Saint Sage Master Akumali has only just gone to the Divine Kingdom, and these people...
The First Disciple felt a kind of grief and anger. When he first followed Akumal, Akumal was still just an ordinary man, a little dull-witted in other people's eyes.
Back then no one believed Akumal's ideas could illuminate the whole world; only he and a handful of others—the very first Ascetics—thought they could.
As for all those later followers, these disciples, in the First Disciple's eyes they were no longer so pure.
Some of them were after fame. Once Akumal's ideas spread, becoming his disciple no longer just made you famous in Nagariel; it made you famous across the entire world.
People would talk about how many disciples Akumal had, what each disciple was good at, what deeds they had accomplished.
That kind of reputation might not immediately change their fate, but it could, bit by bit, alter the trajectory of their lives.
