Chapter Sixteen: Successfully Obtaining the Treasure

  The robust and powerful Knife Brother, who weighed around 200 pounds, was now being held by Ye Feng like a helpless chick, his face rapidly turning bright red due to difficulty breathing. His body flailed about in mid-air, yet he couldn't struggle free from Ye Feng's grasp.

  Overwhelming guilt and immense anger drove Ye Feng to this action, but he didn't lose his rationality after all. Seeing Daoge's body convulsing, he finally let go and flung Daoge down.

  Ye Feng stepped on Knife Brother's face with his foot and said loudly: "Do you feel the taste that Wang Hailong had experienced? Do you know that he was driven to death by you guys? Have you ever thought that even if you can escape legal punishment, you cannot escape the condemnation of your conscience. Even if you don't have a conscience and are not afraid of condemnation, you should always be on guard, because one day Wang Hailong's ghost will come to demand his life from you."

  Here is the translation:

  "Up to here, Ye Feng crouched down and leaned close to Knife Brother's ear, speaking in a tone that only he could hear: 'Remember my words, don't disbelieve me. Perhaps it won't be long before you see Wang Hailong's ghost, he will take you away and slowly torture you in the endless hell.'"

  Ye Feng said this sentence not intentionally threatening him or scaring him, but Ye Feng was almost certain that these words would definitely come true.

  Because of the Soul-Capturing Technique, as long as Ye Feng masters the Soul-Capturing Technique, he can create illusions in Knife Brother's consciousness. This is a spatial law that has clearly hinted to Ye Feng before.

  The Soul-Capturing Technique can not only make a person speak and act according to Ye Feng's consciousness, but also create illusions that confuse and even destroy a person's mind.

  At the beginning of refining Qi, Ye Feng could learn the Soul Capturing Technique, although it was only a primary spell. The time to create illusions couldn't last too long, probably just tens of minutes. However, this was enough. Tens of minutes were enough for him to help Wang Hailong take revenge.

  A young life, an orphan who had gone astray but not too deeply, a young man who was still all right in Ye Feng's heart, a little fellow who used to smile without a care and shout "Ye Feng, big brother" before and after him, died at the age when his life should have been most brilliant, and it was in such an extreme way.

  When this cruel fact was placed in front of Ye Feng, he knew that he could not shirk his responsibility. No matter how grandiose his reasons were, no matter how eager he was to pursue rapid progress in his power, he could not deny the condemnation of his conscience as a human being.

  Ye Feng felt that in his and Wang Hailong's life as small-time individuals, unpleasant things always accounted for 10%, with disappointment, hurt, cold-blooded chilling things, and some painful blows hitting them. Perhaps there were long dark paths to tread, walking to the point of despair, or perhaps those seemingly ordinary trivial matters almost drowned their entire lives.

  But, being born into the world, shouldn't we be living for those good and beautiful things? For the bright prospects after walking through a long tunnel; for the love and care that still exist amidst countless hurts; for the beautiful scenery in front of ugliness; for the hope that is constantly renewed and never extinguished. Even if life is as powerless as drifting with the waves, and the journey of life is filled with despair and gloom, don't they still have the instinct to love? As we drift along, at least there's the scenery on both banks of the river accompanying us...

  Ye Feng learned from the Space Laws that in the Cultivation World, human life is as insignificant as an ant's, everything relies on one's strength to speak, if your strength isn't up to par, you must be prepared to be eliminated at any time. The survival rules of cultivators are extremely cruel, killing and plundering are common occurrences, often the lives of tens of thousands of people can't compare to the value of a single heavenly material or treasure that can enhance one's cultivation.

  Ye Feng had no experience in the world of cultivation, so he couldn't understand where this cruelty came from. Ye Feng only knew that he was a Huaxian, a small person who had lived at the bottom of society for over 20 years. He had his own understanding and perception of life, whether or not it would be despised and ridiculed by the laws, but that's what made him, the real Ye Feng.

  A young life suddenly passed away in front of Ye Feng, bringing him a huge shock and tremor, let alone the death of this young man was more or less related to him.

