[You did not kill Ye Feng; you merely put him to sleep.]

[To you, a living Ye Feng was far more valuable than a dead one.]

[During the first simulation, Ye Feng took just over thirty years to cultivate from the Qi Refining Third Layer to Qi Refining Ninth Layer Completion.]

[He had been cultivating a top-tier method like the Shanhai Art, which made progress exceptionally difficult.]

[You speculated that Ye Feng possessed other talents.]

[In the cultivation world, a spiritual root was merely the most common type of talent.]

[Beyond spiritual roots, there were many other innate gifts, such as treasure physiques, dao physiques, and innate physiques.]

[The former were numerous but had a low baseline. The latter were incredibly rare and had a terrifyingly high baseline; even the most inferior treasure physique or dao physique rivaled an Earth Spiritual Root.]

[Moreover, you were deeply interested in Ye Feng's memories.]

[To obtain all of this through a soul search, you needed Ye Feng alive.]

[In the second simulation, you were only at the Qi Refining Middle Stage. Worried about an unexpected mishap, you killed Ye Feng quickly and left him no chance to survive, preventing any unforeseen variables.]

[But in this simulation? You were already a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Facing Ye Feng, who was still only in the early stage of Qi Refining, you couldn't even imagine what kind of accident could possibly make you fail.]

[Your expression turned slightly serious. Instead of dealing with Ye Feng right away, you looked at his Storage Bag.]

[Extending your spiritual energy, you quickly refined the Storage Bag and directly pulled out that inconspicuous sky-blue ring.]

[Without a moment's hesitation, you took out a third-tier sealing Jade Box, placed the sky-blue ring inside, and shut the lid. You then slapped five Sealing Talismans onto it in quick succession, two of which were third-tier Sealing Talismans.]

[Only then did you relax slightly.]

[Until you had a specific method to deal with a core formation master's spirit, you had no intention of showing your hand to True Person Blood Sea.]

[When facing a Master, even if it was just a spirit remnant, it never hurt to be cautious.]

[As for the Core Formation section of the Shanhai Art? You were still in the early stage of Foundation Establishment. Core Formation was a long way off, so there was no rush.]

[Besides, you still had plenty of lifespan left. Now that True Person Blood Sea and the Shanhai Ring had fallen into your hands, you could afford to take your time.]

[After settling everything, you finally turned your attention to Ye Feng, who lay unconscious on the ground.]

[After confirming there were no other cultivators nearby, you shoved Ye Feng into a large sack.]

[You smoothly erased all traces of the scene and carried Ye Feng to a cave several miles away.]

[Performing the Soul Search Art required a quiet, undisturbed environment.]

[Inside the cave, you carefully examined Ye Feng as he lay before you.]

[You didn't cast the Soul Search Art immediately. Instead, you checked exactly what kind of talent he possessed.]

[Sending out your Shanhai spiritual energy, you began to inspect every inch of Ye Feng's flesh, assisting the process with your divine sense.]

[The dual inspection using a Foundation Establishment cultivator's spiritual energy and divine sense allowed you to spot the anomaly in Ye Feng's body.]

[You discovered that his bones differed from those of a normal cultivator. They were deep blue, and you could faintly perceive an endless expanse of water-attribute spiritual energy within them.]

["Water-attribute spiritual energy... is it a water-spirit physique?"]

[Your face grew solemn. The deep blue color of Ye Feng's bones matched the recorded descriptions of a water-spirit physique almost perfectly.]

[Of course, Ye Feng's water-spirit physique was currently dormant and had not yet awakened.]

[Thus, he appeared no different from a normal cultivator.]

[Once a water-spirit physique awakened, it wouldn't just be the bones that turned deep blue; the flesh, blood, and internal organs would all brim with incredibly pure water-attribute spiritual energy.]

[A water-spirit physique possessed an innate affinity for water-attribute spiritual energy. The speed at which it absorbed and refined water-attribute spiritual energy from heaven and earth rivaled an Earth Spiritual Root. Furthermore, when casting water-attribute spells, its power would outstrip that of other cultivators at the same level.]

