When you encountered Hou Ba on the Yuhui Islands in the Ganyang Inner Region, he was defending his friend's Immortal City. Hou Ba had merely happened to pass through and stopped there to rest, while the Bai Family of White Phoenix Immortal City—the second most prosperous place in the Yuhui Islands—happened to have some connection with him. Bai Yan, the Family Head of White Phoenix Immortal City's Bai Family, had once entered a Secret Land of inheritance with Hou Ba. They had faced life and death together, and their friendship was more than presentable.
Yet not long after Hou Ba had stopped in White Phoenix Immortal City, a group of declining families and Rogue Cultivators appeared. Taking advantage of the upheaval of heaven and earth, when the great powers' control had weakened, they deliberately brought along a being with a grudge against the Bai Family of White Phoenix Immortal City. Under the banner of revenge, they came to plunder.
Faced with such a situation, the Bai Family naturally would not hand over their property with both hands. They dispatched their clansmen and guards to fight the bandits, only to find that even with the strength of the entire family, they could not match the numerous raiders.
Meanwhile, the smaller factions and Rogue Cultivators still inside White Phoenix Immortal City, watching the bandits attack the city, had no intention of helping. They were not fools. Whether those bandits truly sought revenge or simply wanted to plunder, they were unlikely to attack unrelated people.
Those bandit chiefs needed a legitimate reason to loot, and that reason meant they could only strike at the Bai Family and those connected to them. If they attacked other innocent people, they might be safe for now, but afterward, disciples from the major powers could still come