Is this false? It is false.
But is this true? This is also true.
The ancient saints created a false history, and thus the false became true.
Truth and falsehood, in the face of the strong, are essentially indistinguishable.
The interface of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace has many powerful beings comparable to Great Dao Saints, and its population far exceeds that of the chaos where Fang Ming resided, by hundreds of billions of times.
Compared to this interface, Fang Ming's chaos was but a tiny speck.
With such a vast number of beings, where even trillions were insufficient to count, and countless powerful individuals comparable to Da Luo Golden Immortals, Hunyuan Golden Immortals, and Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortals, all unanimously believed they had lived for hundreds of millions, even tens of billions, of years.
Both the memories within their minds and all the geographical traces within this interface served to prove this fact.
The memories spanning hundreds of millions of years could be cross-referenced one by one, with absolutely no hint of falsehood.
Therefore, although this world evolved only ten years ago, one could absolutely unearth cultivators who had practiced for a hundred billion years, civilizations that had existed for a hundred billion years, and fossils from that era through archaeology.
The entire interface was deceiving everyone.
Deceiving all beings.
From the smallest particle to the boundless universe, and even this continent, vast enough to encompass the volume of hundreds of billions of universes, all were deceiving everyone.
Even the creator, the ancient saint Jin Bifeng, was shielded from this fact by Fumo, and did not believe this interface was created by him ten years ago. Instead, he believed he had truly transcended five thousand epochs of chaos with all sentient beings.
In this world, only Fang Ming knew the complete truth.
"What is true becomes false, and what is false becomes true..."
"However, regardless of anything else, the cultivation resources, the paths of cultivation, the techniques, and the insights and experiences within the memories of these characters are all real."
"And they are beneficial to me."
After a moment of realization, Fang Ming recalled the powers within this world.
This interface was composed of a continent whose size spanned hundreds of billions of universes.
This immensely vast continent was primarily ruled by the Five Elements Heavenly Palace.
However, within the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, there were still factions, primarily divided into those affiliated with the Jie Sect and those not.
This stemmed from a lingering consequence left behind by Jin Bifeng, the Sect Master of the Jie Sect, when he had not yet transcended chaos.
Jin Bifeng had originally transmigrated to the Five Elements Great World, deep within the chaos.
In that world, he directly befriended the Five Elements Demon Gods and received their true teachings of the Five Elements Great Dao.
At this point in time, if compared horizontally to the Primordial Era, it was during the Dragon-Phoenix Era.
And when the Dragon-Phoenix Era transitioned to the Investiture of the Gods Era, Jin Bifeng's main body, in order to invade the Primordial World, sent a clone to act as an inside informant in the Primordial World.
This clone later became the Sect Master of the Jie Sect and eventually主动 opened the gates of the Primordial World, allowing his main body to completely invade the Primordial World and achieve the fruit of a Great Dao Saint.
Thus, Jin Bifeng's forces comprised the Five Elements Heavenly Palace of the Five Elements Great World and the Jie Sect of the Primordial World.
These two forces, under Jin Bifeng's overwhelming power, merged together, collectively known as the Five Elements Heavenly Palace.
Yet, within the Heavenly Palace, factions still existed.
The Sanxiao Maidens, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Fire Spirit Holy Mother, and others, along with the original Five Elements Demon Gods of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, and even Yuan Feng and others who joined later.
These formed the factions.
Although these individuals were all Dao companions of Jin Bifeng, and their conflicts, even when they occurred, were usually mild and not intense, the situation among their subordinates was another matter entirely.
The Jie Sect faction, to which the golden-armored man Chu Lingtian belonged, was also the faction Fang Ming joined upon arriving in this world. This faction had once clashed fiercely with the original Five Elements Heavenly Palace faction, leading to intense struggles.
This was reflected in the fact that on this continent, which was immeasurably vast, there was not just one mortal kingdom, but rather two kingdoms that had long ruled the continent.
The perpetual warfare between these two mortal kingdoms was the manifestation of the conflict between the original faction of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace and the Jie Sect faction.
"This continent is incredibly vast. Da Luo Golden Immortals, Hunyuan Golden Immortals, and Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortals are not rare. All cultivators yearn to comprehend the initial profoundness, construct their own origin worlds, and achieve the status of Great Enlightenment Immortals."
The mortal kingdoms of this world were merely nominal mortal kingdoms. In reality, the high-ranking officials and emperors of these kingdoms possessed at least the strength of Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortals.
Without becoming a "Great Enlightenment Immortal," one was not considered a true immortal in this world.
The mortals of this world referred to cultivators below the Great Enlightenment Immortal realm, while the immortals and gods of this world referred to those who had comprehended the initial profoundness, or even truly stepped onto the path of Great Enlightenment.
The Five Elements Heavenly Palace had divisions of outer disciples, inner disciples, and core disciples.
Many outer disciples had already reached the realms of Da Luo Golden Immortal, Hunyuan Golden Immortal, or even Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal.
In the Primordial World, such cultivation would be comparable to the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao, yet here, they were merely outer disciples.
Outer disciples generally lacked the talent to comprehend the initial profoundness and could only stop at the Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal realm for their entire lives, thus they were never highly valued by the Five Elements Heavenly Palace.
Inner disciples referred to those who had comprehended the initial profoundness.
Beings like Chu Lingtian, who had comprehended the initial profoundness of water, had the potential to construct a water-element origin world in the future and step into the realm of Great Enlightenment True Immortal.
Such individuals could become inner disciples.
Besides comprehending the initial profoundness of water, comprehending the initial profoundness of fire, wood, earth, or metal also granted the same treatment.
The Initial Profound realm was a transitional stage. Generally, those who comprehended the initial profoundness were essentially at the half-step Great Dao realm.
Above Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal was the Initial Profound realm, and above the Initial Profound realm was the Great Enlightenment True Immortal.
It was a transitional realm from the Dao of Da Luo to the Dao of Great Enlightenment.
Any cultivator who truly stepped onto the Dao of Great Enlightenment and became a Great Enlightenment True Immortal would either become an inner elder like the golden-armored man or be promoted to a core disciple.
In Fang Ming's estimation, Great Enlightenment True Immortals generally possessed the combat power of peak Immortal Kings.
After Fang Ming joined the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, due to his combat power at the level of an Immortal King titan, he was still classified as a core disciple, even though he had not cultivated the Dao of Great Enlightenment.
Fang Ming had been here for ten years and had sparred with fellow disciples, so he knew that the peak of Great Enlightenment True Immortal essentially corresponded to the strength of an Immortal King titan.
Above Great Enlightenment True Immortal was Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal.
Those who became Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals had already departed from the disciple ranks within the Five Elements Heavenly Palace and could be referred to as protectors or even elders.
And Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals were the highest authorities within the Five Elements Heavenly Palace. Jin Bifeng's Dao companions, whether the Sanxiao Maidens, Yuan Feng, Houtu, or the Five Elements Demon Gods, all possessed the cultivation of Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal.
Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal was the apex of the Dao of Great Enlightenment, possessing the combat power of a true quasi-Immortal Emperor.
Fang Ming mused, "The most important thing right now is to find some suitable targets and use the energy converter to convert their initial profoundness, allowing me to also step onto the Dao of Great Enlightenment."