Chapter 33: Unanswered questions
"Why do you think no one has ever walked this cultivation path before?"
At Yue Ling’s question, Langtian’s brows furrowed in thought.
He stayed silent for a while, sorting through everything he knew.
The first thing that came to mind was the rule in most sects that strictly forbade the consumption of demonic beasts.
In righteous sects, that rule made perfect sense. Demonic beasts were seen as creatures born from chaos and evil. To cultivate by devouring such energy would naturally be considered heretical.
But that logic only applied to the righteous.
Evil sects, on the other hand, had no reason to care about morality. They were infamous for using any means necessary to grow stronger.
The Crimson Blood Sect, for example, cultivated by draining the blood of live human sacrifices. They slaughtered countless villages and thousands of innocent people to obtain their source of blood.
Or the Ten Thousand Corpses Hall—those who created undead puppets from the bodies of fallen cultivators, binding their souls to chains and enslaving them for battle.
And then there was the Hollow Veil Society, a hidden organization that once kidnapped dozens of young boys and girls under the age of five. The children’s bodies were used to create living vessels for cursed artifacts...
These were monsters in human skin—the kind of people who left scars across the cultivation world. They were feared, hunted, and hated by the righteous for generations.
And yet... not a single one of them, as far as Langtian knew, had ever practiced a cultivation method based on consuming demonic beasts.