One fellow stood out in particular, dressed like a savage, naked except for a grass skirt.
"Sure enough, a whole pack of troublesome fellows showed up. These monsters have much cleverer tricks this time, eh? They're getting smarter and smarter."
Wielding a spiked club, he pointed arrogantly at the monsters among the crowd.
"I heard you can fuse. Try fusing again. Let's see if you have the strength of an Eternal!"
Eternals were not much stronger than Super Overlords. They were experts who had taken another path within the Hongmeng Realm.
Eternals were a group of Overlords who anchored themselves within the Origin Heavenly Dao.
Yet they were different in some respects.
They were the Super Overlords among Overlords.
Qingpingzi was different from them, too. He was only an Overlord, but he had not anchored himself within the Heavenly Dao.
Qingpingzi's situation was much like the Demon Emperor's: he was simply the strongest being in a world.
These Eternals, on the other hand, were much like the Three Pure Ones, the Two Saints of the Buddhist Sect, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun.
They all anchored their souls and bodies within the Heavenly Dao, becoming undying, indestructible Eternals.
This kind of increase in strength depended on the Heavenly Dao itself.
A Five-Star World could, at most, produce someone at half-step Hongmeng.
A Six-Star World could produce someone in the Hongmeng Realm, while a Seven-Star World could produce an Overlord, an Eight-Star World a Super Overlord, and a Nine-Star World an Eternal.
In other words, these three came from at least three Nine-Star Worlds.
Eternals were exceedingly rare because Nine-Star Worlds were exceedingly rare.
Their strength was immense, but they were also constrained by their worlds, making further advancement harder for them than for anyone else.
With their strength, these three would be