Chapter 32 The Commandment Of The Cultivation World (1/2)

”Disband?” Lin Xuan was shocked: ”You can avoid the catastrophe this way? Will that Core Formation senior stay his hand?”

”Of course.” Li Hai was surprised and a little puzzled. He said: ”Could it be that senior brother has not heard the commandment of the cultivation world?”

”Commandment?” Lin Xuan shook his head, showing an embarra.s.sed expression, and said: ”Little brother doesn't like to read books, and have never heard the seniors mention it. Could senior brothers advise me?”

Of course, that was a lie. Lin Xuan often went to the library, but it was always for research. That is, books that were useful to cultivation he would read, but about this commandment of the cultivation world, this was his first time hearing it.

Lin Xuan was good a playing the fool, Li Hai basically did not doubt him. He also really liked to talk and it was very rare for an advanced junior to ask him for advice. So playing right into Lin Xuan's hands, he started explaining again.

The cruelness of the cultivation world is well known. In the few years that Lin Xuan has been in the valley, although he had no experience of the outside world, but he kept his ears on the ground and his eyed peeled and heard a lot. There are still laws within the sect, but there were not that many rules out in the cultivation world. Whoever has the bigger fist would be the boss, falsehood would become the truth, everything would be resolved by force.

Killing over disagreements or killing strangers for their treasures were things that happened every day. Strictly speaking, good and evil does not exist, cultivators all relied on their strength, acting on their own whims.

But nothing was absolute, and even though acts of slaughter happened each day, but there was still a limit, and this was the commandment that Li Hai was talking about.

The commandment was thus: Between sects, or in disputes between sects and rogue cultivators, not matter what kind of hatred or feud, if one side concedes defeat, then they must, as a rogue cultivator, cripple their own cultivation, or as a sect, cripple every member's cultivation and also disband.

As long as they did this, it doesn't matter what kind of hatred the other party had, they were not allowed to make things difficult or seek revenge on them again. Otherwise, they would become the public enemy of the entire cultivation world and hunted down until their souls were scattered.

This is the iron rule, in tens of thousands of years, no cultivator had dared to violate it.

To mortals, life and death were a big matter, but to cultivators, to lose their strength and become mortal was the greatest pain they could suffer. This was a more difficult choice than death. And since crippling of their cultivation was irreversible, they would no hope of practising cultivation in the future. The party that let them off would also not have to worry about trouble or revenge.

This commandment has been upheld for tens of thousands of years. Who exactly it was that laid down this commandment, or why they laid it down, was not clear, but no one has ever disobeyed it. In fact, to ninety-nine percent of the cultivators and sects, being superior ”immortals”, they would not want to go back to being mortals. It was better to have an honourable death than to live a disgraceful life, and those that would be willing to cripple their own cultivation could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

So, although the Soaring Cloud sect was only a fourth or fifth rate sect after this news was spread, it still caused a sensation. Especially to the cultivators in the couple of thousands of kilometres of the surrounding area, they all acted without delay, getting ready to partic.i.p.ate in the treasures trade fair.

”Treasures trade fair?” Lin Xuan was momentarily stunned. Is this the mid-rank techniques for Foundation Building stage that they just mentioned? Although Lin Xuan was excited and wanted to learn more about it, but on his face, he did not display any expression, and casually said: ”What is this treasures trade fair? Could junior brothers advise me?”