7,000 people will be harvesting the secret realm. But it shouldn't be forgotten that the process is also a competition. So these 7,000 are competitors.
According to history, less than 50% of the people who enter the secret come out of it. For many people, this process of harvesting won't be a stroll in the park.
The airship flew to the territory of the Milton cultivation family. It passed the city in front of their compound and went directly to their family compound.
The airship didn't stop at the outer gate of the compound. It went past all of these and only stopped within the inner court of the family.
There was a dock in the inner court for the airship to land. There were other airships on this dock waiting for them. Some of the airships were big, like the one from the Blood Skull sect, but most of them were small.
The big airships were the ones from the five sects. The other 25 airships were smaller. So in total, there were 30 airships.
After their airship landed, the elders gave them the order to disembark, so the disciples alighted. The disciples came down from the airship on foot while the elders flew overhead towards the floating diner prepared for them.
Just beyond the dock were the disciples of other sects and families. These disciples arranged themselves into groups based on their sect or family. They also wore matching attire that identified their origin.
Above the arrayed disciples is the floating diner. The elders from the various sects and families were having a meeting there while waiting for the other participants who hadn't arrived yet.
The disciples of the Blood Skull sect came down the airship and walked off the dock to the standing area beyond it. Then they arranged themselves into a neat formation similar to those of soldiers.
As they did this, the other disciples present on the scene were staring at them. Many people were curious about the disciples of the Blood Skull sect because they had heard a lot of things about them.
What many of them expected to see were monsters and beasts. They expected to see humans with two heads and six arms. That's the expectation they had because of the terrifying stories they had heard about the disciples of the Blood Skull sect.
Even their elders had warned them to take the disciples of the Blood Skull sect seriously. But the disciples of the Blood Skull sect looked just like them.
Apart from a few oddities, the people from the Blood Skull sect looked human. So for many of the onlookers, they couldn't see or understand why the disciples of the Blood Skull sect are said to be terrifying.
The disciples of the Blood Skull sect were also looking at the other people. At least, Arthur was. Some of his fellow disciples weren't particularly curious about their future prey.
Arthur looked at the disciples of the sect first. It was easy to find them because of the robe they were wearing and because their group has a thousand people in it.
The first sect he looked at was the Black Bones sect. His eyes were drawn to them first because they were the ugliest.
Every disciple of the Black Bones sect was Black and thin. Their skin had taken on an unnatural black hue, and they looked as if they had been starved.
Arthur chuckled when he saw them. He thought to himself, "They are black, and their bones are exposed. I guess that's why they are called the Black Bones sect."
Not every one of them was thin. Some of them were muscular giants. But they were all black. The muscular ones even had long fangs and tusks protruding out of their mouths.
All of them were wearing hooded black robes that covered most of their faces and had the figure of a white skeleton embroidered on them. Some of them were carrying coffins. It made them look terrifying.
But Arthur wasn't terrified. He even had the presence of mind to think to himself in amusement, "They look like emo or goth kids that went too hard into heavy metal music."
Be that as it may, Arthur knew that no matter how ridiculous they looked, the Black Bones was the second strongest sect and even the oldest sect.
They were here long before the Blood Skull sect. Even though they weren't the strongest back then, they had survived the longest, so they deserved some respect.
From what he has read about the Black Bones sect before coming, he knows that the muscular disciples are the ones who have chosen the path of body refining among them.
He also knows that the bodies of these muscular undead giants have been modified into a hard, stone-like material that grants them ridiculous defense and makes them difficult to kill.
It is not an exaggeration to call their modified bodies weapons. This modified body grants the disciples of the Black Bones sect an advantage over loose cultivators.
This is just one of the foundations of the sects. The coffin that some of them are carrying is the other foundation.
The two foundations have ensured that no organization of loose cultivators or cultivation family has managed to usurp their status as sects after so many years.
After feasting his eyes on the ugly undead, his eyes switched to the group with the most beautiful and handsome disciples. This group was the disciples of the Purple Flower sect.
The disciples of the Purple Flower sect can be recognized by the Purple Flower embroidered on their robes. There is also the fact that they are very beautiful, but that isn't reliable because some of them are very ugly.
The ugliness of some of the disciples of the Purple Flower sect is in the form of blotches of various colors on the skin. These ugly disciples still look human and have human form, but their skin and hair look as if someone mixed paint of various colors and then splashed it on them.