Granted.
As Creation Daoist controlled the emotions of the Shennong Clan's ten thousand descendants, he grew more proficient in wielding this path of his innate essence.
However.
He had broken no new ground on this path, and thus had made no progress.
On a Great Luo path, one had to develop new divine abilities and cultivation arts while refining and mastering it. Only then would tangible advances become evident.
Each new divine ability or cultivation art developed counted as another step forward on that path.
Moreover, on Creation Daoist's chosen path, no other peerless mighty being of the Primordial World competed with him for the Great Luo Dao.
As such, every divine ability or cultivation art he developed on this path belonged to him alone.
No Primordial World Creature could claim them and turn them into nourishment for themselves.
Yet over these two hundred thousand years, Creation Daoist had spent all his time and energy operating and controlling the Yingzhou Island Independent World, neglecting his own advancement instead.
To Lin Tian, this was putting the branches before the root.
Clearly.
If the three guardians of the Three Immortal Islands—Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou—fought one-on-one, either the Little Beast Emperor, who had yet to reach Great Luo and was merely a peak Supreme Golden Immortal, or Ghost Chariot, who had likewise only recently entered the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm, could string Creation Daoist up and thrash him.
And two hundred thousand years ago.
At the moment Lie Shan of the Shennong Clan was born, his cultivation had already reached the peak Supreme Golden Immortal level, only one step away from ascending to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
At the moment of his birth, it had already been determined that his innate origin possessed the wood attribute.
On the