"The age of declining dharma?"
"That's an apt description!"
Chen Jue could not help nodding when he heard Bixi's description.
According to the old turtle, who had lived for who knew how many years, without the so-called spiritual energy-the Primordial Qi within Life Ore-humans could no longer continue cultivating.
Spiritual energy was the source of all life's evolution, a necessity for stimulating cell division and extending lifespans.
The reason humans on Earth could only live for a few decades was that they lacked the nourishment of spiritual energy.
In the distant past Bixi described, even the lowest-level human cultivators in the Heavenly Realm could easily live for over five hundred years.
This was also why, after the Spirit Realm's destruction, even though Great God Nüwa had opened up the Heavenly Realm and given the surviving human ancestors a place to live, Emperor Zhuanxu, who later rose to power, still led his people out of the Sun System in search of a suitable place to survive and develop.
After the second civil war over power erupted in the Heavenly Realm, spirit stones and spiritual energy were rapidly depleted, and the remaining resources could no longer sustain cultivators' daily expenditure.
It was just like how cars could not run without gasoline!
Even Chen Jue, who had obtained the Attribute Panel, had relied on the spirit stones of the Heavenly Realm (Second Home) to break through the human body's limits, advancing step by step from Transcendent to his current realm of Shatter the Vacuum.
And Shatter the Vacuum was merely a cultivation term that Earth's sages had distilled from various classical texts.
According to Bixi's account, prehistoric civilization had divided cultivation into nine levels.
Since it included many races, such as Demon Beasts, and each race had different names for these nine major