Those existences outside the Void devoured the Land of the Universe as though sampling pastries, easily swallowing entire swaths of Cosmic Origin Substance. From this alone, it was clear that their Great Dao Universes had grown unimaginably powerful; otherwise, they could never have borne such vast and mighty energy.
This also showed that attaining a Great Dao Universe within one's body was a necessary condition for becoming a Saint.
Li Qingyun had encountered many Quasi-Saints at the Ruined Wasteland level. Jia You, Pan Xiong, and the like seemed to possess peerless Nine-Ring might, but that was truly the extent of them. They absolutely had yet to evolve their own Great Dao Universes.
Only that Kun Jiu seemed to show some signs of transforming toward this step.
As for Shi Ji Buddha and Daoist Lu Ya, there was naturally no need to compare them. Both had attained Sainthood back in the Primordial Chaos Era. Shi Ji Buddha had merely chosen to "feign death" to evade calamity, only reviving in the Primordial Beginning upon sensing hope of continuing down the road to immortality.
Daoist Lu Ya was in another state entirely. He had not died, but had instead stripped himself of his Saint position, lying low within those domains of the Ruined Wasteland for countless years, all to seek Eternal Spiritual Energy.
Thus, propelled by the Great Calamity, both their powers had continuously revived, displaying terrifying strength Above the Nine Rings.
Universes had birth and destruction; Saints had withering and flourishing.
Below Supreme Eternity, immortality was ultimately an empty dream.
Those unwilling to wither away into ash had to constantly devour blood food, or use others as "substitutes for death," escaping the two great calamities of Primordial Chaos and Primordial Origin time and again.
Yet this clearly did not conform to some