"Perhaps you'll even break through to the Nascent Soul Realm faster than that Di Lang True Monarch from the Cloud Sea Sword Pavilion."
'Thanks so much for the encouragement.'
Xiao Chen snarked to himself. He'd actually been confident about getting ahead, but now that she'd said that, he suddenly wasn't so sure.
He knew, of course, that innate talent was incredibly important for a cultivator.
But if a Dual Spirit Root only had a ten percent success rate for Nascent Soul Formation, didn't that mean a low-grade Spiritual Root's chances were practically zero?
Of course, success rates weren't absolute. The cultivation world was full of precedents where people broke through a Major Realm by relying on a Rank-Breaking Spirit Pill, a stroke of luck, or even just sheer force of will.
The problem for Xiao Chen, however, was that since he was pursuing the Dual Cultivation of Body and Technique, he needed to play it safe.
