In truth, Wang Qi had driven Du Bin away with shocking words not merely out of consideration for Mao Zimiao. His real reason was a judgment based on the knowledge from his previous life.
"The Immortal Dao and Immortal Alliance of today are fundamentally different from the cultivation world and sect alliances of ancient times."
In most people's eyes, that statement was nothing but nonsense.
After Modern Dharma cultivation abolished the practice of "stealing from heaven and earth" and sought the methods of "borrowing from heaven and earth," it successfully escaped the predicament of resources and spiritual energy. Cultivators and heaven and earth lived and flourished together; the more cultivators there were, and the higher their levels, the stronger heaven and earth became instead. What limited the number of disciples was no longer the amount of supplies, but the number of teachers. Disciples no longer had to cultivate ancient methods and slaughter one another for resources.
Moreover, the Modern Dharma path of seeking the Dao by "investigating the laws of heaven and earth" determined that human resources were the most precious thing in the Immortal Dao of today. Once the idea that "people came first" appeared, "harmony was precious" naturally became an established custom. In the eyes of Ancient Method Cultivators, the internal peace of today's Immortal Dao was almost abnormally peaceful. Sparring among Modern Dharma Cultivators basically did not take lives, and the Immortal Alliance's laws even prohibited deathmatches. A position like Safety Officer, specifically created to preserve peace in one area, would seem utterly deranged to Ancient Method Cultivators. Hua Ruogeng, who had risen from a Rogue Cultivator to become deputy sect master of the Myriad Dharma Sect, was an even more anomalous existence.
Over the eight-hundred-thousand-year history of the Immortal Dao, there had been reclusive forms of