This immortal-hero world possesses one great world and three thousand small worlds.
A small world undergoes birth and destruction every one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years.
For the great world, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years is merely "one epoch." Only after one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred epochs does it face the tribulation of reincarnation and rebirth.
Therefore, the birth and destruction of small worlds are also known as the initial tribulation.
The birth and destruction of the great world are known as the final tribulation.
There is a vast difference between the initial and final tribulations.
With a sweep of his divine sense, Fang Ming knew that those cultivators in the Longevity Realm had witnessed the three thousand small worlds repeatedly falling into the tribulation of reincarnation and rebirth, countless times.
Thousands, even tens of thousands of times.
Ten thousand tribulations restarted.
And at the center of those three thousand small worlds, the great world, had only passed one-tenth of the time until the day of the final tribulation of reincarnation and rebirth.
According to the estimates of cultivators in that great world, it would take at least ten billion years for that great world to face the tribulation of rebirth.
Cultivators in the Dao Integration Realm who merge with the great world are truly fortunate.
Although they have not achieved true longevity, they possess lifespans of ten billion years.
Compared to them, the cultivators in the Dao Integration Realm of the small worlds are like fireflies compared to the vast sun.
Not only in terms of lifespan, but also in terms of their own power, cultivators in the Dao Integration Realm confined to small worlds are far inferior in strength to those in the great world.
Therefore, cultivators in the Dao Integration Realm of the great world have another title: "Dao Integration Emperor."
This distinguishes them from cultivators who merge with the Dao in small worlds.
"In this world, the Nascent Soul Realm is five-star. Ordinary Dao Integration Realm cultivators, whose power is almost equivalent to the world's, are seven-star. Dao Integration Emperors are eight-star."
"In the Longevity Realm, if one merges with a small world, they might not even be comparable to a Dao Integration Emperor. However, a Longevity Realm cultivator from the great world possesses nine-star strength."
"It seems there is a significant gap between the Nascent Soul Realm and the Dao Integration Realm, and the Longevity Realm in this world. They are almost incomparable to the preceding five realms of Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Nascent Soul."
"A prodigy in the Qi Refining Realm can defeat a Foundation Establishment cultivator. A prodigy in the Golden Core Realm can defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator. But a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, no matter how exceptionally talented, cannot possibly contend with a Dao Integration Realm cultivator who has merged with the world."
Fang Ming observed this world and fell into thought.
"The strength of this immortal-hero world is actually not high. It only has a few nine-star cultivators; there are no ten-star cultivators."
"However, the tribulation of world reincarnation and rebirth here gives me a sense of déjà vu. This is quite similar to the Chaos Epoch of the Primordial World."
"Those Longevity Realm cultivators vaguely resemble miniaturized ancient sages."
World reincarnation, world rebirth. When the entire world falls into its end, into despair, it is directly reset, and time returns to the beginning of creation.
What difference is there between this and the Primordial World, when it falls into the tribulation of the end of the Dharma, the boundless tribulation arrives, leading to a reset, returning to the beginning of Chaos's nurturing?
And the Longevity Realm cultivators, who can remain undestroyed even as the world restarts, are like ancient sages who have weathered numerous boundless tribulations.
Of course, Fang Ming also knew in his heart that the worlds in the Void Sea were infinite, and concepts like world rebirth and world reincarnation existed in many worlds.
It was merely a conceptual similarity. In reality, it had no connection to the Chaos Epoch or the ancient sages of the Primordial World.
After all, Fang Ming's many avatars had encountered worlds with similar concepts in other works of the Void Sea.
For example, the Snow Eagle Great World possessed this concept, and the Star River Great World also possessed this concept.
The concept itself was not an issue; it was not uncommon. What puzzled Fang Ming was why he would find a world in the Deep Sea Region with only nine-star strength, not even reaching ten stars?
This immortal-hero world only had seven realms. Even the Longevity Realm cultivators of the great world were ultimately only nine-star.
This world was not even the size of a single universe.
Fang Ming's divine sense was capable of sweeping across the infinite and boundless multiverse, yet in this world that was not even at the single-universe level, he could find no other worlds besides this immortal-hero world.
This presented two possibilities.
One: This immortal-hero world truly only had nine-star strength.
While this possibility seemed plausible, Fang Ming did not believe it.
The reasoning was simple: this was the Deep Sea Region, and any world there was bound to have experts at the multiverse level or even above.
At the very least, an eleven-star cultivator should appear.
Furthermore, Fang Ming's avatar was no longer at the boundary between the Deep Sea Region and the Shallow Sea Region, nor had it just entered the Deep Sea Region.
It had descended a considerable distance, even passing through some worlds of the "Zhutiianliu" (All Heavens Flow) genre.
Below worlds of the Zhutiianliu genre, there would only be stronger worlds, not weaker ones.
If this law were to be broken here, it would only prove that the rules set by the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms were not applicable here.
Fang Ming naturally did not believe this possibility.
Relatively speaking, Fang Ming was more inclined to believe the second possibility.
"This world might be a disguised world, similar to the Primordial World, that is hidden."
Fang Ming mused in his mind.
A disguised world.
It masquerades as weak externally, but is actually extremely powerful.
The Primordial World is such a world. It only unfolds a Chaos Epoch, seemingly lacking even a single multiverse-level expert, yet in reality, ancient sages are fishing from behind the scenes.
This is a typical disguised world, specifically designed to appear weak and lure in invaders, only to devour them whole.
A world that possesses Infinite Box-level experts and a large number of Finite Box-level experts can disguise itself as a world lacking even a single ordinary Immortal King.
The Primordial World is a disguised world.
And now, Fang Ming seemed to have encountered a second disguised world.
"Is this disguise natural, or artificial?"
Fang Ming pondered.
Artificial would mean that his avatar had entered a trap.
Natural would mean that his avatar lacked the ability to perceive the broader world within this work, just as people in the small worlds of this immortal-hero world were unaware of the existence of the three thousand small worlds outside.
One possibility is that Fang Ming's inability to perceive is due to artificial means.
The other is that Fang Ming's inability to perceive is due to natural causes.
However, Fang Ming did not particularly care about these matters.
After all, his main body was still lingering in that Primordial World.
If he dared to linger in that Primordial World, under the gaze of so many ancient sages, then even if this world were a disguised world, Fang Ming would not be concerned.
"Actually, I think this world is not a disguised world. It's just that I am unable to perceive the outside."
"I lack the ability to perceive other maps and can only see the map represented by this immortal-hero world."
"Perhaps constructing a grand illusion array or narrative suppression could achieve this."
Fang Ming gazed at the sky thoughtfully.
In different fictional worlds, even if the concept of narrative layers exists, they are still different.