One can only say that the cultivators who have managed to survive through two worlds,
even though there's been a fair share of flukes and luck involved, their own strength and temperament are evidently remarkable.
The reason why they had been behaving so honestly before, without employing any plots or tricks,
was not because Lin Yuan had been suppressing them in the middle...
Rather, it was the sudden appearance of the Heavenly Tribulation, much like the lethal Sword of Damocles, that made everyone unable to harbor any other thoughts.
They merely wanted to wait for Lin Yuan to safely transcend the Heavenly Tribulation and only after fully understanding its characteristics, consider the next moves.
Now, the Heavenly Tribulation has ended.
And it was the worst-case scenario...
The Heavenly Tribulation, after all, had spanned thousands of years, broken the restrictions of the world, and come to this one.