Spiritual Charm Initial Listening Chapter, Where All Cultivation Methods and Supernatural Powers Take Root and Sprout!

Touma Kazusa: "[Heart-Image Sanskrit Sound Dao] requires one to turn one's emotions, memories, will, and even dreams into 'heart sounds.' A cultivator must constantly experience things, perhaps even 'manufacture' intense emotional fluctuations to serve as fuel for refining heart sounds."

Touma Kazusa: "I admit that my emotions may be richer than those of ordinary people, and I am used to keeping them contained and seeking an outlet through music. But precisely because of that, I know that my emotions arise from within me. They are passive and require time to understand."

Touma Kazusa: "I am not someone good at actively and repeatedly throwing myself into intense emotional whirlpools. That would leave me exhausted, perhaps even lost."

Touma Kazusa: "That runs completely contrary to why I pursue music and express myself."

Touma Kazusa: "To me, music is a way to understand emotion, not a tool for acquiring emotional power."

Touma Kazusa: "Constantly cutting apart memories and resetting experiences... I cannot imagine what I would become if I did that."

Touma Kazusa: "That may be a path toward power, but also toward becoming 'not myself.' My personality probably could not endure that constant deconstruction and reshaping of the self."

Of the three paths, the first one Touma Kazusa ruled out was the [Heart-Image Sanskrit Sound Dao].

Touma Kazusa: "Although the [Myriad Transformation Musical Chapter Path] has a high ceiling, it treats music as a 'language' for describing the Universe. It requires one to perceive the laws of all things and convert musical theory and mathematical laws into one another."

Touma Kazusa: "What it requires is not merely musical talent, but rational thought and logical deduction."

A hint of wry bitterness entered her voice.

Touma Kazusa: "I love music, but while I do not dislike highly rational subjects such as mathematics and physics,