The Fourth Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty-Fourth Chapter: It Was Getting Harder and Harder

After so much killing, the cultivators who had survived were naturally all elite experts, one in ten thousand. They were certainly not easy to kill.

Besides, even if some cultivators weren't particularly talented, they still weren't easy to kill, because most of them belonged to powerful factions. By now, cultivators from nearly every major faction in the God Realm had practiced the Arrow Embryo and various archery techniques. They could form Arrow Formations with thousands or even tens of thousands of people and attack together. It was difficult for any elite squad to get close to its targets, let alone kill them.

Of course, if the major factions clashed with one another, they could kill many cultivators in a short time. But after thousands upon thousands of years of fighting, the factions had nearly reached a balance. They didn't dare attack another major faction rashly. Even if they won, they would suffer heavy casualties. More importantly, another major faction would surely swoop in to reap the rewards—especially after they had suffered devastating losses attacking their enemy. That was the last thing they wanted to see, so the major factions had become much less hostile toward one another, and everyone had grown more cautious.

Under these circumstances, hunting cultivators to meet the Lord of the Universe's requirements and earn various rewards had become much harder. Perhaps obtaining Black Tortoise Fruits and the like wouldn't be a problem, but getting a Phoenix Soul Fruit was incredibly difficult. For example, Ling Tian had killed the most people so far, yet he had only killed a little over seven thousand. Now it had become very difficult for him to kill anyone else; sometimes it took years, or even more than a decade, to kill a single person. If even he had such a hard