This was even more tragic, not even a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, only comparable to a Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
In the Tang Kingdom's army, a captain who commanded fifty men possessed such cultivation as a Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
Although this Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable had re-cultivated the Great Dao Law system and had reached the peak of Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
Although the peak of Hunyuan Golden Immortal was different from an early stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal who could become a captain.
This still showed that the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable's status in this Upper Realm was truly not good.
In the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, he was merely an outer disciple and had to perform chores assigned by the sect.
From being high and mighty, a Heavenly Dao Sage who ruled the Primordial World, to an outer disciple in the Upper Realm, doing chores every day.
How could this not cause the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable's mentality to collapse?
Before ascending, all beings worshipped him; after ascending, he was worse than a dog, just an outer disciple.
Originally, the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable thought that he was at least among the heads of the Sages in the lower realm, the Primordial World, and his innate talent and foundation were unparalleled in the Primordial World. Even if he had just ascended and was down on his luck, it would only be temporary, not permanent.
He was one of the top powerhouses in the Primordial World. If he cultivated diligently in this Upper Realm, it might be possible for him to become a top powerhouse in the Upper Realm.
Reality immediately slapped the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable in the face.
Top powerhouses from the lower realm, ascending to the Upper Realm, had the potential to become top powerhouses in the Upper Realm? What a dream!
This Upper Realm was a terrifying world that integrated countless cultivators who had transcended chaos over five thousand chaotic epochs.
Figures like Zhen Yuanzi and Ming He, who were still alive, numbered in the hundreds. Even the Grand Pure Sage had hundreds of them.
They were merely dominant within a single chaotic epoch and a single Primordial World. Ascending to this terrifying Upper Realm, how could the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable continue to be a top powerhouse in the Upper Realm?
Just in terms of comparing the foundations of hundreds of Grand Pure Sages, the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable's foundation ranked in the bottom three.
He couldn't even compete with other Grand Pure Sages, so how could he become a top powerhouse in the Upper Realm?
With a foundation and potential like the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable's, being a descendant of Pangu or one of the Three Pure Ones only meant he was the strongest in the lower realm. In this Upper Realm, he was merely an ordinary physique and foundation, not even worth a fart.
Originally, the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable's goal was to cultivate to the Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal.
But later, after being in the Upper Realm for millions of years, the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable had to lower his goal to Great Enlightenment True Immortal, and even to the Early Profound Realm.
However, after cultivating diligently for three chaotic epochs, the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable found that he was not qualified to even glimpse the Early Profound Realm, nor did he have the opportunity to tread the path of Great Enlightenment Immortal. He couldn't even cultivate to the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.
His potential was almost limited to the Quasi-Sage realm.
Becoming a Heavenly Dao Sage was achieved by fusing with the Primordial Violet Qi and the Heavenly Dao, which was a shortcut, not by his own strength.
And by taking the path of cultivating Great Dao Laws, if he wanted to cultivate to the same level as a Heavenly Dao Sage, the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, his potential was not enough.
Upon realizing that the peerless talents of the lower realm, the Primordial World, were merely ordinary physiques in the Upper Realm, and that he would forever be a bottom-dweller in the Upper Realm.
The Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable spent his days drinking and going mad.
He gave up on himself.
He regretted it.
He regretted not being a good Primordial World Sage and coming to the Upper Realm to be an outer disciple. Which nerve had gone wrong at that time?
After Soldier A recounted the past experiences of the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable.
All the surrounding soldiers snickered.
"The strongest in the lower realm, and still able to remain the strongest in the Upper Realm after ascending?"
"What kind of courage gave him such confidence?"
"The Upper Realm is hundreds of billions, trillions of times vaster than the Primordial World! Compared to the Upper Realm, the Primordial World is like the difference between a well and the sky. A frog in a well dominates its world, but can it continue to dominate after reaching the entire sky and earth?"
The Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable successfully became a topic of conversation among the soldiers.
His status as an Immortal Master only prevented the Tang Kingdom soldiers from discussing him to his face, but it did not stop them from secretly mocking him.
After all, the Five Elements Heavenly Palace was powerful, but it also had many disciples. A mere outer disciple was not an insurmountable existence in front of these Tang Kingdom soldiers.
Moreover, the Grand Supreme Heavenly Venerable's cultivation was only at the peak of Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
In the army, there were many generals with Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivation. Top mortal generals could kill peak Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivators as easily as eating and drinking.
As an Immortal Master, his cultivation was inferior even to mortal generals.
He was equivalent to a second-rate general. It was normal for these "Immortal Masters" not to be taken seriously by the Tang Kingdom soldiers.
And at this moment, in the sky, the heavens and earth turned dark, the sun and moon lost their brilliance, and a giant ship slowly descended from the sky.
In the eyes of the soldiers, this was a giant ship.
The giant ship spanned between one-dimensional and ten-dimensional space, switching dimensions at will, with infinite volume and boundless vastness.
Although it was a giant ship, it contained numerous spacetime dimensions, equivalent to a complete universe.
This was the Tang Kingdom's weapon of war - the Huoli.
The Huoli was a rare weapon of war in the Tang Kingdom, exclusively for elite soldiers.
It was crafted by the Mohists of the Tang Kingdom.
Its energy level was equivalent to a complete universe, theoretically capable of exerting power far exceeding that of a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, but far less than that of the Early Profound Realm.
In the terms of the Primordial World, it was the peak of Hunyuan Limitless.
But power was one thing, and whether it could hit a strong opponent was another.
The Huoli's precision was not very high.
When the vice-commander on the Huoli issued the order.
The Tang Kingdom soldiers knew that the time for war had arrived.
Numerous soldiers, along with the Daoists, rushed onto the bridge and boarded the giant ship Huoli.
The Huoli let out a roar, a sound that spanned countless spacetime dimensions. Its colossal body surged upwards, crossing through layers of universes, heading directly for Jade Dragon Pass.
...
Fang Ming, Shennong Shi, Yang Jian, and others sat by a stream.
"I heard the war drums sound," the young boy said.
"The two mortal kingdoms have finally gone to war?"
Shennong Shi, a cultivator of the Wood Early Profound Realm, pointed at the stream.
The stream immediately displayed the battle situation in countless universes.
An Early Profound Realm cultivator's divine sense could penetrate countless universes, naturally possessing such ability to reflect the battlefield situation at any time.
Fang Ming looked from the stream, and the scene near Jade Dragon Pass, in millions of universes, from the smallest dust particle to countless dimensions, including warships covering innumerable galaxies, was all clearly visible, as clear as the lines on the palm of his hand.
All three could see a giant ship crossing through layers of universes.
Shennong Shi introduced, "This is the giant ship from the Tang Kingdom, named Huoli."
"The Huoli was made with Mohist craftsmanship. With one shot, it can level a universe, but its precision is limited. Generally, it cannot deal with Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivators."
Fang Ming watched the Huoli, and his divine sense, with its minute detail, had already discerned all its data and parameters.