After Ling Tian and the others opened up multiple Small Worlds and improved their cultivation levels, their strength increased dramatically. Ling Tian in particular could now easily defeat cultivators at the twenty-sixth Heaven of Near-Saint without relying on a formation, even those at the peak of that level. With a formation that combined three different formations, he could even contend with cultivators at the twenty-seventh Heaven of Near-Saint. This meant they now possessed extremely powerful means of protecting themselves.
Of course, Ling Tian knew that even so, it would still be difficult to stand against the Sacred Heart Sect. After all, the sect had multiple cultivators at the peak of the twenty-seventh Heaven of Near-Saint. More importantly, that was only what the Dark Pavilion and Mist Hidden Sect had learned. No one knew whether the Sacred Heart Sect had cultivators at even higher levels.
With their current strength, Ling Tian and the others would struggle even against a cultivator at the peak of the twenty-seventh Heaven of Near-Saint, and might not stand a chance at all. They certainly couldn't deal with multiple experts of that level, let alone those at the twenty-eighth Heaven of Near-Saint. In other words, they still couldn't fully protect themselves.
However, things would change somewhat if Ling Tian could break through to the twenty-fifth Heaven of Near-Saint. Not only would breaking through to a new major realm greatly increase his strength, but the Small Worlds he had opened would also grow much larger, further bolstering his power. Even the stores of strange energy accumulated by those Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures would be enough to suppress most experts. What was more, in the future, he would join forces with Chi Xue, Tu Tian, and the others.
Ling Tian had great confidence in what Poqiong had said. In particular,