Pitiful Wretches in the Empty Jar

Li Jialing tilted his head and began to think carefully. "Instead of killing them directly, transform all the Cultivators into clowns?"

With thoughtful brilliance flashing inside his eyes, Wuying Lan replied, "Yes. It is useless to destroy their fleshly bodies as we've done the previous forty-one times, although it is quite easy for the Imperium. It is a shame that even if their bodies are burnt up to ash and their bones crumble into powder, their idiotic but dangerous ideas will likely continue spreading.

"At first, the ideas may be as harmless as the weakest cold viruses, as if they have truly gone extinct. Tales of the Cultivators are sometimes not heard for decades.

"But the day will come eventually when a small bunch of people are corrupted by theories that have disappeared for decades and become a new generation of Cultivators, causing minor trouble in the Imperium again.