"Yes!"
The old man in the yellow robe bowed, chose several fellow disciples he knew well, and each displayed their abilities, transforming into several startling rainbows of different colors that swiftly vanished into the distant sky.
The reinforcements from the Five Phoenix Blade Sect held their troops in place, and the same scene kept playing out among several other sects as well. Immortal cultivators were cold-hearted and thin on loyalty; when something happened, the first thing they considered was their own gains and losses. For such a situation to arise was, in truth, only too normal.
Only one small family surnamed Zhang was a collateral branch of the Mystic Phoenix Sect. Their ancestor had been a nominal disciple of the sect's fifth-generation leader, and when they received word that the sect was under siege, they did in fact muster all the elite disciples of the family and set out to aid them.
But as a great demon beast at the late stage of transformation, the Snow Fox King was naturally crafty to the extreme. Since he intended to destroy the Mystic Phoenix Sect, he had of course also thought that the other side might ask other sects to send reinforcements.
So at several strategic passes, he had planted ambushes.
The Zhang Family was only a small family, with not many members. Though they had brought out all their experts, there were barely over a hundred of them, and even the family head was only at mid-Core Condensation.
The result could be imagined. They failed to bring aid, and instead met the end of family destroyed and people dead. Truly lamentable...
The situation at the Mystic Phoenix Sect grew increasingly unfavorable as well. Of course, none of this had much to do with Lin Xuan. He met no obstruction along the