"Found it." Mo Caihuan pulled a purple Storage Bag from inside Nangong Que's robes.
"Martial Aunt, I'm opening it."
The Storage Bag held many things. Mo Caihuan focused on jade plaques and books, taking them out for Nangong Que to identify without prying into anything else.
She set aside anything that was not what she needed, until she took out a palm-sized white jade plaque carved with a dragon pattern. A flicker in her martial aunt's eyes told her this contained the cultivation method for the Heart-Trapping Technique.
Mo Caihuan pressed the jade plaque to her forehead and read its contents. It was a Restrictions Secret Scroll, filled entirely with restrictions for controlling people. The Heart-Trapping Technique was only one of them.
There was no time to study anything else. She learned the Heart-Trapping Technique first, which consisted of two parts: hand seals and an incantation.
"Martial Aunt, I'm going to cast it." Mo Caihuan tried to undo the spell.
But she specialized in body cultivation and took shortcuts with spells, casting them through Micro-Engraved Magic Arrays. The time she had spent actually studying spells was limited. The Heart-Trapping Technique was also quite complex: not only did the movements and pronunciation have to be precise, they also had to work together, following a rhythm much like a music game.
At first, she could not find the rhythm and made Nangong Que perform all sorts of bizarre movements. The Heart-Trapping Technique allowed its caster to control another person's body.
Nangong Que was several hundred years old, a Middle Nascent Soul cultivator respected by everyone. When had she ever suffered such humiliation? She flushed red all the way down to her neck.
Fortunately, Mo Caihuan studied music and had a good grasp of such things. After three failed attempts, she finally succeeded