A lone cultivator is a Gu Master outside a clan or force, free of its duties and shut out of its resources.
Mortals who become Gu Masters without full clan acceptance can only serve as henchmen. Dissatisfied, they become loner Gu Masters. Cultivation is extremely difficult, and competition for resources pushes them toward killing and the demonic path. ch. 74
Clan burden
Demonic overlap
Demonic Gu Masters are mostly lone cultivators. They receive no support, and even primeval stones and food must be acquired alone. ch. 280
Rank five example
Self naming
Fang Yuan names himself a lone cultivator, or rather a demonic Gu Master, when Immortal Crane Sect investigates him. ch. 493
Connections(6)
0 later connections are veiled.