Chapter 233 The Difficulty of Reading Souls
"Sir, Lord Shangzong, what are you feeling now..."
"Shut up."
In reality, Li Dazhu stared blankly at the Xuanyin Demon Cultivator who stood there inexplicably as soon as he appeared, and couldn't help but subconsciously look at Lin Chen.
Lin Chen didn't answer him, but said coldly, which immediately made the latter shut his mouth obediently.
Back on the field, Xuanyin Demonic Cultivator just stood there blankly, his eyes empty and confused, and he said vague words.
There was no trace of fighting in the surrounding jungle, which remained as it was.
Obviously, the scene of the battle between the two parties just now was all an illusion. As soon as the other party appeared, Lin Chen pulled him into the illusion of the soul.
After that, the battle the demon cultivator experienced ended, and when he returned to his stronghold, it was all an illusion created by Lin Chen, and he continued to guide the opponent's memory through illusions.
But when reading the memory, the trouble he encountered was beyond Lin Chen's expectations.
"It's really, unexpectedly troublesome..."
Lin Chen looked at the Xuanyin Demon Cultivator in front of him and couldn't help but frown.
Although he does not follow the weird and unpredictable path of the soul, Lin Chen can still do it by distorting the five senses through illusions and reading memories in reverse.
Even more ruthlessly, he can tamper with the other person's cognition, distort his thinking, and make the other person regard him as someone for whom he can give his life, thereby becoming a spiritual slave.
Originally, Lin Chen thought that reading the memory of this demon cultivator would be a simple matter. After all, the other party was only in the Qi training stage, and he had already reached the half-step golden elixir.
But what he didn't expect was that the other party was just an ordinary disciple of the Xuanyin Sect, but there were dozens of restrictions densely packed in his soul!
Moreover, these restrictions are linked to each other and can even be triggered in a series. For some restrictions, Lin Chen is not sure what the conditions are for triggering them in a short period of time.
But what is certain is that once these restrictions are touched, either the memory in this area and the corresponding soul will be eliminated, or the soul will be directly destroyed!
"Holy crap, how can these high-level officials of the Xuanyin Sect pretend to be planting things in the minds of their own people? Are they so afraid of their rebellion?!"
Lin Chen gritted his teeth. The demon cultivator in front of him was only in the late stage of Qi refining, but because of the many soul restrictions that could be triggered at any time, his actions were unexpectedly difficult!
This is as troublesome as a top bomb disposal expert encountering a hostage with dozens of bombs strapped to his body and hundreds of wires!
This is simply piling up arbitrary and unreasonable numbers to make Lin Chen's actions complicated and difficult to handle!
And Lin Chen guessed that these restrictions planted in the soul may not be defended by the Xuanyin Sect Demonic Cultivators from outsiders, but other elders and disciples within the same sect!
After all, any righteous sect or a Jindan family with a long tradition will generally not plant soul restrictions in the disciples' souls unless it is a particularly important matter or a technique related to the sect's fundamental inheritance.
On the one hand, it is for loyalty, on the other hand, and most importantly, it will greatly consume the disciple's own potential!
After all, the three elements of essence, energy and spirit are closely related to the cultivation of monks.
If you plant a lot of restrictions in your mind, it will greatly increase the burden on the monk's soul, which will hinder your practice, and you may even be in danger of death if you touch the restrictions at any time!
"In addition, in the land of Lingnan Cultivation, the Xuanyin Sect is the most proficient in the way of the soul. Therefore, these restrictions are not so much to prevent outsiders from searching for souls as to prevent people from our own sect!"
In an instant, Lin Chen figured out the reason for the restriction in the demon cultivator's soul, but now the question is, how to operate it?
It takes a lot of time to break the restriction, and it may explode if you are not careful. Without breaking the restriction, you are searching for souls with a lot of bombs?
What a joke!
You know, reading memories through the soul is not as simple as imagined.
Although there is a commonly used method in the world of immortality, the soul search technique, whether you can get the desired memory depends on the user's strength and luck.
After all, searching for souls requires that the soul of the user be stronger than the recipient, so as to reduce the backlash caused by this behavior.
And this is a very crude method. Whether the memory you get is what you want and whether it is incomplete or not really depends on your luck.
Usually, when demon cultivators want to obtain information, they capture a large number of people who know the information, and then through continuous torture of souls and artificial hypnosis, they obtain a lot of information, and then integrate it.
Lin Chen's method is more advanced than theirs, which is to use illusion to distort the five senses to blind the other party's perception and elicit the other party's memory bit by bit.
For example, the cemetery in the fantasy world was constructed based on the knowledge of the Xuanyin Demonic Cultivator in the subconscious mind, which prompted the body's senses to react subconsciously.
"But even so, if the other party wants to say a certain keyword, the restriction will still be triggered and the soul will explode."
"So I have to find a way to bypass the restriction. Even if it's only for a short moment, I can get the memory I want."
Lin Chen's eyes flickered, his mind was running wildly, and some of his past research on the soul kept coming to his mind.
"I have explored before. I am afraid that the soul of this world is not only consciousness and memory, but also... a polymer of spiritual energy!"
"The Niwan Palace opened by the monks and the Huangting they cultivated are essentially a spiritual creation used to carry consciousness!"
"That is to say, consciousness and aura polymers constitute the so-called soul in this world, and the two complement each other and influence each other!"
"In this world of cultivation, at least as far as I know, most of the so-called soul restrictions are to plant alien aura on the aura polymers, using the memories in the consciousness as trigger conditions to protect secrets!"
So now it seems that Lin Chen probably has two ways to go.
One is to start with the aura polymers that constitute the soul, and deprive the consciousness from it, so that even if the soul restriction explodes, the other party's consciousness and the memories in it will not be affected.
But the problem is, how to retain the consciousness in the moment between the deprivation of the two, or what means to use to carry the other party's consciousness, Lin Chen has little research in this area!
After all, most of his research is on the essence of aura!
Even if he has research in this area, it is not certain whether he can complete the transfer, protection, and reading of memory at the moment of stripping without any mistakes!
"So now it seems that the only way is to go the second way, that is, to target consciousness!" Thinking of this, Lin Chen's eyes slowly turned cold.
"By distorting the opponent's thinking and perception, creating a second personality, and then reversely causing the soul to split in two!"
"In this way, even if the restriction is triggered, the original soul of the body can be used to delay time, and before it is destroyed, information can be obtained from the split personality soul!"
With this thought, Lin Chen did not hesitate to attack again!
The next moment, Li Dazhu on the side suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Because in his eyes, a hazy, dreamlike luster inexplicably appeared on Lin Chen's body.
Then, the surrounding jungle began to slowly become illusory!
In Lin Chen's eyes, the shadow of a cemetery began to gradually emerge!
It was a terrifying cemetery composed of countless piled up corpse graves, cold and numb living trees, and the floating dead heads.
And in the center of the cemetery was the figure of the Xuanyin Demon Cultivator!