"Below the Saint, all are ants. If one cannot become a Saint, even if infinitely close, they remain ants, unable to achieve eternal immortality. To a Saint, they can be annihilated with a mere flick of the wrist."
"Great God Pangu was merely a non-Saint, not a Saint. Before my master, he was nothing more than an ant, extinguishable with a snap of the fingers."
"It was not Pangu who transformed into the Three Pure Ones; rather, after the Three Pure Ones achieved Sainthood, they traversed the river of time, returned to the Primordial Chaos, and transformed into Pangu to create the heavens and earth!"
"Pangu was merely a manifestation of my master!"
"It is through my master's inversion of cause and effect, and his supreme divine abilities, that our Great Primordial World came into being!"
The Grand Pure Saint greatly enjoyed Xuan Du's flattery. Perhaps this was one of the reasons he had accepted Xuan Du as his disciple.
He laughed heartily, seemingly tacitly agreeing with Xuan Du's sycophantic words.
Lost in the joy of mutual praise and fabricated narratives, neither Xuan Du nor the Grand Pure Saint took the matter of spreading the Heaven-Shielding Method and abolishing the Golden Core Dao seriously.
Both believed it was merely a method for those with low combat power and unable to achieve longevity, a path destined for short-lived practitioners.
They thought it would be lost within a few million years and could never replace the Golden Core Dao to become the sole cultivation method for the human race.
If it could not replace the status of the Golden Core Dao, it could not usurp the Grand Pure Saint's destiny within the human race.
And if it posed no threat to the Grand Pure Saint's control over the human race's destiny, would the Grand Pure Saint and Xuan Du still need to concern themselves with such a trivial matter?
There was absolutely no need.
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Xuanyang Tribe.
The human race was currently entering a phase of rapid development.
After attacking various races and collecting their vast reserves of cultivation resources, the Xuanyang Tribe's strength continued to grow.
More and more tribesmen were advancing from the first layer of the Celestial Immortality Realm to the second layer.
Soldiers who were once considered elites within the legions, possessing Heavenly Immortal strength, were becoming increasingly numerous.
Perhaps in a few more years, the average cultivation level of the Xuanyang Tribe and the standard for ordinary soldiers in the legions would shift from the first layer of the Celestial Immortality Realm to the level of a Second Layer Celestial Lord.
Among the powerful individuals, the number of Fourth Layer Celestial Saints had increased severalfold. The number of Celestial Kings, beings comparable to Grand Unity Golden Immortals, had reached five.
The chief of the Xuanyang Tribe even knew that the tribe's strength was not limited to this.
His son, Fang Ming, had successfully broken through from the sixth layer of the Great Saint realm to the Quasi-Emperor realm six months prior!
Coupled with his innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and several of the Nine Secrets, Fang Ming's strength, even as a newly ascended Quasi-Emperor, was sufficient to contend with veteran Quasi-Saint Great Divine Powers.
Demonic Saints like the Ten Great Demonic Saints, such as Gui Che and Jiu Ying, who were stuck in the early stages of the Quasi-Saint realm, were no match for his son.
This situation not only made the chief of the Xuanyang Tribe marvel at his son's abilities but also caused him a slight sense of unease.
The cultivation speed of the Heaven-Shielding Method was simply too fast, allowing the human race to attack some of the ordinary races among the ten thousand races of the Demon Court with over a hundred years of re-cultivation.
Although Fang Ming had provided considerable cultivation resources, it was still astonishingly rapid.
The chief had never experienced such a cultivation speed before. It was a complete crushing of the traditional cultivation methods of the Primordial World, a truly epoch-making cultivation method.
Upon delving into the specific cultivation techniques within the Heaven-Shielding Method, the chief had long ago discovered that it was a completely different cultivation system from the methods passed down by the Dao Ancestor in the Primordial World.
Where did this system originate?
He had heard that outside the Primordial World, in the Chaos, other Chaos Demon Gods had created their own worlds. But was the Heaven-Shielding Method truly from such an origin?
The chief pondered, feeling something was amiss. The cultivation efficiency of the Heaven-Shielding Method far surpassed that of the Primordial methods. And the other Chaos Demon Gods, while powerful, were ultimately weaker than Pangu, who had slaughtered them like chickens and dogs.
Could the worlds they created in the Chaos, and the cultivation systems they developed, truly compare to the cultivation system of the Primordial World?
Clearly, it was unlikely.
Could it be that the Heaven-Shielding Method not only originated from outside the Primordial World but also from outside the Chaos?
At this thought, the chief conceived a model of world structure.
Pangu was the strongest Chaos Demon God, and the Primordial World he created was the most powerful world within the Chaos. The numerous worlds created by the other three thousand Chaos Demon Gods were considered relatively weaker worlds.
This led the Primordial World to consider itself the center of all heavens and myriad realms, always possessing a sense of superiority over other worlds.
However, this world structure, which Primordial cultivators took for granted, was confined to the worlds within the Chaos.
While Primordial cultivators believed that the myriad realms within the Chaos constituted all existence, they were unaware that beyond the Chaos lay other worlds. Countless worlds similar to the Chaos.
Those were the true heavens and myriad realms.
From the perspective of cultivators in the true heavens and myriad realms, even the Chaos where the three thousand Demon Gods resided was merely "one realm."
Primordial cultivators, who presumptuously believed themselves to be the center and supreme world of all realms, were in reality merely ignorant, mistaking the other worlds contained within "one realm" of Chaos for the heavens and myriad realms.
Within the Chaos, the worlds created by the other three thousand Demon Gods might indeed be inferior to the Primordial World.
But beyond the Chaos, in the true heavens and myriad realms, there were likely numerous worlds whose strength far surpassed that of the Primordial World.
The "Primordial Supremacy Theory," "Mythical Primordial Theory," and "Myriad Realms Center Theory," which Primordial cultivators held as truth, were, in the eyes of cultivators from the true heavens and myriad realms, merely decadent, backward, and ignorant notions.
Just a form of delusional self-confidence.
The chief was unsure if his hypothesized world model was correct or not. However, given the Heaven-Shielding Method's almost epoch-making superiority over Primordial methods, the possibility and authenticity of this speculation were extremely high.
"If the Heaven-Shielding Method truly originates from a cultivation technique outside the Chaos, then it is not difficult to explain why it is so powerful..."
"It would be too much of a pity if this cultivation system were only circulated within the Xuanyang Tribe... I wonder what my son's attitude is."
The chief of the Xuanyang Tribe was troubled by a certain matter.
In the Primordial World, the human race was not solely composed of the Xuanyang Tribe.
The human race had three thousand tribes, and there was also the ancestral land, the birthplace of the human race.
These tribes were not entirely unconnected.
Putting aside the distant tribes, directly to the south of the Xuanyang Tribe was a small human tribe called the Kui Shui Tribe.
In recent years, the Xuanyang Tribe had annihilated surrounding races, and the humans of the Kui Shui Tribe had noticed this.
The several races that had been residing nearby, preying on humans, had been wiped out. How could the Kui Shui Tribe not have noticed?
Battles that could obliterate vast tracts of land could not possibly be hidden from them.
They therefore sent people to investigate what had happened.
After discovering the specific situation through various means, while they were shocked by the powerful strength of the Xuanyang Tribe, they also developed a strong interest in cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method.