Success and Failure (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

Only Earth's big shots dared to play things this way.

Over the span of one or two centuries, among tens of billions who had come and gone, only a handful of such heaven-blessed prodigies had emerged.

Any one of them, if placed in the Main World, would likely have been a great figure remembered for a thousand years.

Just that drive to casually cut away a portion of their cultivation and start over—

Was beyond comparison for ordinary mages, let alone ordinary people.

Madam Qian had taken plenty of detours herself.

Otherwise, with Madam Qian's talent, why would she have remained at the seventh rank for so long? Wasn't it because she kept testing, failing, and starting over?

For a long time, this caused the strength of those big shots at the top of Earth's combat hierarchy to rise and fall like a roller coaster... It was nerve-racking to watch.

But,

After cutting themselves down enough times, everyone eventually got used to it.

Wasn't it just tearing everything down and starting again?

After enough times, it no longer seemed like much.

How did that saying go again?

I have no special skill, only familiarity through practice.

But when Li Yao produced a tangible handbook of experience and clearly told them that the road was right here, and that they could reach a higher realm simply by continuing forward—

It was like a Sea-Stabilizing Divine Needle!

Some of the knowledge and experience recorded in that handbook had actually been explored by certain big shots at one stage or another. Their initial progress had been smooth, but later, they could no longer continue.

So they assumed it was wrong. Even if later generations refused to accept that and retraced their steps, they only managed to advance a few steps farther.

What did