Sect master Zhao Ju and the rest of the elders all had confused looks on their faces as they tried to process what Yang Qing was telling them.
From what he said, Yang Qing made it seem like the whole fight was deliberate and they were nothing more than bait meant to draw out their founder, who bit.
While they had come to terms they were a caliber short of Yang Qing despite having a higher number on their side and also having two members who had a higher cultivation base than him, they still held onto the slightest bit of dignity as palace realm experts in the fact that no one had died yet, and they were still hanging on, and now with the boost from the sanguine doppelganger array, they could even hold Yang Qing to a draw.
A draw that would provide their founder with sufficient time she needed to break through to the seventh stage of the palace realm, or even form other means of escape for them.