Even while breaking through, Ling Tian had still managed to open up a considerable gap between himself and the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators. At this rate, they wouldn't catch up to him within ten years. That let Chi Xue and the others breathe a sigh of relief. After all, they believed that Ling Tian must have completed his breakthrough by now. Once he did, his greater strength would make it easy to shake off the Sacred Heart Sect cultivators.
What was more, with Ling Tian's cultivation advancing another step, even if the Sacred Heart Sect sent out stronger cultivators, they might still be unable to do anything to them. Thinking of this, Tu Yao and the others were glad once again that they had followed Ling Tian's advice and chosen to break through.
It made sense. If they had chosen not to break through and instead had let Ling Tian suppress his cultivation, then the Sacred Heart Sect could have sent cultivators of a higher realm. They would have had a good chance of catching up with Ling Tian and the others and capturing them. Even in the best-case scenario, they could have put them under much greater threat.
Of course, everyone in the Demon Slayer Alliance was also all the more glad that they hadn't parted ways with Ling Tian back then. If they had, then after realizing they still couldn't do anything to him, the Sacred Heart Sect's cultivators might have chosen to target them and use them to threaten Ling Tian. Given the Sacred Heart Sect cultivators' strength and various methods, capturing them would have posed no problem at all.
Po Qiong couldn't help but praise Ling Tian's methods, especially since he could already sense that Ling Tian would formally break through before long. At the very