It had to be said that after Ling Tian and the others captured so many cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint, they had successfully intimidated many of the cultivators surrounding the Sacred Ruins Abyss. In particular, those cultivators had been captured alive rather than killed. In any cultivator's mind, capturing a target was far harder than killing one, so Ling Tian and the others' ability to capture so many cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint was more than enough to deter the rest. That was exactly why so many had given up surrounding the Sacred Ruins Abyss outright, including quite a few cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint.
It made sense. Ling Tian and the others' ability to capture cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint was proof of their current strength. What was more, the cultivators they captured would all be put to use. It was no exaggeration to say that even cultivators at the mid stage of the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint might not be a match for Ling Tian and the others. Even if their strength surpassed Ling Tian and his companions', they would have almost no chance of taking the Creation Divine Tree, the World-Ending Thunder Dragon, or the other Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures from them. After all, those cultivators at the mid stage of the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint had already been unable to do anything to Ling Tian and his companions before. Now Ling Tian and the others had broken through again, and they had seven more experts at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint fighting alongside them.
Most of the cultivators surrounding the Sacred Ruins Abyss had come to obtain the Creation Divine Tree and other Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures. Now that they had no chance of taking them, many naturally gave up.