Where feeling reached, even metal and stone would yield.
Indeed, human emotion was truly a mighty force.
It could move oneself, move others, move heaven and earth, wielding the power to change history and turn human hearts.
Yet in the eyes of Puppet Masters, everything existed within reality. Nothing stood beyond worldly things or transcended the natural Great Dao of heaven and earth.
Human spirit and will arose from matter, nothing more.
Ancient cultivators had even regarded emotion as a grave affliction, seeking severing emotion to prove the Dao and overcome this tribulation.
Li Chen was now beginning to understand the deeper intentions of the Puppet Master Grandmasters.
This assessment seemed to celebrate love, but its true purpose was to penetrate the mysteries of human emotion and will, preparing them to cultivate their divine souls and master the power of the mind.
Once Puppet Masters realized that even feelings, thoughts, and will could be controlled and altered, they would no longer be trapped by emotion.
Great art can indeed touch the heart, yet greater still is the artistry of emotion and intellect fashioned by heaven and nature!
How exactly are human thoughts born? How exactly is the human soul formed? What mechanism allows people to receive a work and be influenced by it?
I truly want to unravel every one of these mysteries!
Then, in writing, I could stir hearts with a handful of lines; in dance, I could move audiences with graceful movements; in music, I could command melodies and master beautiful notes and the laws of rhythm...
I could even extend this to the emotions of artifact spirits and artificial intelligence...
*This makes it all the clearer that natural principles can utterly overwhelm the Art Dao. The Creation Great Dao encompasses all things. By comparison, the Art Dao