``` [You did not kill Ye Feng; you merely put him into a deep sleep.]
[To you, a living Ye Feng was far more valuable than a dead one.]
[In the first simulation, Ye Feng had taken only a little over thirty years to advance from the third layer of qi refining to perfection at the ninth qi refining layer.]
[And he had cultivated the Mountain Sea Art, a top-tier cultivation method in which making progress was exceptionally difficult.]
[You suspected that Ye Feng possessed some other kind of talent.]
[In the cultivation world, spiritual roots were merely the most widespread form of talent.]
[Besides spiritual roots, many other talents existed, such as treasure bodies, Dao bodies, innate bodies, and so on.]
[The former were abundant, but their lower limit was low. The latter were rare, but their lower limit was terrifyingly high. Even the worst treasure bodies and Dao bodies could rival the talent of an earth-grade spiritual root.]
[Moreover, you were very interested in Ye Feng's memories.]
[His specific experiences after entering the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, where he had found the Mountain Sea Ring, and so on.]
[You needed Ye Feng alive to obtain all this through Soul Search.]
[In the second simulation, you had only been in the middle qi refining period. Worried that your boat might capsize in a gutter, you had swiftly killed Ye Feng without leaving him alive, preventing any unforeseen complications.]
[But in this simulation? You were already a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Facing Ye Feng, who was still in the early qi refining period, you could not even imagine what sort of accident could make your boat capsize.]
[Your expression grew slightly grave. Rather than attending to Ye Feng immediately, you looked at his Storage Bag.]
[You extended your mana and swiftly refined