Since continuing to hide in the Sacred Ruins Abyss was the wisest choice, and they couldn't contact the World-Ending Thunder Dragon on their own, Chi Xue and the others had no choice but to accept their current situation. Fortunately, they trusted Ling Tian's methods. The formation runes and restrictions he had laid down would surely detect approaching cultivators and alert them in advance, while the grand formation formed by merging the three arrays would certainly buy them time to escape—even if they faced experts at the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth Heaven of Near-Saint.
Of course, everyone trusted Ling Tian and Chi Xue's analysis. They also believed that the message had most likely been deliberately spread by the Mist Hidden Sect or the Dark Pavilion.
The passage of several hundred, even a thousand years soon proved Ling Tian and the others right. No cultivators came near, and according to the World-Ending Thunder Dragon, far fewer "outsiders" had entered the Sacred Ruins Abyss than before. During that time, the World-Ending Thunder Dragon returned once. Chi Xue and the others naturally took the chance to ask whether any powerful cultivators had ventured deep into the Sacred Ruins Abyss.
That was right—the World-Ending Thunder Dragon had returned once. Its journey had also yielded a great deal. It had not only brought Ling Tian and the others quite a bit of Origin Power left behind by fallen Saints, but also found some thunder-attribute Origin Power. After refining it, its condition improved considerably.
The only thing that left Ling Tian and the others somewhat disappointed was that although the World-Ending Thunder Dragon had found many jade slips containing cultivation arts, none contained the Great Thousand Worlds or the Sacred Heart Art. Those were the two arts Ling Tian and the others needed most urgently.
Fortunately, the Sacred