Eternal Life: I Rely on Fortune Points for Improvement-Chapter 159 - 132: Ascending to Innate (Part 2)

"First, let’s check the panel info and see if my Fortune Points have changed."

Jiang Feng opened the panel information.

Name: Jiang Feng

Fortune: 83642

Cultivation Technique: Tai Chi Longevity Skill (Mastery+)

Skills: Loulan Slash (Minor Achievement+) Wind Palm (Beginner+) Three-legged Body Technique (Beginner+)

Realm: First Grade (Qi Refining Realm)

Divine Power: Immortality

"Finally hit eighty thousand points—gained almost four thousand Fortune Points. Looks like the Emperor genuinely wants to let Sister Dong go. It’s only due to public pressure that he’s demanding Sister Dong and Bao Longwei recapture the fugitive tonight."

"If Sister Dong and Bao Longwei fail, as the prison guard, I won’t escape death either."

"If they succeed, my Fortune Points are sure to rise again."

Jiang Feng thought inwardly.

"Fortunately, it’s finally time to level up my strength. Maybe tonight, I’ll gain something unexpected."

Seeing the plus sign appear after Tai Chi Longevity Skill, a smile crept onto Jiang Feng’s face.

He immediately put eighty thousand Fortune Points into Tai Chi Longevity Skill.

The panel information changed.

Name: Jiang Feng

Fortune: 3642

Cultivation Technique: Tai Chi Longevity Skill (Minor Achievement)

Skills: Loulan Slash (Minor Achievement) Wind Palm (Beginner+) Three-legged Body Technique (Beginner)

Realm: Innate (Primordial Realm)

Divine Power: Immortality

Jiang Feng saw that his realm had successfully stepped into Innate. The primordial vortex inside him had also turned liquid. A surge of immense power roamed through his meridians, and within the primordial power vortex, there was a Tai Chi Talisman.

Jiang Feng closed his eyes.

He could even sense dust settling nearby.

In the night wind, there were sounds of chatter and marching footsteps—that was the Prison Army leaving.

Jiang Feng flipped his palm.

He could clearly sense an invisible power of Heaven and Earth converging from all directions, ready for him to control. With a casual wave, he could summon this power from the world itself and easily blast a Second-Grade Refining Yuan Realm Expert away.

Earlier, Han Dong had been swept out by an Innate Powerhouse who stormed the prison, using this exact method.

Only now did Jiang Feng truly grasp the difference between Innate and Postnatal experts.

So-called "Postnatal" referred to Entry Level grades.

Postnatal experts cultivate inner power.

Innate experts harness external force.

Inside and outside—

Just a single word apart, yet the gap is massive.

It’s not just the liquefied primordial power or enhanced senses—even the ability to control the power of Heaven and Earth, to obliterate Upper Third-Grade Martial Artists with a mere gesture, is something Postnatal Martial Artists can never imagine.

Jiang Feng sensed clearly: with the boost of Innate Power, the martial arts and body techniques he’d mastered underwent a qualitative transformation.

Even an ordinary beginner-level cultivation technique, once guided by Innate Power, could reveal the might of a Profound Level technique.

Even with just Prison Guard Long Fist, Jiang Feng felt like a random move could now have destructive force far beyond the best Breaking Army Techniques he ever used at peak power.

Now, if he executed Loulan Slash fused with Innate Primordial Power, even a casual Thousand Layered Waves could split open a city wall, rendering the Prison Army’s defense useless.

No wonder that mysterious Innate Powerhouse dared to storm Zhenbei Prison alone, reach the third floor, and bust out that middle-aged man.

In his eyes—

As long as there was no Innate Powerhouse stationed at Zhenbei Prison—

Even a few First Grade Qi Refining Martial Artists couldn’t stop him, let alone try to capture him alive.

Jiang Feng was thankful that the other side came and went quickly. Otherwise, if he ran into the guy... even if his primordial power was several times that of the same rank, that wouldn’t be enough to hold out for long.

"Wait, I just dodged such a huge danger, so why didn’t my Fortune Points go up much earlier?"

Suddenly, Jiang Feng sensed something was off.

"No, something’s wrong."

"Even if the attack wasn’t aimed specifically at me, if the danger occurs around me and I avoid it, my Fortune Points should increase. The enemy was an Innate Powerhouse—after he left Zhenbei Prison, my Fortune Points should have exceeded eighty thousand at the time."

"With his strength, I could’ve died several times over."

"Maybe I should have gotten fifty or sixty thousand more points."

