OK, hold up, what's going on with the lore? Huaiyan is the oldest person in Xianzhou fleet...and he looks like an old man?! So do those who got blessed/cursed with Abundance actually age beyond 20 or not? From the Quintet lore, it seemed like aging stops at 20 and then it's either die through non-aging means or fall to mara-struck. What's happening? Did Huaiyan receive the blessing/curse after he became an old man?
Also, I did specify Luofu precisely because I had no way to know other fleets faired against mara. I maintain that on Luofu, Jing Yuan is probably one of the few if not only person who has the potential to resist the curse.
In addition, it sounds like despite the science mumbo jumbo, whether someone becomes mara-struck ultimitately comes down to mental resistance and the trigger for mara is suffering (emotionally or physically). So maintaining a zen state of mind seems to be the trick to avoid mara. Is it possible the reason Huaiyan is able to maintain his sanity is because he was already sort of senile when he got immortality so his brain doesn't retain "extreme" emotions as readily and thus not falling to the trigger? /wildmassguessing
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Date: 2024-07-30 04:37 am (UTC)OK, hold up, what's going on with the lore? Huaiyan is the oldest person in Xianzhou fleet...and he looks like an old man?! So do those who got blessed/cursed with Abundance actually age beyond 20 or not? From the Quintet lore, it seemed like aging stops at 20 and then it's either die through non-aging means or fall to mara-struck. What's happening? Did Huaiyan receive the blessing/curse after he became an old man?
Also, I did specify Luofu precisely because I had no way to know other fleets faired against mara. I maintain that on Luofu, Jing Yuan is probably one of the few if not only person who has the potential to resist the curse.
In addition, it sounds like despite the science mumbo jumbo, whether someone becomes mara-struck ultimitately comes down to mental resistance and the trigger for mara is suffering (emotionally or physically). So maintaining a zen state of mind seems to be the trick to avoid mara. Is it possible the reason Huaiyan is able to maintain his sanity is because he was already sort of senile when he got immortality so his brain doesn't retain "extreme" emotions as readily and thus not falling to the trigger? /wildmassguessing