Creating a Secret Art, Accelerating the Origin; a Second Unusual Flame, [Nether Abyss Icefire]

After all, it was called the [Hehuan Sect]. Its very name laid bare the essence of its cultivation arts.

Sexual union!

And why did members of the [Hehuan Sect] always travel in male-female pairs, the men handsome and the women pretty? Because they were partners in dual cultivation through sexual union.

During his recent travels through bustling streets and Market Wards, visiting taverns and teahouses, Lin Changheng had naturally heard a few secrets.

For instance, the male-female partnerships of the Hehuan Sect did not last from beginning to end.

Instead, along the way, people constantly fell behind and were drained and "devoured" by their partners, helping the survivors climb to a higher cultivation level and acquire stronger partners, until the two were evenly matched.

But once one of them broke through and upset that balance, the other would meet a miserable end, reduced to nourishment as a cultivation cauldron.

In essence, this was competition-a savage contest of "advance or leave."

No one dared slack off.

Under such circumstances, although the [Hehuan Sect] lost a batch of cultivators-the losers with inferior strength and potential-it gained stronger cultivators with greater potential!

It had something of the feel of competing for a position, with the lowest-ranked eliminated.

Only when a cultivator broke through to third-tier Core Formation did this practice of breeding venomous survivors in a jar come to an end.

This peculiar model also gave the Hehuan Sect considerably more Core Formation Cultivators than the other powers among the imperial house and five sects. In terms of standing, it had all but become one of the Jin Kingdom's leading powers.

Were the sacred land not keeping it in check, its ambitions might well have grown to encompass unifying the Jin Kingdom.

It was precisely this swelling strength that had driven it to