After discussing it among themselves, they realized that their most important task was to increase their strength. The fastest way for them to do that was to capture powerful Ancient Divine Beasts. However, after hearing Young Master Joyful's analysis, they also realized that fighting the Soul Race cultivators might ease the side effects of fusing with Ancient Divine Beasts. At the very least, strengthening their Nascent Souls would also improve their strength, so they decided to go after the Soul Race first.
Of course, before doing any of that, they had to rendezvous with their main forces. That was the best way to minimize their losses. They knew that if they didn't go meet up with them, Ling Tian and the others would keep hunting them down. Under their relentless pursuit, they would lose a great many Universe Flying Saucers, and that was the last thing they wanted.
Leaving Chi Xue and the others' plans aside, let's turn to Ling Tian and his companions.
"Brother Ling, the Technology Cultivators in the western region of the God Realm have abandoned their base. Most of the Universe Flying Saucers scattered in all directions and are fleeing toward Chi Xue and the others," Xuan Ci reported the news he had gathered to Ling Tian.
"Oh? They actually abandoned their base outright? I thought they'd use it to fight us," Fairy Sword Ji said in surprise. Then she turned to Ling Tian. "Ling Tian, with so many Universe Flying Saucers scattering in every direction, which way should we pursue?"
"They know we've come to the western region of the God Realm. They also know that even if they used the base's defenses, they couldn't inflict any losses on us—instead, they'd suffer even greater losses themselves. In that situation, of course they'd abandon the base.