Feng Jun used the Jade Stone Lamp to absorb consciousness, a far simpler and more brutal method than the Big Shot's Soul-Seizing.
He did not need to consider the structural integrity of the consciousness fragments. It did not matter even if many were destroyed; they were going to be refined anyway.
However, as he absorbed the consciousness fragments, he was surprised to discover just how low-grade the consciousness of this kind of Digital Life was.
As long as he absorbed them a little too slowly, the digital consciousness would dissipate directly into the air and then turn into energy between heaven and earth. "It's not even as good as the consciousness of someone at the Qi Refining Stage... what a rip-off."
But on second thought, this was perfectly normal. On the Sky-Qin Plane, even minor Qi Refining Stage cultivators had to temper their Divine Souls. The consciousness of these Digital Lives, on the other hand, had arisen purely by chance and did not understand how to temper itself at all.
What they cared more about was expanding the platforms they inhabited, multiplying and copying themselves as much as possible to grow larger, then seizing more resources before continuing to expand those platforms...
From beginning to end, their mechanisms had never included tempering consciousness. They could learn, broaden their knowledge, and improve their ability to handle accidents, but fundamentally, their growth was merely an increase in scale and breadth of knowledge.
So... they truly were two different civilizations. They looked capable of conquering an entire world, yet they could not withstand a tiny lamp.
Once he realized this, Feng Jun could not help increasing his spiritual energy output to raise the lamp's speed and intensity of absorption. There was no helping it. Although the conversion rate of this consciousness was low