No matter how good the ideas and schemes were, they needed corresponding strength to make them work. Clearly, Red Cloud and the other two were not enemies who could be easily killed. You had thought of quite a few plans, but you also understood that their chances of success were minuscule. After all, being able to contend with them, being able to drive them back, and being able to kill them were three entirely different levels of difficulty.
The first only required holding firm on the defensive, especially with the aid of formations and by luring the enemy into attacking. That was the simplest approach, much like the previous battle. Driving them back, however, meant both sides had set their sights on the same treasure, leaving no chance to return to the formations or hastily set up more useful ones to gain an additional advantage. You could only rely on raw strength to forcibly make the opponent abandon a high-value treasure. Only then could it be called driving them back, rather than ending in a stalemate.
Driving them back was already an outcome difficult for you and Qian to achieve. Even with another helper like Qian, it would still be extremely difficult against the strength Red Cloud and the other two currently displayed. Not to mention that while you had kept Life Descent in reserve without using it, you could also sense that Red Cloud, Azure Sky, and Huang Tian likewise possessed methods they deemed unworthy of using on you.
If even driving them back was so difficult, then killing them, obtaining their Time Soul Pearls, and having sufficient time to refine them would be far harder still. Perhaps only if you, like the three of them, completed the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top in the Time Ancestral Land