Any Saint who had not attained the Dao possessed neither Dao Fruit nor Saintly Marks, relying solely on the fleshly body to achieve the Saintly Position. Ordinary methods were utterly useless against them.
Taishang was an innate Saint, but once Di Xin stripped him of the Human World's orthodoxy, his foundation cracked like ice, and his Dao Fruit was shaken along with it.
But after Di Xin ascended as the Human Emperor and Jiang Ziya took charge of the Dao that united the Three Realms, so long as the flame of the Human Race did not die out and heaven and earth within the Three Realms endured, their Dao foundations would remain as steady as a rock, with no fear of collapse!
So long as their Dao hearts did not crumble, even if only one person and one corner of land remained, their Saintly Positions could not fall!
Saints attained through such later cultivation were, instead, even more unsettling than those born innate.
Moreover, Di Xin ruled the Human Dao, while Jiang Ziya governed the Dao of the Three Realms' convergence. Both stood alongside the Earthly Dao controlled by Houtu, supreme authorities capable of standing on equal footing with the Heavenly Dao.
Thus, once Di Xin and Jiang Ziya became Saints, their Dao would be complete. At that point, let alone the six innate Saints, even Dao Ancestor Hongjun would no longer be qualified to give them orders.
However, Hongjun had already reached the Heavenly Dao Realm and stood at the peak of the Heavenly Dao, beneath the Great Dao. If he truly intervened to disrupt matters, there was still a sliver of possibility.
The cultivation world had always been like this: strength crushed everything. Without cultivation, everything else was empty talk!
Beyond the Thirty-three Heavens, deep within the chaos,