"Failed? How could it have failed?"
"I clearly saw your soul ring age rising dramatically! It was about to transform!"
Qian Jun Douluo looked equally bewildered.
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Demon Subduing Douluo was even more baffled...
"Ahem."
Just then, Lin Xiao gave a light cough, drawing Qian Jun and Jiang Mo's attention.
"You don't need to take that process too seriously. Just think of it as an animated demonstration and look at the result."
Seeing both brothers wearing equally dumbfounded expressions, Lin Xiao could not help explaining.
A demonstration...
An animation...
Although they did not understand what an animation was, they understood the word demonstration.
"Time and fate..." Demon Subduing Douluo shook his head in despair.
Forget it, he thought.
Then he looked at Qian Jun Douluo. "Brother, why don't you try? Maybe you'll get lucky and succeed?"
"Can I really succeed?"
Qian Jun Douluo's heart beat like a drum.
He had thought a seventy percent chance was quite high. Now, looking back, that notion had been far too naive and optimistic...
"Don't be nervous."
Lin Xiao reassured him, "It's perfectly normal to fail with a seventy percent chance. Even ninety percent can fail. Probability is hard to pin down. Unless success is guaranteed, you have to prepare for the possibility of failure."
I'll just pretend that was reassuring...
After hearing Lin Xiao's words, Qian Jun Douluo no longer held any hope of success.
But he also stopped fretting over gains and losses, gaining the courage to smash his pots and sink his boats.
"Let's do it!"
As his voice fell, he activated his martial soul, summoned his soul rings, and used the enhancement scroll, his movements flowing like clouds and water in one seamless sequence.
He, too, received his result very quickly.
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