Nobody expected the secular governments to actually become that forceful. Needless to say, they did not anticipate the secular government to display such power at all.
In terms of cultivation, Earth was not the kind of barren wasteland that they initially thought it to be.
While the cultivation civilization of the Blessed Enclave was indeed far superior to that of Earth, cultivation on Earth was still massive enough. The lower and middle levels of cultivators far exceeded those from the Blessed Enclave in terms of numbers alone.
Earth simply lacked experts at higher levels. Given the rate at which the Earth was restoring its spirit qi, however, it was only a matter of time before the cultivators on Earth caught up to higher levels as well.
The ones from the Blessed Enclave felt rather astonished by what was right before their eyes, as everything differed vastly from what they initially imagined; they were unable to throw their weight about.