Defeating the Lord of the Universe required more than an exceptionally high cultivation level. They also needed secret arts, techniques, and even energies the Lord of the Universe knew nothing about. That was why Ling Tian and the others had spent all these years cultivating various unusual secret arts and refining strange energies.
But if the Lord of the Universe knew all about them and was familiar with them, then Ling Tian and the others' trump cards would no longer be secrets. They would still have a chance to defeat him, but the odds would be much worse.
Before, Ling Tian and the others had at least been confident that the Lord of the Universe didn't know their trump cards. Now, however, they weren't so sure. In particular, over the years, some cultivators had "ventured" into the Demon God Forbidden Ground and never returned. Most likely, the Lord of the Universe had captured them, and he would surely search their souls to learn about Ling Tian and the others. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the Lord of the Universe must already know they had obtained every kind of Saint-grade Heavenly Treasure, as well as which cultivation arts and secret techniques they had learned.
It made sense. In the past, cultivators from the starfield naturally hadn't known much about Ling Tian and the others. But now they had become the hottest topic in the starfield, and nearly every cultivator there must know something about them. The cultivators surrounding the Demon God Forbidden Ground were the cream of the crop, so they would know even more about Ling Tian and the others. In other words, by capturing them and searching their souls, the Lord of the Universe could learn many of Ling Tian and the others' secrets. At the