Although Chi Xue's plan this time had ended in utter failure, he had not lost heart. He was still determined to get the Nine Reversals Heavenly Technique. It was just that their losses had been so great that they likely wouldn't be able to launch another sneak attack for a long time.
When the Jade Devouring Sky Python worried that Ling Tian might use a sneak attack on Lingxiao Pavilion's base as an excuse to deal with them, Chi Xue reasoned that Ling Tian wouldn't do so. That would undoubtedly drive Chi Xue and the others into hiding. This might not pose much of a threat to experts like Ling Tian and Fairy Meng Shang, but it would be a serious problem for the other members and disciples of Lingxiao Pavilion. After all, with nothing left to hold them back, Chi Xue and the others would strike even more recklessly.
Of course, there was another possibility: the Mo Family, Heavenly One Path, Thorn Alliance, and Huan Xin Pavilion might join forces against Fengyun Pavilion. Add the lure of the Nine Reversals Heavenly Technique, and the other major powers and Rogue Cultivators would likely get involved too. That would put Fengyun Pavilion under considerable pressure.
After all these years, the cultivators of the nine major powers—and indeed the entire God Realm—had come to understand the importance of the Arrow Embryo and powerful archery techniques. They had all trained in such techniques. Though they were somewhat inferior to the cultivators of Fengyun Pavilion and Lingxiao Pavilion, Quasi-Saints and experts at the Great Perfection of the Saint God level could still easily perform five or six consecutive arrow strikes.
If the major sects joined forces, Quasi-Saint experts formed an Arrow Formation, and countless Saint God-level experts joined them, even Fengyun Pavilion would have