The moment this killing move was unleashed, it undoubtedly struck squarely between the brows of the many cultivators.
The beliefs that had kept the independent cultivators of Heyang City going all this time were actually very few.
If one had to put it bluntly, attaining powerful cultivation was one rather broad goal, but more than that, they hoped to pass down their own lineage, spread branches and leaves, and establish a cultivation family of their own.
Another was to earn everyone's respect and become a figurehead in their own right.
The simplest way to achieve such goals was naturally to attain considerable accomplishments on the path of cultivation.
The cultivation world was a world both complicated and simple.
It was complicated because it contained every strange and bizarre sort of person. Yet it was simple because no matter what kind of person you were, as long as your cultivation was high enough, you could earn the respect and recognition of enough people.
But the question was, how could it be so easy to achieve remarkable accomplishments on the path of cultivation?
The road of cultivation was blocked and long. Not only did it demand exceptional talent, it also imposed harsh requirements on one's wealth and access to resources.
Although the independent cultivators had greatly lowered the difficulty of stepping onto the path of cultivation with the help of the tides of heaven-and-earth spiritual energy, they still lagged behind the cultivators of great sects in every other regard.
That meant the path of burying their heads in bitter cultivation and rising to prominence was basically unlikely to succeed. If they wanted to achieve those goals, they could only take another road.
That road was simple enough. Just as vines could cling to towering trees and reach heights they had never known