Chapter 469: Pursuing Perfection
Jack had never heard anything like that. He’d never even considered it. Everyone spoke of nine fruits, that was the whole theme of the C-Grade. Nine was as close to perfection as one could get.
But what if it wasn’t? What if there could be ten fruits, it was just that no one had been able to achieve them?
Why was this breakthrough the only fatal one? Could it be that cultivators were meant to have ten fruits, and people had just found a way to force this breakthrough at nine?
Or, maybe, nine fruits really was the limit, and the tenth fruit was the step towards an unattainable perfection? The true perfect path?
Whoever said that nine signified perfection? Bullshit! It was obviously ten, ten was the number!
Jack knew this was insane. He had no guarantee it would work, that it even could work. Maybe ten fruits weren’t possible—maybe nine really was the limit, and cultivators were doomed to have an imperfect inner world. The only hint he had at the existence of a tenth fruit, besides his own wishes, was the tenth fruit he’d glimpsed at at the Green Dragon Realm, which could mean all sorts of other things.
If Jack tried to develop a tenth fruit right now and failed, that would severely affect his breakthrough. It might even fail completely and kill him. To even think of attempting it was the sign of a madman.
Good thing he was one.
Let’s go! Jack thought. His attention became razor-sharp. His Dao spread out, covering the Dao Tree and slowing down its disappearance. It was too late to stop it, but he could delay it a bit. At the same time, part of his gathered energy seeped into the remaining nine fruits, invigorating them. They were alive once again, blooming with power.