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.