Fang Xing and the golden crow had inadvertently heard something incredibly exciting. The Fiery Cloud, Shaken Cloud, and Black Swamp Tribes weren't idiots, and the group of cultivators attacking the Sword Mound was so large they knew they wouldn't be able to fend them off. Rather than fighting to the death, the three leaders left behind some disciples to repair the formation to stall for time while they broke off from the conflict to go inside and become the Sword Containers for the Sword Embryos. With this, they'd be able to take the Sword Embryos away from the Sword Mound and bring them to the young master of the Huangfu clan in the depths of the Mysterious Domain.