Fang Chen respectfully replied, "I've heard that, disciple... is extremely difficult."
But he immediately raised his head, a probing look in his eyes.
"However, this disciple has a question. The sect was founded many years ago, so there should have been quite a few people who tried, right?"
"Could it be that not a single person ever succeeded?"
Cui Lin sighed and shook his head. "Actually... there were very few people who tried at first."
"Cultivating multiple types of true qi consumed far too much time and energy."
"And... the hope of success was slim, while the risks were enormous. It was far more practical to focus on breaking through to the Gang Qi realm."
Cui Lin continued:
"It wasn't until the previous sect master of the Profound Heaven Sect appeared that someone finally succeeded in fusing his true qi, causing his strength to surge."
"Only then did our Myriad Phenomena Sect and the Limitless Gate truly realize that this path was possible. But what followed was a tremendous crisis!"
"The Profound Heaven Sect had already been the number-one sect in the Prefecture City. With such a powerful sect master, they became incredibly arrogant and actually tried to forcibly merge our Myriad Phenomena Sect and the Limitless Gate!"
Fang Chen's eyes widened slightly.
The Myriad Phenomena Sect still existed and was flourishing, which meant that the Profound Heaven Sect had failed to achieve its goal back then!
Fang Chen asked curiously, "What happened afterward that allowed our Myriad Phenomena Sect to survive?"
Cui Lin said with a smile:
"Our previous sect master's saber techniques were peerless."
"By a stroke of fortune, he obtained a heaven-defying opportunity and acquired a piece of 'Meteorite Mother Marrow.' In the end, he asked an expert to forge it into a divine weapon!"
"With that