The Nine Reversals Heavenly Technique was an even greater temptation than everyone had imagined. Countless experts poured into the Gods and Devils Forbidden Land, including many Quasi-Sage experts. Besides having to deal with powerful, intricate formation restrictions, they also had to guard against ambushes from other experts. Whenever they discovered a jade slip containing a cultivation technique, a fierce battle usually broke out. Hundreds of years passed, and many experts perished. Even among the Quasi-Sage experts, twenty or thirty had fallen.
If even that many Quasi-Sage experts had perished, then needless to say, the number of cultivators from other ranks who had died or been injured was in the thousands.
Of course, this was good news for Ling Tian and the others. The more Quasi-Sage experts the God Realm lost, the fewer they would have to face when they rescued Little Chi in the future, and the less pressure they would be under.
Although setting up this scheme had caused countless cultivators in the God Realm to suffer casualties, neither Fengyun Pavilion nor Ling Tian and the others felt guilty. Those people all had selfish motives, and their attitude toward the Nine Reversals Heavenly Technique made it clear that they would surely gang up on them in the future. They might as well deal with them now.
Ling Tian and the others' plan had gone even more smoothly than they had imagined. If things continued this way, rescuing Little Chi would be a fairly easy task, which had everyone looking forward to it. And thinking about how Chi Xue would be furious yet powerless to do anything about it made them feel even better.
"Um, it's not necessarily a good thing for the plan to go too smoothly," Ling Yu suddenly said. Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, he explained, "So many