Benjamin was not merely strolling around; he was "harvesting aura."
In the Immortal Cultivation System, there was a unique method that could gather "Mortal Dust Aura."
Of course, that was the Cultivation way of putting it. In Benjamin's understanding, it was actually a method capable of condensing special concepts.
This aura originated from the joys and sorrows, births and deaths, seven emotions and six desires of the mortal world. It was a tangible manifestation of the myriad facets of human life.
Though it could not directly boost one's cultivation or transform all things as Spiritual Power could, it was an excellent "universal material."
Used normally, it could temper a cultivator's mental state, making it unyielding and able to shatter inner demons. It could also temper magical artifacts, granting them greater spirituality, and was an essential raw material for setting up most illusion arrays.
Under certain special circumstances, its properties could even be reversed through particular methods, allowing it to construct a golden body, repair souls, or refine Dharma Treasures and pills.
Back when Benjamin was at Noren Academy, he could barely gather any useful Mortal Dust Aura.
After all, the wizards there were all research fanatics, each immersed in experiments and meditation. Their lives followed a single track, and their emotional fluctuations were faint.
Even across the entirety of Noren Plane 13, there was nowhere suitable for gathering Mortal Dust Aura. After all, every Noren plane had been transformed by wizards into highly ordered "breeding grounds," losing the primal and mixed "characteristics" of the mortal realm.
But after arriving at Golden Port, Benjamin was like a rat that had fallen into a rice granary.
He walked through the clamorous streets, sensing the grief and joy, love and hatred, partings and reunions of the mortals brushing past him.
Those dense, mixed