After finishing the hot pot, Xu Xiang and the other two left, unusually at ease about leaving Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Dan Lei alone.
Of course, Xu Xiang had practically dragged his two sons away. Xu San and Xu Si no longer trusted Dan Lei in the slightest.
Xu Xiang, however, trusted Dan Lei completely. Although he had never seen a Self-Binding Contract, Dan Lei had said the contract was already set, meaning there was no reason for him to attack Zhang Chulan or Feng Baobao and cause further trouble.
Dan Lei would be staying in this run-down villa for the night. After all, Zhang Chulan still had not handed over the Qi-State Origin-Flow.
The Qi-State Origin-Flow was a complete set of special qi-circulation methods. It could cultivate an independent mass of qi in the lower dantian, eventually forming a qi infant with its own consciousness.
According to what netizens had said in Dan Lei's previous life, if this qi infant continued to be nurtured, it might eventually become a cultivator's Nascent Soul. However, if one's own consciousness could no longer suppress the Nascent Soul's consciousness one day, the body would be taken over.
Once mastered, the Qi-State Origin-Flow could automatically condense qi without circulating it through the body. It was equivalent to turning a person into an automatic magic absorber. Even doing nothing would count as cultivation.
Moreover, something unexpected happened as soon as Dan Lei learned it.
Following the qi-circulation route Zhang Chulan had given him, Dan Lei used his Magic Circuits to absorb magic power in place of qi and circulated it according to the technique without a hitch.
But something suddenly went wrong during the final condensation stage.
Something in his sea of consciousness seemed to instantly break down and absorb the mass of magic