Heavenly Slaves were powerful cultivators controlled by the Lord of the Universe. He had granted them "immortality," and to better temper cultivators like Ling Tian, it wasn't impossible that the Lord of the Universe had deliberately increased the Heavenly Slaves' strength. The Heavenly Slaves in the God Realm included Quasi-Saint Eighth Order Peaks, which offered some evidence of this. After all, cultivators who reached that level were exceedingly rare throughout the entire God Realm, yet several Heavenly Slaves had attained it. Clearly, the Lord of the Universe had rigged things in their favor.
"Yeah. To better temper us cultivators of the God Realm, the Lord of the Universe naturally needs the Heavenly Slaves to be stronger. It's not impossible that he deliberately boosted their strength," Ling Tian said. Then he couldn't help wondering again why the Lord of the Universe was doing all this.
"There were over a hundred Heavenly Slaves who attacked Chi Xue and the others this time. Could that be the total number of Heavenly Slaves?" Little Devourer asked. As he spoke, he looked at Ling Tian. "If someone among Chi Xue's group breaks through to Quasi-Saint Eighth Order, then given enough time, they could kill every last Heavenly Slave. What if they do?"
"Heh, from what we've seen so far, it'll take Chi Xue and the others at least tens of thousands of years to kill all the Heavenly Slaves. No—well over a hundred thousand years. The sect strongholds they've set up and the Universe Flying Saucers they've made over the years probably aren't enough, especially since they just lost three strongholds and a large number of saucers." Poorsky chuckled. "With that much time, Sword Ji and the other youngsters will have reversed their golden cores six times and broken through to Quasi-Saint Sixth Order. If