If the Sacred Heart Sect cultivators had only been at the level of Shen Wei and the others, then even if they were somewhat stronger—for example, with a cultivator at the Twenty-eighth Heaven of Near-Saint among them—Wu Wei and the other Mist Hidden Sect cultivators would still have had some confidence in defeating them. But after learning that the weakest of the cultivators who had come from the Sacred Heart Sect this time was at the peak of the Twenty-eighth Heaven of Near-Saint, while the other two were experts at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint, they had completely lost confidence. In their hearts, even if every super sect in the star domain, along with all the reclusive experts, joined forces, they still might not be able to stand against the Sacred Heart Sect.
After thinking it over, Shen Wei and the others all urged Wu Yi to abandon the plan. The latter, however, remained set on it, and even offered a fairly compelling reason: if they failed to seize the Creation Divine Tree, death would be their only fate.
That was right. Even though conditions in the extraterritorial star domain were far better than in the Lord of the Universe's universe, cultivators who had trained for countless years still suffered increasingly severe erosion by time. Relying only on the Ginseng Fruit Tree and consuming other life-force-rich Heavenly Treasures was no longer enough to sustain them. If things continued this way, they would eventually face the problem of dying from a lack of life force—unless they broke through to the Saint level or obtained the Creation Divine Tree. That was also why the Sacred Heart Sect cultivators had panicked so badly after learning that the Creation Divine Tree had "betrayed" them.
Even cultivators who had opened multiple Small Worlds and practiced