Although the cultivators blocking their way had suffered heavy casualties under Ling Tian and the others' powerful archery, the survivors had sensed something was wrong and fled, some experts were still holding them back. Among them were even cultivators at the peak of the Twenty-second Heaven of Near-Saint. Even Ling Tian and his companions would need time to deal with these people, and they might not have that much time. Quite a few cultivators were already closing in from both sides and even from behind. If they got close and charged into the formation, Ling Tian and the others could easily be tied down.
Once they were tied down, Ling Tian and the others would naturally be unable to use their archery. In close combat alone, they had no advantage against the Outer Realm Cultivators, even one-on-one—and those cultivators would never fight them one-on-one. Hundreds of thousands of cultivators rushing them at once could easily overwhelm Ling Tian and his companions, then capture them. Even Ling Tian would have little chance of escaping.
The trouble was that Ling Tian and the others had very few people with them, only about a hundred. If they split into three or four groups to hold off the Outer Realm Cultivators charging from the front, back, and both sides, each direction would have barely twenty people. That was far too few.
After all, with only twenty or so people using their archery—and Ling Tian only able to cover cultivators coming from one direction—there was almost no chance they could hold back the attackers. They would inevitably let a large force get close and surround their formation.
The formation Ling Tian had set up was quite powerful, but it still fell well short of the one they had established before. It could not withstand an