That was right. The major powers of the God Realm were deeply opposed to capturing cultivators and then controlling them—ten thousand times more opposed to it than killing them. Even without being attacked, many major powers had voluntarily organized elite squads to hunt down Chi Xue and the others, and some had even targeted their main forces. This had caused Chi Xue and his allies plenty of trouble. For instance, while being surrounded and intercepted by numerous experts, they had lost one of their experts who was close to the sage level, and several others had been injured. That was a heavy loss for them.
It made sense. As things stood, Chi Xue and his allies had only a dozen or so experts close to the sage level in their alliance. Now one had fallen and several others were injured—a tremendous loss for them.
With so many experts surrounding and intercepting them, Chi Xue and his allies had suffered more than just the loss of one expert close to the sage level and the injuries of several others. Under pursuit, they struggled to complete their hunts. They might go decades or even centuries without killing a single person. At this rate, reaching the required ten thousand kills and obtaining a Phoenix Soul Fruit was still a distant dream.
At this point, Chi Xue and his allies had no choice but to lie low. Especially after receiving warnings from the major powers, and learning that those powers intended to attack their main forces, they no longer dared to capture low-level cultivators. Even so, elite squads from the major powers still occasionally came after them or kept them under surveillance. Chi Xue and his allies knew that if several major powers attacked their main forces at once, they could destroy their base