Inside the mountain wall.
Lin Chen sat quietly on a stone platform, weighing his options.
"Sixty-three percent—"
He murmured the figure aloud. The odds were neither particularly high nor particularly low.
If he succeeded, he would enter the Earth Martial Realm and join the upper ranks of Cloud Province's martial artists.
If he failed, his martial foundation would be damaged and take ten years to recover. During that time, he could not attempt another breakthrough.
Even treasures capable of repairing a martial foundation were rare things one could only hope to stumble upon.
"My luck... shouldn't be that bad."
Lin Chen murmured, though he truly could not be sure. He remembered what had happened when he tried to break into the Spirit Martial Realm as a youth.
Back then, his base chance of success had been sixty percent.
But to be safe, he had still asked his father for a pill. Only then had he secured his breakthrough.
Now, the situation was almost exactly the same.
"Sixty-three percent is still a risk. If I fail, I can forget about entering the Earth Martial Realm in the Cloud Dream Ancient Land. I'd miss out on the Golden Palace the merchant guild mentioned, too."
Lin Chen rose and walked to the cave entrance, gazing into the distance.
Heavenwind Gorge lay in that direction, beneath a black column of wind that linked sky and earth.
Chu Xu's words echoed in his ears: an Azure Origin Ancient Tree grew inside the gorge. It would soon bear Azure Origin Fruit, which greatly aided martial artists in breaking through their bottlenecks.
"If I can get that fruit, my chance of success should rise by at least another ten percent, to over seventy."
Lin Chen swiftly weighed his options. His gaze gradually firmed as he reached a