Chapter 276 - 256 When the Stars of the Human Race Shine_2
Candle Shadow Swinging Red: "You also have placeholders in here. The conflict between Dao and Demon does not constitute a complete calamity cycle. Or rather, the conflict between Dao and Demon is the ending of the Dragon-Han calamity, continuing the tail end of it,
because the conflict between Dao and Demon affected only a few powerful beings, impacting only Hong Jun, Luo Hou, Yin and Yang, Qian Kun, and a few other major figures."
Similarly, a single ’Journey to the West’ cannot be considered a calamity cycle. ’Journey to the West’ is merely the beginning of a calamity cycle, which is not completed until Wu Tian is defeated."
Mu Chuanye: "In fact, the era of the ’Journey to the West’ had the highest combat power in the entire Vast Wilderness, despite the world being smaller and weaker, but the mighty were far superior to those of earlier eras.
It’s a pity that there were too many rules, turning a good ’Journey to the West’ into something so unimpressive."
Verdant Slimness and Red Reduced Begonia Remains: "The whole world indeed gets weaker as time progresses because the heaven and earth are flawed, like leaking water, with spiritual energy diminishing and gradually drying up.
When spiritual energy becomes severely depleted, the myriad immortals and Buddhas no longer perform miracles and struggle to preserve themselves.
Later, becoming an immortal becomes difficult, unable to cultivate higher realms, and then comes the impossibility of orthodox cultivation, having to resort to methods from obscure traditions, such as becoming zombies, while orthodox folks, like Uncle Jiu, can at most capture ghosts and manage corpses.
Until cultivation itself turned into mere illusions and trickery, incapable of real practice.
Although martial arts gradually came into popularity, it was just the dying light of cultivation, left with nothing but the operation of kinetic forces, the explicit and dark energies of national arts."