The process of consolidating one's cultivation was to use a more powerful Nascent Soul and greater control of one's mind to reforge the energy and Origin Power contained in one's Small World and golden core, making them purer. This would undoubtedly greatly increase a cultivator's strength, but it took a long time, especially for a cultivator like Ling Tian, whose Small World was enormous.
Still, it meant Ling Tian's strength kept improving. On top of that, he could absorb more Divine Yuan Power and thereby expand his Small World, so he thoroughly enjoyed the process.
Time flowed on. In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of years passed, and Ling Tian had completely consolidated his cultivation. By then, his Small World had grown nearly twenty percent larger than before. That was a tremendous increase. After all, his Small World had already been enormous; a twenty-percent expansion from that baseline meant its size had increased by more than that of a cultivator at the same level. That alone showed how much this had improved Ling Tian's strength.
Moreover, the larger a Small World became, the more it resembled a universe. This gave Ling Tian even more confidence in standing against the Lord of the Universe, and facing Chi Xue and the others would be all the easier. He was confident that he could defeat Chi Xue, Po Tian, and the rest with ease by unleashing his Externalized Small World. Even though Chi Xue and the others had reached the middle stage of the Near-Saint Nineteenth Heaven before him, and even if Chi Xue and Po Tian were one or two minor realms above him, it would still be no problem.
That was precisely why Ling Tian wasn't worried about the Lord of the Universe assigning him a life-or-death battle