He stood at the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and had even indirectly mastered a certain law, comprehending twenty percent of it through study.
He had also comprehended five percent of several other formidable laws.
Strength like that would make him a powerful figure in any world.
Perhaps, in the Cthulhu World, he could even say, "Do me a favor," and get the Three Pillars of Flame to stop fighting.
But more than eighty percent of the Great Old Ones—in other words, those Daluo Golden Immortals who were still Lower Great Old Ones—
Would, in theory, show the Mysterious Lord some respect.
After all, the Mysterious Lord was an existence who-
Put simply, was invincible among Daluo Golden Immortals!
It was almost equivalent to a Sage entering the fray: suppress Sect Master Tongtian to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and send him out to fight other genuine, ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals.
Sect Master Tongtian would absolutely slaughter them left and right. Taking on ten at once would be no problem!
That was a gap of two major realms.
Thus, the Mysterious Lord could essentially stand in for Sect Master Tongtian, gathering most of the intelligence and some resources in the Cthulhu World.
That was already enough for their needs.
The only drawback was that explaining their relationship seemed rather convoluted.
The Mysterious Lord was Sect Master Tongtian's personality avatar, while Sect Master Tongtian was himself a Three Corpses avatar of Xu Tong's true self in the Primordial World.
And Xu Tong seemed to have some connection to Lingbao Tianzun in the infinite multiverse of Taoist mythology.
So it was an upgraded version of Russian nesting dolls.
And now, as a Great Old One who had never appeared before-
Unlike those Great Old Ones who barely paid their worshippers