Venerable Sword Saint was quite surprised when the Lord of the Universe instructed him to deliberately target Ling Tian. He had never imagined that the Lord of the Universe would show such "favor" to a cultivator. At the time, he hadn't paid it much mind—until he saw Ling Tian perfectly control the Myriad Sword Demon Extermination Grand Formation. Only cultivators capable of projecting their Small Worlds could truly control the formation, and only he knew that. They had to project their Small Worlds, merge them with the formation, and then merge the formation with the Circulatory Universe. Only then could they draw upon the boundless power of heaven and earth as fully as possible, unleash an attack, and bring out the formation's full offensive power.
Though Venerable Sword Saint, Yuan Yi, and Fengyunzi could all do this, they had only managed it after living through countless ages and reaching a very high cultivation level. At the very least, they had been nowhere near capable of it when they were at Ling Tian's current level. At last, this made Venerable Sword Saint realize that Ling Tian was no ordinary cultivator—and understand why the Lord of the Universe thought so highly of him, enough to specifically order Venerable Sword Saint to attack him.
Though the Lord of the Universe had ordered Venerable Sword Saint to target Ling Tian, Venerable Sword Saint understood that this was proof of how much the Lord valued Ling Tian. In fact, the Lord valued him more than Venerable Sword Saint. That left Venerable Sword Saint feeling a little "jealous." In his heart, the Lord of the Universe must have believed that Ling Tian's talent and potential surpassed his own—and that was something he could hardly accept.
In Venerable Sword Saint's eyes, he was on the same level