Soul Reading?
Those four words—especially the first two, "soul"—made Xu Xiaoshou gasp for breath after his breathing had briefly stopped.
"Young Master Xu?"
Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing, beside him, noticed something was wrong. Thinking Young Master Xu had gone awry in his cultivation again, they hurriedly turned back to look.
"Don't interrupt me!"
Xu Xiaoshou's face was flushed red. After barking out a warning with his eyes wide open, he shut them again and examined the newly appeared Awakened Skill in his mind.
Xin Gugu: "..."
Liu Changqing: "..."
"Has he always been like this?" Liu Changqing asked hesitantly.
Xin Gugu thought for a moment, nodded, then shook his head. "His condition wasn't this serious before, but now it's gotten worse."
Liu Changqing froze for a moment, then closed his eyes again and continued comprehending the Heavenly Secrets Art.
Xin Gugu sighed and glanced back at Xu Xiaoshou. Even if the sky fell, with Xu Xiaoshou's shrewdness, he would not be the first to die. Worrying was useless, so Xin Gugu went back to studying his trial map.
Within his spiritual world.
Xu Xiaoshou was genuinely frightened by this Awakened Skill called "Soul Reading."
There was no description for Awakened Skills derived from passive skills. He could only sense it for a while, then make a direct inference based on the most immediate feeling it gave him.
"Soul Reading... a control skill?"
"Freeze someone in place and read their soul?"
"But what was there to read in a soul?"
Xu Xiaoshou only frowned for an instant before recalling that Perception was an information-gathering auxiliary passive skill. His eyes immediately lit up.
Memory reading?
Could this Awakened Skill directly read things on the level of another person's soul?
Just as Perception could obtain information on the physical level, Awakened Skills