One only needs to be careful not to touch the bottom line of the Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals in the Five Elements Heavenly Palace and keep the factional struggles within a certain range, and then there will be no trouble.
The death of a few Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals is not a big deal.
Fang Ming mused to himself.
"After all, the background setting of this realm is that only the Five Elements Heavenly Palace stands above the Chaos Epoch, looking down on the flow of the Chaos Epoch, with no other forces existing."
"No force is as strong as the Five Elements Heavenly Palace. The Five Elements Heavenly Palace is the only transcendent great force. Even if the Great Dao Saints transcend the Chaos Epoch, they must ascend to this realm..."
"Under such a background setting, the Five Elements Heavenly Palace has no enemies, and indulging in factional struggles is also very normal..."
"If it weren't for Yuan Feng, Houtu, and other Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals forcefully suppressing them from above, and the Four Swords of Zhuxian suppressing them, this realm would have officially split, rather than the current struggle that is still superficially harmonious."
This is undoubtedly a world where internal conflicts are extremely fierce and on the verge of eruption, but due to the suppression of the powerful Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals, the conflicts cannot erupt, and the problems of grievances and cultivation resources can only be resolved through factional infighting.
When cultivation resources are fixed, strong individuals rule the world, and no one can resist, and cultivators are immortal, it is natural for such a situation to develop.
"Coming to this realm, I have also witnessed a situation of realm evolution..."
Fang Ming mused to himself.
While waiting in this city for the two sides to go to war.
...
Over at the Tang Dynasty camp.
Yulong Pass is the meeting point of the two mortal kingdoms.
In front of Yulong Pass, the Tang Kingdom has millions of soldiers stationed here.
They are only waiting for the commander's order to attack Yulong Pass and trample on the enemy's territory.
These soldiers are the elite troops of the Tang Kingdom, and each soldier has at least the cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
The squad leaders who command fifty people must be Hunyuan Golden Immortals.
And among these soldiers, in a small corner, there is a Taoist who is out of place in the military camp.
This is a Taoist who bears a seven-point resemblance to the appearance of the Grand Pure Saint of this Chaos Epoch.
The Taoist in the military camp was drinking and roaring.
"I, the dignified Supreme Heavenly Venerable, the leader of the Human Sect, the Saint of the Primordial World."
"Came to this realm... transcended to this realm, and became a mere outer disciple, had to do chores, and now I'm forced to participate in the war, and I've come to this military camp."
"I'm stupid! Stupid! It would have been good to stay in the Primordial World and not transcend the Chaos, wouldn't it? I had to come and see a wider world... It's better to be a dog in the upper realm than to be one of the six Saints of the Primordial World! ... I deeply regret ascending back then!"
The Taoist drank, and as he drank, he got drunk.
Then he fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
The Tang soldiers next to him also began their usual discussions after the Taoist got drunk.
"What's going on with this Immortal Master?"
"Why is he always like this?"
A soldier who didn't know the Taoist's specific past asked.
On this day every month, this Taoist would get drunk and pass out, as if he had great grievances in his heart and was extremely dissatisfied with his current situation.
At one moment, he would claim to be the leader of the Human Sect, the supreme sect among the four sects of Grand Pure, Intercepting, Human, and Buddhist, with unparalleled power, the foremost in the Primordial World, worshipped by billions of sentient beings.
At another moment, he would claim to be a direct descendant of Pangu, a Heavenly Dao Saint.
This soldier was puzzled.
The Taoist's cultivation, judging by his appearance, was only at the Hunyuan Golden Immortal level.
Although it was a level higher than the Tang soldiers, it was only the level of a squad leader who commanded fifty soldiers.
His magical power could be said to be mediocre. With such cultivation, how could he claim to be a sect leader and be worshipped by sentient beings?
A mere Hunyuan Golden Immortal claiming to be a sect leader, isn't that ridiculous?
The title of sect leader, even for ordinary sects, would require a Great Enlightenment Immortal, wouldn't it?
In the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, it is said that those Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals are merely the Dao companions of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace's sect leader.
How could the prestige of the title "sect leader" be touched by a mere Hunyuan Golden Immortal?
This soldier had been puzzled by this for a long time and finally couldn't help but voice his doubts.
Soon, other soldiers answered him.
"This Immortal Master, it is said that he is not from our realm, but ascended from the lower realm."
Soldier B asked doubtfully, "What lower realm?"
Soldier A said, "That is, the Chaos. The Chaos of each Chaos Epoch is the lower realm from the perspective of our realm."
As soon as he said this, Soldier B understood.
Soldier A further explained, "The lower realm has tribulations of immeasurable kalpas. Every five hundred billion years, it cycles. In the cycle, some beings repeatedly appear."
"That Taoist is called Supreme Heavenly Venerable. He is actually a parallel existence to those who call themselves Grand Pure Saint, Laozi, Grand Pure Moral Heavenly Venerable, Supreme Saint, and Li Er in many Chaos Epochs. He is the same being."
"This Supreme Heavenly Venerable's status in the lower realm was extraordinary. He was the leader of the six Heavenly Dao Saints of the Primordial World, holding a high position and power in the Primordial World, a true leader of a supreme sect."
By the time Soldier B heard this, he had already gained some understanding and vaguely knew how the situation would develop.
Soldier A continued, "This Immortal Master is an outer disciple of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace. He has been in the military camp for some time, and he followed the commander from Hanjiang Pass to Yulong Pass."
"He often drinks, and when he gets too drunk like this, he says all sorts of things. Later, these words become jokes that we soldiers privately make fun of."
As Soldier A narrated, Soldier B gradually learned about the Taoist's experiences.
It turned out that this Taoist was a Heavenly Dao Saint of the lower realm's Primordial World, a supreme being in the Primordial World, whose decree could shake the Primordial World.
There were only six Saints in the entire Primordial World, which showed how high their status and power were.
However, one day, this Supreme Heavenly Venerable encountered the Five Elements Heavenly Palace descending to ferry people. In pursuit of a higher Dao, he almost without hesitation, abandoned all the privileges he enjoyed in the Primordial World and ascended to the upper realm.
Supreme Heavenly Venerable thought he had seen through everything and had no more desires, only seeking the Great Dao, so he ascended to the upper realm without much thought.
But after arriving in the upper realm, he discovered that his status in the upper realm was completely different from that in the lower realm!
In the lower realm of the Primordial World, Supreme Heavenly Venerable was the leader of the Human Sect, one of the Three Pure Ones, a direct descendant of Pangu. Apart from Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Supreme Heavenly Venerable was on par with the other five Heavenly Dao Saints in the Primordial World.
But in the upper realm, Heavenly Dao Saints only corresponded to the cultivation of Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals.
Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals in the upper realm were simply called mortals, not even immortals or gods.
Moreover, Supreme Heavenly Venerable's Heavenly Dao Saint fruit position had fallen to the Quasi-Saint realm because he had ascended to the upper realm, too far away to connect with the infinite power of the Primordial World.