By the time their controlled territory fell below half,
according to the customs on the Immortal Realm side, without the support of at least twenty small countries, without the sustenance of half the territory's land, it was basically impossible for a Great True Person to be born.
Cultivation talks about contending with heaven for fate; it inherently involves sacrificing the insufficient for the abundant.
This is about resources.
Without sufficient resources, what cultivation can you do, what way can you become?
Sun Wukong also became the all-seeing, all-powerful Great Sage Equal to Heaven only after eating the peaches of immortality and the Golden Elixir of the Supreme Patriarch.
Lu Yuan also relied on the offerings from the entire Nine Provinces Realm for his current foundation.
The same is true on the side of the Immortal Realm.
As of now, Qing Immortal Sect's actual control is merely over the land of twenty-one countries.
