Still, Charlie soon thought of something. "By the way, you once mentioned cultivators who failed transcendence and were reduced to Divergents. Could they perhaps exist like ghosts, in a separate plane from humans or cultivators who lack the ability to see them? In that case, could one be targeting me?"

Vera shook her head. "The idea of Divergents can be found in certain texts, but I have no actual proof they exist. Moreover, the success of the trial of transcendence has always been a fixed one percent—on the other ninety-nine, you're going to be blown to bits. If anything, the chance of freeing your soul in time right before the trial bolt vaporizes your physical body is definitely less than one percent.

"In that sense, don't you think it's unlikely we actually run into one at all? They are called Divergents precisely because they diverge from the path of Transcendents, but they are undying entities that only exist next in power to cultivators who successfully transcend."

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