“I also want to become strong. I do want to reach the highest realm!” Su Yuchen rubbed his forehead while saying to Senior Brother Li.

“Wanting to become something and working hard to achieve something are different concepts.” Senior Brother Li said to Su Yuchen.

He continued, “More than 100 inner disciples possess top grade talent along with top tier affinity to elements. Seventy percent of the disciples possess either top grade talent or top tier affinities. More than twenty five percent only have medium grade talent or medium tier affinities.”

“Only a quarter of the core disciples possess the same top grade talent, top tier affinities. Another quarter of them only possess superior grade talent or superior tier affinities.”

“However, the remaining half of the core disciples just possess medium grade talents and medium tier affinities.”

“Try to realise this, the mental and physical torture from cultivation will slowly drain the passion of everyone.”

“Many cultivators with medium grade talents are struck in the outer sect, when cultivators with the same talents climbed to the positions of becoming core disciples.”

“There is no different between the peasants in the mortal world and the outer sect disciples. The peasant’s life revolves around slowly accumulating wealth, for that they work daily, with their hard earned money they need to raise their families, break their minds on how to face their impossible struggles and then moving forward with no changes in their way of life. During all those years they only enjoy small joys in their life. Then they pass this same life to their children.”

“These children go into society and get tempered by the society and then choose the path of the previous generations.”

“The outer sect disciples also live a similar life. The same hot blooded children enter the sect and dream about achieving big things, but when they take the first step of achieving the bare minimum qualification of completing six refinements in the Meridian Refinement Realm, they collapse.”

“They start seeing the refinements as a mental torture and fall back. They do what their previous generations did, earn contribution points, establishing families, and passing on their dreams to the next generation. They wish their children can successfully go through the mental torture and bring them glory."

Senior Brother Li voice became hoarse as his tone became angry.

“If you truly think of cultivation as torture and suffering, you shouldn’t wish for your children to go through the same experience. You shouldn’t wish for them to bring glory by tormenting themselves with what you didn’t want to.”

“They should just get rid of the sect disciple identity and leave this city.”

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“At least their children can live a joyful and honest life instead of becoming corrupted in this city.”

Senior Brother Li took a wine pot and began to gulp all the wine in it.

Su Yuchen was baffled by the sudden tantrums of Senior Brother Li.

Making sure that Senior Brother calmed down, Su Yuchen asked him, “You look like you have a grudge against the whole outer sect. Did you experience something senior brother?”

Senior Brother Li smirked sarcastically, “Experience? I was born in the outer sect. I spent all my youth and passion in the outer sect. Don’t think I have a grudge against the outer sect. I have a grudge against the whole sect.”

“However, I hate the cultivators in the outer sect more than anything.”

“You see, the courtyards here are built to have some distance with their neighbouring courtyards. All the inner sect disciples stay way from others who are not from their factions. The structure of this inner sect makes them competitors starting with their residence itself.”

“The outer sect is not build like that. They stay together in dormitories. Their houses are next to each others. They don’t have private cultivation room, but a public cultivation ground with a Yin-Yang Protection Formation. Most of their missions also require cooperation from other outer sect disciples. Their structure should breed cooperation and communication. They should have been united.”

“Look at the outer sect, they are morally degenerated. The outer sect disciples think of young cultivators as their rations. They torment and beat the passion out of them until the new blood are obedient to them. A cultivator with five refinements try to obstruct a cultivator with four refinements from taking another step. Five refinement cultivators gang up on those who want to become six refinement cultivators.”

“Children of seven years and eight years old murder those who should have been their playmates. They poison the food in the dining hall with their small hands.”

“There are ten thousand Astral Foundation Realm cultivators in this sect. This force is more than enough to straighten the actions of the outer sect. But, they let the outer sect become the entertainment ground of the inner sect disciples and followed under their footsteps.”

“The outer sect deacons and elders who should have taken charge on eradicating the behaviours of the outer sect disciples are the same people that are nourishing this behaviour.”

“I have struggled in that miserable place and walked on a bloody path.”

“My early years in the inner sect didn’t make me feel the same rotten hearts. The spacious courtyards made me peaceful.”

“The distance here was a boon to me. Even when I was suppressed in the inner sect, I had a breathing space in these courtyards. No neighbour is spying on me. No child was trying to poison me.”

“I was clever and outsmarted many of the inner sect disciples. I lived a respectable life in the inner sect. I achieved the qualifications to become a Sect Elder in this very inner sect, without dropping a single drop of blood.”

“I wanted to realise a dream of mine. I tried to become the Outer Sect Affairs Elder. I dreamed of making the outer sect a better place.”

“Do you know what happened. The talent less son of a inner sect elder wanted the same position. He wanted to leech off the outer sect to spend the rest of his life. I didn't want that to happen. We competed for that position.”

“That waste young master mobilised the whole inner sect to resist me.”

“That was the moment when I for the first time in my life has seen the inner sect becoming united.”

“This spacious inner sect has shown me the unity that I dreamed of seeing in the outer sect.”

“I never complained about my loss from then on.”

“I hate this inner sect, but I won’t complain about that incident.”

“I hate the outer sect, and I hate this whole sect that encouraged a competition which made the lives of millions a living hell.”