The old wolf, Tian Xuan, was as cunning as they came. He naturally knew that the predicament Ling Tian and the others were in was mostly his fault. If not for him, Ling Tian and the others could have left the Beast Soul Realm after obtaining the Phoenix Soul Fruit. Even if they stayed, they could have relied on their speed advantage to keep the cultivators from the major powers of the God Realm at bay.
Leaving the Beast Soul Realm was undoubtedly the safest option. Afterward, Ling Tian and the others could simply hide in the Lingxiao Realm or Fengyun Realm. With their terrain that was easy to defend and hard to attack, they could easily withstand an assault from all the cultivators of the God Realm.
The other option was also viable: they could keep the people from the major powers of the God Realm at bay within the Beast Soul Realm. They had set up quite a few temporary strongholds and Teleportation Formations, which they could use to evade encirclement—or even seize the strongholds of the major powers of the God Realm.
It made sense. If Ling Tian and the others could do that, they could easily use protective formations and other defenses to withstand the assault of the major powers of the God Realm. When their formations could no longer hold, they could retreat to another stronghold and repeat the same tactic.
Ling Tian and the others had used this strategy when they first arrived in the Beast Soul Realm. If not for Elder Heaven-Devouring Wolf and Little Devourer, they could naturally use it again.
But things were different now. Tian Xuan was passing on the Beast Soul inheritance to Little Devourer, so Ling Tian and the others could no longer abandon their stronghold at will.