While Others Cultivate, I LVL UP In My Sleep Using The Dungeon System

Chapter 212 - Negative And Positive Energies Part 1

Energy is omnipresent in everything and makes up everything. It can come in many different forms, there are different types and there are two orientations for every energy type and form.

Elemental Energy was the most common and known energy type and came in different forms that were well known by cultivators and used by those that had elemental affinities, but there are also other types of energy.

Attributeless energy, although plain and didn't have any special characteristics, was pure energy and could still be used to unleash powerful attacks. It was also known as positive energy when was wielded with positive intentions or cultivated through reasonable means.

However negative and evil energy was energy that was cultivated through despicable means that went against the laws of nature and the morals of humanity, and was also wielded with negative intentions, causing it to become a type of energy that was wielded by cultivators that were known as evil cultivators.

That didn't mean that ordinary cultivators that used positive energy to cultivate were good and also didn't necessarily mean that evil cultivators were bad people, but evil and negative energy was seen as bad and forbidden by most cultivators.

There were many reasons for that and one of the biggest reasons was because negative energy was much more wild and hard to restrain, which had caused many problems for cultivators that attempted to wield it.

Its power and usefulness was undeniable, but it had many negative effects on the mind and body of the user, which was another one of the main reasons that it was forbidden. 

Just like everything else in the universe, there is a negative and positive type of energy, and the positive type of energy was most suitable for almost all humans to cultivate. This was because human bodies weren't suitable for negative energy as it was too wild and would damage most humans' bodies.

It was also very hard to cultivate negative energy through morally right methods, which was why they were known as evil cultivators. Most of the methods of cultivating it were evil and demonic and in most cases involved harming or consuming others to increase their own power.

However, to less talented individuals or individuals that sought out an easier alternative to cultivating normally, they could cultivate through many different evil acts and gain power.

These acts included killing others and eating raw flesh, or drinking blood, while using different methods and techniques to absorb negative energy coming from the body of the victim.

Evil Cultivation Methods were forbidden by large cultivation families and other cultivation organisations around the world. Just like revealing cultivation to ordinary people had become taboo to ordinary people, so had being an evil cultivator.

The orientation of energy could either be positive or negative and it was very hard to harmonise both orientations as they would explode. Although opposites attract, upon colliding, there would be a big reaction and it was almost impossible for a cultivator to be able to handle both orientations of energy.

When one was angry or had a strong killing intent towards an individual, they may have been unknowingly using negative energy and was how some cultivators when angry were able to surpass their limits.

Which was why it was so important for cultivators to be calm while cultivating, as if they were consumed by negative emotions while cultivating, they could unintentionally cultivate negatively and absorb some negative energy into their bodies.

However, the same thing could be said about people that had strong feelings that were positive, such as when one wanted to protect somebody. In those cases, when they were able to surpass their limits, for example when a mother that wasn't a cultivator was able to lift a car to save her child, she had unknowingly been able to absorb positive energy into her body and used it to increase his body's power for a split second.

There were two sides to any coin and energy could switch between orientations depending on the environment and emotions of the wielder, which was why it was common for cultivators to go berserk and lose control of their own bodies after being consumed by negative emotions.

Whether one cultivated negatively or positively, it was seen as the same as long as their method of cultivation didn't harm others and everything had a price.

The mental state and emotions of an individual were two of the most important elements of cultivation and even the orientation of energy itself was affected by it. Humans were naturally suited to cultivating positive energy as their bodies were quite frail and were in sync with positive energy, but negative energy had much better short term results for a human.

However, despite evil cultivators being able to cultivate faster through evil means and gain much more raw and explosive power, they would sacrifice their health and bodies for it.

It was an endless cycle for evil cultivators and they would rely on evil methods to recover from their damage that was dealt to their bodies, but in the process, their body would continue to collapse because of the evil methods there were using.

The cycle would continue until the individual turned into a savage beast that could only kill to sustain their evil methods. 

Most knew of evil cultivators, but there were quite rarely seen and the large cultivation families were completely against them. This was because they were harming innocents, and mostly those that weren't cultivators, to increase their power and were going against the rule that all cultivators followed.

It was important for their own secrecy that ordinary people didn't find out about cultivation, but evil cultivators would harm others to increase their own power, so would have to involve innocents to do so.

Because of that, all cultivators of negative energy were looked down upon and hated by ordinary cultivators, even though there were negative cultivators that didn't cultivate through means that harmed others.

However, it was known that those that cultivated negative energy without being consumed by it or harming others were very rare and few numbers.