"I'd rather call it 'abandonment.'"
The Black Crow said, "Not all believers of the Four Pillars God Sect are bad people; they were originally followers of other factions. The initial Four Pillars God Sect seemed to have originated from a faction that lost the Great Skill."
"In the past, everyone chose to follow the Great Skill to resist the night, and the Gods of Four Pillars gave them another choice: to indulge in the present. After all, not everyone can persist in their ideals and continue through the night once the Great Skill is lost. Now that there is an easier choice available, naturally, the Four Pillars God Sect spread like wildfire."
"And," the Black Crow sighed, "it's been a long time since the Gray Fox Era, and in two hundred years, not a single person has ascended as a deity of the Great Skill. The ideal is out of reach, which is why the Four Pillars God Sect had the ground to rise."