I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 139 - 121: Hypnosis? I’m well-versed in this!

Chapter 139: Chapter 121: Hypnosis? I’m well-versed in this!

Watching the silly dog Bai Jin as if it had been pressed PAUSE, it went from an excited run to staying in place without moving an inch.

Chen Yun’s heart flickered with curiosity and concern.

The concern was because the silly dog Bai Jin seemed to be affected, motionless at this moment.

It could have been injured.

Although his affection for the silly dog Bai Jin was not that deep, he had raised it for many days.

Even if now most living creatures appeared indistinct to him, having been home and found his own personality anchors, he had experienced a deeper elevation of his mindset.

He was still maintaining a certain degree of normal personality.

Therefore, Chen Yun didn’t really want to hurt Bai Jin because of his own actions.

And Chen Yun’s curiosity naturally derived from the new characteristic of his spiritual power.

Spiritual power could touch emotions.

This was an unprecedented trait.

Previously, he could only vaguely sense what someone’s emotions were.

But now, he could directly touch those seemingly ethereal emotions.

Chen Yun could feel his spiritual power touching the emotions of the dog Bai Jin; the feeling was not like touching something material with telekinesis but more vague.

If he had to describe it.

It was like touching water, more like touching air.

Or to say, even more obscure and hazy, almost like touching something, but also as if not.

Besides.

His spiritual power still couldn’t penetrate the flesh of living creatures, and Chen Yun didn’t know on what level he was touching the emotions of a being.

It was as if emotions, these profoundly mysterious things, were not stored within the being’s body, but faintly existed on another plane.

This was in contradiction to the education Chen Yun had received.

According to current biological science theories.

Emotions are a state representation of hormonal distribution. Different emotions represent different state representations of the body, and you can influence bodily emotions by adjusting hormone levels.

Essentially, emotions arise from complex physiological and psychological processes involving the brain’s neural network, the endocrine system, and the autonomic nervous system.

Within the brain’s neural network alone, emotional responses involve the action of various neurotransmitters and neuropeptides, such as dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). These elements transfer signals between neurons, regulating emotional states.

Fundamentally, all emotions are covertly regulated by substances like hormones and neurotransmitters.

Theoretically, the thing called emotion itself.

Does not actually exist; it seems to be merely the totality of the sensations caused by the physiological reactions and changes of internal organs.

But at this moment.

Chen Yun could actually touch emotions!

As if emotions themselves had some kind of tangible existence.

This thing that should be determined by substance, belonging to the level of consciousness, seemed at this moment to have become a part of the material world.

Such a discovery was against science.

Or rather, it contradicted existing science!

Musing on this, Chen Yun tentatively withdrew his spiritual power from the silly dog Bai Jin’s emotions.

The next moment.

The motionless Bai Jin suddenly started moving again, joyfully continuing to run and jump around.

It seemed oblivious to what had just happened, seamlessly continuing the actions from the second before, as if it had no idea that it had been "paused" for a while.

This caused Chen Yun to stare with wide eyes.

He felt that this scenario seemed somewhat familiar.

"What’s going on here? Emotional paralysis? Time stop? Or is it hypnosis?"

Chen Yun couldn’t help but murmur.

Hypnosis? That he was familiar with.

Such as "In Flames of..."

Cough cough, pretend he didn’t say that.

Chen Yun, unable to suppress his digression, refocused and again tried to extend his spiritual power into the emotions of the little dog Bai Jin.

Just like pressing a time pause button.

The little dog stopped in place again, its subjective thoughts and emotions as if paused.

But after all, it wasn’t really a pause in time; the dog that had leaped up didn’t freeze mid-air, but fell down because of the sudden stop.

Its emotions rippled violently for a moment, shaking out Chen Yun’s spiritual power, and then the dog returned to normal.

Just shook its head, puzzled as to why it had fallen and hurt itself, then, unconcerned, chased after the toy Chen Yun kicked out.

Rubbing his temple, a bit dizzy from the spiritual concussion, Chen Yun’s eyes flashed with a thoughtful look.

A couple of simple touches had revealed some points of attention for this new characteristic of his spiritual power.

Firstly, when his spiritual power touched the emotions of a creature, it would cause the subject’s thinking to temporarily halt, turning into an immobile vegetative state.

This wasn’t really a pause in time, but rather, thinking itself halted at that moment. Even after resuming, it would feel like the thinking cut out for a moment during the pause, not knowing what specifically transpired.

Secondly, the halting effect caused by his spiritual power touching the creature’s emotions seemed easily disrupted by external forces, shaking his spiritual power out and causing some dizziness.

Once the spiritual power no longer touched the creature’s emotions, the stagnation in the creature’s thought would instantly resume.

Lastly, when his spiritual power touched the creature’s emotions, he could clearly feel a drain, suggesting it couldn’t be sustained for long.

Based on his current estimates, it could only last for about two minutes.