Zhang Yuan pondered.
Given the temperament of the Lords of Heaven and Earth in the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, if they had found the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm during a chaos calamity, they would surely have devoured it down to the last scrap, plundering everything in that entire great realm. How could they possibly have let it survive until now?
From this, he could infer that although its raw strength was a notch below the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm's, the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm could stand alongside it in renown and had survived multiple chaos calamities. Clearly, it had mighty cultivators capable of contending with True Lords.
Immortal Lords and Great Immortal Lords-most likely great cultivators of the Beyond-the-World Qi Refining Path in those two realms.
But being able to contend with them was one thing. Whether Immortal Lords and Great Immortal Lords could actually beat them was another.
After all, returning to life after death with their peak-on-return nature was rather unfair, and every Golden Core True Lord possessed it as standard.
If, on top of that, the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm had fewer mighty cultivators capable of contending with Golden Core True Lords than the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, then it fell short in both quality and quantity. Wouldn't that leave it with nothing to do but take a beating? To preserve itself, it could only huddle together with the other three great realms for warmth during a chaos calamity.
*Although the Beyond-the-World Qi Refining Path falls short of the Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path, it may still have its merits at the Immortal Lord and Great Immortal Lord levels. My aptitude makes cultivation impossible in the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, but the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm has abundant spiritual qi. With the aid of Heavenly Materials and