Great Qian Realm.
Within the immortal city.
More than a year had passed since Jiang Che had last given back to the World Origin. Over that year, the number of martial artists throughout the Great Qian Realm had erupted like a geyser.
Many who had once lacked sufficient aptitude, after being subtly cleansed by the world's vital essence, had smoothly come to sense the flow of heaven and earth's vital essence. Moreover, spiritual energy now suffused the land.
The number of Innate Realm martial artists had grown geometrically.
And this was merely a small glimpse of the whole. Before Jiang Che had given back to the World Origin, grandmaster-level martial artists of the Profound Core Realm were already considered extraordinary. They could even run rampant through a prefecture and make their names known across states and commanderies.
But now, as martial artists of every level broke through in succession, the pressure of the grandmaster realm had been forcibly driven down. Nowadays, while grandmaster realm martial artists were not everywhere one looked, they were no longer rare.
Of course, the rise in the world's level was only one reason. Even if the Great Qian Realm had advanced, too little time had passed for it to produce so many martial artists.
The true reason for the explosive growth in this realm's martial artists was the arrival of martial artists from the other realms.
Jiang Che's return to the World Origin had been a gift to all under heaven. As the legions under his command, how could they possibly be excluded? The several hundred thousand troops had all received heaven and earth's blessings.
Their strength had surged considerably as well.
As for now, the number of legions under Jiang Che's command had reached roughly three hundred and sixty thousand. Drawn together from seven