Immortals were all manner of living beings who defied the heavens and attained their state through arduous cultivation.
Powerful Immortals might not necessarily be unable to contend with the legendary gods.
Yet whether among the pinnacle existences or at the same level of cultivation, Immortals still fell far short of Divine Beings.
Even so, for the myriad living beings, the road to immortality was fraught with countless hardships. Since ancient times, there had been no shortage of beings walking the path of cultivation.
Yet those who truly attained the Dao and became Immortals were exceedingly few.
As for Ancient Gods, legend held that they were cultivators from a distant age who, after observing battles between Immortals and Divine Beings, created another path of cultivation.
Ancient Gods who succeeded in their cultivation likewise called themselves Immortals.
The difference was that while wielding the power of Immortals, they could also grasp and make use of the Divine Power that only Divine Beings could command.
Compared to Immortals, they stood closer to the Origin of the Dao, and closer still to the legendary Divine Beings.
Unfortunately, only an extremely small number of existences had succeeded on this path. The Ancient God Cultivation Method itself had flashed by like an epiphyllum blooming in the night, existing only briefly before vanishing without a trace.
Only the Cultivation World retained a few scattered, hard-to-distinguish legends of dubious truth.
After the passage of endless years, many cultivators had even come to regard so-called Ancient Gods as beings imagined by certain impractical fools.
But as the Holy Son of Tiandao Palace, who controlled Tiandao Palace, the information he could access naturally far surpassed what ordinary cultivators could obtain.
Moreover, he cultivated secret techniques related to deduction. His initial doubts regarding the existence of Ancient Gods had long since