Outside the mountain, the Celestial Persons from the various factions, along with the Qi Refining Perfected Persons Zhang Yuan had persuaded to leave, heard his conversation with Miaoyuan. Their expressions varied.
"Five Turbid Evils World? What's so evil about it? I think things are pretty good." Li Yueting scratched his head, thoroughly puzzled.
"Perhaps this senior... fellow Daoist means the mortals and those of the Outer Dao. There have been quite a few casualties lately, after all," a direct descendant of the Jingyang Li Clan suggested.
Li Yueting asked in confusion, "So what if mortals and Outer Dao practitioners die? How does that make this a Five Turbid Evils World?"
"Brother Yueting is right. How does a few dead mortals make this a Five Turbid Evils World?"
"Exactly. Isn't that all mortals are worth?"
The Jingyang Li Clan disciples discussed it heatedly, unable to understand why Zhang Yuan had called the present age a Five Turbid Evils World. Behind the Mountain-Bearing Celestial Person, the few remaining Wen River Deng Clan disciples stayed silent. Though they were at odds with the Jingyang Li Clan, their thoughts were much the same.
The mortals in the various kingdoms had died in wars, not been devoured as blood sustenance by demonic cultivators. What was the big deal?
The world was already in fine shape. With righteous aristocratic clans like theirs governing it, demonic cultivators scarcely dared show their faces. If this truly were a Five Turbid Evils World, could the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm still have its Thirteen Kingdoms?
Every great city where mortals gathered would be refined into human pills and blood sustenance, without a single exception. Now that would be a Five Turbid Evils World.
Even the Hengyang Lu Clan, masters of pill cauldron arts, no longer practiced the blood refinement of