After Ling Tian and the others had agreed to attack cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint, the next ten thousand years saw them breaking through one after another. Ling Tian reached the mid stage of the Twenty-seventh Heaven of Near-Saint, while Shen Wei and the other Sacred Heart Sect cultivators successively reached the late stage of the Twenty-eighth Heaven of Near-Saint. Chi Xue, the others, and the members of the Demon Slayer Alliance also made breakthroughs. By then, more than eighty percent of the cultivators had reached the Twenty-seventh Heaven of Near-Saint, fulfilling the condition Ling Tian and the others had set before they could attack cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint. Many were itching to fight, eager to take on those cultivators.
Their impatience wasn't just because Ling Tian and the others had gained a great deal of strength and now had more confidence. More importantly, over the years another five or six cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint had joined the pursuit, putting even more pressure on them. At the very least, the time they could spend attacking the cultivators surrounding the Sacred Ruins Abyss had shrunk by nearly two tenths.
Having less time to attack those surrounding the Sacred Ruins Abyss meant Ling Tian and the others had killed fewer cultivators. And now that the encirclement had tightened, it required far fewer people to maintain than before. This made it even harder for Ling Tian and the others to break out early. For that reason alone, they had to try attacking cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint.
"Fellow Daoist Ling Tian, there are even more cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint pursuing us than before. That leaves us much less time to attack those surrounding us, which will greatly affect whether we