However, the vast majority of Guardians had chosen to cultivate Blood-Qi Martial Arts.
The sudden failure of Blood-Qi Martial Arts caused most of the world's people to die in an instant.
If Mimics had not stepped forward afterward, humanity would have lost even more territory to the Abyss.
Fortunately, the cultivation systems practiced by Mimics were basically not fixed. Blood-Qi Martial Arts was only one of the systems they could choose to cultivate, and they could spend Simulation Points to convert between them.
Thus, the failure of Blood-Qi Martial Arts did not have much of an impact on them.
But the failure of Blood-Qi Martial Arts put everyone on edge. This time it was Blood-Qi Martial Arts—what would it be next time?
Even though different systems could be converted using Simulation Points, the stronger one became, the more Simulation Points such a conversion required.
Moreover, without Blood-Qi Martial Arts, the other cultivation systems were nowhere near as easy to get started in. Yet territories could not go without Guardians, so Mimics who served as lords had to spend additional resources to help their Guardians improve their strength.
That was no small expense either.
The lesson brought by Blood-Qi Martial Arts taught people that the Abyss targeted only science—or rather, existing science.
Any system that could be analyzed by existing science would be brought within the scope of science, thereby losing its ability to suppress the Abyss.
If they wanted to resist the Abyss, they had to halt their research into cultivation systems, and even the advancement of science itself.
Because in their later research into the Abyss, they had reached a conclusion—the strength of the Abyss was directly proportional to existing science.
The reason those cultivation systems could resist the Abyss's invasion was not because they were especially powerful or