Fang Qianyuan was an Earth Rank Expert himself, so he was intimately familiar with the aura of Earth Rank Experts who refined Heaven and Earth Essence and possessed crimson Spirit Essence.
Although the sensation was very faint, roughly that of the early Earth Rank, with the First Transformation newly attained, it was unmistakably Earth Rank!
But...
Fang Qianyuan quickly swept his gaze around and discovered, to his astonishment, that far too many fleshy cocoons hung from this enormous tree. A casual count already yielded two or three hundred, and the actual number might be even higher.
"Incredible. How could there be so many? Are all these things that look like insect pupae housing Warriors?"
Even a sect on the level of the Azure Cloud Sect, one of the great sects of the world, had only a little over two hundred Earth Rank Elders and a little over a hundred General-Rank Warriors. Including all its Earth Rank Spirit Creatures, War Beasts, Great Demons, special Death Warriors who could temporarily boost their strength with Secret Arts, and so on, its total Earth Rank fighting force would still number fewer than a thousand.
The sudden appearance of so many here was more than enough to upset the regional balance and throw the entire world into turmoil.
"Three hundred and fifty-three!"
As though he knew the question Fang Qianyuan was desperate to have answered, Jiang Yunfeng calmly stated a number.
Three hundred and fifty-three!
That was the number of fleshy cocoons hanging from this enormous tree that possessed Earth Rank auras!
"These are indeed General-Rank Warriors secretly held by the Warrior Hall, in forms that have yet to develop fully. Although they cannot compare to true Earth Rank Spirit Tamers for now, each already possesses strength comparable to an Earth Rank Spirit Creature or