Who was the most worth guarding against in the Supernatural Circle?
Powerful Awakened?
Brain-dead Evolvers?
Top organizations standing at the peak of the supernatural world and ruling over countless living people?
None of them.
The ones most worth guarding against
were cultists!
At first, they joined cults for all sorts of reasons, hoping to fleece the evil gods. But as time passed and they were exposed to spiritual pollution, most of them truly became devout believers.
Then they would shout, "For the gods!" and commit all kinds of extreme acts that seemed utterly inconceivable to outsiders.
In the eyes of top experts,
those so-called evil gods were nothing more than evil spirits who had embarked on the Path of Incense and Fire and wanted to become Half-Gods. But in the eyes of low-level Awakened, they possessed boundless might.
And once you believed in them,
it meant you had opened your heart to them, allowing them to influence you in turn.
It was very troublesome.
Only top experts who joined halfway through could resist this influence. But they often tacitly allowed the evil spirits to influence middle- and lower-level believers, and did not interfere.
These people and the evil spirits could be considered collaborators.
They benefited one another.
The evil spirits built the stage, while they collected the money and pushed the "family" onto the stage to perform.
After making money,
they divided it according to their agreement.
Of course,
this money was not ordinary money. It referred to incense.
The family were fanatical believers.
They acted as performers, causing more "audience members" to either believe it was real or have their greed aroused. In any case, they just had to lure people in.
Shallow believers were nothing but leeks.
They cast a wide net and refined the shallow believers into