By abandoning Divine Sword Cliff and the Gu Family's two sect strongholds, then having the disciples of both sects move into Soul Severing Cliff and adding dozens or even hundreds of super experts, along with experts like Fairy Sword Ji, who had reached Quasi-Saint Seventh Order, they would have no problem holding off those hundreds of Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators—especially since the cultivators only wanted to keep Ling Tian and the others occupied. Besides, if anything went wrong, Ling Tian and the others could send people to reinforce them.
After Fairy Sword Ji and Gu Ao left with some of their people, Ling Tian and the others didn't sit idle. They joined forces with Feng Ying and the others, greatly boosting their overall strength. Their repeated ambushes killed quite a few Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators and, at the very least, badly disrupted their efforts to hone their archery and movement techniques against the Saint Beetles.
The Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators weren't worried. In their minds, their reinforcements had yet to reach the southern region of the God Realm. Once those reinforcements arrived and they launched their encirclement, Ling Tian and the others would naturally return. Then they could safely hone their archery against the Saint Beetles.
Time drifted by. In the blink of an eye, several hundred years passed, and that contingent of Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators had long since arrived in the southern region of the God Realm. What surprised them a little was that Divine Sword Cliff and the Gu Family had put up only a token resistance before abandoning their sect strongholds outright. Their disciples all left afterward.
Of course, what the Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators considered token resistance had been Fairy Sword Ji and the others fighting with all their might.