The Age of Final Producers!!

"...No, has this world finally gone so insane that I don't recognize it anymore?"

Wu Pifu looked outside the building in utter bewilderment. As the dirt on countless powerful elites was exposed, he sank into deep thought.

Zhi let out a breath of relief. "I thought your cognitive alteration had broken through the heavens. So this wasn't caused by your cognitive alteration?"

"How could I possibly do that?" Wu Pifu said.

Wu Pifu himself was a Superbrain, and Zhi's research into Superbrains might have gone even deeper than Wu Pifu's own understanding. Both of them knew that cognitive alteration could not achieve what they were seeing.

It was much like emotional perception. Emotional perception was not the same as searching through or viewing memories. It merely used emotions to determine truth and falsehood, as well as obtain some simple information. For example, if you asked someone where a certain person was, and they knew, emotional perception could sense their rough location from their emotions—a general direction such as east, south, west, or north—or whether that person was here at all. But if you wanted to use emotional perception to learn someone's precise coordinates, or their past experiences and stories, that was impossible. Emotional perception could not be that precise.

Cognitive alteration worked the same way. It did not modify a specific piece of memory or information, but altered broad cognition. Take those security guards confessing their crimes: Wu Pifu had changed their understanding of sin and secrets, making them feel that revealing those sins and secrets was the most urgent thing they could do. That was why they stood where they were and recounted their crimes.

That was true cognitive alteration. It could not create an entire set of complex commands like hypnosis or transcendent puppet abilities. It worked by