Chapter 1156. Tight on Time (1)
Demonic cultivation destroyed the humanity of the cultivator mastering it.
It was not originally designed to do that, of course. Still, it was impossible to overlook the fact that it caused the cultivator's personality to warp in a negative direction during the cultivation process.
Obviously, things were no different in ancient Zhongyuan, too.
When he was in the demon cult, Kang Jin-Ho didn’t get the impression anything was particularly wrong. Then again, you wouldn’t think anything was amiss with having three eyes after getting used to living in a world of three-eyed people.
However, now that he looked back... Even he had to admit that the demon cult back then was an organization of batsh*t weirdos and lunatics.
If any hardened criminals serving life sentences in jails in the modern era were unleashed into the demon cult back then, they would’ve been reformed into saints in no time at all! Even Confucius and Mencius would’ve selflessly praised them for being moral and kinder than anyone.
That was how violent and abnormal the demon cult was like back then!
Kang Jin-Ho could more or less sympathize with the current-era Chinese martial artists and their contempt for the demon cult. After all, they must’ve experienced some insane stuff at the hands of demonic cultivators in the past.
At least the modern-era demon cult believers were fortunate enough not to inherit any complete demonic cultivation. Because this kept their cultivation realms pathetically low, but it also helped preserve their humanity.
What if the demon cult managed to protect its cache of demonic cultivation methods? Either the Chinese martial society got destroyed, or the demon cult would've been wiped out. The odds favored the latter option coming true. Overwhelmingly so.
Ironically, then, the demon cult managed to survive to this day thanks to failing to pass down its inheritances properly and causing itself to weaken over the years.
However, what if things had been the other way around?