"Old servant's method for Captain Ye was the one with the highest survival rate and the greatest cost among the methods I've used over the years to rapidly cultivate elite warriors for the Marquis!" As he led Ye Zhen toward the place where it would be done, Zhao Zhong explained.
"The highest survival rate? How high?" Ye Zhen asked.
"The foundation of this method was said to have come from the Heaven Temple. When Palace Opening Realm martial artists used it for rapid cultivation, the survival rate reached ninety percent! For Dao Entry Realm martial artists, it reached seventy percent! Even Spirit-Connecting Realm martial artists could have a survival rate of around forty percent with this method!" Zhao Zhong said.
Ye Zhen was greatly startled. To rapidly cultivate Palace Opening Realm martial artists with a ninety-percent survival rate—if such a method were brought to the True Profound Continent, who knew how many people would come weeping and clamoring to undergo it.
Even through normal cultivation, out of a thousand first-layer Palace Opening Realm martial artists, after a hundred years, perhaps not even one-tenth would both reach the ninth layer of the Palace Opening Realm and remain alive.
Most were either killed, devoured by Monster Beasts, or suffered cultivation deviation.
And now, one could directly raise one's cultivation from the early or middle stages of the Palace Opening Realm to the peak of the ninth layer, with a ninety-percent survival rate. If that was not a heaven-sent boon, what was?
Glancing at the utterly astonished Ye Zhen, Zhao Zhong slowly added, "The ninety-percent survival rate is correct, but among the ninety percent who survive, more than half become mad, deranged, foolish, or idiotic!"
Ye Zhen's mouth, which had just fallen open in shock, snapped shut. He sucked in a breath of