PurpleSpring
I feel like there has been enough chapters setting up the stage. This one is just overkill. We don't really need to see what there were doing waiting for him if it's just to inform them of the plan. For us readers, this plan had already been discussed and settled. So we would just assume that Shu Yao informed them before bringing them over (and that would be the logical thing to do). Regarding their reaction to having a Domain Lord on their side, we already got a glimpse of that from Shu Yao and Fend Chen. All in all, we haven't learned anything new from this chapter (not even the names of those elders), not does it bring anything of value to the story.