Mountain Sitting Immortal

The Life Pill Art had stumped a peak golden core stage cultivator for a hundred years, so while he believes that he can solve the problem with the life pill, he doesn't think he would have been able to do it so quickly.

He simply couldn't have figured out everything on his own, including how to forge a life pill with his own living flesh instead of that of a corpse without a fear weeks and months of study.

These are the reasons why he truly considers the patriarch a genius. Even the statement that every cultivation technique is a formation that aims to transform an individual into a higher state of existence has enlightened him.

He didn't see it before, but now he does. The human body is the foundation or base of the formation. It is just like a sword on which arrays are drawn in order to enhance some attributes that it has or enchant it with some attributes it doesn't have.

Just like a sword or an armament is enhanced or enchanted, different methods and different materials are used to enhance the human body too. The methods being the cultivation techniques and the materials being the type of foundation.

This enlightenment has given him new ideas and a new perspective on how to view foundation establishment. His enlightenment also made him impressed with the genius of the patriarch.

He thought to himself in jest, "In summary, he is a genius. I am a genius myself, so I should know that we geniuses cannot be understood with common sense. There are just some things that we can do that others won't be able to achieve no matter how hardworking they are."

That was what the patriarch had said to him as he bragged. But Arthur doesn't think the bragging was false.

He shook his head and said, "I won't be shocked if news breaks out that he managed to transcend to the sixth mortal coil tomorrow. He is just too smart."

If that were to happen, it won't be the first time that a patriarch of the Blood Skull sect managed to reach the sixth mortal coil. Apparently, their cultivation technique can help them reach that stage.

But every one of them who advances to the sixth mortal coil leaves the five-vein region for greener pastures. Many such talented leaders have done so over the history of the Blood Skull sect.

As Elder Blood Spider had said, these leaders who have transcended are another reason why the Blood Skull sect is a level above other sects and why it is unlikely that anyone will go to war with them over the destruction of the Milton family and the death of a talented Golden Core elder of the Sword Way sect.

According to what they told him to assure him that everything was fine and what they had done wasn't going to lead to more trouble, the five-vein region is only good enough to support those at the fourth mortal coil, or what is called the golden core realm.

Those at the fifth mortal coil, also known as the nascent soul realm, can barely manage to survive and grow in the Five Veins region. But anything beyond is incapable of growing here and will have to leave.

It is not that the people at the fifth mortal coil want to stay here. But apparently, the fifth mortal coil is not enough to guarantee one's life in the higher regions.

The power at the fifth mortal coil is also not enough to get better conditions in the higher regions, so rarely do nascent soul elders leave here for the higher regions. They usually wait until they reach the sixth mortal coil before they leave.

But while this is the reason nascent soul cultivators don't leave, many of them rarely leave the Five Veins region. Most of them die here because of lacking talent and lacking resources.

Throughout history, very few people managed to transcend to the sixth mortal coil. And most of those who did came from the Blood Skull sect. So anyone who wants to attack the Blood Skull sect has to make sure that all of their leaders and patriarchs who left are dead and won't come back for revenge before they take action.

He was thinking of this when he reached the agricultural hall. Then he asked one of the attendants to help him set up the mission.

Since he was rich now, he decided to aim higher. Instead of asking for a rank 3 plant capable of conducting lightning with a resistance comparable to metals, he asked for a rank 4 plant capable of doing those things.

He was willing to use any plant, not just the silver pine trees. But he added the silver pine tree as an option and suggested that anyone who wanted to solve this mission could upgrade it to rank 4.

It was just a suggestion. They could use it. or use another type of wood-metal hybrid to solve the mission. As long as the alternative is better than the performance of the silver pine tree, he will take it.

He made it clear that he won't take anything with a worse performance than the silver pine tree. In exchange, he is willing to offer 100,000 low-grade energy stones as the reward for the completion of the mission and 10,000 low-grade energy stones for anyone who could only offer a rank 3 solution.

After putting up the mission, he went to the animal-raising section of the agriculture hall to ask for a way to help his help advance from the second mortal coil to the third mortal coil.

Unlike the first time he came for help to help Roar advance to the second mortal coil, a simple pill wouldn't solve this problem. The problem was also more complicated because Roar didn't have the innate potential to advance to the third mortal coil on his own.

Roar's situation was similar to those of humans. It meant that he had to establish his foundation on his own and face a lot of danger during the process.