The awakened sword heart was a form of self-protection unique to Sword Cultivators, preventing them from being disturbed by their Inner Demons and going mad.
However, the primary way an awakened sword heart manifested was by sealing one's emotions toward something.
There was a benefit to it: one could temporarily seal away their emotions toward whatever had triggered the awakening, preventing it from entering their heart again.
But there was also a drawback. Sword Cultivators needed to understand the sword. Why had the sword heart awakened? Because sealing one's emotions was equivalent to escaping them, and endless evasion could never lead to enlightenment or a breakthrough. It was what ordinary Qi Refiners called facing the Inner Demon head-on.
But now, let alone facing his Inner Demon head-on, Jiang Lin did not even dare touch it in the slightest. He could only forcibly seal away his feelings for the woman named Cuo Zhi.
Otherwise, Jiang Lin could not guarantee what would happen to him.
Yet even so, whenever he saw her, his chest would grow stuffy, as though those incomparably intense emotions were about to burst out of his control!
Especially in his mind, it felt as if something was trying to break out of its prison, as though something deep within his soul wished to awaken.
After who knew how long, Jiang Lin, who had shut his eyes and forcibly calmed his heart, finally settled down little by little.
Fortunately, these were Rong Luo's memories, not those of the woman named Cuo Zhi. Cuo Zhi had not appeared all that often.
The scene Jiang Lin inhabited changed again.
Rong Luo and little Jiang Feng had been scolded by Cuo Zhi. Then the old man from the orchard had come to demand an explanation, only to be beaten back by Cuo