Douluo: A Century-old Legend I Am the Second Uncle Chenxin

Chapter 1849 The Great Master of Fate's Mind-Reading Ability

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Chen Xiaojun stood up.

He walked step by step toward Dou Jing, who was tightly bound by chains, his eyes closed and panting as if he had resigned himself to his fate.

Footsteps could be heard clearly in the deathly silent cave.

"It seems I'll have to find the answer from you in the end." Chen Xiaojun stopped in front of Dou Jing, looking down at him. "Let me see what's really going on between you and Barton."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xiaojun slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers spread out and turned blood red, hovering above Dou Jing's head.

In an instant, five extremely concentrated dark red blood energy, like serpents, snaked out from his fingertips!

These bloodthirsty energies carried a strange, cold penetrating power, directly drilling into Dou Jing's seven orifices—eyes, ears, mouth, and nose!

"Uhhh-!!!"

The moment the five streams of bloodthirsty energy invaded, Dou Jing suddenly opened his eyes, his eyeballs almost bulging out of their sockets.

His facial features twisted and trembled violently in an extremely unnatural manner, his entire face felt like it was being torn apart, and he looked extremely painful and ferocious.

He let out a suppressed, dying groan from his throat, his muscles tensed to the limit, the chains were pulled so hard they groaned, and beads of sweat mixed with blood rolled down his face.

It felt like five tubes were inserted into my head, constantly and violently stirring it up.

Qin Luguang and Zhu Yanfeng both held their breath, their eyes solemn. They had never seen Chen Xiaojun use such methods before.

The others stared in astonishment at what they were seeing.

Li Wuyai roared, "What are you doing?! What are you doing to the boss?! Ahhh..."

Unfortunately, no one responded to him.

Exhausted from shouting, she looked at Dou Jing with slightly red eyes.

After about a minute, the five streams of bloodthirsty energy slowly withdrew from Dou Jing's seven orifices and dissipated into nothingness.

Chen Xiaojun withdrew his hand, a look of realization on his face: "Hmm, I see. Your offspring... were held in Barton's hand as a bargaining chip."

"you--!!!!"

Dou Jing's reaction was absolutely explosive!

His once lifeless eyes now shone with a terrifying light, as if a red-hot iron had been plunged into them.

He struggled frantically, trying to pounce on Chen Xiaojun, but the chains instantly dug deep into his flesh, causing blood to splatter.

He roared hoarsely, his voice distorted and twisted, filled with an indescribable yet easily understood despair: "You! What...what did you do to me?! What did you see?!"

This violent and completely out-of-control reaction, without any explanation, has already blatantly proven to everyone present that what Chen Xiaojun said was true.

Patton controlled his most fatal weakness!
How did the young master know that? It's so amazing. Zhu Yanfeng and Qin Luguang exchanged a glance. Another new ability? Or is it a legacy from his 'master'?

Li Wuyai was stunned, and blurted out instinctively, "Boss... Boss?! When... did you have an heir?! How come... we had no idea?!"

The news struck him like a thunderbolt, leaving his mind blank and even temporarily dispelling his hatred. Chen Xiaojun glanced at Li Wuyai indifferently, then his gaze returned to the seemingly crazed Dou Jing: "This is called... mind reading."

“Mind reading…mind reading…” Dou Jing was drained of all his strength by these two words. His struggle stopped instantly, and all that remained was his body trembling violently from fear.

His eyes were vacant as he repeatedly chewed over those two words.

The secret he fought so hard to protect was so easily exposed?
Chen Xiaojun looked down at him, his words striking Dou Jing's already crumbling defenses: "I know where your child is. Tell me... what should I do?"

The cave fell silent again, a deathly silence heavier than ever before.

All that remained was Dou Jing's panting, like that of a dying beast.

Time passed by second by second, and each second felt as long as a year.

All eyes were fixed on Dou Jing's rapidly changing face: fear, despair, anger, struggle... In the end, only a deep-seated weariness remained.

After what felt like an eternity, Dou Jing finally mustered all his strength and managed to squeeze out a weak, hoarse sentence from his broken throat: "I...I'll talk..."

He struggled to lift his head and look at Chen Xiaojun. His eyes were no longer fierce, but filled with a last trace of humble pleading: "But you need... to save my child's... life."

Chen Xiaojun slowly and clearly curled the corners of his lips: "Okay."

Seeing the complex mix of relief and despair in Dou Jing's eyes, Chen Xiaojun remained completely unmoved.

This is so melodramatic!
This classic "manipulating offspring" plot... how can we not bluff him a little?
How could his "mind-reading" technique possibly reveal everything from the past?
The five streams of bloodthirsty energy used in mind-reading are merely a combination of mental impact and emotional guidance, forcibly stimulating the other person's mind to peer into their most recent, deepest, and most intense memory fragments or emotional moments.

It is extremely time-sensitive (with Chen Xiaojun's strength and being a beginner, he can only go back three or four days, which is why he agreed to it; of course, it will be longer in the future).

Just now, Dou Jing's memories were playing back frame by frame.

He was captured, Barton escaped, he seemed to die under the Demon Blade of Karmic Fire, he fought with Ximen Wenye, he seemed to be the one who attacked the mountain fortress like the Chen family, he seemed to be carefully checking the defenses, he seemed to have received news of the great changes in the underground city and the large-scale battle.

In one of the scenes, he saw Dou Jing, who had recently been in turmoil in Tian Dou City, venture to the surface Tian Dou City with unusual caution, and the two people he met.

Add to that his current determination to launch a fatal counterattack against Chen Xiaojun, even at the cost of his own and all his brothers' lives, all for the sake of Barton's secret... and these anomalies, when strung together, make the hypothesis of a "handle" readily apparent.

For someone like Dou Jing, a figure from the underworld, hiding a child underground is itself a huge clue that reveals his true nature.

So he boldly guessed and simply lied.

He bet that Dou Jing, whose mental state was already shaken and whose psychological defenses were crumbling, would react most violently and genuinely to the revelation of this most fatal secret.

As it turned out—he won the bet.

This melodramatic plot couldn't possibly stand up to scrutiny.

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Qin Luguang sat back in his chair on the right, slamming his unlit pipe down on the table with a "thud," a cold glint in his eyes: "Hmph! I told you that old man Dou Jing is a tough nut to crack, impervious to reason, he wouldn't utter a sound even if you took several bones out of him. But..."

"Your breathing is heavy and your eyes are filled with a deep fear, which doesn't seem like you're simply ready to die. Your stubbornness makes it seem like you're waiting for someone to rescue you or that you're afraid of someone. It turns out you've been manipulated because of your offspring. To protect your offspring, you attacked the young master to exchange your life for his, hoping for a quick death."

Zhu Yanfeng's eye twitched violently, and he rolled his eyes so hard they almost reached the back of his head. "Hindsight is 20/20."

(End of this chapter)