It made sense. Any direction they hadn't searched before and that Ling Tian hadn't gone in still had a chance of yielding Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures. What was more, as Chi Xue had said, they didn't necessarily need to take them by force; they could trade Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures for them instead. That way, they wouldn't need to visit every place they hadn't searched.
"Of course, before that, we need to find somewhere safe to cultivate in seclusion," Chi Xue said, looking around at everyone. "It's not just that we need to improve our cultivation. More importantly, we have to wait for this period of heightened vigilance to pass. Many cultivators at the Twenty-third Heaven of Near-Saint have begun moving around. If we reveal our whereabouts, they may set their sights on us, which would be very dangerous."
Everyone agreed. They all realized that the wisest course was to stay hidden until the commotion died down.
"Um, even if we offer a lot of Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures, there may still be some we can't get, right?" Shi Meng suddenly said, looking at the others. "Especially the extremely rare ones, like those for which there are only one or two in the entire Outer Realm Star Domain. I doubt any cultivator would be willing to trade one of those to us. In the end, we'll still have to fight for them."
"So we fight. With our strength..." Shi Li said dismissively, but he was interrupted before he could finish.
"Those extremely rare Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures are probably in the hands of cultivators at the Twenty-third Heaven of Near-Saint or even higher, or else in the possession of extremely powerful sects," Shi Ying said with a wry smile. "Let alone those at higher levels—even cultivators at the Twenty-third Heaven of Near-Saint are beyond