"Dao Soldiers" were an extremely powerful force in cultivation warfare.
Ordinary Cultivators had limited aptitude and limited cultivation, but with the aid of formations, arrays, and Spirit Artifacts, they could form Dao Soldiers, unite as one, and contend against Cultivators of outstanding talent.
This was a military array method that turned decay into something miraculous.
It united the weak to oppose powerful foes.
In the history of cultivation, some Great Demons whose personal strength was so great that Cultivators of the same realm could hardly match them had been strangled to death, forcibly and alive, by Dao Soldiers who came in packs, whose Dao Hearts were like iron, and who were fierce and unafraid of death.
Before fully formed Dao Soldiers in vast numbers and with fine equipment, even Heavenly Pride Cultivators of outstanding talent had no choice but to avoid their sharp edge.
Ordinary Cultivators, once formed into Dao Soldiers, were already this formidable.
Then what about Heavenly Pride Cultivators?
If Heavenly Pride Cultivators formed Dao Soldiers, would they not be even more invincible, unstoppable by anyone?
In the history of cultivation, countless clans, sects, secret organizations, whether openly or in the shadows, had all attempted to raise "Heavenly Pride Dao Soldiers."
Apart from a tiny number of individual cases that succeeded, basically all the rest failed.
First of all, the cost was too high.
Raising ordinary Dao Soldiers required a complete set of Spirit Artifacts, arrays, cultivation methods, Dao methods, and tactical inheritances.
It required consuming a sea of Spirit Stones, undergoing hard training over many long years, and pouring in an immeasurable amount of painstaking effort.
For every level the aptitude of Dao Soldiers rose, the cost increased by several times over.
And using Heavenly Pride Cultivators with high-grade, or even superior high-grade, spiritual roots as the