"The continued existence of Holy Sects has always depended on the offerings of countless living beings. A single Holy Sect's consumption of the world's spiritual energy rivals that of all cultivators in an entire realm."
"If you truly had such intentions, why not disband the Holy Sects and have the Escape One Supremes within them disperse their cultivation, lightening this world's burden?"
"You Holy Sects are the greatest thieves beneath heaven and earth!"
"All you are doing is using salvation as a tool to cut off the cultivation paths of countless living beings, so that the power of an entire realm may sustain you!"
"Seeking your own eternal selfish gain in the name of righteousness—why dress it up in such grand and righteous words?"
Zhang Qingyuan spoke with a cold, mocking gaze. His voice boomed like thunder, shaking the void.
One Page Scholar, whose mind had been wavering and whose Dao Heart had grown unstable, seemed to receive a blow to the head upon hearing this. His entire body trembled, and he swiftly regained his senses.
Clarity returned to his eyes.
That was right!
This so-called salvation was nothing more than profit-seeking!
As the Cultivation World had gradually prospered over the years—especially after Haoran Academy spread the secret, revealed thousand years ago, of the enormous role Essence, Qi, and Spirit played in the cultivation of high-level cultivators—more and more high-level cultivators had risen to prominence. They had begun to gradually undermine the status of those ancient Holy Sects that had ruled the Central Continent Cultivation World since antiquity!
Their decision to allow the Outer Realm Kings to purge the world and seal off cultivation was, in the end, merely to preserve the supremely exalted status that the ancient Holy Sects had enjoyed for generation after generation!
The greatest thieves of