"Conceptual gods have their own hierarchy of strength..."
Tao Yu looked at the thirty-odd Divine Statues that had developed problems. He knew they represented the World Will's losses over all these years.
But even as it suffered those losses, the conceptual gods who remained had produced beings like the God of Wealth—powerful enough to suppress a God King.
What he still didn't know was how strong the World Will's forces were as a whole.
"Although this council meeting was delayed a little, the Council of Seven Kings still requires unanimous approval. In terms of sheer power and control, the Seven God Kings should still be far behind the strongest conceptual gods..."
Tao Yu made a few brief calculations. He estimated that a God King was roughly on par with an unrestricted Quasi-Immortal Emperor, perhaps even stronger.
The strongest conceptual gods, along with the gods of the Nefei Realm who had divided up the World Will's authority, had probably reached the level of Abyssal Immortal Emperors!
In theory, the World Will could be viewed as the Dao Fruit of the Real World. It was simply that the Abyss's suppressive force lacked some distinctive manifestations. Still, its own status was exceptionally high, surpassing that of lesser worlds like the True Realm and Perfect World.
At least within the bounds of the Real World, even a God King couldn't inflict damage that broke the rules. Even in places like the Endless Sea, where the World Will's influence was weak, they couldn't wield the kind of divine might that could shatter galaxies with a snap of the fingers in an independent world.
"But the Abyss is a place of infinite possibility. It's not impossible for a lesser world to surpass the original. Logic and causality are just as chaotic once they're thrown into the