Meng Chao fell silent.
Although Su Mu Lian's words made sense, he still felt that such a future had, without anyone noticing, slipped onto a track he neither wished to see nor could control.
"Originally, the privileged children of the Nine Great Cultivation Families had a chance to become staunch opponents of the 'Awakening Capsules.' After all, by following the normal path of cultivation, they could climb step by step. The Awakening Capsules did not help them much; instead, within just a few months, they had produced a large batch of bizarre competitors around them."
Su Mu Lian continued, "However, at the time, the Nine Great Cultivation Families were caught up in a string of scandals and the Blood Alliance Riot, enduring public criticism, suspicion, and even hostility.
"With the introduction of the Anti-Monopoly Act, the Nine Super Enterprises were broken up into dozens of small and medium-sized companies. Meanwhile, the relevant departments controlled by the Blue Alliance were sharpening their knives, glaring like tigers from the sidelines, ready at any moment to find an excuse to carve these dozens of companies apart even further.
"To avoid suspicion, many Transcendents from prominent families who could not prove they had absolutely no connection to the old scandals or the Blood Alliance resigned one after another. They no longer worked in corporate management, nor did they concern themselves with public affairs.
"Even the Transcendents from prominent families who had luckily avoided implication had no choice, under the scrutiny of tens of millions of citizens, but to declare a complete break with the 'old, rotten, unfair' methods of cultivation and support the 'equal-for-all' Awakening Capsules instead.
"Some prominent-family Transcendents even took the lead in consuming Awakening Capsules, tinkering with their own bodies until they developed beast-like traits. They used this to display their