"Life" and "death."
These unified concepts formed the perfect cycle of life. From distant antiquity to the present-day Imperium of Man, countless scholars had used every conceivable method to analyze the forces of "life" and "death" within living beings.
The desire to live was not merely an instinct for survival. It also carried other meanings: the need for recognition from others, the fulfillment of one's own value in life, and the longing to experience love and desire.
Though the primarchs were revered as demigods, that did not mean they truly possessed the unfeeling nature of gods. On the contrary, their immensely acute senses and innate intelligence made their needs for "life" and "death" all the more complex.
Take Perturabo's contradictions concerning love. He craved love and hated it at the same time. This inner conflict tormented him, and it tormented everyone who tried to draw close to him.
But Lin Fan was not afraid of Perturabo's torment. He could torment Perturabo in turn, because he understood everything. He could bluntly expose the source of Perturabo's conflict and endure Perturabo's embarrassed, furious rage without suffering the slightest harm. Under this kind of desensitization training, Perturabo went numb and gradually opened the barriers in his heart.
Lin Fan could understand everything from an absolutely objective perspective. Lacking the experience of true empathy, he could naturally view the entire Warhammer universe through the all-knowing lens of a "hypocritical saint."
But how could others view matters from Lin Fan's perspective? Between people, there were concealment, deception, ignorance, misdirection, and incomprehension. No one would perfectly reveal their thoughts from one moment to the next to another person. Aside from analyzing tone, expressions, and past experiences, it was exceedingly difficult to understand a person, a species, a conceptual entity, or even those sentient "emotional tides" within