There were only a few reasons for a cultivator's realm to fall. The first was approaching the end of their lifespan, with insufficient blood and vital energy. Cracks appeared in the Five Great Secret Realms, showing signs of collapse, forcing them to lower their realm voluntarily to reduce their consumption of blood and vital energy.
The second reason was a Dao Wound. Cracks appeared in the Five Great Secret Realms, and the cultivator's origin suffered fundamental damage. Fissures formed in the Five Great Secret Realms, ultimately causing their realm to fall.
Gai Jiuyou's current condition was the combination of an approaching end to his lifespan and a Dao Wound, forcibly dropping him from Alternative Dao Attainment to the Great Saint realm.
That was not much different from Ultraman Taro falling to the level of a teddy dog.
And now Qin Tian had created another reason for a realm to fall: bodily weakness... no, a deficiency in his origin and a loss of energy that caused his realm to drop.
Ordinary cultivators would not encounter such a situation, however, unless they spent a long time in a region devoid of spiritual energy. Once a cultivator stepped into a region in a Dharma-Ending Age, they were like a fish on dry land. All that awaited them was a slow death.
As the vital essence sustaining their life drained away little by little, their realm would gradually fall, until they finally became a mortal, experienced birth, aging, sickness, and death, and returned to the yellow earth.
Though the current Great Dao environment was poor, it had not reached that point.
Even Earth, said to be the closest to a Dharma-Ending Age, merely made advancement difficult. It would not cause anyone's realm to fall.
"God damn it! Bone spurs really aren't something a human