Dual Transmigration: American Prison, Surviving to a Fantasy Development Stage

Ten minutes passed before Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

The amount of information that had just flooded his mind was simply too much, like someone had forcibly stuffed an entire book into it, making his head throb with pain.

Fortunately, the Black Lotus was powerful; it not only absorbed the candlelight but also sorted out the memories within it clearly, which were now presented in his mind as if he had experienced them firsthand.

After organizing this information, Lin Feng was somewhat surprised.

This royal retainer is named Zhao Tianlai, and his strength is at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Qi Refining Realm – This is a higher realm than the Innate Realm, also known as the legendary Grandmaster.

The sixth level is considered average among the nine levels of Qi Refining.

This person has a wood-attribute spiritual root and comes from a sect called Cangxuan Sect, where he is an outer disciple.

He is 139 years old this year. According to the lifespan limit of the sixth level of Qi Refining, he should not be nearing his end so soon.

A normal Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator can live to around 145 years old; he still has several years to live.

But that's where the problem lies.

At 139 years old, he was still at the sixth level of Qi Refining, which is enough to show that this person has mediocre talent and no hope of breaking through.

As we age, our Qi and blood gradually decline, making breakthroughs increasingly less likely.

As his lifespan was drawing to a close, his fear of death deepened, and he lived in constant anxiety, so how could he possibly have the mind to continue cultivating?

During a mission to exterminate monsters, he accidentally obtained a treasure—the Seven Soul Lamp—along with a matching evil cultivation technique.

The Seven Soul Lamps are far superior to the magical artifacts he used before.

Magical artifacts are merely entry-level items, while this Seven Soul Lamp is a true spiritual artifact!

Spiritual artifacts possess a spirit, and their power far surpasses that of magical artifacts. Among the outer disciples of the Cangxuan Sect, only elders and the sect leader possess spiritual artifacts.

However, the Seven Soul Lamps are an evil artifact, specifically used to refine the essence and blood of others for one's own use.

After seeing that evil martial arts manual, Zhao Tian was completely captivated.

The Bloodthirsty Technique of Ten Thousand Souls

Just from the name, you can tell it's not some legitimate martial art.

They use the Seven Soul Lamps to devour the souls and essence of living people, and then refine them to strengthen their own divine soul and improve their cultivation.

The more people you kill, the more perfect your cultivation technique becomes, and the easier it is to break through.

If the Cangxuan Sect were to discover such an evil technique, they would surely perish.

The righteous path of immortals abhors such immoral and immoral acts.

So Zhao Tianlai had a wicked idea.

He took advantage of the Cangxuan Sect's rule that outer disciples could return to the mortal world when their time was up to be spent to select disciples with spiritual roots for the sect, so he took the initiative to apply to come to the Great Wei Dynasty.

The Cangxuan Sect controlled five dynasties in total, and the Great Wei was one of them.

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According to the sect rules, outer disciples can go to the mortal realm to oversee the sect and find promising talents when their lifespan is about to end.

As long as a young person with spiritual roots is discovered, they will be brought into the sect and become an outer disciple. If a good disciple is discovered, everyone will receive a reward.

This serves two purposes: it replenishes the sect with fresh blood and also acts as a form of compensation for the older disciples.

Let them enjoy a few years of peace and happiness in the mortal world, and pass away with dignity.

This is also why mortal dynasties mobilized so much resources for the military examinations.

The martial arts examination, to put it bluntly, is a way to select talent for the immortal sects.

Most people who can enter the Innate Realm at the age of thirty have spiritual roots, so the selection mechanism was delegated to the dynasty.

As long as someone from the dynasty enters the Cangxuan Sect as an outer disciple, the dynasty can continue to receive the sect's protection and perpetuate its rule.

Conversely, if a dynasty fails to send anyone to the Cangxuan Sect for five consecutive years, the sect will overthrow the dynasty and replace it with a new, capable leader.

Essentially, it's also about sucking blood.

In summary, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty was just an employee, a high-level manager. If he didn't meet the performance targets, he would be fired.

After organizing this information, Lin Feng couldn't help but marvel.

These days, even emperors have performance evaluations; I've never seen anything like it before.

But thinking about it, it makes sense.

The Great Wei Dynasty revered military prowess, and all its political achievements centered around military examinations, which explains the situation.

Any emperor, in order to keep his position, would have to desperately promote the military examinations and cultivate talent.

Zhao Tianlai took this opportunity to come to the Great Wei.

His plan was shrewd—he would fake his death and disappear into the shadows to secretly cultivate evil arts, and no one would find out.

After all, who would care about someone who is "dead"?

He planned to use the Seven Soul Lamps to devour the souls and essence of dozens or even hundreds of people at once, refine them through evil arts, quickly condense his divine consciousness, and break through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining Realm.

The more people you kill, the more perfect your cultivation technique becomes, and the easier it is to break through.

For his first attempt, he only selected these ten artisans and commoners to be buried alive with him.

As a mere Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator, his strength was limited, and he dared not attack martial artists for fear of losing control and causing trouble. Therefore, he could only target ordinary people.

Unexpectedly, his first attempt backfired.

The wick of the Seven Souls Lamp already contained many wronged souls, all of whom this evil artifact had previously devoured. He tried to forcibly merge with them, but was overwhelmed by the resentment within the wick, almost failing at the last moment.

To make matters worse, the candle flame that tried to turn against him was directly swallowed up by Lin Feng's black lotus.

The core of the Seven Soul Lamp is its wick. Without the wick, the magical artifact becomes a waste and is completely ruined.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng couldn't help but give Black Lotus a mental thumbs up.

Nice job.

The gains from this absorption go far beyond this information.

Lin Feng looked inward and discovered that he had actually developed divine consciousness.

The difference between the Qi Refining Realm and the Foundation Establishment Realm lies in the spiritual sense.

The Qi Refining Realm relies on spiritual energy perception, while the Foundation Establishment Realm can condense divine sense, allowing one to grasp an area of ​​hundreds of meters in an instant.

This step is extremely difficult, and it is said that 70% of Qi Refining Realm cultivators are stuck at this hurdle their entire lives, unable to condense their divine sense and thus unable to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Lin Feng, at the mere Innate Realm, according to this world's classification, has already possessed divine consciousness even before truly entering the Qi Refining stage.

In other words, as long as he follows the steps, he can easily break through to the Foundation Establishment stage without any difficulty.

Besides the change in consciousness, the Black Lotus also underwent subtle changes.

Before, when I hid in my space, I knew nothing about what was happening outside; I was completely in the dark.

Things are different now—Lin Feng tried to probe outwards with his divine sense and was able to clearly perceive the tomb chamber outside.

What does this mean?

This means that if he encounters danger in the future, he can directly hide in the space, then use his divine sense to observe the situation outside and wait for an opportunity to act.

This level of security has been elevated to a whole new level.

Lin Feng was very satisfied with this upgrade.

So Lin Feng tried to release his divine sense, and in an instant, everything within a radius of three hundred meters was clearly reflected in his mind.

Every stone, every speck of dust in the tomb, the contorted expressions of the ten mummified corpses, even an ant crawling in the corner, could not escape his perception.

It was so clear it was as if I were seeing it with my own eyes.

According to Zhao Tianlai's memory, the range of a person's divine sense after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage is only five to ten meters, and it is blurry and unclear, only able to perceive a general outline.