The fat man shivered and struggled harder. He had heard rumors of lunatics roaming around, but he never thought that he would become one of their victims.
"Don't be afraid... It's no big deal. If you're sick, treat it..." Lin Sheng stood up, took a hammer, and walked toward Odica.
The first step of the ritual was to train one's spirit to change as well as uplift both the body and the mind.
Not long after, Lin Sheng walked out of the forest with his hands full of blood.
He had no direct way of observing souls, but with his knowledge of the five regions of the soul, he was able to reconstruct one of the temple's classic experiments, Exhortation. The memories of the priest helped too.
Exhortation was not something supernatural, but a punishment specific to the temple. It was a penalty that targeted the different regions of a prisoner's soul.