Azure Lotus Island, Martial Arts Arena.
Several thousand cultivators gathered in the Martial Arts Arena, and every clan member's gaze was fixed on the Azure Lotus Spirit Suppression Tower.
Ever since the Clan Tournament began, the clan members had performed well. However, everyone knew that the top twenty this time were destined to be Core Formation Cultivators.
The Azure Lotus Spirit Suppression Tower had a total of one hundred and nine levels, and could manifest Fourth Order Upper-Grade Demon Beasts at most.
Levels one through twenty-seven corresponded to the Qi Refining Stage, levels twenty-eight through fifty-four to the Foundation Establishment Realm, levels fifty-five through eighty-one to the Core Formation Stage, and levels eighty-two through one hundred and eight to the Nascent Soul Realm.
On the seventy-eighth level, Wang Yingjie was controlling three Third-Order Puppet Beasts as they battled four entirely red Demon Wolves. Each of the four Demon Wolves possessed the strength of Core Formation Layer 6.
Wang Yingjie could not control five Third-Order Puppet Beasts at once; his Spiritual Sense was not strong enough. The lineage possessed a Secret Art that could enhance Spiritual Sense, the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art, but cultivating it required Spirit Refining Pills. The main ingredient for refining Spirit Refining Pills was the Inner Core of a certain Demon Beast, which could only be found in the Northern Frontier and was exceptionally rare.
There was nothing to be done about that. Some cultivation arts and Secret Arts were immensely powerful, but required specific Cultivation Resources. Given enough time, such materials would vanish from the world. Thus, powerful major forces either opened up independent spaces and arranged them into Secret Realms, or modified natural Secret Realms.
The Wang Family was already doing so, though it would not be useful in the short term. The predecessors