At lower cultivation levels, it had not had much impact.
Under the Smart Brain Era, material production was exceedingly abundant, enough to meet the needs of low-level cultivators to sustain their lives.
But once one's cultivation reached a certain level, it meant that the Real World was not only a land where the extraordinary was forbidden—even the materials of the Real World could scarcely sustain an extraordinary being's life.
This was what happened when cultivators entered a Land of Spiritual Depletion: there was no energy available for cultivation or for maintaining one's cultivation.
They could only watch helplessly as their cultivation declined and their vitality waned.
If they forcibly used their cultivation, it would be like a leaking balloon, rapidly deflating.
Moreover, the higher one's cultivation, the more terrifying this decline became under such prohibition.
Under such circumstances, an extremely bizarre phenomenon had emerged in the current extraordinary era.
Those active in the Real World, whether they intended to challenge order or preserve it, were merely low-level extraordinary cultivators.
High-level cultivators were almost all thoroughgoing homebodies, unwilling—and unwilling to dare—to waste even the slightest bit of strength.
After all, though the Real World was a land where the extraordinary was forbidden, as long as extraordinary cultivation remained, the transformation of one's life essence brought about by cultivation was an undeniable fact.
As long as one's cultivation did not fall, one's vitality would not decline.
The long lifespan brought by that transformed life essence would not vanish.
But if one's cultivation suffered severe depletion, it would not merely mean a decline in strength and cultivation. It would also mean a loss of lifespan.
Clearly, no matter how great one's ambition, if the gains could not outweigh the loss of lifespan, it was nothing but empty fantasy.
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