Even the weakest cultivators among that contingent had reached at least the Qi Training Late Stage. Almost all were elites, with no ordinary small fry among them.
Hunwen Dao Lord and several direct members of the Primordial Unity Lineage also carefully counted the cultivators and checked the other details.
During the tally, he noticed that the Lingxiao Business Alliance had brought not only many formidable large flying ships, but even a Fifth Grade Peak flying ship.
The alliance had also sent many powerful cultivators to attack the Ghost Dao Minor Realm. Besides Yan Siyi, who had reached Spirit Transformation Full Completion, there were two unfamiliar cultivators at the same level: Star Sea Old Ancestor and Ling Lihao.
For a moment, he could not help feeling astonished.
The Lingxiao Business Alliance truly lives up to having a Void Refinement cultivator behind it. Its reserves of flying ships and powerful cultivators are substantial, far beyond what an ordinary top-tier Spirit Transformation business alliance can match. With such resources, it might even rival some long-established top-tier Spirit Transformation lineages or sects.
Hunwen Dao Lord sighed inwardly.
Top-tier Spirit Transformation business alliances generally could not compare with lineages and sects of that caliber.
After all, most business alliances were jointly founded by major powers or groups of acquainted experts. Their internal power structures were complicated, and their foundations were usually thin; they were simply good at doing business.
By contrast, lineages and sects had mostly grown slowly around Spirit Veins. They tended to have longer histories, deeper foundations, and more powerful cultivators.
Some lineages and sects even had enough resources to join forces and establish business alliances of their own in private.
There was thus a gap between the two in both strength and foundation.
But the Lingxiao Business Alliance was somewhat different from