"So... sorry!"
With a reminder, Gu Pan and the others suddenly ca to their senses, hurriedly withdrawing their hands, faces full of astonishnt.
They felt as if they had lost their rationality completely, easily provoked to anger. It was clearly akin to what happened before, a situation where their emotions were manipulated, only this ti it was not greed but anger.
To step into almost identical traps twice in a row was undoubtedly a face-reddening mistake, leaving them deeply ashad.
Xu Shu didn’t find this worthy of embarrassnt, as he had fallen for it too.
The difference was that others had begun to fight directly, while he had only just located a verbal target before managing to snap out of it——he initially wanted to argue with Gu Pan, who had her back to him, questioning why she wouldn’t face him directly, but out of politeness, he waited for her to finish speaking first.
A mont later, Xu Shu, bearing a blank expression, nodded toward the person lying on the ground: "Let’s help him first."
"Alright, alright..." Gu Yue Ming’s face blushed, hoping no one rembered her street-vendor-like scolding from monts ago. She hurriedly reached to pull Shen Chongyang up, giving him pieces of dical bandages to treat his injuries.
While waiting, Xu Shu glanced at Lu Bingwei and whispered, "You woke up quite quickly this ti."
Lu Bingwei remained expressionless: "The first ti can be forgiven. If fooled the second ti, one would surely be a fool."
"..." Everyone imdiately felt a sweat, knowing well this fool was what she called them.
Especially Xie Xiaochan, who pouted displeasedly and walked to the side.
Among those present, she felt the most astonished, as being an evolving "Seven-color Taoist," she prided herself on emotional and ntal strengths. Yet, despite being consciously vigilant, she stumbled twice and woke slower than others, leaving her sowhat ashad.
However, despite another round of turbulences, the group on site was not worried but rather relaxed, all eagerly glancing toward the third bronze door on the other side of the hall.
Shen Chongyang, once healed, quickly apologized to Lu Bingwei: "Lu Daoist, sorry for the trouble earlier."
"It’s nothing," Lu Bingwei replied indifferently, since he hadn’t managed to harm her.
After a brief silence, ignoring others, she directly gazed at Xu Shu with a slight frown, asking: "There’s likely emotion control behind the next door as well. Xu Shu, do you feel confident?"
Xu Shu didn’t answer directly but pondered: "The first hall amplified greed, this one amplified anger—standard Buddhist concepts of ’greed’ and ’anger’..."
"Oh? You noticed it too? Not bad," Lu Bingwei’s eyes brightened, praising him, "Seems your previous ntion of a Buddhist friend wasn’t just talk."
"Ha ha." Xu Shu was noncommittal after being complinted.
What’s this about noticing it too? I probably know far more than you!
As a well-read folklorist, Xu Shu had a rather distinct advantage in grasping all sorts of fragnted knowledge.
Moreover, he had known from the beginning from the "rmaid" that the ruins were heavily marked by Buddhist influences, and that ’Death God’ and ’Ksitigarbha’ had rged into ’Tailed Ksitigarbha’ in reality!
With the established results in mind, it was easy to infer so patterns from the two characteristic instances of ntal manipulation already observed.
Lu Bingwei continued: "Buddhism holds the concept of the three poisons: greed, anger, and confusion; seeing now, this relic seems to hide similar techniques. With greed and anger covered, the next door probably cycles ’confusion,’ amplifying obsession..."
Before she finished speaking, the nearby ’Soul Capturer’ Lady Qianfa laughed: "If it’s only this level of influence, I believe the next level is worth a try."
Huang Lili behind her also said: "Indeed, although this force is eerie and hard to defend against, it seems to rely affect the mind without direct attack thods, not posing much of a threat."
"Ha ha, makes sense, as we’re third-tier Transcendents, with even Human List Experts leading us; the original chanisms here might neatly crush under-tier capacities."
"Ha ha, certainly we can!"
"Brother Xu, what do you think?"
Everyone was curious, eagerly looking to Xu Shu, full of anticipation waiting for his response—since Xu Shu was unanimously seen as the "Breaker of Walls" in everyone’s mind; whether opening bronze doors or prison treasure vault doors, none could be done without this formidable "Dragon Elephant."
Under everyone’s hopeful gaze, Xu Shu’s eyes rolled, surveying the surroundings, making so ntal calculations.
Though these guys might be a little underwhelming in terms of individual strength, not even up to the level of ’Two Evergreen Friends,’ easily falling for traps and reacting strongly, their ability to detect loopholes was decent.
Simply put, with ’greed, anger, confusion’ controlling the mind and trying to create internal disputes, the hindrance might be significant for teams whose strength distribution is relatively even, but not affecting their peculiarly unevenly matched crew with extres.
Having "Micro-wave Calm" and "Cunning Traveler" – these two strengths far beyond peers – enables suppressing the environnt otherwise causing serious team harm!
However, despite thinking this way inside, Xu Shu didn’t draw swift conclusions, instead, gentlemanly passing the question to another: "Jun Moxiao, what do you think?"
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