Li Yelai pondered to himself, "That makes sense, otherwise, after that meteor killed hundreds of thousands of Forbidden Zone creatures, my Shadow Army should have easily exceeded ten thousand..."
The Shadow Army required Li Yelai to personally kill creatures in order to devour their shadows and increase the upper limit of his Shadow Army.
Whether it was the current Thunderbolt Forbidden Land or the earlier Super Meteor,
All of these were consequences of curses or Taboo Items that appeared to destroy Li Yelai, killing those Forbidden Zone Humans and Angels purely by AOE collateral damage.
In terms of causality, it was related to Li Yelai, but at most it could only be considered an assist.
Therefore, Li Yelai couldn't absorb their shadows.
Otherwise, if the shadows of the more than four hundred thousand Forbidden Zone Soldiers killed by the meteor were devoured, Li Yelai's Shadow Army would indeed have an overwhelming number of troops.
