"Sigh, these cults have only emerged in the last few years."
After arriving at the scene and examining all the cult members, Tang Cheng spoke.
"A few years ago, the nationwide cultivation movement was basically popularized, which was originally a good thing. However, with so many people in Divine Land, there are bound to be some who have ulterior motives."
Tang Cheng kicked one of them, then continued speaking.
"A man named Zhuo Tianyun inadvertently discovered that cultivation could not only be improved by controlling Spiritual Qi Magic Power to refine magical power, but also by directly extracting Magic Power from other people's bodies through a specific technique. Although the cultivation of Qi Refining Stage has two directions: Magic Power and physical body, his discovery greatly shortened the time required for Magic Power cultivation. However, the price was that those whose Magic Power was extracted would be severely injured at best, and die at worst."
"Although we arrested this person quickly, so he didn't have much time to harm anyone, his martial arts technique spread. Many people saw this and got greedy. Those who didn't want to work hard secretly learned this technique and then formed an evil organization called the Star-Absorbing Cult."
Upon hearing Tang Cheng's words, Li Xingkong frowned.
Unexpectedly, he had already stopped using any unorthodox techniques, but as his cultivation progressed, such unorthodox skills still reappeared.
Is this what they call the inevitability of events? Where there is good, there is evil. Even though he set such high starting conditions for cultivation, he still couldn't prevent the emergence of this evil art.
"I remember that at the beginning of cultivation, there were thresholds for unlocking techniques, right? This Zhuo Yuntian..."
Li Xingkong's first suspicion was that his design was not perfect enough.
"Sigh, Brother Li, your design itself isn't problematic. Zhuo Yuntian only grasped the technique after passing the test of trust. But the issue is that a trustworthy person isn't necessarily a good person. The two are only somewhat similar, not completely similar."
In recent years, the number of people cultivating has been increasing. Li Xingkong may not have paid attention to this while in seclusion, but Tang Cheng and the others have been in contact with a large number of cultivators Heavenly Capital, so their understanding of this threshold is naturally more practical.
"Moreover, human nature is inherently fickle. It's not impossible for someone who was originally kind to suddenly turn dark after experiencing some life setbacks."
" Zhuo Yuntian was just an ordinary office worker. Even after starting his cultivation, he didn't stop working and continued to go to work. However, his boss was no good. On one hand, his cultivation level was far higher than that of his employees. On the other hand, because his employees were all cultivators who didn't need rest, he increased their working hours to 007 (24/7) and made them work all year round."
" Zhuo Yuntian was already planning to quit his job and report the company, but his boss managed to stop him and fight back. Since his boss's cultivation was inferior, he couldn't even take him down with him. So, he came up with this kind of cultivation technique."
"And until his arrest, his only victim was his boss..."
"According to you, Zhuo Tianyun is a pitiful person, so he shouldn't be doing something like spreading cultivation techniques."
After hearing Tang Cheng's account, Li Xingkong's perception of the man changed slightly. Indeed, one should have a more comprehensive view of a person; judging someone based on only one aspect will lead to prejudice.
" Zhuo Tianyun indeed did not spread his evil martial arts techniques."
At this point, Tang Cheng gave a wry smile.
"But six months later, we took over a number of missing persons cases. After following the clues and investigating them one by one, we finally discovered that the perpetrator was one of the officers who was in charge of interrogating Zhuo Yuntian at the time."
"It's ironic, really. The person who created this technique was only after revenge, but the person who captured him has their own agenda."
"But when we were arresting this person, we discovered that the technique had already spread and was completely out of control."
"Oh, this..."
Li Xingkong clearly hadn't expected that such an unorthodox technique would be passed down to so many people.
"Those who have learned this technique generally have serious problems with their mindset; either their intentions are impure, or they want to take shortcuts."
Tang Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief after handing the men over to the patrol team to be taken back to prison.
Although no one can stop him, his cultivation is still at the Qi Refining, so there is still a possibility of him failing, unlike Li Xingkong, who has no possibility of failing at all.
"Let me see this strange martial art."
Watching these people being dragged away, their eyes filled with a murderous glint, Li Xingkong wished he could execute them all on the spot.
However, Li Xingkong had no way to eliminate a large number of people who practiced this technique. After all, there were too many Divine Land People and the area was too big. If he were to investigate every place and kill everyone who had practiced this technique, he would have to kill countless people and cause rivers of blood to flow.
Targeting people directly is too brutal; even if he wanted to do that, Divine Land wouldn't agree.
"Okay, I'll find it and send it to you."
Upon hearing Li Xingkong's request, Tang Cheng immediately went to the relevant cultivation manual to retrieve it. After all, Li Xingkong had already reached this level of cultivation, so he naturally looked down on these unorthodox cultivation techniques for the Qi Refining Stage. Similarly, Li Xingkong was currently the person with the highest cultivation level, and whatever he wanted, whether he was given it or not, would eventually end up in his hands.
Soon, Tang Cheng sent Li Xingkong a short cultivation technique. It didn't contain many words. Rather than a cultivation technique, it was more like a way of circulating Magic Power. However, it required the person whose Magic Power was being extracted to be completely powerless and in a dormant state.
Li Xingkong only glanced at this little technique a few times before naturally understanding its principles. It can only be said that this evil technique is indeed crudely made. Putting aside other shortcomings, its biggest problem is that it will pollute the purity of one's own Magic Power and reduce one's ability to control Magic Power.
Using it too much will not only fail to improve one's cultivation level, but will even make it difficult to reach the Foundation Establishment.
But obviously there was no other Foundation Establishment cultivator on Earth Star, so there was no way to explain this situation to these people.
It can only be said that practicing this skill is tantamount to completely jeopardizing one's future.
After all, the Hexagram after Foundation Establishment consume a significant portion of one's Magic Power power over a long period. If one were to quickly master this technique using unorthodox methods, their Magic Power recovery rate would be almost nonexistent by the time they reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, making it impossible to sustain the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment Method.
If he wants to Foundation Establishment normally like others, he needs a constant stream of people to provide him with Magic Power, forcing him to sink deeper into this path.