Ling Tian had been mentally prepared, and attacked the instant the fight began. Po Qiong and the others had also fired countless arrow beams, scattering many of the Phantom Clones. As a result, Venerable Sword Saint's next Phantom Combo posed no real threat, and Ling Tian could keep him at bay with ease.
Ling Tian continued to contend with Venerable Sword Saint. Though countering each Phantom Combo often cost him a great deal, his recovery was powerful. Venerable Sword Saint also paid a heavy price for using the secret art and couldn't deploy it often, so Ling Tian could still handle it without much difficulty.
Even though he could deal with Venerable Sword Saint's Phantom Combo with ease, and suspected his opponent had no other secret arts that posed a greater threat, Ling Tian still didn't dare let his guard down. He knew that even if those were all Venerable Sword Saint's tricks, this wouldn't be an easy fight. In a battle of attrition, he still couldn't match Venerable Sword Saint. Perhaps he could escape using the Teleportation Formations he had prepared and the Corpse Ghost Secret Technique, but if all their formations were destroyed—or he didn't have time to leave behind some corpses for the technique—getting away from Venerable Sword Saint wouldn't be easy. Chi Xue's two factions had already begun destroying Ling Tian's Teleportation Formations, and this time they had sent a great many cultivators. That meant there wasn't much room left for Ling Tian to flee.
What was more, if Po Tian, Chi Xue, and the other God Devouring Body cultivators arrived and joined forces with Venerable Sword Saint, they would cause him considerable trouble. Chi Xue and the others could use the God-Devouring Demon Domain, along with various other secret arts, to make things difficult for