Chapter 4: Xiao Wu Believes It? Hypnotic Soul skills!
"Are you giving away money again today?" Xiao Wu blinked her watery eyes.
Mo Bai was slightly stunned. Having just arrived in the human World, Xiao Wu only understood money. She looked innocent, but innocence was good; he liked this kind of innocence the most.
Easy to trick, and no need to overthink.
Ding. A gold coin rolled into Xiao Wu's hand.
"Then let's play a game. If you guess right, I'll give you a gold coin," Mo Bai smiled faintly.
"Okay, okay!" Xiao Wu was full of excitement.
"Then do you know what my Soul Power is?"
"Innate Full Spirit Power! That's what everyone is saying."
Mo Bai nodded happily and flicked a gold coin out.
"What is my Martial Soul?"
"Eyes!" Xiao Wu immediately raised her hand to answer. After answering correctly, she received another gold coin. Her little face was excited; it was so simple. These were things she could find out just by asking around.
She didn't even need to ask; people were whispering it in her ear.
"What is the age of my first Soul Ring?"
Xiao Wu's little brows raised. She had never heard of this before, but she had seen many human Soul Masters, and most were yellow. Yellow meant a hundred-year Soul Ring!
So...
"You have to say the specific number of years," Mo Bai added.
Xiao Wu immediately frowned. How could she possibly know this? But she could take a guess.
"100 years?"
"Incorrect."
"200 years?"
"Still incorrect."
"Then 500 years?"
Mo Bai smiled and flicked another gold coin out. Xiao Wu also nodded happily. The Soul Power she had condensed was only about 400 years old; if it were any higher, she wouldn't believe it.
At the same time, Xiao Wu raised her head slightly. If he kept asking, she wouldn't have a problem.
However, Mo Bai took it all in and continued to ask his question: "Then do you know what my First Spirit Skill is?"
Xiao Wu's expectant expression stiffened. If it were the age, that would be fine, but who else could know a Soul skills besides oneself and those one told? It was obvious the other person was teasing her.
"Stingy, I don't know!"
Mo Bai looked at Xiao Wu's annoyed expression and crooked his finger, signaling her to lean in. When Xiao Wu curiously leaned over, Mo Bai whispered in her ear,
"Hypnosis. If the Spiritual Power of someone who makes eye contact with me is inferior to mine, they will be forcibly hypnotized."
Mo Bai's voice was mysterious and deep; Delusion was activated.
Xiao Wu frowned. This Soul skills sounded like it was obtained from hunting those evil plant-type Soul Beasts. It was a bit like her Charm; both required using the eyes to activate.
But hers was much kinder.
Being Innate Full Spirit Power, it wasn't strange for the other party to have this skill. It probably wouldn't last long.
[Ding! Xiao Wu believes your lie—a 500-year Hypnosis Soul skills—to be true. Trust level 80%, manifestation level 50%. Manifestation successful: 200-year Hypnosis Soul skills!]
"No wonder you wouldn't say; this Soul skills doesn't sound good," Xiao Wu said with some disdain.
But no sooner had she finished speaking than a massive surge of Soul Power erupted within Mo Bai. A yellow Soul Ring rose involuntarily beneath his feet, and a strange pink light flashed through his eyes.
"Hmm? What are you doing?"
Xiao Wu hurriedly closed her eyes. She possessed a similar Soul skills, so she naturally knew how to deal with it.
Mo Bai watched Xiao Wu with a smile. The experiment was quite successful, and the custom Soul skills was even better. The age could be increased later, but there was no need to worry.
It was also fortunate that Xiao Wu wasn't very smart.
If this lie were told to Tang San, the trust level would definitely not be this high. It might even be necessary to see his Soul Ring for it to be effective. This time, both the Soul Ring and the Soul skills were solved at once.
"Just teasing you. Even if you didn't guess it right, this gold coin is still yours," Mo Bai flicked another gold coin out.
Xiao Wu tentatively opened her eyes. Finding that the other party had indeed not used the Soul skills on her, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then should we continue?"
"Forget it, let's talk about it another time."
A look of disappointment immediately appeared on Xiao Wu's face, but seeing the 5 gold coins in her hand, joy surged up again. When she looked forward again, Mo Bai was already gone.
Hmph, do things like this happen every day? If it were always like this, that would be great.
Thinking of this, Xiao Wu put away the gold coins, patted the purse at her waist, and skipped towards the city. There were so many delicious things she hadn't tasted yet.
The human World was quite interesting.
...
Back in the dormitory.
Mo Bai immediately used Shadow One to test the Soul skills. The result was that the hypnosis lasted less than half a second before Shadow One broke free. It was different from the forced hypnosis he had imagined in his heart.
It seems that what was manifested was not what he thought, but what the person he deceived thought. Xiao Wu accepted his setting of controlling people, but she also envisioned limitations for the Soul skills according to common sense.
The control time would be determined by the gap in Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
The reason common sense is called common sense is that it is everyone's normal understanding, and it is also the kind of thing that is hardest for lies to change.
The gap would need to be quite large for a change to occur, and the preparation time just now was insufficient.
Being able to have this kind of change was still pretty good.
Hypnosis—these two words alone were already quite remarkable.
There was still room for development and promotion later.
Among the limitations was Spiritual Power.
If he had a method to improve Spiritual Power, it wouldn't be impossible for the Hypnosis Soul skills to evolve into the kind of divine skill he imagined.
Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and herbs were all methods to improve Spiritual Power, and the best method for him was—lying.
Xiao Wu hadn't heard of these things, so the groundwork required too much time, but Tang San was different. He knew about Spiritual Power, he knew about Cultivation Techniques, and he even knew that herbs could improve it.
So he needed to plan carefully.
And now he needed money. No, it should be said that he needed the power of public opinion caused by money. Most people in Nuoding Academy now believed his words implicitly.
Outside the academy, as long as a little money was paid, he could also reach the standard he wanted. As long as a little news was released and heard by Tang San, he would have a direction to improve his Spiritual Power.
It could be said that Nuoding City had been transformed by him over the past year into a greenhouse for the growth of Xiao Wu and Tang San.
It's just that they were merely leeks.
"Money is truly a good thing."
...
Inside Master's room at the academy, Tang San had just finished a round of learning about Soul Rings and Soul Beasts with Yu Xiaogang and was about to go back. Only then did Tang San remember the question he had when he left today.
"Teacher, is Mo Bai really not Innate Full Spirit Power?"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang frowned, recalling the boy who pretended to be an admirer but was actually teasing him. His expression was a bit displeased as he answered: "There is a 99% probability that he is not."
"Why is that? I feel like he seems like it."
"Have you ever seen anyone with Innate Full Spirit Power who hasn't hunted for a Soul Ring after a year?" Yu Xiaogang said flatly.
He had an Elder token from the Spirit Hall, which allowed him to investigate the information of most people. He had gone to verify it one day, but Mo Bai had not registered until now.
One could imagine how outrageous the other party's lies were. Fortunately, he had been cautious back then, otherwise he would have been deceived even more deeply.
Tang San pondered thoughtfully. Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang spoke again: "For example, I will take you to hunt for a Soul Ring tomorrow precisely so as not to delay your Cultivation.
And what is he doing it for? Could it be anything other than not being able to hunt for a Soul Ring because his Soul Power Rank is not high enough? Hmph, Little San, it is better to have less contact with that kind of person."
Yu Xiaogang gave a cold snort, which seemed to blow away the fog in Tang San's mind. Tang San then immediately raised his next question:
"Why hasn't Mo Bai been robbed when he has so much money?"