Because Spirit Hall had made ample preparations to wipe out the Clear Sky Sect.
The forces they had assembled were more than enough to destroy the Clear Sky Sect in a head-on confrontation, let alone when Spirit Hall had deliberately chosen a nighttime ambush to ensure a fatal blow.
Thus, faced with Spirit Hall's night raid, the Clear Sky Sect was immediately routed!
They had virtually no power to resist!
"Retreat! Everyone, retreat at once! Leave the grounds immediately and return to Ancestral Mountain!!"
Realizing that they were completely no match for Spirit Hall's attack, the Clear Sky Sect Grand Elder's eyes nearly split with fury as he roared.
Upon hearing the Grand Elder's order, the surviving Clear Sky Sect Disciples, now fewer than thirty percent of their original number, gritted their teeth. They fought against the charging Spirit Hall Soul Masters while retreating, preparing to abandon the grounds that had represented the Clear Sky Sect's former golden age.
Although the Clear Sky Sect was currently recognized across the Douluo Continent as the foremost of the Upper Three Sects, and its prestige had once nearly rivaled Spirit Hall due to the existence of its founder, Tang Chen—
In truth, the Clear Sky Sect's history was nowhere near as long as Spirit Hall's.
The Clear Sky Sect had risen and prospered for less than two hundred years. It had all been forged single-handedly by Tang Chen, the sect master from two generations ago.
The Clear Sky Sect had once been located atop a mountain deep within a forest far from Heaven Dou Imperial City. Back then, it could only be called the Clear Sky Hammer Clan.
That was until Tang Chen rose against all odds and created the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, Clear Sky Nine Wonders, and Great Sumeru Hammer: Ring