"Reaching Mid Peerless takes three hundred to six hundred years' worth of cultivation. Even though our sect has quite a few pills that boost cultivation, most of them only work on realms below the Peak Realm. Pills that work on the Peak Realm are extremely rare and costly to refine. Besides, once you reach the Peak Realm, your own sudden insights matter most. Pills and the like can only serve as aids," Li Yuncong said.
"Senior Brother, don't make it sound so easy. Master said that without some fortuitous opportunity, we might remain in the first-class realm for the rest of our lives." After hearing Li Yuncong go on and on about the Peak Realm, Xu Yan could hardly bear to listen anymore.
"How could that be? You're both already at the first-rate middle grade, and you still have plenty of time ahead of you, don't you?" Huang Xiao was astonished by Xu Yan's words.
Since both of them had reached the first-rate middle grade before they were even twenty, breaking through the first-class realm and reaching the peerless realm later should pose no problem. That was what Huang Xiao thought.
"Martial Uncle, it isn't that simple. In the Jianghu, there are plenty of people stronger than us. But even among them, perhaps only one in ten can break through to the peerless realm. First-class and peerless are two completely different realms. Who knows how many so-called geniuses ultimately failed to cross this hurdle?" Xu Yan said.
"Tribulation?" Huang Xiao had never heard of any of this. "What Tribulation? Xiao Yan, explain it to me in detail."
"Martial Uncle, you should know that the first-rate upper grade means having a hundred and twenty to a hundred and eighty years' worth of cultivation. In other words, its limit is roughly three