Because they were certain Chi Xue and the others wouldn't give the high-grade Ancient Divine Beasts they captured to the Outer Realm Cultivators, and certain they wouldn't ally with them anytime soon, Ling Tian and his companions weren't in a hurry to deal with Chi Xue and his group. Instead, they continued to keep the Outer Realm Cultivators at bay while striving to improve their cultivation.
As expected, it didn't take long for Ling Tian and the others to confirm that Chi Xue and his group had captured Ancient Divine Beasts. Yet they made no contact with the Outer Realm Cultivators afterward. Clearly, they were afraid of incurring Feng Lingzi and the others' wrath and didn't dare give the beasts they had captured to the Outer Realm Cultivators.
And so, Ling Tian and his companions didn't try to stop Chi Xue and his group, while the latter were sensible enough not to give any Ancient Divine Beasts to the Outer Realm Cultivators. The two sides remained on relatively "friendly" terms.
Time drifted by. In the blink of an eye, another ten or twenty thousand years passed.
Although Chi Xue and his group had captured quite a few Ancient Divine Beasts at the Quasi-Saint Eighth Order and Quasi-Saint Eighth Order Peak over that long stretch of time, many of their cultivators needed to fuse with beasts of that level. So they hadn't stopped; they continued hunting Ancient Divine Beasts in the God Realm. But as time went on, it became harder to capture them. Not only had their numbers fallen sharply because Chi Xue's group and the Outer Realm Cultivators were hunting them together, but many Ancient Divine Beasts had also fled into the northern region of the God Realm.
It was worth noting that neither the Outer Realm Cultivators nor