People lived in this world by eating the five grains.
Cultivators were no exception. Though they possessed greater magic power and divine abilities, the damage they inflicted upon the world was correspondingly greater. Thus, the Karmic Force borne by high-level cultivators was beyond ordinary people's imagination.
Generally speaking, Righteous Path cultivators carried less Karmic Force. But as for the great figures of the demonic path, those peak Old Devils who roamed the Demon Domain—whose hands were not stained with blood? Blood Sin clung to their bodies.
This also made it far harder for them to survive their tribulations.
When Heaven and Earth resonated, the Thunder Tribulation that struck them was several times greater than that faced by others.
Merit Power, however, could eradicate the Karmic Force upon one's body and dissolve a cultivator's Blood Sin, making tribulation far easier to overcome.
Yet Merit Power came from unseen resonant feedback; it could not be gained through blind, bitter cultivation alone. Only high-level cultivators deliberately paid attention to it.
Many low-level cultivators had never even heard of it.
Zheng Yi had learned of it from a miscellaneous book.
And something even greater than Merit Power was Merit Golden Light.
It was formed when one performed a great deed immensely beneficial to humanity or the Heavenly Dao, receiving unseen resonant feedback as Merit Power condensed into Merit Golden Light.
Merit Golden Light did little for cultivation, but it was the natural bane of all evil Karmic Force, resentment, and backlash.
Zheng Yi had already witnessed and experienced this firsthand. Even the Netherworld Soldier Vengeful Spirits within the Soul Devouring Banner were suppressed by the golden light.
That golden light looked tranquil and utterly powerless, yet it contained an unimaginable cleansing effect against evil attributes. Even the most troublesome Blood Sin resentment and Karmic