[In the 1,297,416th year, after you entered secluded cultivation, Lin also left the Lost Land and devoted her full attention to guarding your path. As the foremost person aside from you, Lin bore undoubtedly the greatest responsibility this time. You had even temporarily entrusted the In-Formation Spirit to her use.
Had this been before, Lin might not have worried too much. Yet through constant exposure to you, her mindset had changed greatly as well. Though she had yet to meet the people you spoke of, she no longer harbored the slightest thought of looking down on the other cultivators of this age.]
[For an expert of Lin's cultivation, even if Resentful Energy had gathered again and brought the Fallen Immortal Monarch back into this world, she could still tell the instant she emerged that this era differed from the one she had once lived in. Calling this the end of the cultivation age, with spiritual energy declining to a near spiritless era, might have been an exaggeration, but it was indeed somewhat inferior to Lin's era.
These differences did not merely affect the density of Immortal Essence that low-realm cultivators cared about, thereby drastically reducing their cultivation speed. Many high-level cultivators, even Great Powers, had also gradually drifted away from the Great Dao despite themselves, making it increasingly difficult for them to comprehend the laws of the Great Dao even though their comprehension had not diminished.
By all reason, in such an era, both low-level and high-level cultivators should have dwindled sharply. As someone already among the peak experts of All Heavens, it was only natural for Lin to believe that few could stand against her wherever she looked. As the saying went, "When there is no tiger in the mountains, the monkey becomes king."]
[Yet leaving aside the miraculous