Just as humans with different thoughts, experiences, and positions easily formed all sorts of partisan conflicts, comparing each other's strengths and weaknesses and even arguing endlessly over their views,
The Heavenly Court and the other factions were no exception.
They had similar contradictions as well.
For example.
It was like cultivators looking down on those who researched technology.
Those who researched technology likewise looked down on cultivators.
The two sides often discriminated against each other.
When cross-temporal factions with entirely different biological forms, civilizational paths, and so on, yet all standing at the upper reaches of the food chain, gathered together,
The differences between them
Were undoubtedly enormous, as far apart as north and south!
It was easy for each side to see the other as freaks.
If things grew a little more extreme, becoming as incompatible as fire and water would be perfectly normal...
Besides competing for resources, using individual spacetime regions as sandboxes and Reincarnators and countless Native Creatures as Chess Pieces to compare against one another was considered a relatively mild method of handling things.
They merely observed whose growth path was superior or inferior in different environments, and who would devour whom, in order to verify the superiority of their own path.
Moreover.
Although the developments within the sandboxes would not necessarily mirror reality exactly,
Their evolution could still, more or less, serve as a point of reference.
It allowed the various factions to compare themselves against it to find omissions and make up for deficiencies, further refining their own ideals!
Therefore, this so-called Faction Fusion Competition had quite a bit of practical significance besides simply serving as entertainment or a wager.
If luck was good enough,
Even losing could bring some different gains.
And for many beings, that was undoubtedly a very good outcome!
Only...