The second issue was that Xiyang House lacked high-level phase refiners. Originally, the entire Xiyang House possessed five Grade Five Phase Refiners, including Han Zhi and Pang Qianchi. Now, with Han Zhi's betrayal and Pang Qianchi sidelined, there were only three Grade Five refiners left who could actually be put to use. This number was truly rather shabby.
As for those Spiritual Water and Strange Light houses ranking in the top ten of the Great Xia Kingdom—such as Daze House of the Duze Manor—they had dozens of Grade Five phase refiners, and even seven or eight Grade Six phase refiners. The gap in strength between the two was evidently immense.
The third problem was that the Spiritual Water and Strange Light formulas owned by Xiyang House were not advanced at all, barely managing to scrape into the intermediate level.
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