Hypnosis was an art, an art that could manipulate the human mind.
The core of hypnosis lay in psychological suggestion.
Hua Wenfeng had used psychological suggestion to induce Qu Yan and the others to kill themselves.
But hypnotizing someone was not that easy. Ordinary hypnosis required the subject's cooperation, while instant hypnosis also required certain conditions to be met, and certain things could not be present.
For example, anything that seemed out of place.
It could be an out-of-place object, an out-of-place person, an out-of-place question...
All of these would focus the subject's attention and cause the hypnosis to fail.
The clock hanging on the wall was something very out of place.
But it had been prepared specifically for me.
Hua Wenfeng had noticed my strong curiosity. He had deliberately hung something out of place within my line of sight to make me curious. Once I became curious, I could not help looking at it, and I could not help wondering why he had suddenly hung a clock there.
The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to look. As I kept looking... I hypnotized myself.
When the same frequency repeated over and over, people grew fatigued.
The speed of the pendulum and the sound it made provided that repeating frequency.
"Patriarch, I've embarrassed you..."
I spoke in utter shame.
I practiced Dao Cultivation. Although I was rather lousy at it, getting hypnotized by an ordinary person was still inexcusable.
I admitted my mistake first to spare myself the Patriarch's mockery.
"Mm, good that you know."
The Patriarch looked at me and said flatly, "For a cultivator, having someone invade your mental world is extremely dangerous. If he were also a cultivator, one with evil intentions, he could send your cultivation spiraling out of control and make you