Once they confirmed that the Sacred Heart Sect had truly sent cultivators carrying the Creation Divine Tree into the Sacred Ruins Abyss—and learned their cultivation levels—Ling Tian and the others were left with only two choices. The first was to use the formation before them to engage the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators. From what they could tell, Ling Tian and his companions would struggle to defeat them, but Tu Mo and the others believed that even if they lost, they could still escape safely.
Even if they couldn't defeat the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators, fighting them would let them learn more about their capabilities. That way, defeating them later and taking the Creation Divine Tree from them would be much easier.
If they were lucky, and the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators weren't as powerful as they imagined, then with the formation's help, Ling Tian and the others might have a chance to capture them in one fell swoop. They could then claim the Creation Divine Tree ahead of time, which would bring them immense benefits. It would let them gather all the Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures and fuse them into Primordial Chaos Qi, and they could also use the Creation Divine Tree to open up a new Small World. That would undoubtedly make them far stronger.
Of course, fighting the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators with the formation also had its drawbacks. If the cultivators were too powerful, then even with the formation's help, Ling Tian and the others might have no chance of escaping. They would be captured outright, and it was easy to imagine what awaited them.
After considering all this, Shi Ying suggested that they could choose the other option: abandon the formation for now and deliberately avoid the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators, using their greater familiarity with the