This group of cultivators had been brought from the clan by Ling Pengyun for training after the Righteous-Demonic War entered a prolonged stalemate.
Before the Demon Beast Uprising arrived, he intended to forge them into a disciplined force of cultivators. That way, when facing the Beast Tide, the Ling Clan's combat strength would be several degrees greater.
Most of the cultivators in this group were rogue cultivators recruited by the clan's Outer Affairs Hall, though there were also more than two hundred members of the clan's War Hall.
Ling Chengxia, one of the clan's Five Tigers, was among them, as were five of the clan's Six Sons: Ling Wanchuan, a spiritual plant prodigy; Ling Wanduo, a cultivation prodigy; Ling Wanxu, a divine sense prodigy; Ling Wanliang, a battle-crazed madman; and Ling Li Hu, a beast-taming prodigy.
Yet as time passed, all of them had already entered the Foundation Establishment Realm.
It was also worth mentioning that this group had originally numbered 1,530 people.
Of them, 1,500 were Qi Refinement cultivators, while thirty were Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Unfortunately, when they had destroyed three Yuan Kingdom strongholds belonging to Golden Core demonic cultivator factions last year, the battles had been far too perilous. Even with Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong, two Golden Core cultivators, holding the fort, the Ling Clan had still lost a full eighty-five Qi Refinement and seven Foundation Establishment clansmen.
Of course, those three battles had not only earned the Ling Clan considerable merit, but also allowed them to seize many demonic-path spiritual items. Ling Pengyun had even gained five more Golden Core demonic cultivator corpses.
Once enough time had passed, he could use demonic-path spiritual items to refine those corpses into Golden Core Realm demonic corpses.
Ling Pengyun then explained to the more than one thousand Ling Clan