Among these heavenly materials and earthly treasures, spiritual ores and similar items were most numerous.
These ores were placed within the Purgatory Space to be consumed.
This was a necessary step in the creation of the Purgatory Space.
After all, the initially created Purgatory Space was exceedingly fragile, like a freshly laid egg, susceptible to shattering from any external impact.
To fortify such a delicate egg, it was highly beneficial for external heavenly and earthly spiritual ores to reinforce the Purgatory Space beforehand.
Li Qi's divine sense was primarily focused on the edges of the Purgatory Space, which was initially just a small point. One reason was to stabilize the newly born Purgatory Space.
The second reason was naturally to guard against any sudden external changes that could destroy his nascent Purgatory Space.
Currently, Li Qi was creating the Purgatory Space according to the Purgatory Divine Ability within Xu Qingfeng's memories.
Li Qi first let out a slow breath.
Then, he once again extended a portion of his divine sense, using it to pick up an expensive spiritual ore he had casually placed before him.
He carefully placed it at the edge of the newly born Purgatory Space.
Immediately, a not-weak suction force emerged from the tiny Purgatory Space.
A deep and profound aura surged forth.
The incredibly expensive and exceptionally hard ore was directly sucked into the Purgatory Space.
As the creator of the Purgatory Space, Li Qi could clearly perceive the internal conditions.
Though the Purgatory Space appeared no larger than a fingertip from the outside, its interior was a purgatorial void nearly a hundred meters long and wide.
After the piece of spiritual ore was absorbed into the space.
A destructive force surged within the Purgatory Space, and in a short time, it directly ground the ore into the finest powder. The energy contained within the ore was instantly absorbed and digested by all sides of the Purgatory Space, like a starving wolf.
However, Li Qi could also feel that his newly created Purgatory Space had become slightly more robust and its volume had increased infinitesimally.
Li Qi marveled at this, clicking his tongue.
"Why does it feel like my Purgatory Space is like something that needs to be nurtured? Won't it end up being another resource hog, like the Earthly Void Heavenly Dao?"
Many of Xu Qingfeng's later memories were fragmented, and Li Qi hadn't fully grasped how Xu Qingfeng had expanded his Purgatory Space to a point where it could effortlessly digest even Great Ascension cultivators.
Li Qi only knew that the Purgatory Space could devour any form of energy.
Following this, Li Qi had the Purgatory Space devour all the heavenly materials and earthly treasures before him.
Concurrently, the Purgatory Space, which was initially only a hundred meters long and wide internally, instantly expanded to a thousand meters long and wide.
Li Qi's divine sense was now at ease.
There was no longer a need to worry about the Purgatory Space suddenly collapsing on its own.
With a thought.
In an instant, the Purgatory Space, which externally appeared to be only finger-sized, expanded behind Li Qi.
The interior of the Purgatory Space was incredibly quiet and profound, a void.
Simultaneously, the moment Li Qi activated the Purgatory Space, a terrifying suction force surged forth.
The Heavenly Dao Space was already the place with the densest spiritual energy in the entire Earthly Void Realm.
In an instant, an endless stream of spiritual energy was completely devoured by the Purgatory Space.
Under normal circumstances, if Li Qi saw an external entity consuming the spiritual energy of his small world, he would immediately close the Purgatory Space.
If too much were consumed, his small world might become depleted of spiritual energy.
And at the same time, after Li Qi's Purgatory Space absorbed this spiritual energy.
The Purgatory Space instantly refined the spiritual energy into the purest form of energy. A portion was used to expand the space itself.
The other portion was directly fed back into Li Qi's body.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
Li Qi's eyes widened instantly.
This was because the Purgatory Space consumed and refined spiritual energy at an astonishing speed.
Even his full speed of absorbing and refining spiritual energy was less than a tenth of the Purgatory Space's speed.
Now, he didn't even need to cultivate; simply activating the Purgatory Space to let it devour spiritual energy yielded such efficiency.
"As expected of a divine ability that even a peak Great Ascension expert like Xu Qingfeng valued so highly. This cultivation speed is too fast."
At the same time, Li Qi suddenly understood something about Xu Qingfeng's fragmented memories.
Why, in the memories he hadn't seen, Xu Qingfeng's cultivation speed remained so rapid even at higher cultivation levels.
With the Purgatory Space helping him refine various energies for his use, how could his cultivation speed be slow?
In terms of raw power, if the Purgatory Space's strength was further amplified by Li Qi, and with the current abundance of spiritual energy, Li Qi's cultivation speed could be many times faster.
At that point, the only thing limiting Li Qi's advancement would be the invisible barriers in each realm.
If Li Qi could break through the barrier and enter a new realm as soon as spiritual energy was abundant, and then continue to increase his strength with the help of the Purgatory Space, Li Qi's realm progression could reach terrifying speeds.
However, it was a pity that he was currently at the Tribulation Transcension stage.
The spiritual energy in the Earthly Void Realm was also abundant, but considering the Purgatory Space's consumption rate, there would likely be periods of spiritual energy scarcity.
Thinking of this, Li Qi's brow furrowed slightly.
Before he began cultivating, he had wondered if, when truly cultivating the Purgatory Space and beginning to consume all energy, someone might devour an entire small world, including all its inhabitants and even the Heavenly Dao will, for rapid advancement.
But now, he clearly felt that the spiritual energy of his own small world was insufficient for the Purgatory Space's consumption rate. If Li Qi didn't have his own moral boundaries, he might truly have become a planar devourer by now.
However, Li Qi quickly shook his head and dismissed the thought.
"It's not that extreme. I, Li, am not that kind of person."
Besides, the small worlds were too trashy for Li Qi. Devouring an entire small world of a Harmony Dao cultivator likely wouldn't yield significant improvement.
Unless Li Qi set his sights on small worlds where the Heavenly Dao had already reached the Tribulation Transcension stage.
Only then would devouring the spiritual energy and Heavenly Dao of an entire small world yield substantial gains.
But the current situation was that among the dozens of void black markets around them, worlds with Tribulation Transcension stage Heavenly Dao were extremely rare.
Let alone the complete disappearance of a Tribulation Transcension stage Heavenly Dao and its small world, even the death of a single Tribulation Transcension stage cultivator would cause a major upheaval.
Li Qi would not do something that would attract so much attention.