Brainstorm – This Soul Skill is No Mere Illusion
Instead, it forcibly instills countless erroneous pieces of knowledge into the opponent's mind.
Once their mental strength fails to resist this "contamination," they will drown in a sea of knowledge, with the false information raging like a storm, tearing through their psyche.
"Ah!"
Seven agonized screams echoed through the sky. The Divine Wind team widened their eyes in shock.
Even though they knew this was their opponent's soul skill, they had no choice but to receive the incorrect knowledge being transmitted to them.
In an instant, they were struck with unbearable headaches.
The audience in the Martial Soul City Great Soul Arena was no group of ordinary people.
Yet, even they found themselves at a loss when trying to understand the effects of Zhi Qing's soul skill.
The afflicted individuals did not seem to be under an illusion, this could be ruled out immediately.
Illusions were a common method of spiritual power attacks. In the current era of Douluo Continent, nearly all Spirit Masters specializing in mental power focused on illusions.
For example, Dream God Machine, Shi Nian, and even the Canghui Academy were all adept illusionists.
To the world, mental power and illusions seemed intrinsically linked, as few other branches of mental power had been discovered.
Spirit beasts possessing mental attributes were also incredibly rare during this period.
"They're clutching their heads... Could it be a spiritual attack?"
"Like a soul impact attack?"
"No!"
The moment someone made that suggestion, they were immediately refuted.
"Look carefully, Zhi Qing's soul ring is glowing continuously!"
To determine whether a Spirit Master is using a soul skill, one only needed to observe their soul rings.
For continuous-type soul skills, the soul ring would keep flashing. If the skill was deactivated, the soul ring would return to its normal state, ceasing its radiant glow.
Zhi Qing's soul ring continued to flicker, indicating that his soul skill was still active, it was not a one-time mental shock attack.
A single spiritual attack that could simultaneously affect seven powerful Soul Elders, just what kind of soul skill was this?
A moment later, the glow of Zhi Qing's fourth soul ring faded, signaling that he had halted his fourth soul skill.
The moment he withdrew his soul power and mental power, Divine Wind's team finally found relief.
Seeing this, Zhi Qing murmured, "I can't keep using it... If I continue, they might actually become idiots."
"They'll return to normal after a few days of rest."
After all, this was just a competition, he hadn't aimed to kill them.
Li Qing stood right beside Zhi Qing and heard everything clearly.
"You really go hard on people."
"I'm already holding back, only using fifty percent of my power."
Zhi Qing twitched at the corner of his eye. His teammate was calling him ruthless?
Fine. One specialized in physical destruction, the other in mental destruction, they were both ruthless.
It actually made them quite a fitting pair.
Noticing something odd, Zhi Qing asked in confusion, "Li Qing, what's that powder on your hand?"
Hearing this, Li Qing instinctively glanced at his hand. Sure enough, there was a layer of powder on his right palm!
Could it be poison?
It didn't seem like it...
After thinking for a moment, he came to a realization.
"This must be from that girl's face."
"...What?"
Zhi Qing's mouth fell slightly open, unsure of what to say.
You don't hit people in the face, and yet, Li Qing had slapped that girl, Huo Wu, so hard that she spun two and a half times before landing.
No wonder her foundation makeup ended up on his hand...
Although the duo had held back, Divine Wind's team looked miserable.
In reality, they only suffered minor injuries.
The reason Li Qing accused Zhi Qing of being "too ruthless" was because Feng Xiaotian and the others' minds wouldn't recover for days.
During this time, they might do some very "foolish" things.
Feng Xiaotian slowly got up from the cold ground. He wasn't in pain, but rather, deep in thought.
"Why can birds fly?"
He looked up at the sky, genuinely puzzled.
The audience was stunned and bewildered.
What was wrong with Feng Xiaotian?
What on earth was that Brainstorm soul skill?
Huo Wu also stood up at this moment, frowning.
"Why does one plus one equal two?"
"Why can't it equal three? Or four?"
The crowd: "..."
Li Qing shot a glance at Zhi Qing.
He understood the effects of Brainstorm.
And because he understood, he turned to look at Zhi Qing with a complicated expression.
"...What exactly is in your brain?"
Brainstorm instilled false knowledge, but this knowledge was whatever Zhi Qing had once thought of and discarded as wrong.
He had defined them as incorrect, but that did not necessarily mean they were wrong.
Zhi Qing had merely categorized them as errors.
"When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher."
Huo Wushuang stood up and earnestly quoted this phrase.
Each person had received different false knowledge, yet some ideas overlapped.
Thankfully, this knowledge would fade away once they recovered.
Upon hearing this, Zhong Li glanced at Zhi Qing with a meaningful look.
As expected.
He wasn't not intelligent, he was simply hiding his intelligence.
"Birds fly because... they want to soar to the sky..."
Feng Xiaotian spoke solemnly, as if he had discovered some profound truth.
"One plus one doesn't always equal two. If you take one male spirit beast and one female spirit beast, they won't just equal two spirit beasts."
"Numbers and logic are vast and complex. In numbers, one is one, and two is two. But in logic, we explain why one is one, and two is two... or why one isn't one, and two isn't two..."
Huo Wu seemed to grasp something profound, but in the end, she couldn't articulate it.
After a moment, she murmured again:
"Why doesn't one plus one equal two..."
The audience was now utterly baffled.
They looked at Zhi Qing with changed expressions.
Just how terrifying was this Brainstorm soul skill?
Why had the entire Divine Wind team become like this?
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One vs. Divine Wind Academy!"
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One is victorious!"
Divine Wind Academy's members were in this state, making it impossible to continue the match.
"Please wait, young friend. According to the competition rules, I must confirm Divine Wind Academy's condition."
At this moment, the referee stopped Zhi Qing just as he was about to step down.
His fairness in enforcing the rules immediately earned the respect of many in the audience.
One of the rules was that competitors must not deliberately cripple their opponents or turn them into idiots.
On the surface, Zhi Qing had "violated" the latter.
Of course, this was only how it appeared.
"Referee, please ask freely, I will answer truthfully."
Zhi Qing cooperated fully.
Hearing this, the referee breathed a sigh of relief before asking,
"Zhi Qing, after being affected by your fourth soul skill, Divine Wind's team remains in this condition even though your skill has ended. Will they remain foolish indefinitely?"
As he said this, the referee couldn't shake a strange feeling.
These people weren't truly dumb, they seemed to be contemplating philosophy.
But to a normal person, watching them felt like watching a bunch of lunatics.