An oppressive silence fell over the spacious grand hall for a few moments after Jiang Wanqin said she couldn't.
Fang Qingyuan looked at Jiang Wanqin. Though the 110-year-old Foundation Establishment Female Cultivator was well-preserved, her face seemingly untouched by time, the weight of more than a century meant she was no longer truly young.
In the roughly 250-year lifespan of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, she had already walked nearly half the path.
Jiang Wanqin's cultivation had now reached the Late-stage Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer, just one layer shy of Foundation Establishment Perfection. In terms of time, achieving that would likely take another ten to twenty years.
But even if Jiang Wanqin reached Foundation Establishment Perfection, she still couldn't attempt Core Formation without a thesis. Forcibly attempting Core Formation without an established thesis would almost certainly have disastrous consequences.
