It wasn't that Qu Jianlei's group couldn't afford to play; it was simply that a Knock-off Version fighting the Genuine Version had no chance of winning without some off-the-board tricks.
In any case, there were no stubborn old fogeys in the team. As long as they could win, they would use whatever means were available.
To put it bluntly, the Lingyin Li Family had started the trouble. They felt no guilt at all about asking Sunset Glow to join the battle.
The agreement only prohibited inviting immortal beasts into the fight. As for an Artifact Spirit... that should be fine, right? "An Artifact Spirit?" Li Yuren sucked in a sharp breath. This Red Leaf Ridge group was truly outrageously wealthy!
There was no shortage of magic treasures on the Eastern Prosperity Continent, but ones containing Artifact Spirits were exceedingly rare.
This region's upper limit was the Nascent Soul Realm, yet most of the time, only an Out-of-Body Great Venerable could cultivate an Artifact Spirit.
It was not impossible to forcibly capture the souls of other living beings and seal them inside magic treasures as Artifact Spirits.
However, making such Artifact Spirits obey required a series of cruel methods, which were truly harmful to the natural order.
Thus, throughout the entire Cangwu Realm, anyone who dared do this would be regarded as a Heretical Cultivator. This was also one of this world's moral standards.
Besides that, there was another crucial point: a magic treasure needed a sufficiently high upper limit to bear an Artifact Spirit.
Innate Spirit Treasures could naturally produce Artifact Spirits, but how could such a treasure possibly exist on the Eastern Prosperity Continent? As far as anyone knew, among the twelve top powers, only a few magic treasures possessed Artifact Spirits.
Other magic treasures with Artifact Spirits... it