Cultivation was largely useless to humanity back in the Milky Way. The absence of the power of heaven meant that spiritual energy was too scarce for most methods to play any significant role.
The most viable source of spiritual energy that people could gain access to was by generating it themselves through their own thoughts and emotions.
It made a lot of sense that mech pilots and mech designers still managed to do well in this galactic energy desert.
Mech pilots fueled their own progression by pushing themselves beyond their limits and generating extreme emotions in the heat of battle.
Mech designers advanced by getting immersed in the creation of unprecedented works and receiving the validation of their clients and customers.
Yet as exotic radiation continued to enrich the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy, traditional cultivation that ancient humans abandoned a long time ago suddenly became viable again.
