First, his inner demon was not selfishness, but self-denial. He was selfish, and he had changed; what the inner demon questioned was precisely his selfishness. If he had boldly admitted it and continued being selfish, there would have been no problem. But he himself was unwilling to admit it, or rather, he felt remorse. He knew what he had done before was wrong. Demonic cultivators kill and seize treasures, yet they do not believe that is wrong. They walk one path into the black—this is their path. Righteous cultivators like to stand on the moral high ground and judge others, saying others are wrong; there is nothing wrong with that either, for that is their path. Whether demonic cultivators or righteous cultivators, who dares claim their hands have never been stained with the blood of innocents? Was it really always others provoking you, forcing you to strike back, kill them, and take their possessions? Were you a great saint every single time? Then why cultivate immortality at all? If you cannot kill with a clear conscience, does eating chicken, duck, fish, and meat not count as taking life? Wang Mingren failed because he denied his own path, constantly fearing loss and gain.
Second, Wang Mingren's role was limited to the protagonist and Wang Qingshan. Logically speaking, if I wanted him dead, I would have given him a more tragic and heroic death—for example, dying for the development of the Wang Family. But after spending so much ink on him, would I really let him die just like that? I definitely have plans for him.
Third, as one reader rightly said, it is impossible for every clan member with a substantial role to become a Nascent Soul Cultivator! It took the Nine Serenities Sect more than two hundred years for its