The Path to Nascent Soul

Among Ying Province's eight commanderies and its dozens of commandery aristocratic clans, the Liang Family was not among the weakest. But having risen to prominence only recently, its strength, influence, and foundation still lagged behind the long-established commandery aristocratic clans of the various commanderies.

Leaving aside everything else, the number of cultivators at every level within the family alone was something it could not compare with those long-established commandery aristocratic clans.

Within the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm, the Liang Family could currently send at most two Golden Core True Persons, five Foundation Establishment disciples, and fewer than thirty Qi Refining disciples.

That alone nearly drained half the Liang Family's strength, leaving gaps even in the defensive forces of the family and New Sea Commandery City, not to mention the shortage of personnel in every other aspect of the family.

Only because Ying Province had faced no enemies in recent years and all had been calm as windless waters did Liang Zhaohuang not need to worry about the safety of the family and New Sea Commandery. Otherwise, the forces the family could send to the Pearl Island Chain waters and the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm would have been even more limited.

Those long-established commandery aristocratic clans, meanwhile, had often endured for more than a thousand years, with their clansmen passed down through dozens of generations. Setting aside everything else, they certainly lacked no cultivators of every realm within their families.

The numbers of cultivators at every level that these long-established commandery aristocratic clans could dispatch to the Pearl Island Chain waters and the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm exceeded those of the Liang Family by several times over.

They could often send four or five Golden Core cultivators, more than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators, and over a hundred Qi Refining cultivators.