Two Diverging Paths Born of Differing Ideals

The United Army's reputation across Yu Prefecture had basically split into two extremes.

The cultivators born of major sects were regarded by those migrant minor sects as enemies unto death, yet when faced with sudden, powerful attacks, most minor sects could only swallow their broken teeth and blood.

In contrast, the Alliance cultivators from Heyang City were exceptionally easy to deal with.

Throughout this great purge, due to Ye Xiu's deliberate restrictions, Alliance cultivators had not taken part in the burning, killing, plundering, or looting from the very beginning.

Do not think this was meaningless.

This world was ultimately made up of living beings.

What you had done and what vows you had made were all recorded by heaven and earth in ways unseen.

Even within Northern Origin Station, which had initially been dragged out and purged as a warning to others, quite a few people had survived to recount everything that had happened here.

Moreover, because these refugees had nowhere better to go, most of them had directly migrated to Heyang City after receiving assistance from the Alliance's independent cultivators.

And through the accounts of those firsthand witnesses, Heyang City's cultivators naturally learned what had happened.

Then, during the subsequent hunts, the endless stream of refugee cultivators migrating over from various factions further confirmed it.

Perhaps quite a few outsiders scoffed at this;

There were strong and weak cultivators in the cultivation world. In this age of upheaval between heaven and earth, could so-called good reputations truly bring any benefit?

Ye Xiu looked at the eager youths lining the streets and smiled.

Naturally, they could.

It was difficult for old people with hardened ways of thinking to change their minds, but what about young people who had grown up in Heyang City from childhood?

They had always enjoyed the