“Ugh~ Did you properly wash it?” Liu Yu asked as she eyed the pendant in Wei Jun’s hand but didn’t touch it. After all, that pendant was the same one that needed to be charged from the pillar in the fornication room of the cult.

It was very difficult to fill the pillar so the simple fact that Wei Jun was doing it for Liu Yu was already a great favor. No one would even share an ounce of their created energy even if Liu Yu was the goddess of beauty.

“You want it or not?” Wei Jun asked.

“…” Liu Yu remained quiet and simply took the pendant. While it took others at least a month to charge their pendants just once, Wei Jun had done that in a night with the help of Yan Rong. And that was precisely the fact that bothered Liu Yu, ‘Just how much these animals went at it?’

Of course, she didn’t state her thoughts out loud. She depended on Wei Jun to get through this mission. Wei Jun also knew that fact and it was always better to get a favor from someone so strong.

With that, he left the library and just as he came out, Yang Rong jumped at him from behind. Locking her arms around his shoulders, she asked, “Darling, when can we do it again?”

“We did all night last night, though.” Wei Jun argued but Yan Rong simply chuckled in response. “That was for that bit*h you wouldn’t let me kill. This would be for both of us, wouldn’t it?”

“Nope.” Wei Jun simply replied before he said, “Leave tonight. And by leave, I mean the city by itself. I don’t think we’ll need to do this any longer.”

Since Wei Jun had filled his pendant several times in the last few days and donated the energy to the so-called cult god, he was now a disciple. Any moment now, a master could choose him under his wing. Masters were the true higher-ups of the cult, just beneath the cult master.

“Oh come on. Surely you need some more of it.” Yan Rong asked, her voice as seductive as the word itself but Wei Jun wasn’t having any of it. Ever since he found out the effect of what he was doing, he was wary of doing it but it was necessary for the sake of the mission.

“We’ll talk about it when I return to the city. Leave for now. I won’t say it again.” Wei Jun said once again, but this time, there was a tinge of authority in his voice and it worked like a charm.

Yan Rong grumbled a bit but ultimately left. She was just happy with the fact that Wei Jun had called for her instead of doing it with random women of the cult. Since she was happy, she didn’t show any stubbornness.

Once she was gone, Wei Jun resumed the conversation he had had before with the system. While participating in the activities of the cult, some startling information was given to him by the overseer in the system.

[It’s called Lu*t energy]

[Some cultivators or other cosmic power users feed on it to make themselves stronger]

[There are others too]

[Such as rage, greed]

[Some simply crave to kill]

[There are countless of wrong ways to gain strength]

[Of course, all of them are unstable]

[This is the same]

[Whoever is doing this is collecting the power of l*st from the fornication of many individuals]

[Under the guise of offering it to the god]

[They are absorbing for themself]

‘So I’m making my enemy stronger?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Yes]

‘Any suggestions?’ Wei Jun asked.

[What if you build a very tall building on poor foundations?]

[What do you think would happen?]

‘The building would collapse.’ Wei Jun replied.

[Exactly]

[As long as it was a three or four-story building]

[It would last over those foundations]

[But as you increase those stories]

[The building would become more and more unstable]

[The same case is here]

[Unstable cultivation shows its signs at higher levels more than on lower levels]

[I’m not saying you should take it easy because of that]

[But if your opponent has more strength, it would make things easier for you]

Wei Jun fell into a long contemplation. While he didn’t want to face a strong enemy, he was sure that the system wouldn’t just spout nonsense. The system wasn’t the type to do so. And besides, when it came to cultivation, any kind, the system was more knowledgeable about it.

‘Is there any other weakness I could utilize?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Loss of rationality]

‘What?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Unstable cultivation]

[No matter what kind]

[Has a severe effect on the mind of the said individual]

[You should look for things that make that said person tick]

[Even a small provocation would incur a severe response]

[I don’t think I need to tell you how easy a mentally unstable opponent can be]

Wei Jun had to agree with that point as well. It was true that the people who lacked the patience to gain power and did it this way wouldn’t be very bright. An unstable mentality was a very big advantage.

[Other than that]

[There’s one more thing]

‘What is it?’ Wei Jun asked.

[A medium]

‘…A what now?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Do you know what the difference between magic and sorcery is?]

‘No…?’ Wei Jun was unsure how to reply to that.

[Magic requires mana where the medium is the user itself]

[Mana flows through you and you will it to change it however you want to]

[Fire, light, water, earth, etc]

[However, sorcery can be done by anyone as long as they can prepare two things]

[Do you know what they are?]

Wei Jun didn’t know the answer to that question but he felt like he knew. So, almost on instinct, he spoke, ‘A sacrifice and a medium.’

[Exactly]

[Medium takes the sacrifice and executes the spell you want to activate]

[The host has done that before when he tried to open the dungeon gates temporarily]

Wei Jun remembered that part clearly. Still, he wasn’t discussing magic or whatnot right now. The topic of discussion was unstable cultivation and a method to stop it.

[A medium is required to do anything and everything unnatural]

[Not just in case of sorcery or witchcraft]

[Since holding the power that isn’t yours in your body can be dangerous for several reasons]

[A number of mediums or vessels are selected to that for that said purpose]

‘So you mean to say that the cult master has his power divided among several things?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Or people] Enjoy more content from empire

‘Like Voldemo*t?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Kind of]

[Only in this case]

[When the vessel holding the power is destroyed]

[The original owner’s power returns to him or her]

‘If stores in such a way, isn’t it a waste?’ Wei Jun asked. If the power was stored in someone else, what was the point of having power in the first place if one couldn’t use it? Wei Jun believed there must be a reason behind it.

[Half]

[The person is able to use half of that person in the main vessel]

[But if you destroy the secondary vessel]

[The power would return to the primary vessel]

[I have already told you what happens when unstable power is held within one vessel at once]

‘It explodes.’

[No person would be able to bear the burden of that power]

[Their mind would sooner or later corrupt beyond redemption]

[There was a saying in my time]

[Mind is the cusp of a person]

[A mentally broken person is as good as dead]

[No]

[Death would be better]

[I just don’t understand why people do that]

[Anyone can obtain power if they try hard enough]

‘You don’t know even when you’re so old?’ Wei Jun asked.

[…]

However, the system remained silent. It wasn’t that it didn’t know the answer. It was just unsure whether or not that answer was correct to define the entirety of humanity.

But, Wei Jun wasn’t the type to think so. All humans are the same, their programming is done the same way. All humans are born with one natural instinct…

Survival.

He wouldn’t deny that everyone was born different. Some were born kind while some were born with a cruel mentality. Some were talented while some were talentless.

But, the baser instinct of every human was the same. Survival was the key instinct of a human.

Whenever a human, no matter how just or kind, would see a shortcut to their end goal, they’d take it. They’d use the path that would help them survive with the least amount of effort. Only those who can block that instinct can truly grow.

But if it was that easy, why would they be called humans?

[I won’t disagree with you but I won’t agree either]

[I am not one who grew up that way]

‘Then you simply suppressed your instinct to some extent.’ Wei Jun didn’t argue. He simply admitted that the overseer was one such person he admired.

With that out of the way, he now basically knew how to deal with the cult leader. All he had to do now was to wait for him to be approached.

“Disciple Tao,” Just as he was about to move, someone called him. As he turned to look at a charming woman behind him, the woman said, “Mistress Song would like to see you.”

‘And the game begins.’ With that thought in mind, Wei Jun simply nodded and followed the woman with a smile.

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