That was right. Although Ling Tian had captured many cultivators, he had never planned to use soul restrictions to control them—not before he found a way to neutralize the restrictions, at the very least. Even when teaming up with Chi Xue and the others, he had stuck to that principle. In fact, as he spoke, there was a hint of forcefulness in his tone.
"Ling Tian, our cooperation is supposed to be fair. Aren't you being a little too overbearing?" Shi Lin said irritably. "Your strength is impressive, and you must have laid traps in the Extreme Ice Plains ahead of time, but our combined strength is no slouch either. If anything, we're stronger as a group. We'll be contributing a great deal to dealing with the Outer Realm Cultivators, so letting you keep every cultivator we capture is a little unfair."
Shi Lin had good reason for saying this. He wasn't worried that Ling Tian would control the cultivators he captured; he was concerned that Ling Tian would keep all the information they gave up to himself. After all, capturing Outer Realm Cultivators could immediately yield some Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures and all sorts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, as well as information about various Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures. That information mattered a great deal to Chi Xue and the others, since what they had gathered so far was incomplete—at the very least, they had yet to find even a hundred and eight kinds.
In other words, Chi Xue and the others needed that information too.
"Don't worry. I'll tell you anything I learn from them about the Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures. I won't hide anything from you on that front. You can trust me completely." Ling Tian saw through Shi Lin and the others' concerns at once. When he noticed