That was right. If a major power was willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of cultivators, it could meet the requirement of killing tens of thousands of cultivators whose cultivation realms were no lower than its own in a very short time, and thus obtain Phoenix Soul Fruit. But the Phoenix Soul Fruit Tree by Ling Tian and the others would still need hundreds of thousands of years to bear ripe fruit. Even if there were other Phoenix Soul Fruit Trees elsewhere in the universe, there probably wouldn't be enough. Several, or even a dozen or more, cultivators might meet the requirement at the same time and be able to obtain Phoenix Soul Fruit, yet it was impossible for there to be several or a dozen or more Phoenix Soul Fruit Trees in the universe.
Since there couldn't be several or a dozen or more Phoenix Soul Fruit Trees, the only possibility was that the Lord of the Universe had picked a great many Phoenix Soul Fruits earlier and stored them away for later use—perhaps for a time like this. That was very likely what had happened.
It made sense. Before Ling Tian and the others obtained the Phoenix Soul Fruit Tree and the Enlightenment Sacred Tree, these Heavenly Treasures had lived in the universe for ages. For example, the Ginseng Fruit Tree had only recently given away Ginseng Fruit, which meant the fruit it had borne before then had likely been picked by the Lord of the Universe and stored away.
After hearing Ling Tian's conjecture and Si Kong Xuan's analysis, everyone became increasingly convinced that this was exactly what had happened. They breathed a little easier. At least, from then on, they could still obtain Enlightenment Sacred Tree Leaves and Phoenix Soul Fruit from the Enlightenment Sacred Tree