injuries would severely worsen, and he would be unable to sustain himself and would have to return to the Place of Nothingness.
This probability has already reached ninety percent.
This is the first method.
The second method is, naturally, for Fang Ming to act personally.
Fang Ming can gather all the energy of the Human Heavenly Court into himself, achieving the state of "I am the civilization."
Furthermore, Fang Ming himself is familiar with all of Lu Ya Dao Monarch's weaknesses and power operation systems.
He could likely kill Lu Ya Dao Monarch within five years, three years, or even one year upon his first move.
"Both choices are actually acceptable."
Fang Ming pondered and found that five hundred years and one year were not significantly different.
Since there was no difference, he might as well choose one.