That was simply true. After all, it took too much time for Martial Sages to mature to reach the level of Transcendence. This was especially true for the latest generation of Martial Sages in the Panama Continent. The reality was that they were probably centuries away from Transcendence. Not just because they were extremely brittle, untested, and had very little experience as Martial Sages, relatively speaking. But it was also because they were inexperienced as Martial Masters who had broken through or as Martial Seniors who had broken through.
This was the downside of breakthroughs. While the civilization did indeed go astronomically stronger, the individual Martial Sage and the average quality did go down a significant degree. Not enough to cancel out the overall improvement to the net military power of the nation and the civilization, but enough to significantly delay the progress to the next Realm.
