Chapter 57
Standing in front of the concubine’s prison cell once again, Michelle glanced at Kieran Ashford’s empty cell. At the moment, he was with the little Emperor, investigating the corruption of the Sloan Viscountcy after he realized that the old Viscount was one of the people who caused the downfall of his family. Michelle didn’t have to say much in the little Emperor’s office for him to put two and two together, and his hatred for the Sloan family boiled even more.
All Michelle did was mention the fact that though on the surface it looked like the Sloan Viscountcy gained only bare lands from the divided Ducal lands, but in reality, he gained a land which the Duke used to protect like his life depended on it, and he also made the young Ducal lord his son’s servant, so his son could become a cultivator if the legend was true.
Not being stupid, Kieran just thought about it for a while and quickly realized that the old Viscount must have been somehow involved, especially since he was acting strangely before the Duke disappeared for the first time. So, driven by rage, Kieran swore to the little Emperor that he would help find proof of the corruption in the Sloan Viscounty. Since that was the case, the little Emperor wrote an edict, giving amnesty to Kieran.
When all that was done, Michelle went back into the prison, alone, to continue training the memory manipulation skill. The concubine didn’t even dare to move as Michelle’s cold purple eyes locked on her. Michelle’s lips were hooked into a bright smile like always, but her eyes were so cold, the concubine shivered in terror.
Michelle entered the cell, sent her spirit energy into her mind and soaked it in her memories before sending the soaked spirit energy towards her hand which she placed on top of the concubine’s head. Through her hand she inserted the soaked spirit energy into the concubine’s brain. The concubine flinched in fear, but to her surprise, she felt nearly no pain. Blurry images started blurring in her mind, but before she could focus on them, she fainted. Her brain couldn’t keep up with the force of soaked spirit energy being stuffed into her head, so it shut down for a while.
Rolling her eyes with a sigh, Michelle retracted her hand and left the cell. She sat on the ground and closed her eyes. She was already close to succeeding, but she needed to control the force she used to send the memories into one’s brain, or she could end up destroying their nerve system, which was unwanted.
Staying motionless for two days, going in her mind through the skill, she finally opened her mind when a realization hit her. The whole time, she was going at it the wrong way. She tried to insert her memories forcefully into the concubine’s head, which would only work if the concubine’s brain was completely empty, but that was only the case with babies. It was possible to use the method, but it would leave chronic damage on the victim even if she had succeeded. But the skill that the monsters used on creatures they didn’t want to harm was slightly different.
Basically, the monster would use two wisps of its spirit energy. It would send one along the victim’s nerve system into his brain and absorb his memories into it. The other wisp of spirit energy would be soaked in the monster’s memories which it wanted to give the victim. Then, in the monster’s body, the monster would merge the two wisps and send them into the victim’s nerve system again and let the nerve system carry it into the memory part of the victim’s brain. That way, the wisp would naturally get into the brain and recreate the memories which were absorbed and pulled out, also adding new memories into the brain.
Standing up lazily, Michelle glanced at the concubine’s cell and smiled. "This will be the last time," she said as she placed her hand on the concubine’s head. Closing her eyes, Michelle separated two wisps of spirit energy in her body and sent one into her own brain and one into the concubine’s brain along the nerve system. The wisp in her own brain got slowly soaked in the memories she wanted to pass onto the concubine, and the wisp in the concubine’s brain completely absorbed her memories, making a memory-less shell.