"How could there have been only about a thousand increase back then? I even thought it was just because Sister Dong and Bao Longwei didn’t blame me that I gained a little Fortune."

"No, no, something’s definitely wrong here."

The more Jiang Feng thought about it, the more off it felt.

He paced in circles in place.

He knew the Fortune Points couldn’t be wrong.

If the points hadn’t increased, something was wrong elsewhere.

"I get it now."

"It was aimed at me!"

A light bulb went off in Jiang Feng’s mind, and he exclaimed in shock.

He seemed to have found the key to the problem.

Suddenly enlightened.

"Only if it was targeting me, would my Fortune Points not grow after he left. Because whether or not I encountered him, the danger meant for me was only just beginning. I never actually escaped the threat of that Innate Powerhouse!"

Jiang Feng’s face completely changed.

"It was all a smokescreen. The Second Prince wanted to lure me out. Otherwise, how would the Dragon Capital Government Office know that the Innate Powerhouse was at Black Iron Mountain!"

Jiang Feng’s breathing quickened.

Realization came too late.

Only now did he realize that Han Dong and Bao Longwei being forced to recapture the fugitive tonight was all the Second Prince’s doing, just to get him to go out.

"Sister Dong survived so many dangers. The Second Prince must have long been suspicious. Back at the White Tiger Mountain incident, the Qi Refining experts he sent were all killed by me. Even if he’s an idiot, he’d suspect someone is helping Sister Dong!"

"As a dignified Second Prince, having suffered such a big loss, how could he just let it go!"

"Black Iron Mountain?"

"He... he not only wants to lure me out, but tonight he wants to take down both me and Sister Dong in one swoop!"

"Well played, Second Prince. You really aren’t ordinary. To lure me out, you actually devised such a scheme, getting an Innate Powerhouse to hijack the prison at Zhenbei. If I hadn’t sensed something wrong in my Fortune Points and rushed in recklessly, wouldn’t I have fallen right into your trap?"

Jiang Feng broke out in a cold sweat.

Thinking of this, he checked his panel info again.

To see if there were changes in Fortune Points.

Name: Jiang Feng

Fortune: 17022

Cultivation Technique: Tai Chi Longevity Skill (Minor Achievement)

Skills: Loulan Slash (Minor Achievement) Wind Palm (Beginner+) Three-legged Body Technique (Beginner+) 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Realm: Innate (Primordial Realm)

Divine Power: Immortality

"It went up fourteen thousand—so it really was aimed at me!"

Jiang Feng was both shocked and delighted.

He’d discovered the problem, unknowingly dodging a wave of danger, letting his Fortune Points increase as well.

"So what now? Should I still go to Black Iron Mountain or not?"

Jiang Feng hesitated.

He had originally wanted to take advantage of this chance to kill Xiao Ran at Black Iron Mountain and help Han Dong recapture the fugitive, thus avoiding trouble for himself and letting Han Dong redeem herself.

Now realizing—

Everything was a trap set by the Second Prince.

Jiang Feng felt a strong sense of unease.

If he went, uncertain life or death awaited him.

If not—

Han Dong would be doomed for sure.

If they failed to catch the fugitive, the Court would blame him, and as Little Prison Chief, he wouldn’t escape punishment either.

Even if the Emperor is generous—

As long as Xiao Ran lives—

When he finds Han Dong dead, he’ll be driven mad with rage and expose everything to the Second Prince.

By then, even if he leaves Dragon Capital, he’ll still face the Second Prince’s assassins.

The road ahead—

There’s only one path.

Have to go, whether I want to or not!

There’s no choice!

"Fuck!"

"You all forced me!"

"Hope you won’t regret it!"

The more Jiang Feng thought, the more furious he became. With no way out, he could only bite the bullet and go.

"Three-legged Body Technique, let’s see what you’re really worth!"

But before that, Jiang Feng decided to spend the seventeen thousand Fortune Points, to avoid getting flustered later.

Thinking of the strangeness of Three-legged Body Technique—

Jiang Feng put five thousand Fortune Points into Three-legged Body Technique in one go.

Fortune: 12022

Skill: Three-legged Body Technique (Beginner+)

"No way, could Three-legged Body Technique be a cultivation technique beyond the Profound Level?"

Jiang Feng muttered in shock.

He remembered that it only took three thousand Fortune Points to set Loulan Slash to Beginner last time.

So Jiang Feng added another five thousand Fortune Points to Three-legged Body Technique.