Fuck.
In that instant, all of Chen Youjia's feelings condensed into those two words, and those two words were plainly written across her face.
"You're insane... This time, you really are..." Chen Youjia covered her eyes, took two steps back, then sheathed her sword. "Do you even know... Forget it, there's no way you don't know, but how could you do this?"
Cultivation methods affected a person's character. Those who cultivated fire tended toward fierceness, while those who cultivated water tended toward gentleness. This was not merely a "stereotype," but a statistical phenomenon.
Because cultivation bodies truly affected one's personality.
Why did one have to proceed through three years of Qi Refinement, six years of Foundation Establishment, and nine years of Core Formation?
Because any faster, and the advancement brought by spiritual power would exceed the consciousness's capacity to adapt. One's consciousness would involuntarily become constrained by the cultivation method.
The saying, "When the Dao rises one foot, the demon rises ten," referred to this as well. Excessively rapid growth in power tugged at the consciousness, magnifying the uncontrolled thoughts within it—its "heart demons."
The fact that cultivating demonic arts led to demonization also had factors of this sort.
For Ancient Method Cultivators, who needed over a century merely to form a Golden Core, such side effects could naturally be ignored.
But when Modern Dharma Cultivators encountered this problem, they had nearly lost an entire generation.
Only at such a relatively slow pace could consciousness gradually adapt to the cultivation body, adapt to the process of one's organs of thought being gradually replaced.
And after the Primordial Spirit stage, this problem had not ceased to exist; it merely became less conspicuous.
On one hand, the spiritual power required for the three great realms of Primordial Spirit, Void Refinement, and Nirvana