Radiance

A wildly arrogant guess.

For a mere Sacred One to presume to judge whether a Master was right or wrong—how confident, how arrogant did one have to be?

Just as he had believed a Star Year ago that the confidentiality level of Dao Realm power stood above the Supreme, the Unsurpassed, and the Master paths.

But...

Every conclusion he had reached pointed to the truth of this guess.

That left him with only two choices.

One...

Deny his own guess, follow the mainstream, and like everyone else, honestly gnaw away at the Supreme Method, cultivating layer by layer until he reached the fourth layer of the Primal Supreme Method—or waited for the rescue of the other races' top experts.

After all, how could a conclusion reached by a Sacred One stand shoulder to shoulder with a Master's?

It was practically the same as an elementary school student questioning the authority of a winner of the highest technology award.

The other...

Believe in his own guess and judgment.

Believe that even what that Master himself sought was wrong.

Or rather, because no one had succeeded thus far, even he did not know that his experiment had pointed toward a mistaken result from the very beginning.

And this choice...

"How arrogant."

Li Pin muttered to himself.

He looked at the Primal Supreme Method before him and felt the less-than-smooth progress of his cultivation...

If he continued cultivating along with the mainstream, perhaps he would not even need ten Star Years. Three to five Star Years would probably be enough to complete the first layer.

As for the second layer...

He was also sufficiently confident that he could cultivate it within a hundred Star Years.

The third and fourth layers...

Saying he could certainly cultivate them would be somewhat overambitious, but he still