The instant the invisible Mind Power entered the middle-aged woman's mind.
The middle-aged woman let out a piercing scream. Her pupils lost focus, her face twisted, and her expression was one of extreme agony.
After roughly the time it took an incense stick to burn, Chen Shi'an dispelled the Soul Searching Hand and let out a long breath.
Using the Soul Searching Hand consumed a considerable amount of Mind Power. A single soul search had drained at least a third of the Mind Power in his mind.
Moreover, the middle-aged woman whose soul he had searched was merely a First-Rank Martial Artist, not a Mind Cultivator.
Searching a Mind Cultivator's soul would probably consume even more Mind Power.
The agony on the middle-aged woman's face faded considerably, but her eyes remained unfocused.
Soul-searching techniques inflicted immense damage on the subject's soul. Some of that damage was even irreversible, reducing a person to an imbecile with no hope of recovery.
However, Chen Shi'an felt not a shred of pity for the middle-aged woman.
He had used the soul-searching technique on her mainly to put his own methods into practice.
He had not expected to reap an unexpected reward from the middle-aged woman's memories:
Wu Dongchuang was actually having an affair with the concubine of one of his trusted subordinates.
Discovering this in the middle-aged woman's memories left Chen Shi'an rather reflective.
Wu Dongchuang's relationship with this Earth Pill Sect Elder was murky, and he was also fooling around with a subordinate's concubine. His relations with women were an utter mess.
Yet his own concubine was cheating on him in Jinchun Garden.
Colorful flags fluttered outside, but the red flag at home had fallen. What a tangled account.
"Wu Dongchuang, the Chu Family has already fallen. Next, I'll have a proper round