If Ling Tian immediately accepted the mission to fight Venerable Sword Saint, the Lord of the Universe would impose several restrictions on Venerable Sword Saint. For instance, his cultivation realm would be suppressed to just barely the Near-Saint Sixteenth Heaven. Ling Tian and Little Devourer would only need to hold out against him for a year to complete the mission.
Hearing Poxiong's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. In their hearts, if that was all, Ling Tian and Little Devourer still had a chance to complete the mission, even though the process would remain dangerous.
"Only hold out for a year?!" Yao Yu said. Her beautiful eyes lit up as she spoke, and she turned to look at Ling Tian. "Against Venerable Sword Saint at the Near-Saint Sixteenth Heaven, it would be nearly impossible for Ling Tian and the others to kill him with their strength. But holding out for just a year isn't impossible. It'll still be very difficult, but they have a chance. After all, Ling Tian and Little Devourer's cultivation realms aren't much lower than they were last time."
That was right. The last time Ling Tian fought Venerable Sword Saint, their cultivation realms had also been far apart, but not by much more than this time. Since Ling Tian had completed the mission with relative ease back then, there naturally shouldn't be much of a problem this time either, especially with Little Devourer taking part.
Come to think of it, Little Devourer's ability to protect himself was far inferior to his own, but his cultivation realm was much higher than Ling Tian's. At the peak of the Near-Saint Fourteenth Heaven, he wasn't all that far below Venerable Sword Saint, who would be just barely at the Sixteenth Heaven. With his powerful Bloodline Power and various