After leaving the Nebula Ship with his fellow Nascent Soul cultivators, Liu Changxu did not immediately charge into battle against the Three-Eyed Race's Nascent Soul cultivators. Instead, he swiftly flew away from that stretch of sky. He had no desire to be caught in the battle between the Skyships and the Spirit Transformation powerhouses.
For Liu Changxu, the first priority in a melee of this scale was to ensure his own safety. Defeating the enemy came second.
The other Nascent Soul elders were all shrewd veterans who understood this principle as well. Like Liu Changxu, they moved away from the battlefield of the Skyships and Spirit Transformation powerhouses.
Fortunately, while fighting, the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Transformation powerhouses deliberately drew their Three-Eyed Race counterparts and the Skyships away from the skies above Azure Lotus Island, making room for the Nascent Soul cultivators on both sides to fight.
Seizing this opportunity, over a hundred Azure Cloud Sect Nascent Soul cultivators rushed into the skies above Azure Lotus Island and engaged the Three-Eyed Race's Nascent Soul cultivators still on the island.
Thankfully, the Azure Cloud Sect's reinforcements had arrived in time. Otherwise, the thirty-odd Azure Cloud Sect Nascent Soul cultivators on the island would likely have met their end.
Although Azure Lotus Island had fallen to the Three-Eyed Race only a short while earlier, the thirty-odd Nascent Soul True Lords on the island were struggling desperately against the numerically superior Nascent Soul cultivators of the Three-Eyed People. Many more Azure Cloud Sect disciples below the Nascent Soul realm had been slain or captured by the Three-Eyed People’s Nascent Soul cultivators.
Normally, such a situation should never have arisen within Azure Cloud Sect territory, since the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters and its regional branches were linked by Long-Distance Teleportation Arrays, allowing them to