After ten rounds of the Heavenly Slave trials, the strength of the Quasi-Saints around Ling Tian had improved by leaps and bounds. Feng Lingzi, Little Strife, and the others had made especially great progress, breaking through to the seventh level of the Quasi-Saint realm. This meant their strength had risen dramatically, and they were now much stronger than Venerable God Devourer had been back then. Ling Tian and the others were thrilled. After all, with their strength improved so greatly, they would have a much better chance of driving back Venerable Sword Saint when they faced him in the future. At the very least, they would have a better chance of escaping him alive. As far as Ling Tian and the others were concerned, as long as they had a chance to survive, there was no great problem. Their strength would continue to grow with time, and they believed that one day they would have a chance to defeat Venerable Sword Saint.
Feng Lingzi and the others had grown much stronger, and so had Ling Tian. After the ninth Heavenly Slave trial, he had finally broken through to the seventh level of the Quasi-Saint realm. Yet even after completing the tenth trial, he still hadn't reached the peak, much less shown any sign of breaking through to the eighth level. This left him somewhat disappointed, and even a little worried.
He was worried because he had previously guessed that once they completed ten Heavenly Slave trials, Venerable Sword Saint would attack them. Though they were far stronger now than before, they still had no confidence that they could face him, even with the Myriad Sword Demon Extermination Grand Formation. What troubled Ling Tian most was the thought that Venerable Sword Saint's strength could keep increasing. So much time had passed;