Su Jiu continued, "There's something I've suspected all along. The reason none of your cultivators have broken through to the Spirit Severing Stage might not be your cultivation methods or secret manuals, but the laws of the Heavenly Dao..."
Strictly speaking, she and Chu Luohen did not belong to this world, so their advancement was unrestricted. In fact, this world's Heavenly Dao treated her with an almost unbelievable degree of friendliness.
Leaving herself and her Junior Granduncle aside, Su Jiu felt that, since the first group of people from the original Azure Realm had appeared here, how could they possibly have failed to pass down their cultivation methods?
Yet the fact remained that the cultivation methods had indeed been lost. No one knew where that chain had broken, nor could anyone explain it.
Su Jiu had no particular interest in solving other people's mysteries, but that did not stop her from drawing her own conclusions. She suspected that some special power had once again severed this world's inheritance.
There was even a good chance it had something to do with the Heavenly Dao.
Still, there was no need to share those more specific details with people who were neither friends nor kin.
Su Jiu glanced at the people around her. "I know most of you don't want the Hongsheng Heavenly Road opened, because you want to preserve the concentration of spiritual qi in this world.
"But do you know what your Azure Realm will face if the Hongsheng Heavenly Road closes completely?
"Your resources will run dry. Without resources, you won't be able to nurture cultivators, and eventually all your descendants will become ordinary people.
"In your world, humans can no longer advance to the Spirit Severing Stage, but demon beasts face no such restriction.
"As long as spirit veins