"Who would bother lying to you? This mass of twisted squid tentacles is undoubtedly 'love'—the Heart Demon of love." Pavilion Master Chu sent the message through Secret Voice Transmission.
It was precisely because it was twisted or taboo love, different from ordinary 'love,' that it had given birth to a Heart Demon.
If it was perfectly ordinary 'love,' it would be very difficult for cultivators from orthodox sects to develop a Heart Demon—because they had antibodies.
'Love' was a very important emotion in a young cultivator's life, and it could give rise to violent emotional fluctuations.
Love was a double-edged sword. It could let someone unleash tremendous potential, but it could also damage a cultivator's Dao Heart.
Therefore, all the major sects had specialized courses concerning 'romance.'
The psychology of love had been an important field of study in the Cultivation World since ancient times.
Cultivate the body and nurture the spirit; study the Dao Heart. Before cultivating immortality, cultivate the heart.
At present, in some formal cultivation sects, seniors would regularly come lecture young cultivators. Their lectures would occasionally include topics such as 'how to view love correctly,' 'how to view one's Dao companion,' and 'how to recover from heartbreak as quickly as possible,' along with various bowls of spiritual chicken soup about love and methods for dealing with heartbreak.
Some sects would take a more radical approach—they taught their disciples to take love lightly. As long as your realm was high enough and you lived long enough, a thousand-year-old you could fall in love with a twenty-year-old Dao companion. Strength of cultivation was the only hard truth.
Some old fossils in the Demonic Sect generally proclaimed that only the strong were worthy of possessing love.
Ding Gan frowned as he stared at the tentacles in the