When Qin Changsheng first betrayed the Dao, the elders of the Dao Academy could scarcely believe he would do such a thing.
Quite a few mid- and high-ranking cultivators of the Dao Academy even believed that the sect's higher-ups had devised some grand scheme.
They thought Qin Changsheng was using this method to infiltrate the Demon Soil.
Yet the results of the sect's subsequent investigation, along with the handwritten letter left behind by the Dao Academy prodigy himself, dealt every Dao Academy cultivator a resounding blow.
Who could have imagined that the young disciple Lingxiao Dao Academy had been proudest of would declare that the Dao Academy had, from beginning to end, been pursuing the Dao along the wrong path?
After trying every possible means to persuade his elders to revise the Dao Academy's rules to no avail, he had become utterly disappointed in the sect and decided to go alone to the Demon Soil to seek his own path of the Dao.
To the Dao Academy of that time, this news was a bolt from the blue.
Even to this day, it remained a stain that all high-ranking Dao Academy cultivators were unwilling to revisit or mention.
In that era, when the Righteous and Demonic Paths stood divided against each other, for a foremost prodigy of the righteous path like Qin Changsheng to betray the Dao and enter the Demon Soil was no different from delivering Lingxiao Dao Academy a resounding slap across the face. The uproar it caused at the time was truly no small matter.
The Demonic Path's upper echelons even used the opportunity to fan the flames, successfully inciting a wave of Dao betrayal among young righteous cultivators. In the end, it evolved into a great war between the two paths over the right to speak.