How had someone like this failed to achieve Core Embrace back then? Feng Jun was rather puzzled, but then he looked again and understood: one attempt at Core Embrace (failed).
In theory, Core Embrace could be attempted three times. However, the second attempt was ten times harder than the first and required ten times the resources, so practically no one attempted a Second Core Embrace.
Just think about it. A Peak Emergence from Dust cultivator with a seventy percent success rate who failed once would have a success rate of only 0.7 percent the second time. If seventy percent could not make it, who would gamble on that seven-in-a-thousand chance?
Not to mention the tenfold resources required.
As for succeeding on the third attempt? That was only theoretically possible. No one had ever tried it.
Feng Jun shook his head and spoke regretfully. "Senior Qu, this really is... such a pity. You're in such good condition, yet you failed Core Embrace once. Otherwise, you might still have had a chance to succeed now."
"Such is fate," Qu Jianlei replied with an indifferent smile. "I was quite arrogant when I was young. I thought I would certainly succeed in Core Embrace, but I failed to notice a slight instability within my body. I spent the next two hundred years regretting it."
In truth, he had wanted to achieve Core Embrace before Scarlet Luan's master, and he had been too impatient.
Feng Jun hesitated before voicing his judgment. "I think that if you can obtain longevity medicine now, you can still make another attempt at Core Embrace."
"If I can obtain Millennial Yin-Yang Lingzhi, I can give it a try," Qu Jianlei said. He knew his own condition well, but then he spoke somewhat awkwardly. "Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find