The main reason Ling Tian and the others had found it so difficult to kill the cultivators surrounding them was that, after those cultivators learned the Clairvoyance Eye Art, they could spot them in advance and then bring out their great shields to form shield formations. Ling Tian and the others' attacks had struggled to break through the shields. They could only occasionally kill a few people with arrow arts that could curve, such as the Turning Arrow, making their efforts far too inefficient.
However, after Ling Tian opened his 108th Small World, his strength had increased noticeably. In particular, he had become much more adept at unleashing his Pseudo Small World and setting up formation patterns and restrictions within it. By making use of formations, Phantom Combo, and powerful arrow arts infused with World-Ending Lightning Tribulation energy, he could easily pose a tremendous threat to the shield formations—or even destroy them outright. At the very least, he could disrupt their formation, giving Chi Xue and the others an opening.
Thanks to this, Ling Tian and the others had directly killed over a thousand people in this ambush. Even more had suffered injuries, some light and some severe. This alone showed that Ling Tian's role was probably more important than that of cultivators like Shen Wei, who were at the Twenty-seventh Heaven of Near-Saint.
Shen Wei had recognized that Ling Tian was the one capable of breaking through the shield formations, so he attached great importance to Ling Tian's advancement to a higher realm. After all, once Ling Tian advanced, his arrow arts would become more powerful, making it easier to break through arrow formations made up of large numbers of cultivators.
"Mm. I'll do everything I can to advance my realm. I believe it won't be long before I