"That was only natural."
Long River Dao Lord continued placing his stones, then said calmly, "You are now an honored sub-saint and the progenitor of a Dao. Who in the vast Chaos would dare disrespect you?"
"Even the Chaos Heavenly Emperor must address you as Guixu Dao Ancestor. Whether they are Imperial Lords or Great Emperors, how could they dare behave presumptuously before you?"
Chen Nianzhi could not help but sigh at those words.
Though both were those who wielded a Dao, Dao Ancestors and sub-saints were vastly different. As the progenitor of an original Dao, the more immortals cultivated the Dao he had created, the faster the power of his Dao authority would rise.
Let alone nine Great Dao divine forms—even stepping onto the Boundless Great Dao was highly possible.
It could be said that, as an unparalleled Dao Ancestor, so long as he obtained a strand of Primordial Chaos Essence, he would certainly break through to become a Chaos Heavenly Emperor in the future. He would even have no small hope of reaching the second realm of Chaos.
Not to mention that Chen Nianzhi's Self-Sacrifice Dao was far from ordinary. It could very likely stand alongside the path of bodily sanctification and the path of wielding the Dao, possessing incomparably rare potential.
Thus, Chen Nianzhi's status and potential were absolutely not as simple as those of an ordinary sub-saint. He was a fated Chaos Heavenly Emperor, an unparalleled Dao Ancestor who might even step into the Harmonious Dao Sovereign realm.
Such an unparalleled Dao Ancestor was far beyond comparison with a sub-saint. Even a supreme sub-saint like the Qilin sub-saint likely possessed potential far inferior to Chen Nianzhi's.
It was precisely because of this that even the Demon Race's three Heavenly Emperors had not acted arrogantly before Chen