Back during that battle at Sanjie Mountain, it was because a Peak Earth Profound Realm swordsman from the Yingcang Sect had defeated Fang Chen that the military situation had suddenly deteriorated, leading to the ultimate defeat!
As cultivators, Taoist Master Li and the others were unfamiliar with these national titles, nor was there any need for them to be; they only paid some attention to empires of the sixth grade and above.
They wouldn't give a second thought to anything lower, for after all, ninth-grade, eighth-grade, and seventh-grade empires were all run by martial artists. Even if there were a handful of cultivators among them, those individuals were merely rogue cultivators without a complete lineage, unrecognized by the wider cultivation world.
Chapter 73