An Honest Day's Work?

Davis and the others watched how it played out with Shirley and Dewzai.

He wondered what his women were up to collecting subordinates and making allies with enemies or opponents. Surely, they knew their alliance could collapse at any moment.

Then it hit him.

"It's possible that the ninth step has sealed their prowess or at least halved it, leaving Isabella and Shirley making these choices."

"What?" Mingzhi looked at him smilingly, "It's a possibility, but why do you say that?"

"It's because their cultivation haven't dropped to the Immortal Stage when everyone thought the ninth step would regress their cultivation base further than Level One Immortal King Stage."