Chapter 365 - 5 Qingcang Enlightens the Masses_3
Gu Wen asked, "How effective was it?"
"Very little effect," Xie Yunnan shook his head, "Without Spirit Stones and Pills as aid, a mortal would spend decades to at most reach Qi Cultivation Third Level. For three hundred years, not a single Golden Core Cultivator has emerged from the common folk."
This immediately sparked complaints from other disciples of the Sword Sect.
"Every year, the sect still takes a lot of Spirit Stones to subsidize the Cultivation Hall for mortals, but we haven’t seen any great power emerge to slay demons."
"I’ve been there once to teach cultivation, and sometimes it’s like a big gathering, with barefoot farmers standing below listening, not knowing if they can really grasp anything."
Gu Wen took these complaints in stride, feeling that the disciples of the Sword Sect were not at fault.
Among mortals, there were scholars, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants, just as among cultivators, there were sect cultivators and Loose Cultivators.
Everyone had different interests, but since ancient times, it has always been the strong who occupied the majority and continuously squeezed the living space of the weak. That was common sense, Gu Wen could cry out "common ownership," but he knew full well that such an ideal would never be realized in the Cultivation World.
Even redistributing the existing resources to improve the lives of the common people was extremely difficult.
The violence held by cultivators was not something mortals could compare with. Only stronger violence would make them submit. Yet conversely, those who wield such stronger violence already possess more, so why would they allocate more to those on the lower rungs?