Some people in the chart were highlighted, indicating that the scanned documents contained detailed information on them, which could be viewed with a click; others were not. They might have been overlooked, but more likely, their information had been concealed and never handed over to Li Yu.
Li Yu first clicked on the four Foundation Establishment Cultivators taken away with Yuan Hao and discovered that two had come from the sect, while the other two had reached Foundation Establishment after becoming full members through the Zhao Kingdom Branch.
As one of the Ten Great Sects of the Mystic Dao, the Five Lotus Sect attracted many minor powers in the Eastern Lands that wanted to join it.
But the threshold for admission as a formal disciple was rather high. Outer Disciples, for instance, were considered servants by the Five Lotus Sect and were not counted as formal disciples.
However, besides joining the Five Lotus Sect directly, there was another route: joining a Branch first, then becoming a full member. Branches had much more room to maneuver in this regard. Li Yu had even heard that Branches outside the Eastern Lands openly listed their prices: pay a certain number of spirit stones, and they would make you a full member.
These disciples enjoyed the treatment of Inner Disciples after becoming full members, and their chances of exchanging for a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Item were higher than even Li Yu's, despite his being the Outer Sect Senior Brother.
Since the Zhao Kingdom Branch was still within the Eastern Lands, it exercised restraint. The threshold for full membership remained tightly controlled, and the sect only allotted a handful of places each year, so competition was fierce.
Local disciples like Xiong Meng had originally joined with full membership in mind, but they could not outcompete