Patriarch Bing and the rest of the elders waited for the said disciples to arrive.
They didn't know what to expect and neither did they know why they were only coming now. The last they had seen them, they were barely at the Qi refining realm with some being at the core condensation realm.
Only Pei Jun was at the Nascent soul realm, and him going missing was a loss that the sect did not like. Every disciple that could reach the nascent soul realm was valuable and could become a future elder.
There were very few of them in the sect anyway and would always be in the minority.
If there were ten thousand disciples, perhaps one or two from them would even reach the Nascent soul realm. The rest would forever be stuck in the core condensation realm and the few that managed to reach the pseudo nascent soul realm and trigger the Heavenly Tribulation would simply die.