["What a pity... he's a man..."]

[You stared at Ye Feng, sighing inwardly.]

[You had heard of certain dual cultivation methods that could harvest the essence of a treasure physique or dao physique to nourish oneself.]

[But this required the harvested treasure physique or dao physique to be of the opposite sex.]

[Only then could one borrow the flowing power of Yin and Yang during dual cultivation to harvest their essence and nourish one's own body.]

[Since you and Ye Feng were both male cultivators, such dual cultivation methods were naturally useless to you.]

["Still, I could sell him to another faction through the black market in exchange for precious resources."]

[You thought to yourself.]

[The value of a cultivator with a water-spirit physique eclipsed even that of a normal Earth Spiritual Root cultivator.]

[Whether used as a human cauldron or nurtured as an heir, his worth was immensely high.]

[Having stayed in Biyue Immortal City for nearly twenty years, you had built a vast network of connections. You knew that in the city's underbelly lay a black market specifically dedicated to trading "contraband resources" that couldn't be sold in the open.]

[You could even find traces of Demonic Sect cultivators in that black market.]

[It wasn't uncommon to see beautiful female cultivators or cultivators holding specific value sold there.]

[As for whether selling Ye Feng would leave any hidden dangers... such as him successfully cultivating and returning to exact his revenge?]

[There was naturally no need to worry. From beginning to end, Ye Feng had no idea who you were.]

[Even if you participated in the black market, you wouldn't do so under your true identity. Even if Ye Feng wanted revenge, he wouldn't know where to look.]

["Time for the soul search."]

[You gathered your thoughts and began casting the Soul Search Art.]

[You were a Foundation Establishment cultivator, while Ye Feng was merely at the early stage of Qi Refining. Given the massive gap in your cultivation realms, the memories you extracted from him would be flawlessly complete.]

[Moreover, Ye Feng wouldn't suffer any irreversible damage from being soul-searched.]

[To ensure you didn't miss a single detail, you subjected him to a deep Soul Search.]

[As your divine sense continuously penetrated Ye Feng's sea of consciousness, his memories began to unfold before you.]

[Starting from his childhood memories after birth, everything was laid bare without omission.]

["He actually had some ruthless methods."]

[Browsing through his memories, you learned how Ye Feng managed to step onto the path of cultivation.]

[He had been born to a farming family in the mortal realm. By a stroke of luck, he stumbled upon a heavily injured cultivator.]

[Taking advantage of the cultivator's coma, Ye Feng murdered him and stole his treasures, obtaining a Qi Refining cultivation method. That was how his journey began.]

[As you delved deeper into his memories, the scene quickly shifted to his experiences after entering the Shanhai Secret Realm.]

[In his memories, the sky and earth had been dark and murky after entering the secret realm. He had picked a random direction and arrived in front of a cluster of dilapidated palace halls.]

[The palace halls were protected by a restriction. Although hundreds of years had passed and the restriction had grown incredibly weak, Ye Feng still paid a steep price to force his way inside.]

[Once inside, he saw a broken divine statue and several magical artifacts sitting on a high platform. The Shanhai Ring wasn't on the platform; it was lying at the feet of the broken statue.]

[After sweeping up the artifacts from the platform, Ye Feng acquired numerous spirit herbs and materials from the medicine garden behind the hall—including the two primary ingredients needed to refine a Foundation Establishment Pill.]

[Finally, he returned to the broken divine statue in the hall. He casually picked up the sky-blue ring, but just as he was about to inspect the shattered statue...]

[...he triggered a restriction on it. By the time Ye Feng regained his vision, he was already outside the secret realm.]

[Before he could even react, his consciousness plunged into darkness as you knocked him out.]

["That statue?"]

[You paused Ye Feng's memory sequence, freezing the image on that shattered divine statue inside the hall.]

[A look of shock surfaced on your face.]

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