The Eastern Fence World was also training battle formations, but not including Spirit Transformation Cultivators. It was not that the Eastern Fence World did not want to do so, but that it was incapable of it.
A battle formation was not simply a gathering of multiple cultivators. It required matching magic treasures, preferably ones corresponding to their cultivation methods.
The elite disciples of the major forces in the Eastern Fence World also understood battle formations, but there were not many of them. Take the Four Seas Sect of the South Sea Ten Great Sects as an example: fewer than thirty High-Level Cultivators in the Four Seas Sect knew battle formations, and all of them were Core Formation Cultivators. There were no Nascent Soul Cultivators among them.
The Four Seas Sect had eighteen Nascent Soul Cultivators, but given its status, there was no need for all eighteen to act together. Whenever a major crisis arose, it could directly mobilize the Nascent Soul Cultivators of its affiliated forces, while sending a few of its own Nascent Soul Cultivators to supervise them. Thus, the Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Four Seas Sect had no need to train in battle formations. It would only be a waste of time.
The Azure Ripple Sect was different. It had unified the Azure Ripple World for more than six hundred years precisely to invade other worlds and carve out a bloody path. From the Qi Refining Realm to Spirit Transformation, everyone trained in battle formations. Since internal strife was forbidden, most High-Level Cultivators in the Azure Ripple World were not individually powerful, but they were highly experienced in group battles.
Simply put, in one-on-one combat, the High-Level Cultivators of the Eastern Fence World generally had the upper hand. In group battles, the High-Level Cultivators of the Azure