That was precisely why.
None of them had meddled by attacking the fellow advancing to the Spirit Transformation Stage...
Nor had they waited for the fellow guarding the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Lotus to arrive and join forces against him, wasting their strength and risking exposure of their objective!
Now that they had reached the formation area that opened the Silver Spatial Passage, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable actually wanted to rest and recuperate here for thirty to fifty years. Wasn't he making a joke of everyone's lifespan, wasting it like this?
Seeing their puzzled looks, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable explained, "Under normal circumstances, of course we couldn't linger here. We'd open the Silver Spatial Passage formation as quickly as possible and head straight to the next Star Continent."
He paused, then continued with complete confidence, "Didn't we obtain an Ancient Times Stone Stele not long ago? Didn't I tell you that I'd found the method for controlling and opening the Silver Spatial Passage?"
"If we use the new method, we won't be wasting much time at all. On the contrary, we'll save a tremendous amount of it. As I've told you, these Star Continents are scattered around the Number One Central Star Palace Temple. Traveling from continent to continent doesn't mean we can advance simply by following their numerical order. We might actually end up farther away as we travel."
"What's more, we'd have to pass through a great many dangerous places. You should know that the closer a continent is to the Number One Central Star Palace Temple, the more dangerous it is. That's why most of the beings lurking on the Star Continents hide on continent eighty-three, which has a vast number of underground astral formations. It's mainly for safety."
"But with this new method, we can use this Silver Spatial Passage