When there's no reliable support and he doesn't want to die, Zhou Tian naturally had to rely on his own strength to deal with everything.
However, although Zhou Tian wanted to rely on his own strength to escape from the situation at that time, this idea wasn't wrong. But given the circumstances, while Zhou Tian's idea wasn't wrong, when he was already captured by those plants, it was not easy for him to counterattack at that moment.
If captured deities all possessed the ability to counterattack, then those plants wouldn't have been able to capture all the invading deities. So, even if Zhou Tian's strength was a bit stronger at the time, facing his current predicament, it would be extremely difficult for him to have the ability to resist.
But Zhou Tian was having difficulty even preserving his own life, and in that situation, even though he knew it was hard to resist those plants, he still had to do so.