Chapter 578: Power Is Cool.
He felt that what he had in mind to say should be obvious and clear to anyone who had more than two brain cells in their head. But he still decided to say it, so that those who wer compromised mentally in one way or the other would be reminded not to make the mistake.
So he said to them, "It goes without saying that the disciples of the Purple Flower sect are poisonous snakes. So don’t fraternize with them. Don’t have romantic affairs or fall in love with them."
His tone became serious and stern as he said, "Any romantic or sexual relationship of any kind with the disciples of the Purple Flower sect is frowned on by the Blood Skull sect. If you violate this rule, prepare to lose your status as a disciple of the Blood Skull sect."
He made sure to glare at the people below him in order to emphasize his point. It was only after he was sure that his message had been successfully passed across that he stopped pressuring them with the weight of his existence.
Then he said, "Aside from that, I wish you good luck. Let us go."
With that said, he activated the flying ship. This made it slowly rise into the air. Then it took off at its fastest speed in the direction of the Purple Flower sect.
Arthur went into one of the large cabins in the flying ship reserved for him while the junior elders manned the ship to monitor its status and keep it operational.
Meanwhile, Goldwyn’s eyes were glowing with light as he stared at Arthur leaving. After Arthur left, he clenched his fist and turned to the other shining person beside him and said, "So cool."
At any other time, Jason might have rolled his eyes at Goldwyn’s exaggerated reaction, but this time he nodded in agreement and said, "You’re right. Power is cool."
Goldwyn still couldn’t believe what he had just seen. He said to Jason with some disbelief, "I knew that he was talented, but I still can’t believe that he could go from the first transformation of the third mortal coil to the fourth mortal coil in just eleven years. That’s unbelievable."
Jason shook his head and said, "I don’t know how he managed it. My best guess is that his foundation is special."
This time, Goldwyn rolled his eyes and said, "Of course his foundation is special. What could be more special than a foundation with two elements?"
This made Jason frown and say, "A foundation with two elements should be difficult to achieve and even more difficult to advance to the fourth mortal coil. Two elements don’t make things easier at all."
"Using two elements to forge a foundation shouldn’t be easy at all, but not only did he achieve those two things, he also did them in an unreasonably short amount of time. That can’t be explained easily."
Goldwyn nodded in agreement as he said, "You’re right. But that is Arthur for you. His talent and strength are unreasonable."
This explanation still didn’t satisfy Jason. He continued to frown as he tried to figure out why Arthur could have such a fast cultivation.
He knows about Thor’s cultivation speed, and while Arthur might say that Thor is cheating, anyone else who hears about Thor’s cultivation speed and how he managed it will consider it to be reasonable.
Thor is literally engorging himself on mana and energy stones. It is a dangerous thing to do and can easily lead to death by explosion, but Thor found a workaround.
Thor bypassed the danger of pumping his life seeds with a vast amount of energy in a short time by converting them into energy cores. This way, he doesn’t have to refine the energy himself and relies entirely on the special structure of his foundation not to explode when handling so much energy.
This is why Thor’s cultivation speed is abnormally fast. His speed might be abnormal, but how he achieved it is reasonable. Most importantly, he won’t be the first person to do something like that.
The first person to use that kind of shortcut to cultivate was Patriarch Sword Flash. Since then, many people have used that kind of foundation to advance to the third mortal coil and even formed their golden core.
So even though the foundation has strict requirements for talent, what Thor did to achieve such a fast speed is a common thing in the sect. On the other hand, Arthur’s feat is not normal at all.
In fact, Arthur’s achievement is so abnormal that it was already strange that he managed to form his golden core at all.
Many people didn’t expect him to form his golden core at all. In fact, many people had bet that he wouldn’t survive the third mortal coil.
So the bar of expectation was very low for Arthur. It wouldn’t have taken much for Arthur to surprise everyone.
But Arthur went above and beyond. Not only did he survive long enough to form his golden core, but he also managed to do it in an unreasonably short amount of time.
The more Jason thought about it, the more he couldn’t figure out how Arthur managed it. He had even asked how Arthur did it through a text, but Arthur had said that it was because the quality of his foundation was at the top grade level.
Jason didn’t believe that Arthur was talented enough to forge a top-grade rank 3 artifact while he was only at the second mortal coil. This is a feat that is made even more difficult by the fact that the foundation that Arthur established had two elements in it, not one.
His head ached as he thought about it. But he still continued to think about it so that he could figure out how Arthur did it and see if he could copy the method.
Eventually, he sighed and said, "There is no use thinking about it. I can’t have more than one element anyway."