After putting the four God Devouring Soul Locking Chains into his Small World, Ling Tian paid no mind to the murderous glares from the many experts of the Heavenly One Path. He stepped down from the arena, ready to rest for a while before beginning the next battle.
"Hey, Ling Tian, you're something else. You took your opponent down with a dirty trick. Otherwise, winning would've taken quite a bit of effort," Fairy Lei Ting praised when she saw him leave the arena.
"It was just luck," Ling Tian replied modestly.
"Ling Tian, why didn't you just kill Long Li? It would've been much simpler," Fairy Sword Ji said. She still hadn't realized the benefits of capturing Long Li, since she had yet to consider taking other people's cultivation techniques for herself.
Ling Tian certainly wasn't going to tell her that he'd spared Long Li so he could search his soul and obtain various Soul Secret Techniques. Instead, he said, "You saw it yourself. If I'd killed Long Li, that Sarira would've fought back fiercely, and it would've been much harder to capture the God Devouring Soul Locking Chains. Even so, I only managed to capture four. The other two got away."
Fairy Sword Ji didn't doubt what Ling Tian said.
Fairy Sword Ji didn't know Ling Tian's real reason for capturing Long Li, but Hua Min'er and Fairy Meng Shang did. They began to look forward to the day they might master powerful Soul Secret Techniques.
"Ling Tian, did you see that? Martial Ancestor Uncle and the others stood up for you earlier. The people from the Heavenly One Path were furious, but all they could do was swallow it while you took the God Devouring Soul Locking Chains," Fairy Sword Ji said excitedly. "Heh, I heard there were