Amidst suffering and pain, a struggling Qian Youqiao realized that Zhou Chuan's soul-search method was quite novel, employing an extractive technique that merely forced out memories. There was no piercing of the Divine Soul, nor any crushing pressure pushing the Divine Soul to the brink of shattering.
Vitality, origin, and memories were all concentrated within a cultivator's Divine Soul, while the sea of consciousness served as the gate to unlock those memories. If the sea of consciousness shattered and divine sense was lost, memories would become sealed and slip away. Back then, to escape Kuangsheng's murder, Zhou Chuan had chosen the lesser of two evils; destroying the sea of consciousness could induce amnesia, but destroying the Divine Soul would result in instant death.
Given Qian Youqiao's perspective, he saw that Zhou Chuan was not taking his life and that his approach was actually quite merciful, so he gave up struggling and let his memories be rifled through.
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