After weighing his options, Cheng Yu still decided to try relying on his own will first.
His talent might have been poor, but he had plenty of fallback options. He could afford to give it a try himself.
Having made up his mind, Cheng Yu began attempting his breakthrough to Legendary.
As his consciousness gradually sank into the Rule Network, Cheng Yu's physical body began disintegrating at a rate almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
By the time his body began disintegrating, Cheng Yu's consciousness had already entered the Rule Network. At the same time, as though a countdown timer had been installed in his mind, he saw the time limit for this attempt to reach Legendary.
Without any hesitation, Cheng Yu immediately began using his soul power to pry at the Rule Threads within the Rule Network.
The instant his soul touched a Rule Thread, excruciating pain struck, as though a nail had been driven up his spine and into his brain. At the same time, a warning came from the System.
"You are being contaminated by unknown rules! Effect of Epic-Rank title 'The Kid Watched by the Big Shot' activated. Evaluating priority. Evaluation passed. Contamination negated."
There was no time to wonder why the System had issued this notification during his breakthrough to Legendary. Even Cheng Yu, who considered himself a seasoned veteran, found his consciousness beginning to scatter under that indescribable agony.
Cheng Yu's first attempt to pry loose a thread of rules failed.
But he had no time to dwell on it. His body's time limit would not wait for him. In an ordinary breakthrough to Legendary, there was only one chance, and Cheng Yu was treating this attempt as though he, too, had only one. Time mattered more than anything else. After recovering