While he was thinking to himself, the elder from the Sword Way Sect was still wondering aloud. "Or could it be that the boy is at the peak of the second mortal coil but is hiding his cultivation from us? But that would be equally outrageous."
"If he could hide his cultivation from us cultivators at the peak of the third mortal coil and make it look like he is at the fourth mortal coil, then he will be more impressive."
"It will explain why he could defeat a rank 3 beast at the fourth mortal coil. But it won't explain how he could kill a beast at the third mortal coil at the fourth step with the power of the peak of the second mortal coil. That is equally outrageous."
He shook his head in disbelief. "There is an entire realm of power between them. So it can't work."
"Besides, there wasn't any fluctuation in his mana during the fight. His mana was consistent and not hidden. So that can work either."
"How did he do it?"
The more the elder of the Sword Way sect agonized over the matter, the more incomprehensible he found it to be. He couldn't find a reasonable explanation to explain what he had just seen.
His eyes lit up as he suddenly thought of a possibility. He said, "It could also be that a cultivator at the fourth mortal coil or higher pretended to be a cultivator at the fourth transformation of the second mortal coil and defeated a rank 3 beast in order to have fun and fool us."
He nodded as he thought more about it. "That could work. It is outrageous but reasonable."
The elder of the Dyson family couldn't take it anymore. He rolled his eyes and said to the elder of the sword way sect, "Junior brother, I don't understand what is going on either. But I think you will be more surprised by the power shown if you knew the identity of this boy."
The junior brother, who was the elder from the Sword Way sect, turned to him and asked in confusion, "What else could be more outrageous than what we've seen?"
The senior brother replied, "I know the boy. He was a bastard of the family who gained admission into the Blood Skull sect five years ago. So he isn't the cultivator at the fourth mortal coil who has nothing better to do than to mess with us that you think he is."
The junior brother's eyes widened and his jaw opened in shock. He looked at Arthur with shock on his face. Then he turned to his elder brother and asked, "Are you sure?"
The senior brother chuckled and said with amusement, "Yes, I'm sure. He has only joined the Blood Skull sect, which will explain why he is just at the fourth transformation of the second mortal coil."
After getting this confirmation, the junior brother sighed and said, "Let us go before I regret joining the Sword Way sect too much."
Before he finished, he had already turned back to leave.
The senior brother also turned to follow him. But he snorted and asked, "Why would you regret your decision? Weren't your options explained clearly to you before you chose a sect?"
The junior brother shook his head and said, "My options were explained, but I didn't understand them back then. I was told that disciples of the Blood Skull sect were the strongest, but I didn't understand just how wide the difference is."
"The difference was explained, but no one told me that a boy who joined the Blood Skull sect can reach the fourth transformation of the second mortal in just five years. And if I hadn't seen that same boy defeat a rank 3 beast, I wouldn't have believed it either."
The shaking of his head intensified as he said, "As for understanding what I just saw, that is still beyond me. So how could I have understood the explanations of my options back then when I was just an ignorant boy?"
The senior brother couldn't refute, so he only sighed. The two of them left silently and quietly as they came.
Arthur and Thor began to clear the scene of the battle. Most of this was killing the cattle that were too slow in running away after the death of their leader and putting away the beast carcass.
Arthur had killed 21 cattle earlier. He killed 13 more after the death of the rank 3 bull. Plus the corpse of the bull, they had a total of 35 beast carcasses to take care of.
When Thor saw this, he grinned and said, "We are rich."
Arthur shook his head and said, "Not yet. We still need to acquire the specialities of the secret realm before we can be considered rich."
Thor listened to him, but Roar didn't. Roar was jumping around excitedly at the sight of all the beast carcasses. Nothing Arthur could say could convince him that they weren't rich and that he wasn't going to eat one cattle.
So Arthur promised to give Roar a beast carcass. This motivated the greedy dog to drag the carcasses that were far away to them.
Roar was busy, and so was Thor. Thor was the one who was sorting out the beast carcasses and moving them. He moved what could be moved into a pouch into their space pouches, and what couldn't be stored in space pouches was placed on carriages.
After Arthur finished shooting down the escaping cattle, he sat down to rest and recover both his mental energy, internal energy, and life energy.
While they were doing this, a lot of disciples were attracted by the noise and came over. Many of them left after seeing that the two of them belonged to the Blood Skull sect.
Disciples of the Blood Skull sect left them alone because there were many prey in the secret. They didn't need to fight other predators for prey just yet.