Chapter 146: Better Understanding Of Emotions
Then Han Yu’s gaze sharpened. He needed controlled situations—interactions that stirred emotion without placing him at too much risk.
Maybe it was time to explore the sect again, carefully. He could observe others, subtly insert himself into conflicts or dramatic moments, and harvest the ambient energy. If someone experienced intense fear, joy, or sorrow around him, he could try to siphon it.
"And I’ll need a better understanding of these emotions," Han Yu added. "The fragments in my mind don’t explain it all."
He glanced at the old scrolls and books he had salvaged from his normal storage pouch. Most were low-grade manuals on Qi cultivation, two books on qi skills and sect etiquette—worthless to him now. But there were some books on historical battles, great sect betrayals, tragic cultivator romances.
The latter were something he could obtain easily even as servants. They didn’t need any merit points to obtain and even the servant dorms had a shelf full of them lying around. Most servants didn’t even bother to take a look as they brought them no benefits.
A few did read them as momentary entertainment and Han Yu had done the same.
Back when he was a servant, he had thought them melodramatic and useless too.
Now?
Now they were gold.
"Stories of powerful emotions... maybe I can learn how to simulate or induce them," he whispered.
A flicker of memory sparked within him when he had listened to a lecture while sweeping the ground nearby—an elder once telling stories of how ancient Cultivators used theater, music, and even painting to amplify emotions. Perhaps that was a path he could explore, too.