At the start of the war, after a thousand years of recuperation, the various powers could perhaps muster three hundred "Five Qi Towards Primordial" cultivators to construct a formation.
For decades, the number of cultivators in the Changqing Domain had diminished by at least a hundred and fifty thousand due to the war.
In the face of such a reduction of elites, the current battlefield, with the exception of Taiping Dao still adhering to an elite strategy,
Sects like the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect and the Changqing Immortal Sect had already begun to lower their recruitment standards, drafting a great number of cultivators in the first or second phase of cohesion and seeking victory through sheer numbers.
Under these circumstances, sects had no choice but to employ a strategy of using a few elites in conjunction with a multitude of cannon fodder in order to meet the demands of sustaining each Earth Immortal formation.
