Compared to the hardship of cultivation,
the hardship of handling affairs was clearly harder to swallow.
After all, suffering through cultivation never went to waste. Others might not be able to sense it, but you yourself would definitely notice the growth in your strength. Moreover, power was the universal solution in this world. No matter what happened, as long as one possessed sufficient power, it could be resolved. There was no need to worry about unfamiliar fields being like mountains apart. Therefore, everyone wanted to obtain something that struck directly at the root of all things—including certain creatures that were not human. Thus, the hardship of cultivation came with hope. Those who endured it knew exactly how their road ahead should be walked. But the hardship of handling affairs was endured for utterly unfathomable reasons.
Because the former controlled life and death.
The latter probed Human Nature.
At an innate level, there was already a vast gap between them.
To put it more plainly,
take the former Starfall Pavilion and the current Starfall Pavilion as examples.
If it had been the former Starfall Pavilion,
and Soul Hall had set its sights on it,
Soul Hall would only have needed to make a grand public announcement.
Starfall Pavilion would have fallen into internal chaos.
The reason was simple. Everyone knew that Starfall Pavilion lacked the strength to contend with Soul Hall. Therefore, no matter how well Feng Xian managed things, as long as he had not trained those affiliated with Starfall Pavilion into Death Guards, they would consider their own way out. After all, in the face of life and death, one's stance was not especially important. Even if Feng Xian did not wish to deplete his side's living strength through internal strife and made concessions, allowing those who wished to