I'm Not Your Father

Through Mind Power, one could sense some of the thoughts a person had when generating Mind Power.

Chu Fei had long grown accustomed to this. He had also analyzed and reflected on the phenomenon, arriving at several conjectures. They might not be accurate, but for now, they were logically self-consistent.

In principle, as long as something was logically self-consistent, there was a thirty percent chance it was true.

Mind Power did not arise from nothing. It had a source: a person's intense emotions, and it was usually directed toward something.

In Yanhuang Civilization's traditional cultivation theory, there was a saying: "Cultivate the heart through tranquility; nurture virtue through frugality." Some Buddhist and Daoist practices went even further, demanding that the mind be "as still as an ancient well."

Chu Fei believed that the human soul, or spiritual intelligence, was not immune to damage.

Like trees battered by a gale—leaves would be blown away, and in severe cases, entire trees could be uprooted.

When humans underwent intense emotional fluctuations, their souls would also shed "fragments."

Perhaps there was a self-preservation logic behind this shedding—the soul regarded intense emotions as foreign matter or impurities, stripping them away to preserve its purity, its order.

This involved another theory: the human soul, or spiritual intelligence, originated from Negative Entropy, and Negative Entropy was, in essence, order.

Intense human emotions themselves disrupted order. For example, anger robbed people of reason, while joy easily led to impulsive spending.

For self-preservation, the soul discarded those intense emotions as one "pathological body" after another—dropping packets. That was Mind Power. And because of this, Mind Power contained fragments of memory.

The entire process resembled the rejection response of a flesh-and-blood body.

Ordinary people did not understand cultivation, and their souls could not grow stronger. They could only continue to