After the leaves of the Enlightenment Sacred Tree, Gu Ao and the others tried to lure Ling Tian into action with new conditions. The news quickly spread throughout the You Hun Realm, and Ling Tian and his companions naturally heard about it.
"Heh, they're promising to let us join their sects as core disciples, and even take those Ancestors as our masters." Little One scoffed. "Do they not know we were already promised those terms when we came in? Trying to bait us into action with such conditions is pretty insincere."
That was right. Before the Gu family experts captured Ling Tian and his companions and threw them into the You Hun Realm, they had already promised them great rewards: if they could seize a leaf of the Enlightenment Sacred Tree, they would qualify to become core disciples of the Gu Family; if they could bring the Enlightenment Sacred Tree out for them, they could become disciples of the Gu Family Ancestors.
Although these were only the Gu Family's terms, the conditions offered by the other super forces were probably similar.
"Exactly. Those conditions don't tempt us at all," Ling Tian said with a cold laugh. "Join their sects and take those old monsters as our masters? That means handing over the Enlightenment Sacred Tree first. I could never do that."
The Enlightenment Sacred Tree was far too precious for Ling Tian to hand it over. And even setting that aside, the tree trusted them enough to choose to follow them; they could not betray it like that and sell it to the major forces.
"Exactly. If we don't join those major forces, we still have a good chance of protecting Senior Wu Dao. If we join them, we won't have even the slightest chance," Fairy Meng Shang said, her