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Chapter 1493: Chapter 581: Thirty Years Later Chapter 1493: Chapter 581: Thirty Years Later Previously, it was said that compared to the other two factions participating in the war, Taiping Dao’s territory and heritage were considerably weaker.

Under such circumstances, even if Lu Yuan desired to expand his army, he couldn’t surpass them.

Previously, Great Plain Path had managed to expand its number of disciples to twenty thousand in just a few hundred years.

This was achieved by having many friends and plundering many outstanding disciples from other Outer Territories like Dongyang Domain, thereby satisfying their own needs.

However, such a thing is feasible only once.

People cannot favor you in the same manner a second time.

Hence, if Taiping Dao wanted to continue recruiting disciples, they could only dig into their own territory.

With their own territory, even if the newly conquered Two Countries were included, picking out sufficiently superior disciples from just eleven countries was challenging.

As for lowering the standards, Lu Yuan had previously recruited five thousand cannon fodders, most of whom were disciples with average qualifications.

He had already lowered the standards.

Having scoured once already, even if he now wanted to recruit again and relax the criteria to include average qualifications, it was still hard to find enough cannon fodder.

Moreover, Taiping Dao was not lacking in cannon fodder now, nor was there a need to choose disciples with poor qualifications just to fill numbers.

The existing twenty thousand disciples were enough to meet Lu Yuan’s needs, support Taiping Dao, and fight through this war.

What he needed to do now was not blindly expand the army but to restore the normal system, gradually recruit qualified disciples, and allow the eye-catching financial deficit of the sect to slowly return to balance.

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Therefore, Lu Yuan only ordered the gradual recruitment of qualified disciples with superior abilities, returning to the elite route.

Even with the current territory of Taiping Dao, only recruiting disciples with superior qualifications, it was nearly possible to select five hundred qualified disciples a year from the eleven countries.

Although the number was slightly less, accumulating year by year, only ten years were needed for five thousand disciples.

In a hundred years, that would be fifty thousand disciples.

Emphasizing a steady, slow accumulation, by the time the great war ended, the number of disciples in the rear of Taiping Dao might once again reach thirty thousand.

With thirty thousand disciples available, even if the Changqing Domain was conquered, Taiping Dao wouldn’t worry about lack of manpower.

Having enough cannon fodder for the war, Lu Yuan was truly not in a hurry regarding the disciple issue.

The disciple issue, after all, was just a minor detail.

The main issue for Taiping Dao now was actually on the Human Immortal front.

Outwardly, there were only five Human Immortals in Taiping Dao at the front line, struggling to maintain two battlefronts, which already stretched them thin.

But behind the scenes in Taiping Dao, there were four hidden lineage Human Immortals, including Huang Xuan and Huang Yun, who were Lu Yuan’s avatars.

These individuals, all strong, could be deployed to the battlefield.

Once these individuals joined the front line, the precarious manpower shortage of Taiping Dao would naturally be solved.

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But this was only an outsider’s viewpoint.

Lu Yuan had deliberately held these avatars back, not letting them join the front line—not because outsiders assumed he was removing dissidents and preserving the strength of hidden lineage disciples.

His true intention was to conceal the strength of these avatars, then deploy them when the right moment arrived.

Think about it.

When the Jiuzhou Immortal Gate and Qing Immortal Sect at the front line suddenly lost several Earth Immortals, with both sides greatly weakened and vitality severely damaged.

At that time, if Taiping Dao suddenly called these four Earth Immortals from the rear to the battlefield,

what would be the impact on the battlefield?

Four Earth Immortals acting together in the later stages of the war would create an unstoppable force, an invincible situation.

This was the trump card in Lu Yuan’s hand; how could he possibly use it until the decisive moment?

As for letting them hide their strength, squandering time on the battlefield?

That too was unrealistic.

Currently, on the battlefield, those Human Immortals managing the grand formations, with their strength augmented, could rival Earth Immortals.

Even if they only possessed the power of Earth Immortals but lacked their depth and heritage, this did not change the essence of it being an Earth Immortal-level power.

Although these Earth Immortals were intercepted by Lu Yuan, occasionally, some Earth Immortals would still target those Human Immortals for sneak attacks—a tactic used by both sides.

Previously, one of the Human Immortals from Taiping Dao had died in such a situation.

Then, facing an Earth Immortal’s sneak attack alone, would you dodge or not?

If you dodged, escaping from an Earth Immortal, you would have to reveal your true abilities, thereby exposing your strength.

If you did not dodge, even as a peer expert, facing someone else’s strike carelessly could also be fatal.

If not fatal, surviving an attack by an Earth Immortal would nonetheless be problematic and equally revealing.

For these avatars, deceiving some Human Immortals was not much of an issue.

But truly encountering an Earth Immortal, even one as weak as they come, still carried significant risks.

This concerned Lu Yuan’s future grand plan.

If at this time, without the other two sects being weakened, he exposed his trump card, the situation Taiping Dao would face might not be joining forces with Jiuzhou to attack Qing Immortal Sect.

Instead, the other two sects, realizing Taiping Dao’s sinister intentions, might temporarily join forces to turn against Taiping Dao.

Do not think that just because Taiping Dao had returned to Jiuzhou, and both were supposedly on the same side now.

Yet even within a family, when you are clearly planning against your own, it still causes anger.

Not to mention, this so-called family member had run away from home for tens of thousands of years and had only now returned.

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