The Unfeeling Dao was unfeeling toward people and unfeeling toward events. But unfeeling itself was a choice in how one lived, a direction in life—not the essence of life.
The ultimate purpose of cultivating the Unfeeling Dao was to change one's essence of life. It was like when Lu Yin had asked Old Ancestor Lu Yuan to plant Instant Movement in him. Because of humanity's inherent essence of life, however, Instant Movement required one to see the destination before moving there. That trait stemmed from humanity's fear and wariness of the unknown.
The Unfeeling Dao's purpose was to change that essence of life, so that people became something other than human—or, more precisely, something other than ordinary humans.
But how difficult was it to change one's essence of life? Never mind ordinary cultivators—even among the Eternal Life Realm experts, how many could do it? Even people like He Xiao and Bing Xu, who had committed every manner of evil, could hardly manage it. It wasn't something one could accomplish simply by abandoning all feeling and loyalty.
In Lu Yin's view, even Jiu Wen might not be able to do it.
Since changing one's essence of life was so difficult, most of what people were accustomed to remained unchanged. Families and lineages, for example. What changed was only how people interacted with one another.
The Lian family was one of the stronger families in the Star Under Red Clothes Civilization. Though it had never produced an Eternal Life Realm expert, it had never gone without a Six-tenths Red Clothes. Since its history began to be recorded, the Lian family had produced more than ten Six-tenths Red Clothes. There might have been more before then, but no records remained.
Some family powers had enjoyed a brief moment of glory after producing an