Heavenly Eye was saying with schadenfreude, "This mechanism of power through cultivation techniques incentivized Divine Transformation cultivators to establish divine sects and expand those sects to recruit more people. But it also meant that killing a bunch of people could weaken a Divine Transformation cultivator."
"In most cases, a Divine Palace cultivator would first establish their sect with people of their race and teach them their cultivation technique. So if you wanted to prevent that Divine Palace cultivator from advancing, or you wanted to weaken a rival Divine Transformation cultivator, you can just kill everyone in their race."
"Everyone was doing it back then. But the elementals were stronger individually and had the highest proportion of Divine Palace and Divine Transformation cultivators. So they could form alliances with each other and easily wipe out the races of normal ancient cultivators."
