After returning to the Red Flame Sect, Shen Mo convened a high-level meeting to discuss Fairy Yuquan's campaign against the Corpse Tuo Mountain Range!
After ascending to the Profound Yellow Immortal Realm for many years, the Red Flame Sect's overall strength had risen considerably once more.
Including the Sea Clan, the number of Origin Core Realm cultivators had reached sixty-three. Yuan Qingshi, the former sect master of the River-Facing Sect, had finally formed his Origin Core. Veteran Origin Core cultivators such as Yuan Heming, Zhou Zhiwei, Situ, and Mingcang had all improved to varying degrees.
The number of Spirit Sea Realm cultivators had surpassed four thousand five hundred, while Qi Gathering Realm cultivators numbered more than fifty thousand!
Furthermore, over the years, nearly two hundred thousand young men and women had joined the Red Flame Sect, becoming newly inducted Outer Sect disciples.
Most of the Sea Clan disciples, whose status within the Red Flame Sect was rather special, had cultivated human forms with the help of Transformation Pills, becoming part of the Demon Cultivator lineage as Shen Mo had wished. Those Sea Clan disciples who were truly dull-witted and stubborn, who had reached the Spirit Sea Realm yet still failed to cultivate human forms, were stripped of their disciple status and became protectors like Liu Sanmei, the three-woman, snake-bodied demon!
As for protectors from other races and the like, there were now more than a hundred thousand of them. Though their benefits and treatment could not compare to those of official disciples, they still fared better than living outside with no guarantee of seeing the next morning, eating raw flesh and drinking blood. They also had some room for advancement.
For the Red Flame Sect to sustain such vigorous growth, it naturally needed income from many sources.
First were the