"Mm! Mm!" Luo Yunji lifted his double chin, gazed up at the sky at a sixty-degree angle, and began to think. "It seems Buddhist cultivation methods fall into this category."
"Buddhist cultivation methods!" This was a major discovery! Tian Buyi sat up straight and looked at his little prodigy.
"Yes! Don't their cultivation methods all make people calm in mind, or keep them from developing any desire to fight? That counts as falling under the mental category," Luo Yunji said with a nod.
"But Azure Clouds has that too! The Taiji Mystic Purity Dao has the effect of focusing the mind and calming the spirit," Second Senior Brother said, frowning as he voiced the doubt in his heart.
"That just has a bit of effect, that's all. It can't truly count as having a mental attribute. That example of yours should be emotion."
"What it affects is emotion, but it can't change thoughts or intentions at all. For example: right now, I'm very angry. That's emotion. Many cultivation methods, as long as they have the effect of focusing the mind and calming the spirit, can settle it."
"But if I now want to hit someone, then only a mental-attribute technique can keep me from forming that thought, or even change my mind and make me want to be friends with the other person, and so on."
"Put that way, isn't it similar to some of the Demon Sect's cultivation methods!" Tian Buyi was shocked!
"Not really! Cultivation methods don't have distinctions of good or evil, right or wrong! The mental attribute is very rare. Usually, it's hard to find even one in ten thousand people. That 'one' means someone who has talent or aptitude in the mental attribute. Everyone has a mental attribute, but if you want to cultivate it