Chi Xue and the Po Family Brothers naturally supported splitting up and looking for opportunities to grow stronger. After all, only then would they have a chance to kill or capture Ling Tian and Xiao Shi when the Lord of the Universe issued a mission in the future. Even if that meant more of them would die, so be it. As long as they could kill Ling Tian and the others, it would be worth it. Besides, the ones most likely to be killed wouldn't be their people, so they had even less reason to hold back.
However, after hearing Chi Xue's analysis, most people chose to stay together. They were willing to do so even if it meant they'd have no chance to refine the origin bloodline power of powerful Ancient Divine Beasts, grow stronger, and then kill Ling Tian and the others.
Faced with this choice, the Po Family Brothers and Chi Xue's group were furious, but there was nothing they could do. Everyone had made their choice, and if they insisted on going their own way, they would likely face opposition from the others. Their alliance might then fall apart, which was the last thing they wanted.
But when Po Family Seventeenth Brother and the others thought about how they wouldn't be able to refine the origin bloodline power of Ancient Divine Beasts to grow stronger—or have a chance to consume Phoenix Soul Fruits and be reborn through nirvana in the future—they grew even more furious. If things really went that way, they could very well die at Ling Tian's hands. Even after the Lord of the Universe's mission ended, Ling Tian would keep pursuing Chi Xue and the others. In that case, Chi Xue's people would have little chance of consuming Phoenix Soul Fruits and being