The Immortal Kings in the Immortal Realm are on another level, at least at the ordinary Immortal King level.
After becoming an ordinary Immortal King, with slow cultivation, although there is no fundamental improvement in the realm, with the passage of time, cultivation and strength both increase.
They then enter a new tier of strength, known as Peak Immortal Kings.
As the name suggests, such cultivation can be considered peak among the kings of the Immortal Realm. Immortal Kings like Ao Sheng, who hold significant influence in the Immortal Realm, belong to this tier.
Above Peak Immortal Kings are the Immortal King Titans. The Red King from the alien domain, who could attack the young Aotian Emperor across the vast river of time, is an existence of this tier.
Immortal King Titans are the true apex, both in the Immortal Realm and the alien domain!
And above Immortal King Titans, there is the tier of Supreme Titans. In the Perfect World storyline, Supreme Titans like the Butcher had long left the Immortal Realm for the depths of the Sea of Worlds, only returning to the Immortal Realm in the later stages of the story.
Lord Lu Ya, by himself, possesses the cultivation of a Peak Immortal King, at the same level as Immortal King Ao Sheng.
Furthermore, he has numerous methods, including the Ding Tou Qi Jian Shu (Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book) and the Zhan Xian Hu Lu (Immortal Slaying Gourd), along with Immortal, Demonic, and even Sci-Fi techniques.
For cultivators with such a multitude of methods, an Immortal King like Ao Sheng, who only cultivates the single system of the Perfect World, would be bound to lose against Lord Lu Ya, despite having the same Peak Immortal King cultivation.
Having multiple systems, as long as they can be integrated, often gives a cultivator an advantage over peers of the same realm.
Lord Lu Ya's actual combat power, by employing multi-system techniques, can even surpass that of a Peak Immortal King, infinitely approaching the tier of Immortal King Titans.
As for Fang Ming, after absorbing all the energy of the Human Race, his cultivation has also surged to the verge of a Peak Immortal King.
It is simply that he saw through all of Lu Ya's weaknesses and prepared countermeasures in advance, meaning that even if he were slightly inferior in strength to Lu Ya, he could still suppress him.
Regardless, both sides unleashing various killing moves, divine abilities, and secret arts, are already at the Peak Immortal King level.
How terrifying is it when beings at the Peak Immortal King level engage in a battle of killing moves?
Ordinary Great Sages are inferior in the eyes of Fang Ming and Lord Lu Ya!
Imagine the damage two powerhouses, one or two tiers above Great Sages, would inflict on the entire Chaos as they fight desperately within it.
Although the two supreme powerhouses only have eyes for each other, and ninety-nine percent of their power is unleashed on each other,
even the residual aftermath of their battle would plunge the entire Chaos into war.
Numerous Great Thousand Worlds in the Chaos would be torn into small pieces by the shockwaves of their fight.
All beings mourn.
All sentient beings despair.
However, there is no longer the World-Destroying Millstone to collect the power of despair.
Even if the World-Destroying Millstone were still here, what could it do by collecting the despair and destructive power of all beings?
The World-Destroying Millstone could not even deal with Fang Ming, who is at the Red Dust Immortal level!
During the Heaven-Opening Tribulation, the World-Destroying Millstone had an effect against Pangu, but that was because Pangu was besieged by the Three Thousand Demon Gods! If a single Destruction Demon God, wielding the World-Destroying Millstone, had faced Pangu alone, Pangu would have cleaved the millstone with a single axe!
And now, with two powerhouses, one or two tiers above Great Sages, fighting, regardless of whether sentient beings have the World-Destroying Millstone or not, they are merely background characters, cultivators who are casually annihilated.
Daoist Burning Lamp, the former Vice-Leader of the Chan Teaching in the old era, one of the three thousand guests of Zixiao Palace, had long since perished from the residual shockwaves of the battle between Lord Lu Ya and Fang Ming.
Although Lord Lu Ya outwardly seemed willing to chat with the submerged ones, in reality, having lived through eighteen chaotic epochs and seen eighteen Burning Lamps, how could Lord Lu Ya possibly care about this Burning Lamp of the current chaotic epoch?
To Lord Lu Ya, Daoist Burning Lamp is merely an NPC that respawns in every chaotic epoch. Players chat with NPCs, as if both sides are equal, but fundamentally, do players care about NPCs?
No!
In single-player games, if a player fails a quest, they can reload the save, and after reloading, NPCs would simply respawn, wouldn't they?
Who would consider themselves to be on equal footing with an NPC that can respawn countless times?
Therefore, Daoist Burning Lamp perished.
To Lord Lu Ya, who calls himself awakened, these submerged ones, who are submerged in the Great Desolation script, are simply NPCs that have respawned eighteen times. It doesn't matter if this one dies; in the next chaotic epoch, and in countless chaotic epochs to come, he will see him again.
Daoist Burning Lamp, an immortal and divine being from the old era who managed to survive, thus died from the residual battle aftershocks.
Kong Xuan only had the cultivation of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, weaker than Daoist Burning Lamp.
However, in this wave of residual impact, whether unlucky enough to be burned by endless tribulation fire or affected by the fist winds, even a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal would perish upon contact.
Survival depended on luck, not strength.
Kong Xuan was lucky enough to survive. After the Great Desolation World shattered, in a small fragment of a world, he witnessed the outcome of the battle between the two.
In the vast Chaos, tribulation fires raged, and sword light was sharp.
Between the collisions of fist winds and sword light,
endless bizarre and wondrous scenes manifested.
Then, after an unknown moment, or perhaps countless years,
Kong Xuan saw that the ten-dimensional great universe on the sword light shattered!
The magical-side Immortal King lifeform, the Sun Goddess Sur, could no longer withstand Fang Ming's might and was utterly annihilated.
Lord Lu Ya's chances of victory had further decreased with the loss of Sur.
And when the nine-dragon chariot, with its Ancestral Dragon, Candle Dragon, Cloud Dragon, Flying Dragon, Yellow Dragon, Dragon Demon God, Heavenly Dragon, Dragon of Cosmic Quantum Clouds, and Primordial Dragon, the nine dragons were completely torn apart by Fang Ming's targeted attacks, ceasing to be a unified entity.
The nine-dragon chariot is a spiritual treasure, and it can only unleash its greatest power when it remains a unified entity.
Now that the entire chariot was torn apart, the nine dragons separated, their power dispersed into nine parts, naturally posing no threat to Fang Ming.
After tearing apart the nine-dragon chariot, Fang Ming first destroyed the Dragon Demon God, then the Ancestral Dragon, Candle Dragon, Cloud Dragon, Flying Dragon, and Yellow Dragon.
Finally, he casually annihilated the Heavenly Dragon, the Dragon of Cosmic Quantum Clouds, and the Primordial Dragon as well.
With this, Lord Lu Ya's chances of victory decreased again.
And when Kong Xuan felt that the battle had lasted for fifteen years,
Lord Lu Ya completely lost his ability to resist and lay motionless in the Chaos.
Seeing this, Kong Xuan knew that Lord Lu Ya, this ancient sage, had been defeated!
And Fang Ming had won!
Defeating the ancient sage Lord Lu Ya, who had cultivated for eighteen chaotic epochs, with the accumulation of just one chaotic epoch?
Kong Xuan, despite his deep hatred for Fang Ming, had to admit that Fang Ming had become powerful to a new level.