That was right. Ling Tian had already witnessed the strength of Venerable Sword Saint after he fused seven golden cores. Although Sword Saint's strength had surely improved after refining large amounts of Ultimate Lightning Tribulation Power and Outer Realm Power over the years, Ling Tian had already taken that into account. He had a general idea of how strong Sword Saint was, and he was still quite confident he could hold his own against him and then escape.
Of course, if he could fight Sword Saint ahead of time and get a better sense of his strength, he would be even more confident. This was especially true given that he had already set up several secret teleportation formations and left behind some corpse ghosts. At the very least, those measures would ensure he could escape Sword Saint unscathed. So Sword Saint coming to intercept him now would undoubtedly work more in his favor.
From then on, aside from destroying the secret teleportation formations Chi Xue and the others had set up and occasionally arranging one of his own, Ling Tian began hunting cultivators from the alliances of the God Realm's major forces. Naturally, he showed no mercy to Chi Xue's people if he ran into them, but they were comparatively more "obedient." After learning that Ling Tian had reached the eastern region of the God Realm, they had become much more cautious; at the very least, they knew to keep out of his way.
Just as Ling Tian had said, none of the other cultivators posed even the slightest threat to him apart from Sword Saint. In fact, killing any given cultivator was practically effortless for him. When he deliberately hunted them down, hardly anyone could escape. Ling Tian had already reached a high level of mastery in the Teleportation