Ordinary medium-size families usually had less than twenty rank 3 cultivators, and most of them were tasked with the protection of the nobles.
The troops patrolling the surroundings of their mansions were mostly rank 1 cultivators that didn't even have a rank 2 martial art, which placed them at the bottom of the cultivation world. Also, there were almost no soldiers that had access to spells even if they managed to reach the status of a rank 1 mage.
The nobles controlled the entirety of the resources that concerned the cultivation world, and that aspect of the political system of the Utra nation didn't change in the last years. The fall of the piece of Immortal Lands had improved the situation for some commoners and simple soldiers.
However, they still had to swear ponderous oaths with the Elbas family before obtaining any benefit.
