It had only been ten years since He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and Li Guokui had preached and taught the Dao at the Heavenly Sword Clan's mountain gate, yet 38,400 second-generation disciples had successively advanced to the Mahayana Stage.
This brought the total number of Mahayana Stage sword cultivators in the Heavenly Sword Clan to 41,900.
At the same time, the total number of second-generation disciples at the Soul Separation Realm surpassed 100,000, while the total number at the Nascent Soul Stage surpassed 200,000.
Those figures sounded utterly astonishing, especially to those who had experienced the Fifth Sequence.
In the Fifth Sequence, a Mahayana Stage cultivator could be called an unrivaled expert. Having a few dozen in one world was enough to make heaven and earth unstable; having a few hundred would make heaven and earth go bankrupt.
There were many reasons for this, but two were the main ones.
First, resources were scarce and spiritual energy was thin. The disciples of Zhang Yang's Heavenly Sword Clan, for example, were cultivated using a massive Hidden Sword Earth Vein that directly liquefied spiritual energy. How could that compare with the thin, gaseous spiritual energy of the Fifth Sequence, invisible even to the naked eye?
Second, the soul was not complete enough. Naturally, one could not easily comprehend Sword Rhyme or Dao Rhyme, nor see through the secrets of heaven. But what about the disciples of the Heavenly Sword Clan? Even the worst among those burdened with having children had a soul completeness of one hundred percent. Among newborn infants, as long as resources and cultivation kept pace, condensing a single True Spirit Leaf was effortless.
What was more, what level were the cultivation arts currently practiced by the Heavenly Sword Clan's disciples?
They were divine-level cultivation arts that