Cultivators and commoners.
These were two groups of people that were completely distinct from one another as cultivators possessed strengths that no commoners could attain and were far superior.
So from the perspective of the commoners, cultivators were just like goddesses.
Naturally, most cultivators would develop a sense of superiority because to them, the lives of commoners were not even worth mentioning.
However, if they did not believe in karma, fate, and destinies, most cultivators were not much better than demonic cultivators.
This was a good example.
In an attempt to boost their reputations and rewards for the incident this time, several sage orthodoxies had delayed their assistance to maximize their benefits.
They did not care at all how many had died in making that decision. They simply deemed it morally acceptable by justifying to themselves that they did not directly commit those sins.