Those Saints could clearly have used Dao Arts to attack the many Kun Yu Clan cultivators, solving the problem at its root. Yet they had chosen the harder path, intercepting each and every wave of Saber Qi. This further confirmed Chi Xue and the others' earlier guess: the Lord of the Star Domain was probably afraid that killing the Kun Yu Clan cultivators would provoke them into fighting to the death.
At that moment, however, Ling Tian's clone came up with another possibility: perhaps the Lord of the Star Domain had deliberately left the Kun Yu Clan cultivators alive to use against them.
"Left the Kun Yu Clan members alive to deal with us?" Shi Lin asked, his face full of confusion. "Isn't the Lord of the Star Domain helping us by intercepting the Kun Yu Clan cultivators? He's clearly on our side. Why would he leave them alive to use against us?"
"Exactly. If he really wanted to leave the Kun Yu Clan cultivators alive to deal with us, there'd be no need to intercept them. He could simply watch them charge at us." Shi Ye picked up the thread. Many others shared his confusion.
"He didn't leave them alive to deal with us now, but to deal with us later." Chi Xue explained on their behalf. Seeing that everyone still looked puzzled, he continued, "If Fellow Daoist Ling Tian really manages to seize Guixu, then it'll be inconvenient for the Lord of the Star Domain and the Saints under him to attack us. At that point, having the Lord of the Universe and the Kun Yu Clan cultivators attack us would be the best choice."
"Exactly," Tu Gui chimed in. "For example, the Lord of the Star Domain could threaten us with an alliance between the Kun Yu