At Thunder Strike Sect, with the Sacred Heart Sect cultivators "leading the way," more than a hundred cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint had joined Ling Tian and the others in less than a thousand years. This number far exceeded the cultivators who had previously pursued them. That alone showed that the starfield was home to no shortage of hidden experts.
But these cultivators all faced the same problem: insufficient life force. As soon as they encountered this problem, they chose to follow Ling Tian and the others—unless they could break through to the Saint level themselves, or were directly confronted with death. Yet there were likely no cultivators in the entire starfield who could face death head-on. They would simply grow old and die, little by little.
As for breaking through to the Saint level, that was even less likely. From what they could tell, even Divine Emperor and Lei Ba had no confidence in successfully reaching the Saint level, much less the other cultivators. That left these people with only one choice: follow Ling Tian and the others. Ling Tian and his companions were brimming with confidence in those who followed them; at the very least, they had never worried about this issue, especially after cultivators from Sacred Heart Sect and Thunder Strike Sect joined them.
"Fellow Daoist Ling Tian, counting the cultivators from Thunder Strike Sect and Sacred Heart Sect, we now have nearly a hundred and fifty cultivators at the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint with us. Quite a few are at the middle stage of the Twenty-ninth Heaven of Near-Saint, and some have even reached the late stage," Tu Tian said, his face alight with joy. "Most importantly, Senior Divine Emperor and Senior Lei Ba are in seclusion cultivating. Once they break through, we'll have