Fan Jianqiang's temples throbbed. "Lust really does affect cultivation."
"But do they have to cut off their balls?"
"If all else fails, take the Ruthless Path!"
"Even if brothels were everywhere and everyone practiced dual cultivation, I could understand that. There are thousands upon thousands of paths to cultivation—cultivation is cultivation no matter how you do it."
"Why did they have to take the path of cutting off their balls?"
"This..."
"What the hell were they thinking?!"
Lin Fan shook his head with a sigh. "It wasn't that they wanted to do this. They had no choice. They'd long since been swept along by capital."
"Cap... capital?!"
Fan Jianqiang scratched his head again.
Good lord.
A world of immortal cultivation!
Swept along by capital.
Taken separately, he found nothing wrong with any of those words. But when they were put together, he genuinely couldn't understand them, nor could he make sense of them.
They were already cultivating immortality, and they could still be swept along by capital?
"Capital changes too."
Lin Fan was not one to play coy, so he casually explained, "This capital isn't simply a group of wealthy people. Or rather, you can think of them as wealthy immortal-cultivating families."
"These families have money, people, and strength, but only within their own level. For better lives and better futures, they'll rack their brains trying to climb to the upper levels."
"But to enter the upper levels—even just the second level—requires vast amounts of resources and funds. And even those alone aren't enough. Still, after saying a thousand things and ten thousand things, money remains the most important thing."
"Therefore, they'll do everything they can to earn money."
"Put that way, I understand a little more."
Fan Jianqiang nodded.
He really was starting to get it.
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