Chapter 4877 — Two Choices
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Breaking through to Profound Ascension was far harder than condensing a Nascent Soul. For Nascent Soul condensation, one could use an Infant Condensation Golden Pill to help smash through the barrier; for Profound Ascension, no such aid existed. The Thunder Mystic Pill was only for preserving one's life beneath the tribulation lightning—everything else depended on oneself, especially the merging of two spiritual root attributes, something that had never been done before. The difficulty was easy to imagine.
According to the figures released by the Yellow-Rank Academy Alliance, the best result in any past Giant's Road trial had barely reached thirty percent.
In other words, even among these academy elites hailed as heaven's favored children, blessed with advantages ordinary people could never dream of, at most three in ten could break through successfully—and that was the historical limit. In a bad year, fewer than one in ten surviving was entirely normal.
If even they fared so, those who could not enter an academy faced far greater difficulty. The Profound Ascension stage was the highest realm of the entire Heavenly Dao realm, a wondrous fantasy they could only gaze at from afar—a height only the rarest genius among geniuses could tread. Everyone else could only dream.
"Exactly. If it were successful Profound Ascension experts guarding the spots, fine—but if it's the ones who failed, they'd be lucky to keep their own lives. How could they stop people waiting outside? To attempt a Profound Ascension breakthrough, you'd have to be at peak condition!" someone else said, equally unconvinced.
"We're all Nascent Soul perfection experts here. One side's exhausted and badly wounded, the other's at peak and bursting with vigor—what's he going to block anyone with? I say it should be the other way around: they should be paying a high price to buy back their own lives!" someone chimed in agreement.
"Hey, none of you have really looked into Lei Dong Academy, have you?" The older-looking onlooking disciple shook his head again and again, curling his lip. "Do you know what Lei Dong Academy's other name is?"
"What?" Everyone looked at him blankly.
"Wolf Academy! As the name suggests, the disciples of Lei Dong Academy are a pack of wolves—arrogant and unreasonable, and worse still, utterly united. Once something falls into their hands, it never comes back out. Same with the tribulation points here: success or failure, they always band together, everyone guarding the spot as one, then selling it to others—highest bidder wins!" The older-looking disciple smiled bitterly; clearly he had been burned by this before.
"That's just filthy! And then they'll have a whole pack of Profound Ascension experts guarding it—what the hell can you do then? If you want a tribulation point, all you can do is deliver yourself to their door and let them fleece you!" The crowd's hearts sank. Many among them had been nursing exactly this hope—otherwise they wouldn't have been lingering here watching the show—but now it seemed there was no way around bleeding heavily for it.
"Right, the Lei Dong Academy lot are just that crooked. Last time I bought an Infant Condensation Golden Pill in Lei Dong City, they ganged up on me—way too damn overbearing!" At that moment, someone seized the chance to shout.