Moreover, even among peak Grandmaster Realm powerhouses who signed up for the examination, fewer than one in five passed.
Only the most outstanding among them qualified to become members of the Imperial Guard.
And the Demon Extermination Army under Lu Yang's command was second only to the Imperial Guard throughout the Great Jun Dynasty!
The eight hundred Demon Extermination Army soldiers might not seem like many, but they were in fact an exceptionally precious force!
After all, even when the Imperial Court carefully selected candidates, painstakingly trained them, and poured vast resources into their cultivation, producing a martial artist above the fifth level of the Grandmaster Realm still depended on luck.
Eight hundred fifth-level Grandmaster Realm powerhouses could easily flatten any city in Qing Province besides Qing Province City!
Across the entire Shanhetal of Qing Province, one couldn't find so many martial artists above the fifth level of the Grandmaster Realm!
Moreover, every martial artist in the Demon Extermination Army had undergone rigorous training by the Imperial Court and been selected as the cream of the crop from among countless Grandmasters.
Any one of them, placed outside the army and matched against a martial artist of the same realm, could take on ten at once!
They had trained together for years, worked in perfect harmony, mastered battle formations, carried excellent equipment, and were skilled in all manner of techniques for eliminating demons.
According to the Great Jun Dynasty's regulations, a squad consisted of five men, and a company consisted of ten squads.
Every Squad Leader in the Demon Extermination Army possessed a cultivation base above the sixth level of the Grandmaster Realm, while every company commander had reached the Great Grandmaster Realm.
The eight hundred men were divided into sixteen companies. Every two companies formed a battalion, and every four