"This sword art is perfectly suited to me!"
With Zhou Yi's exceptional insight, how could he fail to understand the difference between forgetting emotion and severing emotion?
For instance, Nameless had slaughtered all his family and friends to break through to the Innate realm, yet he had also developed a heart demon. Whenever he wielded the sword art, his mind became unclear and he resembled a fiend, bearing not the slightest semblance of a righteous Sword God.
Forgetting emotion was different. It was an understanding that arose naturally after living long enough.
"My father is lecherous, my mother loves to eat, and my elder brother is obsessed with becoming an official... None of them look like the long-lived sort. After another two or three generations of the Zhou family, I should be able to forget emotion too!"
Zhou Yi could understand the state of forgetting emotion, and he felt no familial affection for his nine clans either, yet he knew that he would struggle to master the sword art.
Understanding did not mean being able to do it!
He continued reading the brocade scroll. The writing behind it was utterly different from what came before. It had not been written by Qingjing, but by an expert called Old Devil Hentian, who had derived a cultivation method for the Innate realm.
"No wonder Nameless fought me to the death. I cut off his path ahead..."
Zhou Yi suddenly understood. The subsequent cultivation process required one to move back and forth between emotion and emotionlessness, until one finally attained true Supreme Forgetting of Emotion.
As long as people lived in this world, they would encounter others. They would make friends, take disciples, and become entangled in gratitude, grudges, love, and hatred. This was the path from emotionlessness to emotion.
Then one would