Although Mentor Yuan Mu was a mentor at Zao Hua Star Palace and a Seventh-Tier Star Lord, he had both strength and status. He was even the one leading the Heavenly Demon Creation Star experiment.
Even so, he couldn't simply take Liang Ji's experimental results and use them to answer to the Star Alliance's higher-ups.
After all, Liang Ji was now a Fifth-Tier Star Lord himself, with Kunlun Star Palace backing him. He wasn't some nobody Yuan Mu could bully at will.
So if Mentor Yuan Mu wanted to use his results to answer to the Star Alliance's higher-ups and ask them for more support, he had to offer Liang Ji sufficient resources and assistance.
For instance, after Liang Ji had fused the power of nine Heavenly Demon Creation Stars and verified that the results proved the fusion method sound, Mentor Yuan Mu had opened up all the Experimental Group's materials and resources to him, including various kinds of Heavenly Demon Creation Star Power.
It was thanks to the Experimental Group's support, as well as Yun Lai's sponsorship, that he had been able to gather eighteen kinds of Heavenly Demon Creation Star Power so quickly. That had allowed him to condense the "Dragon Pearl" into tangible form, giving his Natal Star the ability to accelerate its absorption of Void Demon Race Demon Cores and potentially advance faster.
The unfortunate part was that the Creation power of this "Dragon Pearl" could currently only affect his own Natal Star. It couldn't affect other Star Lords' Natal Stars, turn dead stars into Life Stars, or raise the tier of other Life Stars.
But at least it had given the Experimental Group hope.
That was why Mentor Yuan Mu wanted Liang Ji's experimental results to report to the Star Alliance's higher-ups and secure more