Although the scouts sent out by the Mist Hidden Sect might not have been as powerful as the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators, the Mist Hidden Sect truly was the best at gathering intelligence. The sect possessed several remarkable secret arts that could probe the cultivation levels and even the life states of those at higher realms. With these arts, it was easy to learn what level of cultivator the Sacred Heart Sect had sent into the Sacred Ruins Abyss. With their powerful intelligence-analysis skills, the Mist Hidden Sect's cultivators could even easily determine that those who had set out were merely among the Sacred Heart Sect's weaker cultivators. In other words, the Sacred Heart Sect certainly had even more powerful cultivators stationed back at home. Once they realized this, the Mist Hidden Sect members grew solemn, because it meant that if the Saint-grade Heavenly Treasure fell into the Sacred Heart Sect's hands, it would be difficult to take it from them.
It stood to reason. Even the weakest cultivators were comparable to the top experts of super sects like the Mist Hidden Sect, and the Sacred Heart Sect surely had even stronger cultivators stationed back at home. In that case, even if cultivators and sects across the entire outer star region banded together to attack, they still might not be able to defeat the Sacred Heart Sect. And if they couldn't defeat it, they naturally couldn't seize the Creation Divine Tree or any of the other Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures from its grasp.
Thinking of this, the Mist Hidden Sect's cultivators felt a twinge of regret. They regretted telling the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators about the news.
"Yeah. We knew the Sacred Heart Sect was powerful, but we never imagined it was this powerful. You and I both know the sort