While Chi Xue and the others were working hard to capture Ancient Divine Beasts and improve their strength, Ling Tian and his companions had not been idle either. They had sought out the Mo Tong Asura to hone their close-combat skills, and had gained quite a lot. In fact, because they often fought against Mo Tong Asura cultivators, their movement and evasion techniques had improved considerably as well. By now, they were confident they could defeat any cultivator of the same level, including those who had fused with Ancient Divine Beasts.
After thousands upon thousands of years of combat, Ling Tian and the others had managed to suppress the Asura Race cultivators through close combat alone. They had even killed quite a few of them during that time, which had made the survivors much more restrained. At the very least, they no longer dared to attack cultivators from the God Realm of their own accord. Having achieved their goal, Ling Tian and the others continued on to seek out other Outer Realm Cultivators and hone themselves.
Time passed slowly. In the blink of an eye, another ten or twenty thousand years went by. During that long stretch, the occasional aura of a Heavenly Slave that reached them told Ling Tian and the others that Chi Xue's side had gained several more super experts who could unleash their true strength without restraint. They could also infer that some on Chi Xue's side had fused with Ancient Divine Beasts and broken through to Quasi-Saint sixth or even seventh order, yet still hadn't displayed their true strength. From this, they could judge just how powerful Chi Xue's side had become.
"Ling Tian, although we've been honing ourselves against Beast Taming Cultivators all these years and our strength has clearly improved, we're still improving