People's unfairness toward one another was often a kind of fairness as well.
For instance, among the common folk, someone born into humble circumstances might turn out to be a martial arts prodigy seen only once in a hundred years.
Meanwhile, some children of wealthy noble families, even Imperial Scions born with golden spoons in their mouths, might be mediocre people incapable of achieving much in martial arts.
Thus, hidden within such unfairness was another kind of fairness. The Heavenly Dao was impartial.
Since the demonic path used people as great elixirs and secret medicines, it naturally had its advantages.
The first was its rapid progress. A thousand years cultivating the Dao could not compare to becoming a demon in a single night. Demonic path cultivation carried considerable hidden dangers, but its fierce, unstoppable advancement was a very real temptation.
Many young masters who lacked the patience for martial arts and had no desire to endure hardship often cultivated demonic martial arts. They rapidly acquired strength and enhanced their combat power with fierce diligence, then made up for their flaws and hidden dangers through other means later on.
The second was that demonic path cultivation contained a philosophy that appeared to follow the Heavenly Dao but was in fact extreme: the Way of Heaven diminished the surplus to replenish the deficient; the Way of Man diminished the deficient to serve the surplus.
According to the research of certain demonic path schools, a person's innate bones, natural gifts, and aptitude were brought from the womb. It was exceedingly difficult to transcend one's own limitations and improve one's martial arts aptitude.
But difficult did not mean impossible. Some people extracted ideas beneficial to themselves from demonic path philosophy, creating methods that diminished the deficient to serve the surplus.
For example, San Gouzi's