When Qin Shaofeng placed his seventeen dependent avatars into the final layer of the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder to cultivate their soul realms, the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder itself underwent quite a few changes.
Previously, although there had been many people in the final thirty-three layers of the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder, the topmost experts had in fact been few and far between.
There had been only five people above the twentieth layer.
But that had been before. During the period when Qin Shaofeng had been carrying out the "Infinite Cultivation" mission—especially after he refined his seventeen dependent avatars—the situation had changed.
In the third year after the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder opened, the number of people in its final thirty-three layers increased by a fifth.
By then, more than ten experts had entered the twentieth layer.
As mentioned before, the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder provided incredibly important assistance even to experts like the Sovereign Supremes.
The moment the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder opened, ninety percent of the Sovereign Supremes in the Ancient Saint Domain had entered it at the first opportunity.
The remaining ten percent entered the Great Dao Heavenly Ladder within a year as well.
However, the Sovereign Supremes of the Ancient Saint Domain mentioned here did not refer to all the Sovereign Supremes on the Ancient Continent—in other words, throughout the entire Qiyuan Star.
One had to understand that the Ancient Saint Domain occupied only an extremely small area of the entire Qiyuan Star. Outside the Ancient Saint Domain, there were still vast regions.
Although those regions had fallen into unfavorable conditions because the Destruction Beasts had been sealed there, and destructive auras filled every corner,
there were still many ancient ruins in those regions, as well as areas where special medicinal materials and heavenly treasures grew.