Beside the newly built wooden house outside the Chicken Farm.
Wang Ba stood with his hands behind his back, quietly watching the middle-aged servant disciple working before him.
At that moment, the middle-aged servant disciple, Li Qi, was removing the splinters from the house's wooden boards bit by bit, as though no one else were there.
In fact, as far as he could see, there really was no one else there.
And only in this state of being "alone" would a person's nature and true thoughts reveal themselves naturally.
Wang Ba watched quietly for a long time, from dawn to dusk, then dawn and dusk again...
He observed the delight and apprehension upon the man's arrival, his subsequent inability to eat or sleep peacefully when no summons came, and finally his disappointment at receiving no word, until it turned to despair.
A person's emotions changed constantly with their thoughts, and their thoughts changed constantly with their surroundings.
From the surface inward, then from within outward.
Through this observation, Wang Ba gradually came to understand how an outside thought could be introduced and brought into harmony with a person's own mind without going against their original will.
And how different sounds and images could be planted in someone's consciousness as silently as rain nourishing all things.
Then he began experimenting repeatedly on Li Qi.
A month later.
Looking at the haggard Li Qi before the wooden house, Wang Ba finally stopped using Yin Spirit Power and withdrew the various thoughts and illusions he had left in the man's mind.
At that instant, Li Qi seemed to have been relieved of an immense burden. Clearly, nothing had happened, yet a heartfelt smile appeared on his face.
He was even somewhat puzzled himself when he realized he had suddenly begun smiling.
Wang Ba