He is still reasonable, so he can argue with his pride, but his pride always wins. The victory of his pride is because he needs it to maintain his power.
Fortunately, he is still reasonable and can keep his pride in check. But what he can't stop himself from doing is being dominating.
If before, he could stand by and watch as someone used his students as bait without doing anything, he can't do that now. He must stop it or retaliate with a thunderous strike.
He won't let himself be jerked around without resisting. More than that, he wants to be the one jerking others around and controlling them.
He wants to be the one taking advantage of others. He wants to be dominating.
He smiled when he thought of that. Then he said, "I like that. I think I'm going to be doing it from now on."
Maybe he would try his best to squash the emotion of Pride if it were painful to feel. But pride makes him giddy and excited. It makes him happy and confident.
Pride makes him feel good, so he can't squash it. He wants to revel in it and dominate others.
He laughed and jumped down from the roof of his house.
His house has three stories. Yet he jumped down from its roof to the ground without any fear.
His two feet slammed onto the ground and created a loud boom. It was as if the ground had exploded.
The ground cracked, and dust was kicked up into the air. His cloth was stained, but he didn't care. He just waved his leg around him and stomped it on the ground.
This action caused wind to blow around the dust, grab the dust, and then press all the dusty air onto the ground. The dust settled immediately all around him.
This was the same thing that instructor Canes had done the first time he met her. Now he is capable of replicating it and has even done it. It made him proud.
He laughed again and strode to his house with large, confident strides.
Now that he has broken through to the tenth transformation and has acquired enough hunting points for his extraordinary weapons, he has finished all of his preparations for the regional sect examination, and he doesn't need to hunt anymore.
All he needs to do is go and make the exchange for the extraordinary weapon and artifact. In the meantime, he plans to continue harvesting karma by giving people bread and teaching free techniques in his dojo.
He has made a lot of progress in terms of Mountain Karma. For the one year that he spent as a 14-year-old boy, he earned 47 million karma.
That would have been an outstanding achievement if the level of Mountain Karma was still level 2. Because at level 2, all he needed was ten million karma. 47 million karma would have been 4.7 times what he needed.
But now, level 3 of Mountain Karma needs 1 billion karma. So 47 million karma is just 4.7% of what he needs to reach level 4.
He doesn't mind, though. A progress of 4.7% every year means that he will need a maximum of 22 years to reach level 4.
That isn't a long time considering that a cultivator at the second mortal coil has a life span of 150. 22 years is only 14.7% of a life span of 150 years. So it is definite that he will be able to achieve the fourth level in his lifetime.
If he manages to reach the third mortal coil, his life span will become 250 years, so he will have more time to improve the level of mountain karma.
There is also the possibility of achieving the fourth mortal coil, at which point he will enjoy a life span of 500 years. If he goes beyond that, then 22 years is nothing to worry about.
Now that he has already achieved 14.3% of the progress to the fourth level of Mountain Karma, all he needs is 18 years of time to reach it. So he has even less to worry about.
Anyway, in his current state, he is confident that he can achieve anything. There is just no doubt about it.
He went about his day like usual. He bought bread and distributed it. Then he taught in his dojo.
But after that, he didn't go hunting. Instead of hunting, he went to the beast-hunting center to get his extraordinary weapon.
Extraordinary weapons are available on the fifth floor. The fifth floor is where cultivators of the second mortal coil hang out and exchange for what they need.
He got the force diagram on the fourth floor. If he wants to acquire the blood essence needed to reach the second mortal coil, he can acquire it from the fourth floor too.
As expensive as the blood essence of a rank two beast is, it is not as expensive as a rank two weapon. A rank two weapon is not some consumable like the blood essence. It is a permanent source of power that can withstand the force of cultivators at the second mortal coil, so it is very valuable.
Usually, only cultivators at the second mortal coil exchange for extraordinary weapons. Actually, only cultivators at the second mortal coil come to the fifth floor at all for anything. So Arthur's presence there is an anomaly.
Whenever he appears, the people there usually stop talking. Everywhere becomes silent, and they stare at him.
They don't cause trouble for him, which he appreciates. They only watch him like some interesting oddity.
This time was the case too. If there is any difference, it is that the swordsman who used his students as bait was present today.
This swordsman wasn't the only one who had used his students as bait. Many of them had done the deed after knowing how he earned so many hunting points without risking his life.