Zhou Tian originally planned to force the lion into the volcano by teaming up his duplicated Beastmen, considering the lion's strength was not too strong and its forte was defense. However, when he actually created those duplicated Beastmen, the situation took an unexpected turn for Zhou Tian.
Because the lion had never encountered Zhou Tian's ability before, it naturally mistook the duplicated Beastmen for living beings of this world. Given the number of duplicated Beastmen at the time, if each had one tenth of Zhou Tian's strength, their combined power was already enough to pose a threat to the lion.
Consequently, seeing Zhou Tian produce those duplicated Beastmen and misidentifying them, the lion, believing it could not defeat so many opponents, didn't even engage in combat, and immediately fled towards the volcano out of fear.