After seeing Daoist Yusu off, Zhang Yu stood where he was and thought for a while. The Profound Court's primary concern now was dealing with those turbid cultivators. On the surface, this seemed unrelated to profound cultivators, but in truth, the entanglement ran very deep.
Although most turbid cultivators regarded themselves as true cultivators, the genuine true cultivators in fact counted them among the profound cultivators. Especially within the Profound Court, only by joining forces with the turbid cultivators and those "profound cultivators" could they contend against the original true cultivators.
When those turbid cultivators had secretly plotted against profound cultivation before, they may well have had such considerations in mind.
But now, their secret schemes against the profound method had been coupled with the matter of opening the gates between two realms. These people were causing ever greater disturbances—how could the Profound Court possibly not respond? They would certainly suppress them.
Yet after suppressing these people, profound cultivation might, on the whole, grow even weaker.
If you yourself were weak, then even if there was nothing wrong with you, others would fix their eyes on you first, for they need not fear any consequences even if they offended you. Much less now, when "profound cultivation" was riddled with flaws.
Moreover, talk of abolishing profound cultivation had never truly died out within the Profound Court. It was not impossible that they would use this opportunity to abolish it. Whether it was true profound cultivation or false profound cultivation, so long as it was profound cultivation, it could all be swept away in one stroke.
Back when profound cultivation had been forcefully promoted, it had chiefly been to fill the gap in the strength of the middle and lower ranks; it had not greatly affected the strength of the upper ranks.