This World is mainly divided into four factions. One is the mortal faction, who are just like mortals in ancient times. They are born, age, get sick, and die, generally not living past a hundred years, and what they pursue is wealth and status.
Among them, some skilled martial artists can walk on walls and roofs, but they are still mortal bodies.
Besides mortals, there is also a group of cultivators in the World who pursue longevity, becoming immortals, and ascending. They gather in the famous mountains and rivers with abundant spiritual energy, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and cultivating the art of longevity.
This group of people is mainly divided into three major factions: the righteous path led by Shu Mountain and Emei, the demonic path led by Youquan Blood Demon, and the unorthodox paths scattered throughout the World.
The righteous path absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and spends most of their time diligently cultivating in their respective mountain gates. They also occasionally go out to travel, slay demons, and subdue monsters.
Basically, due to their cultivation methods and principles, they are all good people with righteous hearts, only a few are relatively pedantic, and there are very few malicious people, unlike the hypocritical righteous factions in many stories.
The demonic path also absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but in order to speed up their cultivation and improve their strength, they often do evil deeds, such as killing mortals to seize souls and refine spirits, and absorbing the blood and flesh of mortals.
Their cultivation methods are evil, their spells are evil, and their magic treasures are evil. In short, there are basically no good people among them.
Finally, there are the unorthodox paths. This group of people is both righteous and evil, mostly single-line transmissions, and they don't have any particularly fixed sect locations. While cultivating, they travel the human World, and their strength is mostly not low.
Currently, the demonic path is rampant. The powerful Youquan Blood Demon led his demonic disciples to destroy the Huashan Sect, which was second only to Emei, four hundred and ninety-seven years ago, and then destroyed Mount Kunlun two hundred and ninety-seven years ago.
Of the four most powerful sects of the righteous path, only the Emei Sect and Wutai Mountain remain.
And the young Taoist named Li Qingfeng, whom Li Chuan is currently replacing, is a formal disciple of Xiao Zhu Mountain, an extremely small righteous path sect in the Shu Mountain range.
Li Qingfeng was originally a young child in a village. His parents were farmers who worked the land. When he was eight years old, while playing in the mud with his friends at the east entrance of the village, he met an old Taoist with a white beard and eyebrows.
The old Taoist saw at a glance that he had outstanding cultivation potential, so he took him as a disciple and brought him into the mountains to cultivate.
Originally, his parents did not agree, but the old Taoist slightly displayed some spells and left behind a lot of wealth, successfully persuading the two farmers who had not seen the World.
In addition, Li Qingfeng was the third child at home, with two older brothers above him and one younger sister below him, so one less wasn't a big deal.
After twelve years of cultivation, Li Qingfeng's Taoist magic had achieved minor success, and he wanted to go down the mountain to see his parents. After all, if he didn't go down soon, his parents would be close to passing away at their age.
Cultivation in the righteous path not only emphasizes cultivating the body but also cultivating the mind, so this descent down the mountain also received his Master's permission.
Who knew that upon arriving at his hometown, he found that his village had been massacred? If it were due to military conflict or something, as a person of the righteous path, although he would be sad, he would be relieved.
But it was clearly not, because the souls of everyone in the village were all gone.
Therefore, it was either the work of the evil path or demons.
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