The facts were just as Bai Xiaowen had deduced.
After their failure at Ironblood Cliff, Li Chun and Li Yan had not reported the defeat to Li Feng, Qiu Zhenli, and the others, and had even suppressed the news of Lu Wang's appearance. This indirectly led the Black Heaven Cult members besieging the Supreme Clarity Sect to be completely unguarded against Bai Xiaowen and the faction of Jianghu martial artists.
Had the Black Heaven Cult and the Great Tang Domain truly worked together, and had the demonic army besieging the Supreme Clarity Sect known that Lu Wang had appeared at Ironblood Cliff and rallied the martial artists of the Jianghu, Bai Xiaowen would never have controlled Li Feng so easily or made the Giant Savage Soldier turn against them. He certainly would not have been able to use Li Feng as a puppet to poison Qiu Zhenli, Snake Princess, and the Black Heaven Cult's many branch leaders.
Although Bai Xiaowen was confident that the outcome of the war would not change, his side's casualties would have increased by at least thirty percent, which would have further affected the execution of subsequent plans.
Li Chun and Li Yan certainly were not deliberately making things convenient for Bai Xiaowen; they simply had not expected it to lead to such severe consequences.
The pacification and absorption mission assigned to them previously was still something they were striving to accomplish, and kidnapping the families of the six sect masters of the Two Mountains and Four Islands to force their submission was part of their plan.
According to the thinking of Li Chun and others, the Black Heaven Demon Army besieging the Supreme Clarity Sect possessed vast power and served as a formidable Intimidation. By further kidnapping the families of the six sect masters and