Back during the battle at the Three Realms Mountain, it was because the Yingcang School sent an Earth Profound Realm swordsman who defeated Fang Chen that the war situation turned sour in an instant, leading to ultimate defeat!
As cultivators, Taoist Master Li and the others were unfamiliar with these imperial titles, nor was there any need for them to be; they only paid attention to empires of the sixth rank and above.
They wouldn't give the rest a second thought. After all, ninth-rank, eighth-rank, and seventh-rank realms were entirely managed by martial artists. Even if there were a handful of cultivators among them, they were merely rogue practitioners without complete inheritances, unrecognized by the cultivation world.
Chapter 73