Although the saints of the Primordial World were sealed, and the residual will of the Scientific World—suppressed by the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao—had seventy percent of its power restricted, the situation remained steadily favorable to the Primordial side in the one-versus-four match.
The number of Daluo Realm powerhouses in the Primordial World was simply too vast.
In the original timeline, after Hongjun attained sainthood, he lectured to the three thousand visitors of the dust in the Zixiao Palace of the Outer Heavens.
Those three thousand visitors were no ordinary nobodies; everyone who entered the Outer Heavens to listen was a powerhouse of the Daluo Realm.
The original world had three thousand Daluo realms.
Though a large number of Daluo experts in the Primordial World guided by Wang Ming had fallen during the Inter-Realm War, an equally massive number had profited immensely by conquering other worlds.
The Primordial World could casually pull out five or six thousand Daluo realms, combining its native experts with those annexed and assimilated through conquest.
Among them, figures like Xi Wangmu and Duke of the East had long since accumulated enough merit required to attain sainthood.
Yet as the number of saints in the Primordial World grew, the Primordial World Heavenly Dao's requirements for becoming a saint became increasingly harsh.
Those who walked the Hunyuan Dao constructed an internal circulation within their own bodies, allowing them to survive even if they detached from the world.
Those who walked the Saint Dao cultivated the connection between themselves and the world while maximizing energy transmission and transformation, acting essentially as a world-completion plug-in.
If one viewed the world as a power strip, the slots on that power strip were also limited.
The Six Paths of Reincarnation had been claimed by Houtu, order management by the Jade Emperor,