The Five Elements Banners had been reorganized by Spirit Force attribute, and their numbers were fairly even: around a hundred people in each banner.
It wasn't that the five hundred warriors' attributes happened to be evenly distributed. Many cultivated Astral Qi with multiple attributes, giving Bai Xiaowen room to balance the groups.
Dividing them up wasn't hard. The Spirit Force Coordination that came afterward was the challenge, and Bai Xiaowen couldn't manage it alone.
Warriors with mixed attributes had to learn to control their Astral Qi, emphasize the Spirit Force trait corresponding to their banner, and release the same amount of Spirit Force at the same time. That was the foundation of Spirit Force Coordination.
Only then could Bai Xiaowen guide and coordinate them, completing Spirit Force Coordination and making a combined attack possible.
After some basic drills, the Five Elements Banners could succeed only once or twice in ten attempts. For now, a combined attack couldn't serve as a reliable tactic.
Fortunately, Bai Xiaowen still had nearly two hundred Giant Savage Soldiers. These towering men all cultivated earth-attribute Battle Qi, were roughly equal in strength, and had already trained together as a unit.
With that foundation, Bai Xiaowen needed only a few attempts before he could direct the Giant Savage Soldiers in an earth-attribute Battle Qi combined attack. The combined strike of two hundred soldiers was somewhat stronger than the ultimate move of a lord at the same level, though each use left a gap of more than ten seconds before they could strike again.
Drawing on Li Chun's experience, Bai Xiaowen split the Giant Savage Soldiers into two groups of a hundred, one in front and one behind. By alternating their combined attacks, they could cover that gap. Their power didn't fall by much, either; each strike could