After Yang Qi crippled the Chen Family's foremost young genius, a bloody battle was about to begin.
Fang Qing and Yang Qi returned directly to the Yang Family. Before long, groups of soldiers arrived outside the Yang Family estate. Every one of them wore armor, and all possessed the cultivation of the Qi Gong Fourth Stage.
Some of the captains had already reached the Qi Gong Fifth Stage.
There were over a thousand of them in total, each holding powerful bows and crossbows aimed at the Yang Family estate.
Clearly, these were the Chen Family's private soldiers.
Across the entire Bountiful Continent, all manner of powerful Aristocratic Families maintained private armies. The number of private soldiers kept by the Chen Family was actually rather small; some powerful Aristocratic Families raised armies hundreds of thousands strong.
Such a thing would certainly be impossible in ordinary worlds, but in the Saint King Realm, it was effortless.
The Bountiful Continent of the Saint King Realm was rich in spiritual energy everywhere, so its people rarely starved to death. Anyone with even a little money would earn Qi Gathering Pills to improve their Cultivation Level.
Because of this, the Bountiful Continent had countless people and countless private soldiers.
The various powerful Aristocratic Families could casually maintain private forces numbering in the thousands. Should chaos sweep the land, these private soldiers could become the capital for contending for supremacy or protecting themselves.
With the Chen Family's strength, private soldiers at the Qi Gong Fourth and Fifth Stages could only preserve themselves in remote regions of the Bountiful Continent. Truly powerful Aristocratic Families were far more formidable than this.
When the Chen Family's private army mobilized, the Yang Family's private soldiers also came out. They numbered over a thousand as well, all vigorous and full of