The Blood Shadow Gate, the Setting Sun Sect, the Profound Darkness Cult, and the Blood Separation Sect were four relatively well-known evil cultivation sects near Qian City and Earth City. They acted without restraint, and their cultivation arts were cruel and bloodthirsty.
From Jiang Qingqin, Lin Bai learned that apart from some utterly wicked demonic cultivators who went to extremes, using living people or departed souls to cultivate, most Evil Dao Sects left ordinary people completely untouched. They spent most of their time cultivating within their sects or clashing with orthodox cultivators over resources, but those were still wars between cultivators.
Of course.
Even orthodox cultivation sects generally established themselves deep in the mountains, where spiritual energy was abundant and cultivation was easier.
If the Heaven-Sent Ones had not appeared, cultivation sects would most likely never have set up recruitment stations in towns inhabited by ordinary people.
In a broader sense, the conflict between the Righteous and Evil Factions was more like a struggle between traditions. The world they normally lived in existed largely apart from, and above, the mortal world.
In other words.
Cultivators, who represented the world's greatest productive capacity, were cut off from the world of ordinary people.
That explained why Civilization had failed to develop.
Ultimately, Immortal Arts had never been used to improve people's livelihoods.
From Jiang Qingqin's account, Lin Bai quickly understood why this world's Civilization had developed so unevenly. Cultivators were accustomed to standing high above everyone else. They probably viewed mortal people much as they would a swarm of ants.
Once those ants showed any sign of threatening their position, these immortals and demons would most likely intervene directly, snuffing out the danger before it could sprout...
The existence of immortals and demons severely hindered Civilization's development.
Or rather, cultivation Civilization