Ling Tian had successfully killed the first target he pursued, even though that cultivator had directly controlled the cultivators he'd taken into his Small World and sent them to attack Ling Tian in a self-detonation. After dealing with those people, Ling Tian and Xiao Shi had more than ten fewer opponents to face in the future. One of them had even been a God Devouring Body, which would undoubtedly lighten the pressure on Ling Tian and Xiao Shi considerably and give them a better chance of completing the mission assigned by the Lord of the Universe.
While Ling Tian pursued that target, Feng Lingzi and the others had also made their moves, and each had achieved some measure of success. Though they hadn't killed a God Devouring Body, they had wounded their targets and, at the very least, forced them to expend more energy. Feng Lingzi and the others were at their peak and had launched a sneak attack, so it had been easy for them to pose a threat. If their targets hadn't been God Devouring Bodies and prepared Phantom Clones in advance, Feng Lingzi and the others would surely have had a chance to kill them.
Even so, they had made those God Devouring Bodies' situations worse. If Ling Tian hurried over to attack them next, he would have a much better chance of killing them.
After killing his first target, Ling Tian didn't stop for a moment. He hurried toward Wu Ling as fast as he could. First, of course, he had to shake off Venerable Sword Saint. With his Phantom Clone, Time Secret Technique, and Teleportation Formation, that proved easy enough. Ling Tian wasn't worried about Venerable Sword Saint catching up to him, but he was concerned that Venerable Sword Saint and the others might cause