Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling played in the garden. Since Ye Lingling was the youngest, the other two were especially accommodating toward her.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Dugu Xin summoned the three of them to the Reception Hall.
"Yao, Yanyan, from now on, your Grandpa Ye will be the Great Elder of our Profound Spirit Pill Sect. He is an eighty-second-level Titled Douluo, and his healing abilities are exceptionally powerful!"
With a smile, Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan and Dugu Yao about Ye Lingyu joining the Profound Spirit Pill Sect. At present, although their sect did not have many disciples—
—it had him, a ninety-third-level Titled Douluo; Ye Lingyu, an eighty-second-level healing-type Soul Fighting Douluo; two seventy-fifth-level Soul Sages; and one sixty-eighth-level Soul Emperor.
These were currently the highest-level Soul Masters in the Profound Spirit Pill Sect. Setting aside everything else, the mere fact that the sect had a Titled Douluo already put it above the Lower Four Sects among the Seven Great Sects!
However, surpassing the Upper Three Sects would likely still be difficult. The Upper Three Sects had numerous direct-line disciples, outer disciples, affiliated forces, and their own family enterprises.
Take the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, for example. It had a great many direct-line disciples and no shortage of outer disciples, who were responsible for protecting those direct-line disciples.
After all, the Martial Souls of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's direct-line disciples were mostly Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagodas. Moreover, they possessed enormous industries that supported the sect's operations.
The Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce, which was spread across the two great empires, brought in mountains of gold every day. Its various businesses were too numerous to count, and it possessed wealth rivaling that of a nation.
That wealth was