I Know All Negative Effects of Entries in Instances-Chapter 412 - 281: Sunk Cost

"It’s really difficult."

At the bottom of the cliff, a group of people sat on the ground, their eyes fixed on the cultivation technique opposite them. After watching for so long, their eyes began to feel swollen and sore.

At this moment, they sat together, taking the rare opportunity to relax and chat idly.

Since they entered this dungeon, almost a year had passed.

Over this year, their progress on the entry had only increased a little.

In the best-case scenario, it would take five or six years to fully activate.

The worse ones would take seven or eight, or even nine years.

Some, after calculating, despairingly realized that by the time the dungeon duration ended, they might not be able to activate the entry at all.

If the entry couldn’t be activated, it would mean task failure.

This would mean they had wasted a year inside for nothing.

The more important problem was that after being judged as a failure, they wouldn’t be able to enter this Xianxia Dungeon again in the future.

Thinking of this, many present felt extremely anxious.

Even those estimated to need eight or nine years to activate their entry appeared especially anxious.

Don’t be fooled by their estimate of eight or nine years; it doesn’t necessarily mean the entry can definitely be activated after that time.

During this period, as they constantly increased the progress of the entry activation, they discovered a problem.

That is, when they found a book that could help increase their activation progress, the progress would start to slow down after using the book for a while.

Thus, they needed to find other books to ensure they could continue activating their entries.

Back and forth, they would definitely end up spending a lot more time.

After all, among so many books, who knows if the ones they found would suit them? This would certainly take a lot more time.

Under these circumstances, the timeline would undoubtedly be extended quite a bit.

This naturally made them anxious.

Worried that they might miss the deadline and fail the task.

The more they thought about it, the more anxious they became.

"Don’t talk about difficult, you estimate you still have five years to activate your entry. Do you know how long we need? I need nine years."

"Nine years! I need nine years. Who knows if there will suddenly be no suitable book to aid my cultivation progress?"

Liu Chuan looked helpless, thinking about his current situation and feeling the time pressure.

The person who just spoke was Wu Song, who said they needed about five years. In terms of time, Wu Song was quite relaxed.

No matter what, Wu Song had enough time to adjust.

Others listened and started discussing animatedly.

"These books are really something, impossible to find a pattern or know which book would speed up our progress."

"I say, no one here is hiding something, right? Is there anyone close to activating their entry?"

At this time, everyone started speaking up.

"I estimate I need five years, but who knows what could happen in the end. It’s possible the progress could get harder to increase."

Everyone spoke up in turn.

For them, this matter seemed indeed quite uncertain.

At this moment, someone kept glancing at Zhou Yingting and others, "Among us, there’s probably no one whose entry activation progress is nearly complete, right?"

"If that’s really the case, speak up quickly! Share some experience with us. If I find out later, it would hurt even more than killing me."

"Surely no one’s entry activation is that quick, right?"

"Exactly, the fastest estimate we have is five years, can anyone be faster than that speed?"

When they first arrived, they heard Senior Brother Qingshan mention that a genius in their sect took three years to master the basics.

Initially, they wondered if they could become that genius, or perhaps a genius even surpassing that genius.

But after they got fully familiar, they realized how laughable their earlier thoughts were.

Activating this entry within three years was simply impossible.

However, among these people, the one most suspected to activate the entry first was Zhou Yingting.

Because Zhou Yingting seemed so relaxed every day.

Initially, Zhou Yingting was quite regular, often staring at the cultivation technique without stopping.

But recently, Zhou Yingting’s behavior became unpredictable.

While looking at the cultivation technique, he would fall asleep mid-view.

Or he would just run outside, claiming that emptying his mind might help speed up the entry activation.

With Zhou Yingting behaving like this, everyone found it suspicious.

Yet when asked, Zhou Yingting claimed his entry hadn’t been activated yet.

But everyone wasn’t fooled.

Unless Zhou Yingting had decided to give up, how could he be so relaxed?

Otherwise, how could Zhou Yingting possibly be so relaxed?