Rogue cultivators had never been kindly souls.
Especially high-level rogue cultivators who had walked out of mountains of corpses and seas of people-they were even less likely to be kindly people.
Scarce resources meant that every rogue cultivator who wanted to survive, obtain more, and go farther had to expend countless times more effort and thought than sect or clan cultivators.
Thus, among sect or clan cultivators, there might be many pure-minded people devoted to cultivation, but among rogue cultivators, especially those at high levels, such people were few and far between.
Truly kindly people might never even live to reach Gold Core or Nascent Soul, eliminated by the brutal environment right at the beginning.
The vast majority of those who remained were ruthless, decisive people with few moral restraints.
Only when granaries were full did people learn propriety; only when food and clothing were sufficient did they understand honor and shame.
This was not a sweeping assertion, but a summation of a pattern.
Among cultivators, this pattern was even more apparent.
It was just like when Wang Ba first set foot on the Dao Path: in the Eastern Saint Sect, the Heavenly Gate Sect, and the Yan Kingdom, those at the bottom stopped at nothing to fight over a scrap of cultivation resources.
But in the Myriad Phenomena Sect, abundant resources meant the cultivators did not need to scheme against one another or lower their moral standards. They could obtain decent returns simply by proceeding step by step. The sect naturally enjoyed a harmonious atmosphere, and even disagreements were disputes over direction, conducted politely and with dignity, rather than bloody battles over a few paltry scraps.
Beyond that, rogue cultivators spent enormous thought on struggling to survive, naturally leaving less thought to devote to cultivation.
And while cultivation certainly