However, once this secret art was cast, the withered vegetation would become bound by karma to the caster.
The caster would need to return to this place in the future and nourish the dead vegetation with their own mana, allowing it to regain its vitality.
And if that vegetation was completely destroyed by someone, the caster would need to cultivate an equivalent amount of vegetation anew with their own mana.
Only then could this karmic debt be repaid.
Otherwise.
This karma would continue to entangle the cultivator, perhaps even causing trouble when they attempted to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm in the future.
After all, strictly speaking, this secret art was a plundering technique.
It used the life force of the surrounding vegetation as fuel, allowing the cultivator to rapidly restore their own mana.
Moreover, its range was extraordinarily vast.
To fully restore the mana of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, the number of plants stripped of life force would naturally be an astonishing figure.
Yet once this secret art was cast, it could allow a Nascent Soul Cultivator whose mana had already been exhausted and whose medicinal pills had long since run out to recover their peak combat strength.
That point alone was enough for He Song to cultivate it as one of his hidden reserves.
The Withered Glory Life-Reversal Art truly lived up to its name.
Once cast, it could make the caster defy the heavens and alter their fate, regaining vitality through the withering of the surrounding vegetation.
Therefore, although He Song already knew this art's drawbacks.
And knew that once he cast it, he would need to repay this karmic debt.
When faced with a secret art that might save his life at a critical moment, He Song still decided to cultivate it.
After all,