Hearing Lin Yi say this, Qian Huan wasn't annoyed that the child wouldn't heed her advice. Instead, she smiled brightly, and the dreamy halos around them seemed to leap with delight.
"That's more like it! If you'd hesitated just now, or told me you'd decided to choose an advanced rule as a fallback, then your senior sister here absolutely wouldn't have agreed to let you use any Higher-Order Rule—or even most high-level rules—as the core for breaking through to the Yan Realm."
Then Qian Huan's smile faded, and her gaze grew profound as she explained:
"It's not that your senior sister is heartless. If you don't even have the courage to press forward without looking back, and the conviction that you can reach the end, then you'll never be able to persevere along the path of comprehending a powerful Law. That path is long enough to dim the stars and abstruse enough to drive the wise mad."
As she spoke, the surrounding scenery shifted, conjuring the faint outlines of several roads.
On the most rugged and treacherous road, which led to a peak shrouded in clouds and mist, several indistinct but resolute figures appeared, pressing onward.
On the relatively gentle roads beside it, some figures began to wander back and forth after reaching a certain point, hesitating. The light around some of them gradually dimmed, and in the end, they vanished.
"Achieving eternity through a foundational Law might seem weak, but remember: who among those capable of becoming a Yan Realm expert isn't exceptionally talented? Yet even those who achieve eternity through a foundational Law are few and far between. That should tell you how difficult it is."
"When you truly face that seemingly endless fog of Laws, and experience the despair of making no progress for ten thousand, a