Three ninth-tier cultivators. This immediately halted any movements or ideas the Qing-Yun disciples may have had.
Most of the Qing-Yun disciples were in Spirit Stage’s middle tiers. Only Xiao Jianming and Xu Linyun were in the late stages of Spirit Stage, and Xu Linyun was only in tier eight. Put simply, the difference in total battle prowess was quite large, and even the sole person who’d shown themself to be at tier five—the little girl—had demonstrated abilities beyond an ordinary mid-tier Spirit Stage cultivator.