Ye Futian looked at Qin Zhong. He knew well that the very nature of power changed when one advanced from Noble Plane to Sage Plane. No powers at the noble level would be able to withstand the rules wielded by sages. Everything a noble was able to whip up would have been easily broken by sages. Regardless of how powerful his fusion will territory had been, it stood no chance against anything Qin Zhong was able to pull.
Despite not having become a sage just yet, Qin Zhong was halfway into the Sage Plane. He was literally half a sage at his current level, having developed matured rules and became the number one below the sages in Zhisheng Cliffs because of it. One could have even say that even conventional sages stood no chance against him.