Chapter 191: The Second Test And An Old Friend
This time, Han Yu got creative. Since he couldn’t find any real enemies without offending the wrong people, he decided to simulate a combat scenario using one of the sect’s spiritual projection arrays.
He could’ve technically sparred with a Senior disciple but he didn’t want the risk of something going wrong if he consumed the pill. The chances of it being embarrassing were far too high to risk it.
The Spiritual Projection Array was something usually reserved for inner sect disciples, but he had Li Mei’s recommendation—so he got in.
He set the difficulty to "Moderately Unwise" and loaded in a simulation of a Qi Refining realm specter infused with aggressive energy which could execute mental attacks.
It went well... for about thirty seconds.
The simulated beast nearly crushed his mental defenses, and he was forced to activate Memory Echo and Soul Needle in rapid succession. By the end of it, Han Yu was sweating, mentally exhausted, and half-convinced he had been fighting his childhood regrets in beast form.
He popped the final pill into his mouth.
This time the effect was... more intense.
His body went still, his breathing slowed to a crawl, and a deep pulse of qi washed through him like a tide. Unlike the first two, this wasn’t just cleansing—it was resetting. His mind cleared entirely for a brief moment, like standing in the eye of a storm.
Then, suddenly, he shuddered as dark smoke-like threads rose from his arms and dissolved into the air. A strange pressure lifted from his chest.
"Holy... did that just pull out some kind of soul gunk?" he asked the empty air.