Although Chi Xue's two factions had kept their strength rising rapidly by capturing and merging with powerful Ancient Divine Beasts, Ling Tian's side had been improving at no slower a pace. At the very least, Feng Lingzi and the others could still hold Po Di and his people at bay, preventing them from pushing deeper into the northern region of the God Realm. The two sides could keep up this stalemate for a long time; as things stood, they could hold out for tens of thousands of years without a problem. And that didn't even take into account the many secret teleportation formations Ling Tian's side had set up across the God Realm through the cultivators they had dispatched undercover long ago. With those formations to rely on, they could hold out even longer.
After all this time, Ling Tian's strength was bound to improve considerably. Even if he couldn't break through to the Near-Saint Fifteenth Heaven, he could still reach the peak of the Near-Saint Fourteenth Heaven. At that level, he might be able to keep Sword Saint at bay without relying on teleportation formations. That meant he would no longer have to fear being hounded by Sword Saint and Chi Xue's two factions until he was exhausted and killed.
Of course, Ling Tian's side drew its greatest confidence from Xiao Shi. By now, Xiao Shi had devoured and assimilated eighty to ninety percent of Fengyun Realm. In other words, it wouldn't be long before he finished absorbing it. Even if he couldn't completely refine Fengyun Realm's Origin Power by then, it wouldn't matter. If nothing unexpected happened, he would at least have reached the peak of the Near-Saint Fourteenth Heaven, and might even break through to the Near-Saint Fifteenth Heaven.
With such a cultivation level, powerful Bloodline Power,