Heart Slaying Sword and Dream Infiltration

　　Fu Xiang looked at me on the brink of despair himself. My appearance here, or rather, my appearance looked full of energy and I didn't have a blemish on me. That must've given him a big shock. But from my perspective, the reason he's squirming must be due to the force of his own palm strikes. .h.i.tting him. Fu Xiang was like a wounded animal. He faced me and thundered loud enough to crack through the snowy night. His throat was wounded so his voice was extremely husky. As soon as he opened his mouth, he chucked up a mouthful of blood due to having suffered severe internal wounds. But despite that, he was so angry he still shouted: "Ming Feizhen! Wh-What did you do to me?! Why are you unscathed?!"

　　I covered the ears of Boss Shen who was in my arms. I looked at his eyes and quietly moulded energy. He suddenly froze up. The rage in his eyes decreased a fair bit. He was even more confused why his anger seemingly got sucked out of him by my glare.

　　"You confused? But someone who's trained their internal strength to your level should know of Heart Slaying Sword and Dream Infiltration, right?"

　　Those with profound inner strength will possess a fierce gaze that seemingly has a substance in them. Once one has attained that level of proficiency, they can kill someone just with their gaze. The principle is that their inner qi shoots out and causes the qi in their opponent's body to attack itself. Hearty Slaying Sword and Dream Infiltration are manifestations of that principle. It's just that these two arts are another level above.

　　Heart Slaying Sword relies primarily on one's heart's thoughts' internal strength to attack the opponent's heart.

　　Dream Infiltration relies primarily on the wielder's brain to infiltrate the opponent's mind and give it commands.

　　If you can master these two styles, you can kill without lifting a finger. You can confuse someone's mind without lifting a hand, and could even turn people into your puppet. That's why styles which are on the level of the two are referred to as mind-control arts by those in the pugilistic world.

　　Mind-control arts are a large category. The strongest and most miraculous techniques are Eye Techniques.

　　It also gets called Soul Confusion Techniques and many other different things. But they all trace back to the two mind-control arts, Heart Slaying Sword as well as Dream Infiltration.

　　But the training for mind-control arts is tough to learn as they rely heavily on the potential of the pract.i.tioner and they have lots of disadvantages. If your internal strength is inferior to your opponent's, your opponent will reverse it on you. Mind-control arts also have a heavy emphasis on mental fort.i.tude. If your internal strength is superior to your opponent but your mental fort.i.tude is weaker, you still will have it reversed on you.

　　In other words, even if you possessed profound skills, if your opponent has strong mental fort.i.tude and doesn't give in, you still might fail to make it work even if your target was a cow. Actually, the backlash would be extremely harsh. Consequently, it's unlikely this sort of martial art is pa.s.sed down. Lots of people who learnt it used it for evil, so over time, it became viewed as an unorthodox-evil art, and not a martial art.

　　According to what I know, there are less than ten schools in the pugilistic world who have reached this level, and most of said pract.i.tioners were kept by the unorthodox sets.

　　…… Mount Daluo was one. The Demon Sect was another.

　　That's why I……

　　But there are a lot of problems with the research on the two styles which is why most mind-control arts can't kill people without contact or brainwash people. At most, they can only cause internal injuries or confuse their enemy for a while.