Ling Tian and the others had also detected at the first opportunity that Near-Saints of the Twenty-ninth Heaven had entered the Sacred Ruins Abyss—and there were quite a few of them. Their purpose was plain: they had come for Ling Tian and his companions.
After reaching that conclusion, Chi Xue and the others' expressions immediately grew grave. They worried whether Ling Tian could handle those Near-Saints of the Twenty-ninth Heaven.
In the past, they had been very confident in Ling Tian. That wasn't just because he had powerful life-preserving abilities. More importantly, even Near-Saints of the Twenty-ninth Heaven couldn't track their whereabouts back then. By exploiting that, and with the Creation Divine Tree and World-Ending Thunder Dragon able to keep track of those cultivators at all times, Ling Tian and the others had been able to avoid their pursuers without too much trouble. After all, those cultivators weren't like the ones from the Thunder Strike Sect, who could use the Thunder Strike Divine Silkworm to track them.
But things were different now. Ling Tian was in the middle of a breakthrough and couldn't suppress his surging aura. That would let the Near-Saints of the Twenty-ninth Heaven track him continuously. On top of that, he had to devote at least some of his attention to breaking through, making it even harder to evade pursuit.
"Fellow Daoist Ling Tian, what should we do now?" Tu Mo asked gravely. Before Ling Tian could reply, he turned to Shen Wei and the others. "Fellow Daoists, according to the Divine Emperor's earlier orders, if Near-Saints of the Twenty-ninth Heaven attack us, the seniors of the Sacred Heart Sect certainly won't stand by and do nothing. Now that they've come after us—and there's more than one of them—I'm sure the Sacred Heart Sect seniors will come