To be honest, the higher-ups of the Eastern Region were not that bad.
The majority of the outer disciples didn't have a good impression of Lu Xuan.
It wasn't that they despised traitors like the southern mountain range, but to the ordinary outer sect disciples, Lu Xuan was a stranger who had just arrived, and this caused them to instinctively reject him. To the heaven's favorites from the Eastern Region, the sudden appearance of a heaven's favorite from the southern region had sapped away their benefits and space, snatching away the attention that the upper echelons of glory sect had placed on them ... In glory sect, these reasons were enough for them to execute Lu Xuan 18 times over.
Thus, no one was optimistic about the situation now that the entire Eastern Region had fallen to the point where they could only rely on Lu Xuan.