After the Jiuzhou Immortal Gate chose to retreat, these cannon fodder, originally planned to be consumed in the war, managed to escape disaster and successfully survived.
Lu Yuan was also helpless about this situation.
Fortunately, sustaining some lower-level cultivators only consumed a small amount of Spiritual Energy and a large amount of mundane food, which wasn't a great pressure for the Taiping Dao, which controlled the entire Southern Domain.
Moreover, most of the lower-tier disciples had poor innate talent, and in their lifetime, if they could reach Gathering Two Qi, they would have basically reached their limit.
A cultivator at Gathering Two Qi could at most live for three hundred years.
To the Taiping Dao, this period of time was merely a blink of an eye.
As it turned out.
Just a century had passed, and the initially gathered over twenty thousand lower-tier recorded disciples had already reduced by half.