Due to the peak experts of the Great Sects having mostly perished and vanished.
Now gathered at Heavenly Thunder Mountain, the disciples of the Great Sects are mostly like stray dogs whose sects were destroyed, living anxiously day by day. Each of them is grieving like someone who's just lost a parent, utterly devoid of fighting spirit.
Greedy Wolf Hall under Hu Lang, along with its various affiliated forces, though also a ragtag bunch, are buoyed by high morale.
Thus, the originally evenly matched situation.
The side led by Star Pavilion, the Demon Extermination Alliance, crumbled at the first contact, unable to contend whatsoever.
If not for Heavenly Thunder Mountain being the old stronghold of Star Pavilion, where Li Chen had laid down numerous prohibitive arrays, the entire Star Pavilion might have followed in the footsteps of Divine Sword Mountain, Tingyu Building, Azure Sky Pavilion, and other top-tier sects, being wiped out completely.
