Ling Tian's idea was undoubtedly the safest. If they could really set up a few bases near the rune formation, they could easily thwart all of Chi Xue's schemes and stop him from obtaining the rune arts here. That would make things simple. Everyone understood this, so they all agreed to the plan.
Now that they had made their decision, the next step was to put it into action. The first thing Ling Tian and the others did was spread the word that they planned to attack the rune formation.
As expected, the words Ling Tian and the others put out failed to fool Chi Xue and his group. However, they were enough to mislead the other forces in the God Realm and the many Rogue Cultivators. They knew that if Ling Tian's side really attacked the Rune Cultivators, they would have a chance to swoop in and capture some of them, thereby obtaining the rune arts.
It made sense. There were tens of thousands of Rune Cultivators. If Ling Tian and the others broke through the rune formation, the Rune Cultivators would naturally scatter in every direction. Capturing some of them would be easy. They had no need to risk joining forces with Chi Xue and his group, especially after hearing Ling Tian's reason for refusing to cooperate with them: Chi Xue and the others couldn't be trusted.
It had to be said that Chi Xue and his group had a poor reputation in the God Realm. After hearing Ling Tian's "persuasion," the other forces had already begun to hesitate over whether to cooperate with Chi Xue's side. Now that they had learned Ling Tian and the others planned to attack the rune formation alone, they abandoned the idea of working with Chi Xue altogether, preparing instead to reap