If what Xiaozhai deduced was correct, then countless predecessors had been searching up and down since the Ancient Immortals period, struggling to find a way out for the later cultivators so that the cultivation community would have a chance of survival.
Unfortunately, in spite of all the efforts they put in, Heaven’s mandate and the general trend of world events were factors too powerful for them to fight against. Taoist practices had declined to such an extent that cultivators had to go through the acquired state to return to the innate one and were dependent on the aid of external forces, but as soon as the spiritual essence dried up, nothing could save them from extinction.
To the later generations, all the magnificence and historical vicissitude might fill their hearts with emotions, but that was as far as they would be affected. To them, those ancient events might as well have taken place in another universe; so what if such spectacular people used to walk the earth?
