"The analogy was simple and easy to understand. Lin Daiyu and the other two listened, their faces showing the same thoughtful expression.
After all, they had grown up in the relatively privileged Jia Residence or Lin Manor, with plentiful resources and conveniences. Even so, they could feel how difficult cultivation was. How much harder must it be for the rogue cultivators and ordinary people outside?
Take Lin Daiyu herself. She might look delicate and frail, and she was still at the stage of drawing qi into her body. Yet once she completed that process and reached the first level of Qi Refining, she would be on par with an ordinary martial artist who had cultivated for an entire lifetime and advanced from the acquired to the innate stage. That starting point was already a destination most ordinary people could never reach in their whole lives. It was no joke.
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Annie paused. Seeing that the three had more or less absorbed and understood what she had said, she continued with the second reason, which was even more shocking:
"As for the second reason, it has to do with the fundamental rules of this world."
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As she spoke, her voice dropped slightly, taking on a mysterious air.
"Because I found that the 'Heavenly Court' now rules through a system of 'unity between immortals and mortals.' And it isn't simply a matter of standing high above everyone else and governing the Three Realms."
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"It has also cleverly incorporated and made use of some of the rules governing reincarnation in the 'underworld.' On a level you can't see, it 'strictly regulates' the lifespans of cultivators who haven't attained immortality...and, well, you could call it a kind of 'implicit restriction.' In other words, it castrates them!"
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Castrating bulls and horses, or