It was merely that their ancestors had either rendered outstanding service to the Nine Yang Sect or earned other merits.
Enough for them to develop and grow within the Nine Yang Sect.
The most central and principal force within the Nine Yang Sect remained the sect's own faction.
Within the sect's faction, there were an enormous number of Nascent Soul Cultivators.
They were spread throughout vast regions within the Nine Yang Sect's mountain gate.
And the Nine Yang Sect's mountain gate itself covered an unknown number of tens of thousands of miles.
The number of peaks within it exceeded ten thousand.
Though not every one of these peaks had a Nascent Soul Cultivator stationed there, the number of Nascent Soul Cultivators cultivating among them was likewise not to be underestimated.
And He Song,
after hearing Meng Guan and Wei Fan's words, gained a deeper understanding of the Nine Yang Sect's strength.
No wonder.
No wonder the Nine Yang Sect had seemed completely unaffected internally after its great battle with the Soul Locking Sect.
It turned out that there were simply too many powerful figures within the Nine Yang Sect. Even the deaths of many Nascent Soul Cultivators had not injured its bones or sinews.
At the same time, as this thought crossed He Song's mind,
he also gained some insight into the strength of the other five great holy lands in the cultivation world.
These Spirit Transmutation Holy Lands
might each basically have only one, or at most two, Nascent Soul cultivators at any given time.
Yet the number of Nascent Soul Cultivators within them far exceeded what anyone could imagine.
However, although there were many Nascent Soul Cultivators,
unless one's fortune truly defied the heavens, it would likely be exceedingly difficult for a Nascent Soul cultivator to emerge without