On horseback, Wei Fan fell silent for a moment.
There were dangers in breaking through to the Divine Realm and Martial Venerable Realm, but honestly, he had yet to hear of many people dying from failed breakthroughs. Yet the consequences of failing to break through to the Martial Saint Realm were so terrifying.
A fifty percent death rate. Even if one survived, they would be left half-crippled. It was simply horrifying.
"So the reason the Sacred Sects do not have as many Martial King Ninth Layer experts as they theoretically should is because they died during their attempts to break through to Martial Saint..."
His expression was grim, because one day he too would have to face this step.
Feng Hua nodded. "Holy Sons... Sacred Sect Holy Sons, in truth, rarely have any chance of being replaced. Most of them transform into the Dao and die on the spot when their breakthroughs fail. That is why there simply are not groups of replaced Holy Sons within the Sacred Sects.
"The stronger a person's talent and potential, the higher their chance of dying if they fail to break through to Martial Saint.
"It is said that those who reach the Martial King Ninth Layer by the age of fifty possess such immense potential that, once their breakthrough fails, they have almost no chance of surviving.
"On the contrary, those who only reach the Martial King Ninth Layer at two or three hundred years old have the greatest chance of surviving a failed breakthrough."
Many of Wei Fan's doubts were resolved.
Although Beiding Continent had several Martial Saints, compared to its enormous base of Martial Kings, that number was still far too small.
One had to know that those capable of becoming Sacred Sect Holy Sons were almost all monstrous geniuses who