Over a hundred years passed. Little Sn real and Yu Ying had made excellent progress in strength, while Ling Tian had absorbed and refined a great deal of Lightning Power. Most importantly, he had finally stabilized his cultivation level completely, which had brought him another substantial boost in strength. All of this was cause for celebration. The only thing that vexed them was that, despite all this time passing, the Heavenly Treasure hiding in Thunder Purgatory still hadn't responded to them.
If it had merely ignored them, that would have been one thing. More importantly, Enlightenment Sacred Tree and the other Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures could clearly sense that it hadn't gone far. It hadn't left, yet it had no intention of communicating with Ling Tian and the others. It was just stringing them along, and that was what irked them most. In the eyes of Enlightenment Sacred Tree and the other Heavenly Treasures, that Heavenly Treasure was simply squandering its good fortune. For a while, they were all furious, yet there was nothing they could do.
The reason they were helpless was simple: they still couldn't pinpoint the Heavenly Treasure's location. Ling Tian couldn't forcefully capture it without knowing where it was. Even if they could absorb all the Lightning Power in Thunder Purgatory to find it, that would take a long time, and it would draw a large number of Outer Realm Cultivators to the area. Ling Tian wouldn't resort to that unless absolutely necessary.
They also knew that Ling Tian wasn't strong enough yet to face Outer Realm Cultivators at the Twenty-third Heaven of Near-Saint. Acting rashly would be extremely dangerous—far more so than having the Heavenly Treasure willingly follow them. For a while, Nine Nether Underworld King Flower fell silent.
"If that Heavenly Treasure has any sense,