The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 982

Dickson nodded and started to pick his nose.

"Oh, this feels great. Well, an alchemist can help, but we have a problem. There are ten alchemists who can cultivate pills for the early-stage and middle-stage Transcendent Realm martial artists. It'll get harder from middle-stage to late-stage -only five alchemists are qualified.

"For now, only Bern and Delilah have the ability to cultivate pills needed for mastering the Transcendent Realm. Even then, their success rates are dismally low—out of ten attempts, they're lucky if they manage to produce two pills."

Huh? That sounded really incredulous.

"As an alchemist, you need to understand that the rarer the pills, the more precious the herbs required. Gathering the ingredients for one attempt at cultivation takes a lot of time, effort, and emeralds. Factor in the slim success rate, and you might walk away empty-handed. That's why so many have failed in their quest to conquer the Transcendent Realm."

Felix sank deep into his thoughts. The conversation with Dickson that day pointed him in a new direction. Perhaps it was worth a try. If he succeeded, he could immediately wrap up his mission.

Being a Grandmaster in Martial City would mean unrivaled. He'd be free to do anything he wanted.

you about the consequences of a lack of trust. And

watched

direction. At the

about me. The most they could do is gravely injure me. They won't kill the deputy chief of Harmony Clinic, or they're gonna trigger a

to him, six men showed up, with one among

a while, Mr. Marlow." One of the old men nodded at Dickson with a

The other five elders of the Maximus family have shown up except Dean

Felix, "Those five

are elders

Those two standing in the middle afe Jonah and Herbert Maximus, respectively. They're both

Dean Maximus, who is absent today, I assume he's lurking somewhere in

Realm, which makes him the most powerful figure