Chapter 1316 Tempering the Mind

As for honing their twisted hearts.

It is because they are no longer cultivating those Demonic Cultivation Techniques, so their hearts will no longer continue to become evil!

And this situation can be slowly restored through mental training!

The most important thing is that their hearts were twisted due to the Cultivation Technique, but now, they no longer have the technique to torture them, making them more twisted. Even without honing their minds, they can slowly recover over time, returning to their original selves.

However, if you originally had a narrow or dark mind, even if you undergo mental training, it at most prevents you from continuing to harbor evil thoughts.

But the evil within you will still surface, and of course, this situation won't allow you to continue down the path of evil, for your meridian cultivation base has already been destroyed, leaving you with no way to cultivate again. Thus, you can only continue to pretend, pretending for a lifetime, disguising yourself as a nice person or a normal person to make yourself less desperate.

After all, even if it's forced, having your painstakingly cultivated strength abolished in one fell swoop is basically a situation where people won't continue having hope, because even if Ye Tianfan is directly abolished now, Ye Tianfan would feel very hopeless.

As for whether Ye Tianfan will continue forward later on, it will depend on Ye Tianfan's own mindset. No one can help him, because having one's cultivation abolished is not something that can be resolved with a few comforting words.

After all, such matters are issues of one's own cultivation, and if one wishes to completely resolve them, it can only start from oneself.

Others have no way to intervene, at best they can help think of solutions, but if no solution can be found, then he can only rely on himself to find a way. But if you thereby fall into the demonic way, or start massacring ordinary people, there's nothing that can be done, and you can only be killed by those cultivators.

The cultivators' doctrine is, even if you vent your anger on anyone due to this matter, as long as you don't kill, there won't be any other issues. But if you fall into depravity because of this, in order to prevent further descent, to maintain a good reputation, they can only choose to kill you.

However, this kind of situation basically doesn't happen, as those people strive to survive and won't let such situations arise, nor will their true nature allow such actions. But it's not certain some people might do such things, so generally, those who have been abolished will be well taken care of by the sects, assigned to manage logistics.

Preventing them from causing harm in the mundane world, although their cultivation is gone, their bodies that have been nurtured by Spiritual Power are still quite robust, and they are certainly among the best in the mortal realm, so to prevent any tragedies, they are preemptively imprisoned within the sect.

They are treated well, and no one bothers them, for no one can ensure the abolished ones won't hold resentment seeing those normal people.

And once those who are accidentally abolished get a chance or option to restore themselves, then their sect will undoubtedly go to great lengths to save them. Of course, if this person has committed grave sins and was abolished, then their sect will not care for them.

Even secretly killing them, because even if they are abolished, their heart remains evil. If they are put in charge of logistics, the sect fears they might poison the meals, and moreover, even if not killed directly, they wouldn't live long.

Because being abolished from cultivation is a grievous injury, without subsequent nurturing or treatment, one cannot live beyond half a year after having their cultivation abolished, and if it's a person with grave sins, then their sect will certainly not help them restore their health, ignoring them is considered quite benevolent, and if they manage to endure, their sect will then look for opportunities to kill them.

Of course, it's not overt assassination but secret killing leading to natural death, so the sect also doesn't accumulate much karma, and as long as this person holds no resentment against their killer, the killer won't incur much karma. Even if karma is incurred, it's minimal, and can be offset by doing a few good deeds.

And if, as previously mentioned, one was compelled to join the demonic way while adventuring outside, then fought desperately to return to their sect and got their cultivation abolished, this situation can be restored, for being abolished from cultivation can be of two kinds: irreversible permanent abolition, such as the previously mentioned, abolishing both the Spiritual Power from the Dantian and the meridian.

Such is irreversible permanent abolition, for even if there's a top-tier elixir to restore the meridian and Dantian, the resources required outweigh those needed to rescue and support another person from scratch.

Moreover, even if restored, the meridian and Dantian would be so fragile that cultivation is impossible.

Because while such elixirs can restore the Dantian and meridians, it requires long-term nurturing to restore them to normal conditions, and such nurturing requires substantial Spiritual Power, and even if someone is willing to invest so much for this person, the time needed cannot be shortened, for a complete restoration of the meridian and Dantian to their original condition requires at least fifty years, calculated based on the previous extent of the damage.

The more severe the initial meridian damage, the longer the nurturing required, and for irreversible permanent damage, meridian damage at least needs a hundred years of nurturing to return to normal.

Yet, one fact stands: without the Dantian and meridian, once cultivation is reverted to its initial state, its lifespan similarly reverts, and regardless of age, after this reversion, at most, fifty years remain.

Though unclear why this principle holds, calculations indicate so, derived from averaging the lifespans remaining after abolition of cultivation from at least a hundred individuals.