Unorthodox Cultivation

[Main post: Why did I have to get a brain cramp and choose to be a sword cultivator? Our whole sect is dirt poor. I'm so jealous of those rich alchemists.] Some ordinary alchemist: Hello! Want to learn 81 ways to blow up your pill furnace? You'd be better off envying the artifact-refining sect. At least they don't risk their lives. How Steel Is Forged: Yeah, right. The disciples in our sect swing hammers until they're built like oxen, and they can't even find a partner. The Yunhua Sect next door is so much better, all immortal grace and elegance. Just looking at them makes you like them. Low-ranking disciple of the Yunhua Sect: ...Don't envy us. Seriously, don't. We're so good-looking that one elder got targeted by his own little disciple, who turned evil and kidnapped him. A senior brother next door was targeted by his junior brother and got kidnapped too. The newly appointed Demon Lord is planning to kidnap our master. I hear he's the outer sect disciple our master saved all those years ago... Low-ranking disciple of the Yunhua Sect: I heard the cultivation world is holding its recruitment drive again soon. Everyone in our sect has been trembling with fear these past few days. Not one of us dares to take on a new disciple. Theme: Seeing is believing, hearing is deceiving