"Fail or die?"
After hearing him out, Ye Tianming remained silent for a long time.
But on reflection, all things in the world needed a cause before they could bear fruit.
To grow stronger, one had to rely on diligent, arduous cultivation, abundant resources, or exceptional talent, wisdom, and even luck.
Strength never came without reason. Everyone had their own road to walk, and everyone had made choices at a fork in that road.
Struggling with one's life as the stake hardly seemed unusual. At least in the eyes of many rogue cultivators, even having the chance to place such a wager was exceedingly rare.
I've already fallen too far behind. Though I've always believed that one day, I could still advance to Heaven Tier and stand on the same level as him.
But if, by then, he's already invincible beneath heaven, what could a mere newly advanced Heaven Tier cultivator accomplish?
And what if the worst happens, and I can't advance to Heaven Tier...
Ye Tianming pondered silently, then asked Zhu Fei, "One last question. What exactly does this method have to do with the warrior path?"
Ye Tianming was no ignorant country bumpkin. Everything he had seen and heard along the way, together with what he had learned before, was enough for him to judge that this so-called dharma lineage seemed to descend from the same roots as the warrior path.
If that was indeed the case, it should possess the same advantages and drawbacks as the warrior method.
Apart from the deeply rooted prejudices he shared with the vast majority of cultivators, his insistence on orthodoxy ultimately stemmed from concern over his future prospects.
He did not want to stumble unwittingly into a dead-end road that would take him nowhere.
Zhu Fei said, "Do not compare those