Benjamin closed his eyes again, sinking his consciousness into his Spirit Sea.
At the center of that vast, boundless space of consciousness, the Great Dao Library, forged from white jade, stood in silent stillness.
This time, he did not search for any new cultivation techniques.
With a thought, jade slips recording demonic secret arts flew out from the depths of the bookshelves and unfurled one after another before him. Blood Sacrifice Method Soul-Searching Soul-Refining Scripture Bloodline Devouring Record Life-Origin Plundering Art...
One evil tome after another was rapidly perused.
Benjamin did not rush to find an answer. Instead, he dismantled the core mechanisms of every technique bit by bit, then cross-verified them against one another.
"The essence of sacrifice is actually the transfer of some more primordial substance..."
"Bloodline resonance..."
"Soul projection..."
Streams of information rapidly arranged and combined within the Spirit Sea, transforming into countless interwoven rays of light.
Time slipped away soundlessly.
No one knew how long had passed before every deduction abruptly came to a halt.
Benjamin's gaze fell upon an exceedingly inconspicuous annotation at the end of one technique.
It could not even be considered part of the main text, merely the cultivation insights left behind by some unknown cultivator.
Yet his eyes gradually lit up.
"...So that's how it is."
He murmured to himself.
"So the problem was here."
He brought up the data structure of the Blood Sacrifice Method again and fed the data from his earlier experiment into the deduction model as well.
In the next instant, every point that had previously defied explanation suddenly became perfectly logical.
The reason the aptitude increase had been so outrageously exaggerated could be summed up in only three words: multiple births.
More precisely, identical multiple births.
Under the judgment of the world's laws in the Immortal