No, I didn't change what I said, you just misunderstood from the start. When I said 'LH equivalent of cultivators', I was referring to the difficulty of tracking the MC's progress within the cultivation system, precisely because the game doesn't provide clear subdivisions like LH/PH. This is completely different from saying that the MC doesn't have a level of power or progress comparable to the Houtians, which is what I stated immediately afterwards.
I separated the two points:
One is about the internal structure of the cultivation system (where we only have Qi Condensation as a big, vague stage). Here, I mentioned Yue Fang, a Cultivator, as the only possible true comparison so far, but explained that it wasn't useful because his strength doesn't say much about his progress in the Realm, then I used the metaphor of the road and applied the Houtian stages as equivalent references to progress;
The other is about what the MC can do in combat compared to MAs, where the parallel with LH/PH also makes sense as a strength reference.
You confuse complementary explanation with contradiction. And to accuse of 'changing words' when the context has been explained from the beginning is not only unfair - it's lazy.
Instead of trying to invalidate my arguments and methods with out-of-context semantics, re-read carefully. My point remains the same as it was at the beginning: since the game doesn't give formal stage transitions, using equivalences with LH/PH to illustrate strength and relative progress is useful and totally coherent with what has been said, even commonly used.
