This time, the Lord of the Universe had gathered a great deal of strange energy for Ling Tian, just a little less than the first time. Most importantly, some of it was energy Ling Tian had never refined before. Refining it would noticeably increase his strength. In particular, his Small World had once again begun transforming into a universe, which delighted him. Right now, nothing could increase Ling Tian's strength more than his Small World's transformation. Further progress might even let him establish a stronger connection with his clone outside the universe. Then, even if the Lord of the Universe didn't go easy on him, he would have a good chance of forcibly breaking through the firmament and escaping the Lord of the Universe's control.
Of course, ever since Ling Tian learned that Primordial Chaos Qi could completely transform his Small World into a universe, he had realized that refining strange energy alone could never fully complete the transformation and let him break through to the Saint level. To accomplish that, he still needed Primordial Chaos Qi—and a sufficient amount of it.
Still, the fact that refining this strange energy could increase Ling Tian's strength put him in a good mood. It gave him a better chance of escaping the Lord of the Universe's control, and greater strength would also help him handle all kinds of trouble after he finally got free. It would even improve his chances of obtaining Primordial Chaos Qi.
Though Ling Tian had analyzed that the Lord of the Universe would almost certainly go easy on him and Xiao Shi, allowing them to escape his control with ease, Ling Tian wanted to seize the chance to undergo tribulation to affect the Lord of the Universe as much as possible and weaken him. That would bring many