Within all of Guixu Heaven, more than three thousand beings had advanced to a level comparable to the late Earth Immortal stage. The divine offices of gods at the Ascension Realm had even surpassed one million in number.
Most crucially, the Sovereigns of the Six Heavens and Seven Realms had received the blessing of the universe's Heavenly Dao. Their combat power had undergone the utmost transformation, and nearly every one of them was comparable to a being with a triple Taiyi foundation.
Chen Changxuan, Ancestor of the Heavenly Dao, and Chen Changqing, Ancestor of the Earthly Dao, possessed combat power comparable to innate gods. The five World-Guarding True Spirits had also gained the foundations of innate gods, their strength comparable to the early Celestial Immortal stage.
Of course, the combat power of these Sovereigns, True Spirits, and even the ancestors of Heaven and Earth within the universe all came from Guixu Heaven's authority over the Heavenly Dao.
Within the universe, they naturally possessed unrivaled combat power. But once they left Guixu Heaven and lost the empowerment of the Heavenly Dao's authority, their strength would plummet by an entire realm.
The Sovereigns' combat power would fall to a double Taiyi foundation, while the World-Guarding True Spirits and the two ancestors of Heaven and Earth would likewise decline to roughly the strength of a triple Taiyi foundation.
Even so, once all twenty-four Sovereigns of the Heavens returned to their positions, Chen Nianzhi believed this would still be an astonishing force.
The fundamental reason the people of Guixu Heaven possessed such formidable strength was that Chen Nianzhi's universe was simply too vast.
In an ordinary universe at the early Celestial Immortal stage, the Sovereigns within were far inferior to Guixu Heaven's Sovereigns.
Of course, the strength of the universe's Sovereigns was merely icing