The Immortal Court was immensely powerful; its mobile Heavenly Immortal army alone numbered over a hundred million.
The True Immortal army was somewhat smaller, but still numbered seven or eight million.
That did not even include the private armies of the various Immortal Kings, nor the city guard legions stationed in the various immortal cities.
Therefore, if Chen Fan wished to contend with the Immortal Court in terms of hard power, he still needed to consolidate the forces of Immortal King Tiantong and Immortal King Daoxuan.
Only then, after tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand years of recruitment and training, could he possess a Heavenly Immortal Legion of roughly thirty million and a True Immortal Legion of roughly three million.
By then, if he had attained the strength of Gu Zang, the Immortal King, he could barely lock arms with the Immortal Court.
The Ancient Alliance could also step out of the shadows and into the light, but Chen Fan knew this was a long and arduous undertaking.
Even Gu Zang, the Immortal King, had said that this was a great cause he would need to strive for his entire life, and that in the end, he might still come up empty-handed.
For now, Chen Fan was focused on turning this Ancient Alliance branch into an ironclad fortress, building his own power base, and striving to cultivate the thirteenth strand of Immortal Qi so he could break through and become an Immortal King!
As long as he became an Immortal King, invincible beneath the Immortal King Giants, with overall strength even comparable to an Immortal King Giant, the six Immortal King Giants of this Ancient Alliance branch would completely submit to him.
As for Immortal King Yu Chen, after more than a decade of interacting with him, Chen