Two thousand!!
Even though they had been prepared, hearing that the Black Mountain Sect possessed a full two thousand Taiyi cultivators still shook the disciples of the three great sects.
The number was simply too terrifying, too crushing.
This was no joke. At the same realm, once numbers became overwhelmingly lopsided, they were very difficult to resist.
A fifteenth-fire Great Perfection cultivator could easily kill a fourteenth-fire cultivator. Against one opponent, there was no way to resist at all. They could even handle five at once; if they traded wounds for kills, they could still finish them off. Undoubtedly powerful—extremely powerful.
But that was basically the limit. Once there were more than ten opponents, even a fifteenth-fire cultivator would turn and run rather than choose a head-on clash. The disadvantage was simply too great; there was a high chance that the fifteenth-fire Great Perfection cultivator would instead be severely wounded.
And now?
In all of Fengdu, there were fewer than a hundred and fifty Taiyi cultivators combined.
The great sects accounted for the majority—around ninety or so.
Of those, only fifteen were Taiyi Great Perfection, with thirty-odd in the middle and late stages. The rest were all merely at the early stage.
This was the normal proportion of Taiyi cultivators possessed by the great sects of the Mythical Realm. It even included those who had cultivated for over ten thousand years—those who had failed to break through and achieve Daluo in the last ten-thousand-year war.
So when they heard that the Black Mountain Sect had a full two thousand Taiyi-realm cultivators, the shock felt by the disciples of the three great sects was easy to imagine.
That number was simply too frightening. The figures above even had to exclude the dozen or so Black Mountain Sect members openly present. In