"Isn't the Imperial Academy afraid that I, the heir to the Spring-Autumn Brush, might switch paths halfway through?" Li Fan joked as he flipped through the books sent by his academy jade tablet.
But after reading every text carefully, Li Shun understood why.
"The Agricultural School's Reaping Life branch looks like an unbeatable shortcut to cultivation, but it has all kinds of drawbacks."
"Heaven and Earth are the field, living beings are the seeds, and slaughter is the harvest—once you begin, you cannot stop. Nor can you switch schools halfway through."
"Worse, you cannot harbor the slightest doubt about Reaping Life's principles. Otherwise, everything you gained through slaughter will erupt at once and devour you from within."
Li Shun's gaze passed over several lines of writing steeped in bloodlust.
"Reap the people as you reap grain; devour lives as you devour the harvest. Let blades be your plows, flesh and blood your granaries, and all living beings your straw dogs."
"The more you kill, the richer your harvest; the richer your harvest, the stronger you grow; the stronger you grow, the fiercer your slaughter. Each turn breeds the next, without end—"
A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood seemed to rise before him, crimson surging into the sky. Though it was only an illusion conjured by the words, Li Shun could almost smell the blood.
"The more you kill, the faster you cultivate. But the further you go, the more you'll need to kill. In a world with a normal order, slaughter this brazen would have brought everyone together to put you down long ago. Perhaps only in the Disorderly Reincarnation World can it show its true worth."
Li Shun noticed another hidden danger in the Agricultural School's Reaping Life branch.
"Reaping Life has principles, but no established