There were fewer than four hundred Small World tokens in all. After two or three days, nearly every token had been found. The people from the Earth and Yellow Realms had also learned that Ling Tian had sent out men skilled in assassination and concealment to seize the tokens. So they grew wary and gathered all their tokens with the main forces. That made it much harder for Ling Tian and the others to snatch any more.
Ye Cha and Xuan Ci had led so many people out, yet they hadn't found a single token in a whole day. Ling Tian and the others knew the tokens had all been found, and that continuing would be futile—and dangerous—so they decided to call Xuan Ci and the others back.
As for Ling Tian and Old Man Ling, they had already set up their main camp. There was little point in continuing to tail the main forces of the Earth and Yellow Realms, so they might as well return and face their attacks alongside Hua Min'er and the others.
The main reason was that a great deal of time had passed, and the main forces of the Earth and Yellow Realms had already pursued them to the vicinity of the North Xuan main camp. It would be much easier and safer to hold them off with the camp's protective formation.
Thinking this over, Ling Tian stopped ambushing cultivators from the Earth and Yellow Realms and headed straight for the place where the North Xuan forces were.
Watching a cultivator from the "Earth Realm" make straight for the North Xuan forces, the quick-witted Lei Ting and Illusion Dream Fairy instantly guessed who he was. But he had already drawn close to North Xuan's troops, and there was nothing they could do to stop