Even if it was only an attempt at Attainment of the Dao on the Other Shore, failure meant certain death.
Advancing to Chaos was even more perilous. If the attempt failed, there was simply no reason anyone should survive. No matter how they looked at it, survival was impossible.
Yet they were saying Yang Jian had failed and was still alive...
Even Azure Fairy, given who she was, found it inconceivable.
If the news had come from anyone other than the Queen Mother of the West, they would have taken it for a lie.
It sounded like an absurdly crude rumor. Anyone with the slightest common sense would have rejected it.
They would not have been this astonished even if Yang Jian had succeeded outright and attained Chaos.
Failing to break through to Chaos and surviving was something that should have been impossible. They had never heard of it happening before.
"What exactly happened?" Meng Qi could not help asking.
"How could anyone survive a failed breakthrough at that level?"
Meng Qi had never failed a breakthrough himself, but he knew how Meng Chuan had made his.
He did not believe anyone could survive if a breakthrough like that failed.
"We don't know either." White Fairy shook her head.
"We learned from Primordial Heaven that Yang Jian's breakthrough failed. The Queen Mother only told us he hadn't died. She said nothing more."
"As for the secret behind it—how Yang Jian survived a failed breakthrough—he's probably the only one who knows."
Azure Fairy suddenly said with a hint of envy, "Yang Jian survived even that. Now he has something incredibly precious: experience from an attempt to advance to Chaos."
"Once he's rested and recovered from the injuries this failed breakthrough caused, his chances of succeeding on his next attempt will surely