They did not know how much hardship they had endured, how much suffering they had borne, before cultivating to the Spirit Transformation Stage. They had thought they could go one step further and ascend to the Spirit Realm, only for someone to tell them that they had already reached the ceiling. Unless they cultivated to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage, they could not ascend. Smuggling their way across was a dead end.
It was precisely under such circumstances that the Azure Ripple World unified and established the Azure Ripple Sect. The Azure Ripple Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators invaded other realms in order to ascend to the Spirit Realm.
The Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Azure Ripple World had not embarked on a killing spree. First, they were leaving themselves a way out—if the forces of the Eastern Fence World could contact their patriarchs in the Spirit Realm, then slaughtering indiscriminately would only be courting death. Second, they wanted to prevent the Eastern Fence World's Spirit Transformation cultivators from being driven into a desperate fight. If Spirit Transformation cultivators personally entered the fray and fought to the death, some of them would surely fall. They would wound the enemy by a thousand, but lose eight hundred themselves.
Though they had many people, Lei Yunbin was their only Spirit Transformation Mid-Stage cultivator. During the last clash, the Eastern Fence World had dispatched two Spirit Transformation Mid-Stage cultivators. That meant the Eastern Fence World had at least three Spirit Transformation Mid-Stage cultivators, perhaps even more. If they fought head-on, they might not gain the upper hand.
"Let's wait for Senior Brother Shangguan to arrive! For now, let the juniors fight it out. We should also make a move and test the abilities of the Eastern Fence World's Spirit Transformation cultivators, paving the way