The Immortal Sect's conscript legions spread in all directions, conquering and pacifying one small world after another.
Ten years later, the Immortal Sect effectively controlled sixty small worlds.
Thirty years later, it effectively controlled ninety small worlds.
After more than fifty years, it effectively controlled 155 small worlds. It had completed every occupation and pacification task set by the Great Sun Heavenly Lord and established its order in each of them.
By then, the Immortal Sect had over 380 million cultivators in its conscript legions. They came from countless races and were among the finest of their peoples. Every field army was mixed, its ranks deliberately intermingled. Immortal Sect cultivators held the chief command posts, while Spirit Transformation cultivators from the small worlds served as deputies.
In actual combat and garrison duties, Immortal Sect cultivators kept a firm grip on military power.
The small-world Spirit Transformation cultivators were deputies in name. In practice, they served as vanguard commanders and assault skirmishers. Their task was to disrupt enemy formations or tie down powerful individuals and restrict their movement, creating openings for the legions' formations to operate and their ship-mounted cannons to fire in unison.
The small-world conscript legions had swollen to an enormous size.
More than 380 million cultivators!
It sounded like a great many. In fact, each small world supplied an average of only a little over 2.5 million cultivators. They were stationed at key formations throughout the small worlds to keep the Immortal Sect's supply routes secure.
Moreover, as their name suggested, these small-world conscripts were militia, not professional soldiers.
They served on a rotation system. Each tour of duty lasted fifty years, with 500,000 conscripts rotated in each time. A full cycle took 250 years.
That meant a Foundation Establishment cultivator from a small world needed to serve