Lu Xiaotian had no way to force the Three Sages of Fulong on this matter. In the end, even if the secret realm was breached, with the strength and experience of the old dragon, he could still escape amid the chaos.
After all, there were plenty of powerful Primordial Spirit bodies like him in the chaos, while Chen Fufeng and the other top experts would focus their attention on only a handful of people: him, Yan Ji, and the rest. The old dragon controlled the Three Sages of Fulong, so his chances of seizing the moment to escape were extremely high.
But if the old dragon destroyed the poison formation and caused the Void Beasts to erupt again, he would ruin the entire Immortal Army's plan.
And with him cut off from the outside, Chen Fufeng—or Prison Lord Bai Tai—would come after him in their fury. No one could stop them. He would almost certainly be doomed.
There was nothing Lu Xiaotian could do but settle for the next best thing and prepare to have the Three Sages of Fulong play their proper role. Their inspection of the poison formation had not been entirely fruitless.
If the final layer of the Nine-Palace Linked Mountains truly fell, leaving it breached, Lu Xiaotian would have no choice but to stop breaking the barrier seal and fight his way out of the secret realm to destroy the poison formation. Then he could use the Void Beast horde to hold off the Immortal Army, plunging them into a fate from which there would be no escape.
But that was the last resort. The situation was perilous, yet he still had to do everything he could to seize this final chance.
The Sky-Shadow Clan had suffered devastating losses and stood on the brink of extinction.