These are practitioners who can be called the first batch below the saints.
Peak powerhouses among rogue cultivators.
But still far inferior to Kong Xuan, and even further from saints.
This is only the generally recorded version of the Investiture of the Gods. In the Pingtan version of Suzhou's Investiture of the Gods, Lu Ya's strength is far beyond that of a saint.
Not only is he beyond saints, but even Pangu, the leader of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, is like an ant in the eyes of Daojun Lu Ya. A mere glance could turn Pangu into dust.
This is because Pangu created heaven and earth, and did not survive even one chaotic annihilation until the end of the Dharma era.
Daojun Lu Ya, however, has survived eighteen chaotic annihilations and witnessed eighteen creations of heaven and earth by Pangu.
At this moment, this Lu Ya is no longer the Golden Crow Lu Ya, nor Daoist Lu Ya, but Daojun Lu Ya!
Daojun Lu Ya, perhaps in the eighteen chaotic epochs, was of Golden Crow origin. But after achieving the fruit of an ancient sage, he had shed his acquired Golden Crow body and cultivated into the "Essence of Innate Li Fire,"
Also known as the "Root of Innate Li Fire."
This Li Fire has surpassed the Great Dao and can arbitrarily modify the laws of the Three Thousand Great Daos for a chaotic epoch...
"It's just... although Daojun Lu Ya's root is high, even a level higher than the chaotic demon gods, he has only just entered that level, not deeply into it..."
Fang Ming discerned Daojun Lu Ya's true strength from the information provided by Fumeng.
Daojun Lu Ya, after cultivating for eighteen chaotic epochs, finally elevated his root to be above that of the chaotic demon gods.
But just as there are low-level and top-level chaotic demon gods,
There are also low-level and top-level distinctions within that unknown tier where Daojun Lu Ya's root resides.
The current Daojun Lu Ya is merely at the low-level of that tier.
His Innate Li Fire body has not truly reached full maturity, equivalent to a juvenile state.
This is akin to how Di Jun, a top-tier innate deity, is indeed far inferior to the lowest-level chaotic demon gods.
But the lowest-level chaotic demon gods, with their cultivation at the initial stage of the Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal realm, are naturally far from being comparable to Pangu, a top-tier chaotic demon god at the Half-step Great Dao realm.
The same logic applies to Daojun Lu Ya's Innate Li Fire body.
"If the Innate Li Fire body were to reach full maturity, perhaps it could shatter and redefine the laws of the Three Thousand Great Daos with a wave of its hand..."
"But he cannot do that yet!"
"He can only modify definitions locally! With full power, he can at most modify the space and the laws of the Five Elements in ten thousand universes... This is only local, and cannot encompass the entire chaos!"
Currently, the vast majority of worlds in the Void Sea, all heavens, and myriad realms are under the rules of the Eighteen Star System of the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms.
This naturally includes this Primordial World and almost all sci-fi worlds.
Therefore, whether one can modify the laws of the Three Thousand Great Daos, or reverse the river of time, depends entirely on the size of the local world and the destructive power of its strong individuals.
As for the upper realms, that's a separate matter. But the method used by the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms is to forcibly define the destructive power of cultivators in the lowest-tier realms of different authors' works as having the same spatial stability.
Simply put, in the ten trillion-layered realm created by Lin Xingyuan, the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms first defines the first layer of the realm, with its spatial stability being the same as that of Fang Ming's Primordial World.
The destructive power of cultivators can be universally applied.
As for the upper realms, the second layer of the realm, its spatial stability would surpass that of the Primordial World. For the spatial stability of the Primordial World to match that of the Innate Martial World, an upper realm like the Divine Realm or the Primordial Chaos Realm would need to be layered above it.
The Star Great World has a three-tiered structure: the Divine Realm, the Immortal-Demon-Human Realm, and the Mortal Realm. The Lord of Ten Thousand Realms defines the spatial stability of the Mortal Realm to be the same as that of Douluo Continent.
For worlds like the Three-Body World and the Shi Yun world, which are cosmic structures without upper realms, the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms defines the spatial stability of these universes to be the same as that of Douluo Continent.
The Lord of Ten Thousand Realms states that for worlds from different authors' works to establish a stable order, the first thing to do is to equalize the spatial stability of their lowest-tier realms.
As for the upper realms, if one can destroy a universe in the lower realm, but only destroy an area of a thousand miles in the upper realm, then the cultivator's destructive power in the lower realm and the spatial stability of their ascension to the upper realm can be calculated based on this.
The Lord of Ten Thousand Realms claims that since worlds from different authors' works are created by different authors, equalizing the spatial stability of their lowest-tier realms is already the greatest fairness! There is no reason why the world stability of the Primordial World should be higher than that of other worlds!
Unless this Primordial World has a description where a single grain of sand contains a multiverse, then its world stability can be calculated as high.
This can actually be considered relatively respectful to different authors.
At least more respectful than the "Primordial World Fanatics."
However, the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms cannot solve one problem: if the original author describes the protagonist as omnipotent and omniscient, and as transcending the narrative layer, how should the power levels across the Void Sea, all heavens, and myriad realms be defined?
If you are omnipotent and omniscient, and he is also omnipotent and omniscient, then the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms cannot define strength.
Therefore, the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms does not respect the original author here. The Eighteen Star cultivation system of the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms is fundamentally aimed at eradicating omnipotence and omniscience, and narrative layer abilities, by forcibly defining them as non-existent and tampering with the original settings.
The Primordial World where Fang Ming is located is a Primordial World within the scope of the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms' power.
All ancient sages act according to the rules of the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms; this is not a loophole, but order.
This Primordial World is of single-universe scale.
The Primordial World and numerous Great Thousand Worlds are located within the chaos, and this chaos is as large as one hundred thousand universes!
This is not surprising.
It can be compared to humans on Earth.
Humans on Earth, while claiming to occupy the Earth, actually only occupy the surface of the Earth, i.e., the ground.
They haven't even fully explored the oceans on Earth, with the deepest they can reach being only ten thousand meters.
As for the Earth's core? The deepest well drilled by the Russians, claimed to be the deepest, only reaches twelve kilometers. Even multiplying this length by one hundred would not reach the mantle layer.
They can't even reach the mantle layer, so do humans, who claim to occupy the Earth, actually occupy the entire Earth? No, they actually only occupy the surface of the Earth. The depths of the sphere are completely unexplored.
Similarly, the Primordial World is like the Earth's surface, and the chaos is like the entire Earth.
Destroying the Primordial World only requires the cultivation of a Red Dust Immortal, but to destroy the entire chaos, it requires at least the Immortal King realm!
Although cultivators at the Red Dust Immortal and Hunyuan Wuji realms can traverse the chaos and create and destroy Great Thousand Worlds, they are still far from possessing all the energy of the entire chaos.