Lin Zhen was not satisfied with that result.
He had overcome his fear of piercing his palm. Why, then, did piercing his heart still stir an instinctive fear?
For a moment, Lin Zhen almost despised himself.
"Lin Zhen, you coward! What are you afraid of? Is your human nature making you afraid? You didn't worry about piercing your palm, so why worry about piercing your heart? It won't kill you. What are you afraid of?"
"If you're still afraid, you might as well kill yourself!"
A cold look crossed Lin Zhen's face. He snatched up another handful of Gold Qi from the air and drove it into his chest!
At that moment, he began to understand. His fear was instinctive, born of his human nature. He was afraid because he had never tried piercing his own heart.
But as he had thought, piercing his palm and piercing his heart would have the same result. What was there to fear?
The Gold Qi pierced through. This time, his heartbeat did not quicken, nor did his blood flow accelerate.
The Gold Qi passed through without resistance!
Lin Zhen breathed out deeply. He knew he had passed the Second Gate he had set for himself.
He no longer feared for his body or his organs. Could he now try piercing his two inner seas?
Lin Zhen decided against it. There was one more thing he needed to try: piercing his own eyes.
If he shaped Gold Qi into needles and drove them into his eyes, would he feel afraid?
Lin Zhen could not say. In his previous life on Earth, when he had neglected his cultivation, he had watched many films from the Anno Domini Era.
Some of those films had scenes of needles being driven into people's eyes, images meant to inspire