The trio left the village in silence the next morning. They did not wait to see what the villagers' reactions were, as they no longer needed their validation.
It took some time to deal with the reality that Atlas introduced them to, but it was a valuable lesson nonetheless. In the end, when they came back to their senses, they realized that they were not focused on the jeers and hatred from the previous day.
Instead, in their minds was a solid belief that they took the right path. As Atlas said, they were cultivators who had their own views of right and wrong. They lived by a code that they would not break for any reason.
If others clashed with that code, they had to fight those people. If they saw something going against their code, they had to face it.
The world of cultivators was like that. Right and wrong weren't objective things. They were decided by the strongest, the victors.
