Even if Ling Tian and the others became the targets of everyone and were besieged by one or two hundred Quasi-Sage experts in the future, Chi Xue still didn't believe anyone could kill Ling Tian. In other words, the two of them were bound to clash someday. However, Chi Xue wasn't very confident he could defeat Ling Tian, who was cultivating the Nine Reversals Heavenly Technique—not to mention that Ling Tian had also cultivated so many secret arts.
That was precisely why Chi Xue had captured the core disciples of various sects: to obtain their sect-protecting secret arts. It was the best way he could improve his strength at present, and the foundation of his confidence that he could defeat Ling Tian.
And that was exactly what happened. By cultivating the secret arts of various sects and combining them with the many constitutions he had gained by devouring others with his God Devouring Body, he could unleash those arts' full power—better, even, than the core disciples of those sects. His overall strength had risen dramatically as well.
As Chi Xue had said, this gave him a considerable advantage over Ling Tian and the others. It was also one of the reasons the God Devouring Body was so terrifying.
However, Chi Xue hadn't considered one thing. Although he could study various sect-protecting secret arts, and his bloodline powers from possessing all kinds of constitutions let him bring out their full potential, he had forgotten that the most important thing was to fuse those arts together. In that regard, he was inferior to Ling Tian, and even to Ling Yu and the others. After all, Lingxiao Pavilion had been skilled at combining multiple cultivation methods and secret arts since long, long ago.
To Chi Xue, it was a fact that cultivating the