Refining strange energy could rapidly improve a cultivator's cultivation realm and strength. It could also save them a great deal of time, allowing them to break through to a higher limit. This brought cultivators many benefits, and it was precisely why Ling Tian had advanced so quickly to the peak of the Near-Saint Nineteenth Heaven.
Of course, the greatest reason he had refined so much strange energy was the Lord of the Universe's help. After all, it was the Lord of the Universe who had gathered so much of it for Ling Tian. Thinking of all the benefits that came from refining strange energy, Ling Tian and the others naturally hoped the Lord of the Universe would gather more for him. Ling Tian could search the God Realm or trade Chaos Qi with other cultivators to obtain strange energy, but that would take a great deal of time, and the amount he could get would be small—certainly nowhere near what the Lord of the Universe had gathered for him before.
Other cultivators would never dream of asking the Lord of the Universe to gather strange energy for them, let alone ask him to do so twice. But Ling Tian was different. He was a seed the Lord of the Universe had specially chosen, and past events showed that the Lord of the Universe needed something from him. He wanted Ling Tian to grow as strong as possible, and refining strange energy could greatly increase Ling Tian's strength. Even for that reason alone, the Lord of the Universe might gather more for him.
"Heh, that's not necessarily true," Poqiong said with a laugh. "The Lord of the Universe needs something from you, so of course he wants you to be as strong as possible. Most importantly, since he helped you gather