Although Chi Xue had realized Ling Tian might make an issue of the Phoenix Soul Fruit, he hadn't paid it much mind. If the fruit suddenly appeared now, people would suspect that Ling Tian's falling-out with it was staged. They could also spread rumors that "the Phoenix Soul Fruit would never be obtained unless Ling Tian and the others were killed." Surely many people would keep attacking Lingxiao Pavilion's base then—especially with the Nine Reversals Heavenly Technique as an added temptation.
There were hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions, of cultivators near Lingxiao Pavilion's base. Even if only one or two in ten chose to keep attacking, they would overwhelm it. When that happened, Ling Tian and the others would have no hope of escaping death.
That was why Chi Xue hadn't been too concerned.
There was a saying: when you didn't know what tricks your opponent had up their sleeve, you worried; once you knew, you stopped worrying. That was exactly how Chi Xue felt now.
Although Chi Xue had figured Ling Tian would make an issue of the Phoenix Soul Fruit, he hadn't imagined Ling Tian would be willing to give up a ripe one. A ripe Phoenix Soul Fruit was an entirely different kind of temptation to cultivators in the God Realm, and that difference would make what Chi Xue predicted diverge from reality.
Though he hadn't been too concerned about Ling Tian's methods, Chi Xue had still prepared a fallback. For instance, they weren't rushing forward now, and they were ready to break through at the weakest point and escape if anything unexpected happened.
The Phoenix Soul Fruit didn't wait until Chi Xue and the others were about to breach Lingxiao Pavilion's base to appear. Once it saw the cultivators from the nine major superpowers let