Like the Eastern Wasteland Dynasty, the Moliang Dynasty did not explicitly forbid unorthodox cultivators of the Demonic Dao.
The Dynasty's upper ranks held a tight grip on every kind of resource, sharing only a little with major powers above the middle tier. The countless small sects, minor Lineages, and Rogue Cultivators at the bottom of the Dynasty received no benefits at all.
In such harsh cultivation conditions, it was easy to imagine what methods they would resort to in order to raise their cultivation.
During their travels through the Moliang Dynasty, the three of them had already seen cultivators in many places along the way practicing Daoist arts with the flesh and blood of living people.
It was not limited to Rogue Cultivators. Even small sects and those cultivator Lineages at the Qi Gathering Realm did the same.
In some towns, village chiefs even took the initiative to offer young boys and girls to the surrounding great Lineages and major sects as sacrifices, trading them for cultivation resources and all manner of benefits.
To them, mortals were simply another kind of resource to be traded.
Like chives in the fields—once a crop grew, it was cut down.
And in the eyes of mortals, cultivators were terrifying beings, like life-reaping evil ghosts.
When the three stopped to rest at the first village they reached, the villagers sensed that they were no ordinary people. That very night, they fled into the mountains with their entire families.
Only an old village chief remained, kneeling before their door with deathly resolve, begging these three immortal masters for mercy.
After that incident, Yao Santu came to understand the state of affairs in the Moliang Dynasty. From then on, they avoided contact with mortal villages and towns whenever possible, choosing mountain roads instead.
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