The Antler People, filled with malice, had reasons for wanting Dali Country to engage in conflict; the Demon Hunters of the Eastern Empire and the Witch-Hunting Knights from overseas truly had taken opposite paths.
The Demon Hunters continued the early methods of Demon Hunter cultivation that had split from witch organizations, walking the path of delving into individual power.
Meanwhile, Witch-Hunting Knights abroad, having coexisted with Wizards and witnessed the power of witchcraft, tended more towards banding together for warmth and obtaining sustenance from the Spirit Realm, just as Wizards did.
From the perspective of Lin An's research, this is the difference between disciplining the individual spirit and leveraging the traces of the collective environmental spirit.
Such differences were bound to present their own set of problems.
For instance, the difficulty for a novice Demon Hunter in the nation had reached the point of following the path of Furnace Core inheritance.