These Purple Mansion Realm cultivators were merely the advance party sent by the various families and clans to show their support. The Celestial Realm and Spirit Platform Realm cultivators dispatched afterward also arrived one after another.
As more and more people gathered, the county office officials and Evergreen Valley disciples responsible for registration were immediately run off their feet.
It took an entire day to register every single applicant.
This recruitment drive alone brought in thirteen Purple Mansion Realm cultivators, one hundred and twenty-nine Celestial Realm cultivators, and a full three thousand two hundred and fifty-one Spirit Platform Realm cultivators from Changning Guard.
Afterward, applicants from the other five Citadel Cities of Changning County also arrived one after another before the deadline.
The five surrounding guards were naturally far inferior to Changning Guard. Yet, having relied on Changning Guard over the years, they had also enjoyed immense dividends from economic growth and could conveniently purchase the low-priced pills sold by the Wang Clan. As a result, the quality of recruits from those five guards was still many orders of magnitude above Great Qian's overall average.
The five guards, including Baidao Guard and Donghai Guard, had together recruited another eleven Purple Mansion Realm cultivators, one hundred and three Celestial Realm cultivators, and over two thousand Spirit Platform Realm cultivators.
Together with the cultivators recruited from Changning Guard, that came to twenty-four Purple Mansion Realm cultivators, two hundred and thirty-two Celestial Realm cultivators, and more than five thousand Spirit Platform Realm cultivators.
And this was merely an ordinary wartime mobilization. The manpower dispatched by the great aristocratic families amounted to only one or two parts in ten. If a great crisis that could destroy a nation and exterminate a clan arose, the number of troops that could be mobilized would increase drastically