The Saint Tiger Sect's destruction caused an uproar across the Outer Realm's star region. But after learning that Ling Tian and the others had come out of the Demon God Forbidden Ground, countless cultivators began hunting them down. They all wanted to capture Ling Tian and his companions, learn what lay inside the forbidden ground, and then obtain the Phoenix Soul Fruit and the Phoenix Soul Fruit Tree.
Ling Tian knew nothing of this for the time being. He continued toward the Mist Hidden Sect at top speed. Of course, he had changed his appearance and aura, and those measures were enough to fool the vast majority of cultivators. What's more, the Mist Hidden Sect was in a rather remote area, rarely visited by cultivators. Few ever crossed paths with Ling Tian, let alone recognized him.
Leaving Ling Tian to continue toward the Mist Hidden Sect at top speed, let's turn to Chi Xue and the others.
Not long after leaving the Demon God Forbidden Ground, Chi Xue and his companions captured a number of Outer Realm Cultivators and learned about the surrounding area from them, including news of a Saint-grade Heavenly Treasure. Without hesitation, they moved against it. After all, in their eyes, the Lord of the Universe had tasked them with finding Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures.
The Saint-grade Heavenly Treasure they had heard about was the Soaring Serpent Divine Tree, which was controlled by a fairly decent faction.
Of course, "fairly decent" was only by the standards of this star region. The strongest cultivator in that faction had barely reached the Near-Saint Twentieth Heaven. Its overall strength was nowhere near the Saint Tiger Sect's. For Chi Xue and the others, suppressing the faction and seizing the Soaring Serpent Divine Tree would be easy.
That was only natural. Although they