Chapter 468: The Breakthrough Begins
Breaking into the B-Grade was one of the most important junctures in the entire cultivation journey. Only an extremely small amount of people reached it, and even fewer could overcome it.
Only one in ten cultivators succeeded—the rest paid the ultimate price. As a result, breaking into the B-Grade was the eternal nightmare of most C-Grades—would they spend their life in mediocrity, or would they gamble everything on a small chance to reach the stars?
This breakthrough was demonized in the eyes of the masses—they viewed it as the greatest trial every cultivator had to face. Naturally, Jack’s attempt garnered a lot of attention. Every eye in and around the Death Boat was watching. If not for needing to keep their location a secret, they would have broadcasted it across the entire Black Hole Church.
“Do you think he can succeed?” a cultivator whispered in the crowd around the asteroid—as a C-Grade, he barely had the qualifications to stand here.
“Of course he will!” another replied. “So what if nine out of ten people die? This is Jack Rust! If even he fails, we are all doomed!”
“I know he will succeed,” said a third cultivator. “I just wonder how many miles he’ll reach.”
“Sovereign Heavenly Spoon made it to eight thousand miles. I don’t know if Jack Rust can reach that point, but he shouldn’t be much worse, right? Maybe seven thousand?”
“You idiot, how can you compare a mere Jack Rust to Sovereign Heavenly Spoon? That’s the greatest B-Grade of the last hundred thousand years! I say Jack Rust will reach just a bit above six thousand miles.”
“Well, I think it will be seven.”