Chapter 5099 — The Primordial Passage
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At these words, the eyes of the crowd lit up at once. During the first round they had been somewhat muddled, never quite knowing what the examiners were looking for before they were passed through. But this reward that Xin Yi'an spoke of set their hearts racing—the Primordial Alliance would hardly be handing out anything paltry. Could it be that each person was to receive a treasure of the Primordial Alliance?
Yet Xin Yi'an's next words swiftly shattered their illusions—though they stirred the blood all the more: "Do not misunderstand, everyone. I will not give you any treasures or resources. What I will give you is a chance you have dreamed of—a chance to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage."
Foundation Establishment! An uproar swept the assembly at once, and everyone's breathing instantly grew heavy. Even if they had once had no notion of what Foundation Establishment meant, in the wake of the Primordial Alliance's appearance, even those in the most benighted of places knew what those words betokened. This was the legendary Way of Heaven!
It was not only the mortal realm's cultivators—even Wei Zhao could not help but be moved. The Primordial Alliance truly had such means at its disposal; he had indeed underestimated them somewhat before.
"There is no need for astonishment, everyone. The Primordial Little Jianghu is the land that all cultivators dream of. To become a formal disciple of any primordial sect, one must at the very least possess the strength of the Foundation Establishment stage. Now that you have passed the first round, you are quasi-disciples of your respective sects. You will each receive your sect's elementary introductory cultivation method, and you are about to be taken to a place brimming with spiritual energy to make your breakthrough to Foundation Establishment. If you can successfully advance before the Primordial Passage closes, then you may become formal disciples!" Xin Yi'an explained.
"Elementary introductory cultivation method? But we already have our own cultivation methods. Even if you give us another method, what use would it be?" The mortal realm's cultivators could not help but ask in confusion. Everyone knew that a cultivation method could not be changed at will—especially not by practicing two methods at once, the consequences of which were unthinkable. At best one would suffer injury from backlash; at worst one would be driven to qi deviation, or even die on the spot.
"Under normal circumstances, you indeed cannot change your cultivation method. However, once you reach the Foundation Establishment stage—or, to be precise, in the very process of your breakthrough to Foundation Establishment—you will have the opportunity to change your method, and there will be no aftereffects whatsoever," Xin Yi'an explained.
At this the crowd came to understand, and then someone else raised a hand and asked, "And if we fail in our breakthrough to Foundation Establishment?"
"Then naturally you are eliminated. But even so, you will suffer no loss at all—at the very least you will have gained an elementary introductory cultivation method from your respective sect. True, given the spiritual conditions of the mortal realm, these elementary introductory methods alone cannot possibly carry you to a successful breakthrough to Foundation Establishment. But compared with the cultivation methods you originally practiced, they are certainly far profounder, and that in itself is no small harvest," Xin Yi'an said with a faint smile.
The crowd breathed a collective sigh of relief, each feeling as though a pie had fallen from the heavens and struck them square on the head. To gain, for no effort at all, a cultivation method capable of leading to Foundation Establishment—this was an unexpected delight indeed.
"Then when does the Primordial Passage close?" someone else asked, raising a hand.