Ling Tian and the others had once suspected that the missing experts at the sixth or higher level of the Quasi-Saint Realm had not perished. Recently, Ling Tian had formed a new theory: those experts had been controlled by the Lord of the Universe and were being used to deal with other experts in the God Realm who had surpassed the sixth level of the Quasi-Saint Realm. The super experts who had fallen might well have died at their hands.
There were many clues pointing to this. The most direct was that Feng Lingzi and the others could now reveal their true strength without restraint. From this, Ling Tian could infer that they must know what they would face after revealing their power. At the very least, they could rule out the Lord of the Universe.
It made sense. Even if Feng Lingzi and the others broke through to the eighth level of the Quasi-Saint Realm, they would probably have no chance against the Lord of the Universe. And even if they concealed their strength, they could not hide it from him. This meant that the Lord of the Universe was not the one they had feared before.
If it was not the Lord of the Universe, then it had to be other experts in the God Realm. Anyone who could threaten them would have to be at least on the same level. As far as Ling Tian and the others knew, there were hardly any such experts in the God Realm. If there were, they had to be among those who had gone missing.
By rights, those missing experts had no reason to target Feng Lingzi. After all, they were all cultivators of the God Realm. At their level, unless they bore a life-and-death grudge, they would all be