Strictly speaking, the mist had some effect on He Ao as well.
He had inhaled the mist, though not when he had just spoken, but when Linna had taken out the Gummy Bears.
After his spiritual sense could be projected outward, there were many more things he could do. For example, he could cover the upper part of his respiratory tract with spiritual sense and block some harmful substances in the air. Though those things were tiny, they were still objects in essence.
Just as air was not truly empty but filled with all kinds of gases, blocking these substances was fundamentally the same as manipulating objects from a distance.
Of course, he would not usually do this.
Analyzing and blocking such tiny particles required a great deal of concentration, and consumed more spiritual sense as well.
But the surrounding mist was very thin, so He Ao took the opportunity to practice this newly conceived method of isolating harmful substances.
After all, the inventor of this mist was right beside him, and she clearly had a way to resist it. Even if he failed, there would be no loss.
Once he mastered this method, he would have a potentially effective way to deal with similar inhalable toxic gases with physical substance in the future.
When Linna took out the Gummy Bears, he had also just finished this practice and experimentally allowed a little of the "mist" into his body.
He could then clearly feel the mist rapidly merge into his lungs after entering his respiratory tract, before spreading throughout his entire body.
Under the mist's effects, he could distinctly sense an extremely slight "obstruction" in the flow of energy within him.
Other extraordinary beings might merely feel that their power had weakened somewhat, without knowing why.
But clearly, He Ao