If Jiang Liu had been here, he would surely have found it strange. None of the Second-Order Divine Realm experts from the entire Eternal Joy City faction had released clones to fight.
Instead, those factions from the Neutral Continent—those who did not belong to Eternal Joy City—had all released clones to assist in battle.
One had to know that, for a Divine Realm martial artist, having one more clone was equivalent to having one more life, not to mention an additional source of battle strength.
Yet strangely enough, the martial artists of Eternal Joy City had not done so.
In fact, this was the result of the two cultivation methods that had long been debated endlessly throughout the God Realm.
One method involved using the breakthrough of a clone to advance into the Divine Realm. With this method, breaking through into the Divine Realm was much faster.
The other involved not cultivating clones, but relying directly on the accumulation of primordial energy within the body to force a breakthrough into the Divine Realm.
As for which of these two cultivation methods was superior, the God Realm had never reached a conclusion. Neither side had been able to convince the other.
Those who cultivated only their main bodies and not clones progressed somewhat more slowly when breaking through into the Divine Realm.
However, once they broke through into the Divine Realm, their progress became much faster instead.
Moreover, after breaking through into the Divine Realm, the main body's battle strength would be far greater than that of martial artists who cultivated clones.
Clearly, the people of Eternal Joy City had all chosen the second cultivation method. That was why they possessed so many powerful Divine Realm martial artists.
However, although this cultivation method made their battle strength much greater and their