Xue Fan and Xue Ye, despite being at the Near-Saint Nineteenth Heaven, still hadn't been able to snatch the Phoenix Soul Fruit essence from Ling Tian. With Little Devourer's strength restored and little of the essence left, no cultivator foolish enough to challenge Ling Tian appeared after that. This let Hua Min'er and the others breathe a sigh of relief. Although another cultivator triggering the Ultimate Lightning Tribulation would give Ling Tian a chance to bind and refine the tribulation, Hua Min'er and the others didn't want to see cultivators "fall for nothing." They would rather recruit powerful cultivators from the God Realm and join forces with them to fight the Lord of the Universe.
What heartened and excited Hua Min'er and the others most, however, was that Ling Tian had absorbed most of the Phoenix Soul Fruit essence. That meant it wouldn't be long before he completed his rebirth through nirvana.
Of course, "not long" was only relative. Ling Tian's Small World was several times, even more than ten times, larger than those of cultivators at the same level. That meant his rebirth through nirvana would take much longer, too.
And so it proved. It took tens of thousands more years before Ling Tian finally completed his rebirth through nirvana. Even then, he hadn't fully absorbed the Phoenix Soul Fruit essence. Still, when Hua Min'er and the others saw that the rebirth was complete, they finally let out a long breath. After all, they no longer had to live in fear of cultivators launching a sneak attack.
After completing his rebirth through nirvana, Ling Tian's Bloodline Power became incomparably formidable—even stronger than Little Devourer's had been when he first completed his own rebirth through nirvana. This also made Ling Tian's physical strength quite formidable. However, once his rebirth was