There were more than a thousand awakened cultivators. Although they were only infinitely close to the Saint level, their auras revealed that their combat prowess had reached the Saint level. They were even somewhat stronger than Chi Xue and the others, who were also infinitely close to the Saint level. With more than a thousand cultivators like that, even if they knew no powerful secret techniques and relied only on Teleportation Secret Technique and close-quarters combat, they would still pose an enormous threat to Chi Xue and the others.
If the two sides fought head-on in a battle to the death, then even if Chi Xue and the others won in the end by relying on their many powerful secret techniques, it would likely be a Pyrrhic victory. They would be lucky if more than a hundred of them survived.
It was precisely on the basis of this judgment that, when Chi Xue and the others sensed those thousand-plus cultivators rushing toward the Demon God Forbidden Ground at top speed, they decided to strike first and force the Lord of the Universe into a final battle. There was no need to learn the cultivators' origins or what secret techniques they knew.
"I was just asking out of curiosity. I certainly wasn't thinking of waiting until those cultivators arrived before attacking the Lord of the Universe," Ling Tian's Clone said casually. As he spoke, he looked at the Divine Emperor and Lei Ba, his meaning clear.
In fact, Ling Tian's Clone wasn't the only one curious about the cultivators' origins and what secret techniques they knew. The others were, too. Like Ling Tian's Clone, they looked toward the Divine Emperor and Lei Ba—even Shi Jia and Tu Xian, who had earlier wondered why Ling Tian's Clone was curious.
"I don't know