  So Ye Feng vowed that as long as he learned the Soul Capture Technique, he would definitely help Wang Hailong regain his deserved justice, because the one who should have died was not Wang Hailong, but rather despicable and sinister people like Liu Yong, Liu Meimei, and Dage.

  For many days after Wang Hailong's death, everyone in the cell where Ye Feng was became silent and taciturn. Even Knife Brother, who had always liked to show off and be arrogant, could no longer be arrogant. That morning, Ye Feng had stepped on his face with his foot, not only trampling his prestige but also his confidence.

  Ye Feng suppressed the matter of Wang Hailong deep in his heart, excluding miscellaneous thoughts. Except for practicing at night, Ye Feng now even started collecting souls during the day because he had a thorough understanding and grasp of the living rules and schedule of the detention center. Also, because there was no one in the entire cell who dared to have any unusual ideas or thoughts about him, everyone feared him, no one dared to speak to him proactively, and everyone was afraid of having any interaction with him.

  So Ye Feng no longer participates in listening to classes, nor does he participate in reciting the rules. He turns his back on the door of the monitoring room and is not afraid that the patrolling police will notice Ye Feng's abnormality. He seizes every opportunity to collect souls.

  More than two weeks later, Ye Feng's soul gathering value had accumulated to 320 points. This speed was not fast, but it wasn't too slow either.

  Ye Feng's cultivation progress had already successfully pushed the progress to thirty percent without relying on any four-value additions, which also means that Ye Feng can enter the space at any time and take out the things in the bottom layer grid frame of the Lingui Cabinet corresponding to the initial stage of Lianqi Condensing Spirit. At the same time, as long as he collects more than 500 soul spirits, he can quickly push the progress to the realm of ninety percent of the initial stage of Lianqi.

  For this complex cultivation rule of law, Ye Feng found the most critical point in it. To put it simply, the best situation is to invest three thousand degrees of four values at once, and then he can cultivate to the initial stage of Lianqi period at once. However, this situation is impossible for him now.

  If you don't have a one-time four-value quota, then you need to progress gradually. The rule stipulates that in the initial stage of refining qi and condensing the spirit, normal cultivation can slowly increase the progress, and every time you accumulate enough four values to reach 100, you can exchange for a cultivation progress, each exchange can quickly advance the cultivation progress by 10%.

  The rules are relatively humane and do not require a hundred percent completion rate. As long as you reach ninety percent, you can fully retrieve the corresponding spiritual cabinet's skills, spells, and heavenly treasures.

  These rules seem complicated, but they are actually quite simple once you get the hang of them. One hundred points of soul value is equivalent to 10% of cultivation progress. Each exchange requires a whole number of hundreds, such as one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, etc. However, numbers like one hundred and two, two hundred and three, or three hundred and four are not allowed. From one hundred to one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, the amount must be an integer for exchange. The larger the amount, the more difficult it is to exchange, especially after reaching tens of thousands. Previously, amounts in the tens of thousands were just small change, so even if you had nineteen thousand or twenty-nine thousand, you still couldn't exchange them. You would need exactly twenty thousand or thirty thousand to make an exchange.

  According to Ye Feng's current situation, if he normally cultivates up to 30%, then with just 600 points of soul value, he can directly push his progress to 90%. Similarly, if Ye Feng normally cultivates up to 40%, he will need 500 points of soul value. If he cultivates up to 50%, he will need 400 points of soul value...

  Ye Feng's current progress has reached thirty percent through normal sequential gradual cultivation, which already meets the basic requirements for taking out the lowest layer of the Spirit Gathering Cabinet and a piece of human-grade heavenly material treasure.

  So that night, Ye Feng's consciousness entered the space and didn't sit on the high platform to continue cultivating like before. Instead, he hastily walked to the corresponding Lingqi Condensing God Initial Stage Spirit Gathering Cabinet, adjusted his breathing, suppressed his heartbeat, and slowly reached out to the bottom layer of basic skills and the jade box containing human-grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

  This time, Ye Feng was not hindered by the mysterious power and successfully took out the basic exercises in the lowest layer of the Spirit Gathering Cabinet and the jade box.