Excited

Patriarch Three-Eye found Ryu's oppression weighing down on him from above, the words like resounded slaps to his face. 

The formation Ryu had just deployed had the strength to expel Eleventh Order Ancestral Beasts and bar Sky Gods from ever entering. Such a powerful existence was enough to leave most in awe, but those that were intelligent would realize a very obvious problem. 

If the Ice Phoenix Clan had such a powerful failsafe, why hadn't they used it in a time of crisis? It might make sense if the Ice Phoenix Clan was caught off guard in the beginning, resulting in severe damage. But, it couldn't be that even with all of its allied, that the Ice Phoenix Clan would have been in such a terrible situation that it couldn't possibly retreat when it wanted to?