Once Venerable Sword Saint realized that destroying Ling Tian and the others' Teleportation Formations wouldn't let him capture or kill Ling Tian, he naturally gave up attacking him. After all, there was no point in continuing. It would only give Ling Tian a chance to temper himself and grow stronger. More importantly, Venerable Sword Saint knew he still had a chance to kill Ling Tian and Little Bite, so he chose to stop. He knew the Lord of the Universe would surely assign him another mission to deal with Ling Tian and Little Bite—and that this time, he had a very good chance of killing or capturing them.
And so, Venerable Sword Saint stopped attacking Ling Tian. At the same time, Chi Xue's two factions also chose to withdraw from the northern region of the God Realm. They returned to the wastelands in the eastern region of the God Realm and continued working to improve their strength.
Though they were disappointed by this outcome, Chi Xue and the others knew there was no point in carrying on, especially since they had discovered many Teleportation Formations in the southern region and elsewhere that didn't belong to either of their factions.
That was right: many new Teleportation Formations had appeared throughout the southern region and other parts of the God Realm. They didn't belong to Chi Xue's two factions, and Chi Xue and the others were clever enough to figure out that they had likely been set up by the covert cultivators Ling Tian's group had sent out. They also knew these formations would let Ling Tian's group stall for much longer, so continuing their current strategy would put them at a serious disadvantage. It was no wonder that, after discovering those formations, Chi Xue and the others realized it was nearly