I see. In that case i will be more inclined to say CF is universal/infinite in size than the statement coming from a different and prior novels which can have consistency issues with other stories written at different times. I would even go as far as to say to treat it as completely different series given this contradiction, but if its merely a consistency issue due to being written at different times and both of them are really canon undeniably, I'd prioritize the newer statements and latest novels statements over the old prior and different ones, for ID cosmology atleast.
Imagine with me: the Demon King novel—let me just tell you, it’s an old novel from 2015 or earlier, unofficial, stopped at volume 3, and didn’t even meet the minimum requirement to be called a novel. It’s unofficial and hasn’t continued since that year.
Meanwhile, the Yogiri novel started in 2019 or 2020, and the author wrote 15 volumes, it became official, and Instant Death got an anime adaptation for the first part, a manga as well, and became popular. Meanwhile, the Demon King novel, written in 2015, is unofficial, can’t even really be called a novel, and the author himself stopped it and moved on to Instant Death in 2019, which succeeded and got everything.
The problem is that people all over the world—you can check—are laughing at us here because we literally use that unofficial novel. Honestly, I don’t blame them, because everyone around the world knows that the Demon King novel is used only to refute the official Instant Death novel, while the Demon King novel itself is unofficial, can’t even be called a novel, and the author himself stopped it in 2015 and probably doesn’t even remember it exists. Yet people cite it here. So this has really gotten out of control, and I don’t understand how this community can agree to this.
There should be a dedicated thread and strict, official, legal requirements to consider a work—novel, manga, or anime—as valid and official for use in this community. It must meet several conditions to be considered acceptable, and to my knowledge, this exists in other communities, where even revenue, views, and so on are counted to determine if a work can be accepted. But here, any novel gets approved.
I think tomorrow I could write a 3-volume novel, bring it here, and publish it, and in 2035, you’ll still be able to reference it—just like what happened.