Things had unfolded much as Ling Tian and the others had expected. Chi Xue and his people couldn't recruit many forces to join them, and those they failed to win over naturally attacked them for the Phoenix Soul Fruit. As time passed, more and more cultivators joined the siege. Chi Xue and his people were soon too busy fending for themselves to spare any attention for Ling Tian and the others.
Of course, although they couldn't escape the siege and harassment, Chi Xue and his people had little trouble protecting themselves. Given enough time, they could even clear out every cultivator from the major forces of the God Realm. They simply didn't have that much time.
Indeed, they were capable of it. They had begun using the same tactics Ling Tian once had: guerrilla warfare. Whenever possible, they captured cultivators and placed soul restrictions on them, steadily increasing their overall strength.
There were simply too many cultivators in the Beast Soul Realm. It would take a very long time for them to become strong enough to ignore the siege by the major forces of the God Realm—at least a hundred thousand years. Ling Tian and the others wouldn't give them that long, since Little Sham would need only ten or twenty thousand years to inherit the beast soul.
Ling Tian and the others also led a contingent of elite experts into the siege against Chi Xue and his people. They brought only two or three hundred men, but every one of them was an elite among elites. Most were close to the Quasi-Sage level, and their combined use of powerful archery techniques could cause Chi Xue and his people plenty of trouble.
Most of the time, however, Ling Tian and the others cultivated at Lingxiao Pavilion's headquarters, comprehending the Heaven