After dealing with the gains from the secret realm, the elder finally let everyone go. So the family members alighted from the airship and went to their houses, while the loose cultivators left the Dyson family estate entirely.
The elder went to have a meeting with the other elders of the family. In the meeting, he mentioned the things that happened in the secret realm and the things that happened in the elder's meeting that took place after the secret realm.
He also mentioned Arthur and how Arthur saved some people from the family. Not only did Arthur's action increase the number of survivors, but it also increased the earnings of the family from the secret realm. For this, Elder Calcetti was commended for his foresight.
After the meeting, the elder kept Elder Calcetti back and told him about Arthur's message. When Elder Calcetti heard about being touched all over, he understood what Arthur meant, which made him chuckle.
He understood because he remembered the first thing that he did to Arthur the first time that they met. He remembered the events of that evening because it was when he gave Arthur his best bow.
If it were anyone else, he wouldn't have cared about the threat. But after hearing of Arthur's feat and realizing that it would be soon before Arthur overtook him in terms of strength, he had to start preparing for the execution of the threat.
It is a threat, as it can be insulting to use one's divine sense on another cultivator to examine them. But he only chuckled about it because he found it funny that the boy he examined with his divine sense five years ago has become capable of threatening him.
Elder Calcetti left the supreme elder with this thought in his mind. The place he went to directly was Augustus's house.
He went to tell Augustus about his bastard son's achievement. Augustus in turn told his wife and his true son.
Tyson was both impressed and depressed to hear that Arthur was doing well. He was impressed at first, but that didn't last long before he was depressed.
He is 19 years old now. This is two years older than the age that Arthur participated in the regional sect examination and gained admission into the best sect with the best grade.
He too participated in the recent regional sect examination. Unfortunately, his cultivation was only at the seventh transformation of the first mortal coil, and he didn't have any special talent, so he didn't gain admission.
His cultivation is great for his age, but it is lackluster for the regional sect examination. This meant that he didn't perform well during the examination.
Since he didn't have any special talent worthy of attracting the attention and support of sects, he wasn't offered a special grade admission.
His performance is not bad for his age. After all, he still has another chance to try the regional sect examination.
In another five years, he would surely be at the tenth transformation and should be able to gain admission to a sect. Not many people have such a prospect. But compared to Arthur, his performance is not worth mentioning at all.
This is why he became depressed after hearing that Arthur had become stronger than his father and had enough power to match the new elders of the family.
He sighed and said to his mother, "Maybe you're right. I should try not to emulate Arthur anymore."
He has decided to give up on his goal of catching up to Arthur. After all, he hasn't finished with the first mortal coil while Arthur is already exploring the third mortal coil.
This is even though there is only a three-year difference between them. What's more, he still has to waste five years at home while Arthur continues to grow stronger within the best sect.
He isn't the naive boy who only worshiped his elder brother back then. He has grown older, become smarter, and experienced a lot more, which made him understand the gap between him and Arthur.
So after the initial wave of worship in his heart, he became depressed that he couldn't compare to Arthur and decided to give up in order to save himself from more pain in the future.
However, his mother wasn't willing to accept his surrender. Lady Delia had been asking him to stop trying to emulate Arthur for so long. But now that she got her wish, she wasn't willing to accept it.
This wasn't about jealousy. She was indeed jealous of Vena and wasn't happy that her son couldn't compare to hers, but her unwillingness to accept Tyson's surrender is more significant and personal than that.
She was unwilling to accept Tyson's surrender because Tyson had emulated all of Arthur's bad behavior. He has been unruly for most of his life and caused a lot of problems for her.
She has suffered so much, and so have the precious deer raised in the family compounds. She had to pay for the deer that Tyson killed over the years.
But now that it was the time for him to emulate Arthur's good behavior and reproduce Arthur's achievements, he wanted to give up. How could she let him give up?
She was about to glare at him and berate him, but she didn't because she saw Augustus glaring at her. Augustus wasn't going to let her target his bastard, so there was no way he was going to let her harm his true son.
So she could only smile and say to Tyson, "Don't worry, son. There is no need to keep pursuing Arthur. Do things at your own pace and relax more."
Augustus also encouraged Tyson. He said, "Things might look bleak now, but that's only because you're young. And Arthur seems fast now because it is only at the second mortal coil. When he reaches the third mortal coil, he is bound to slow down because every step forward is deadly and has to be taken carefully."