After taking Tian Qi into his Small World, Ling Tian left the Fengyun Realm alone through a secret Teleportation Formation. He also changed his appearance and aura, easily evading the people Chi Xue and the others had stationed in the northern region of the God Realm to keep watch. Most importantly, Fairy Sword Ji and the others hadn't gone out. That led Po Family Seventeenth Brother and the others to believe Ling Tian's group wouldn't stop the cultivators from the alliance of the God Realm's major powers from capturing a near-Sage-level Ancient Divine Beast. This greatly encouraged them, since they believed they could go out and capture near-Sage-level Ancient Divine Beasts themselves.
That was only natural. Po Family Seventeenth Brother and the others couldn't have imagined that Ling Tian would go out alone to stop the cultivators from the alliance of the God Realm's major powers. The latter had more than a hundred near-Sage-level experts, including cultivators whose strength rivaled Venerable God Devourer's. They therefore believed Ling Tian's group wouldn't stop the alliance's cultivators from capturing a near-Sage-level Ancient Divine Beast. That meant they could go out and capture one themselves.
"Heh, exactly. Ling Tian and the others probably think that even if the alliance's cultivators capture a near-Sage-level Ancient Divine Beast, it won't pose much of a threat to them. Besides, during the upcoming Heavenly Slave trials, the alliance's cultivators will probably all die anyway. So it makes sense that they wouldn't stop them, especially since Ling Tian's people also have the Heavenly Slave trials to worry about." Shi Ye picked up the thread, then looked at Chi Xue with eager anticipation. "In that case, we can go out and attack a near-Sage-level Ancient Divine Beast, too. If we capture a few—no, even one or two would do. That