Indeed, the Spiritual Cloud Sect would surely wish to hold onto their territory and legacy, but with limited strength, perhaps they could only hold out initially.
In that time, however, the Spiritual Cloud Sect would become an extremely fearsome battlefield, with a vast number of cultivators and demon cultivators slaughtering each other, and lives were lost at every turn.
Yet as time passed, the already insufficient strength of the Spiritual Cloud Sect would inevitably lead to their continued retreat in the face of powerful demon cultivators.
If they did not want their legacy to be severed, if they desired not to die or fall under the control of demon cultivators, they could only seek help from the Li family or Shen Leishan.
Despite Shen Leishan's greater strength, the problem was the distance was far too great, and with the Wood Spirit Sect in between them, timely reinforcement was simply not feasible.