Experiment: Enslavement...
Chu Mu pondered for a moment. His fingertips stirred, and a thread of sinister dark-purple spiritual radiance manifested from the rules flickered forth. Like a spider weaving its web, it traced itself out bit by bit, crisscrossing in every direction.
As time passed, the radiance that had originally been formed from manifested rules suddenly weakened in aura. By the time every trace of the rules had completely dissipated, its power had fallen to the mere level of Golden Core Early Stage.
Only then did the crisscrossing radiance that had finally evolved envelop the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples present one after another.
If he crushed them with his cultivation realm, then without question, even if he knew no method of controlling the mind, he could still instantly control these Thousand Left Alliance Disciples of the Golden Core Realm.
But to enslave and alter their minds with power of the same realm—or even power a minor realm lower than that of several of them—the difficulty clearly rose in a straight line.
Chu Mu's expression remained calm as he silently sensed the layers upon layers of illusions he had woven, as well as the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples deeply trapped within them.
For an illusion that caused the mind to fall, its most crucial key lay in flaws within one's state of mind, or in obsessions.
Any intelligent creature, no matter how high its cultivation, could never possess a flawless state of mind unless it had cast aside all emotion and desire.
After all, where there were emotions and desires, there would inevitably be fluctuations in them.
Even the faintest emotional ripple might not count as a flaw in one's state of mind, but if properly exploited, it could become the lure that led one into ruin.
This was true whether