He considers the goal of simply achieving the third mortal coil being short-sighted. After all, the final goal is not to reach the third mortal coil. He still wants to go beyond that.
Even if he is to stop at the third mortal coil, he aims to be the best in that rank and achieve the highest quality possible for a foundation. So he gave up on this option.
The first option is undoubtedly the easy option. In fact, if he decides to pick it, he doesn't need to continue researching because the Agriculture Hall has already achieved a silver-aluminum and wood fusion that can reach rank 3.
All he needs to do is pay contribution points to get their research results and use them to begin experimentation on both living and dead test subjects. If things go well, he should reach the third mortal coil in another five years.
In the worst case, he will spend ten years on it. It won't be like now when he doesn't have an inkling as to when he will achieve his goal.
But he gave up on the easy and decided to take the difficult option. He has to keep reminding himself why he made this decision because the work is tedious.
After he achieved the best fusion rate of silver and wood three years ago, he has been working on the third option. So he has been working on it nonstop for three years now.
He rarely slept or ate in these three years. It was just work and more work. Very few things could interrupt him. One of those things is the intersect competition.
The intersect competition is the best source of income and materials for him, so there is no way that he is going to miss it. He has attended four of them so far, but he hasn't gotten enough of them.
He cares so much about the next inter-sect competition that he set up an alarm and reminder for it five years ago after the last one. Now that the alarm had begun to ring from his identity card, he put away his work and began to prepare.
He took the containers of the tissue samples and stored them in the freezer. After that, he cleaned himself and checked his equipment.
His main equipment is his divine lightning armament. He has two, both of which are top-grade armaments that he built himself.
His best one is the one he built with the corpse of a rank 3 lightning wolf. He didn't kill the lightning wolf himself. He had bought the corpse and many others that he wasted in his attempt to create this one from Elder Storm Hawk.
The corpses of beasts at the third mortal coil are very expensive. Just one of them can cost 1 million gold coins. It is a far cry from the 10,000 gold coins it cost to buy the best corpse of beasts at the tenth transformation of the first mortal coil.
If not for the inter-sect competition, he wouldn't have the money needed to fund his numerous attempts at forging a rank 3 armament. His income from writing books simply wouldn't have been enough.
His alternative divine armament is the one he built with the corpse of a rank 2. It is not as powerful as the rank 3 one, but it consumes far less energy to use.
The divine lightning armament created from the corpse of the rank 3 lightning wolf is five times as powerful as the one created from the rank 2 beast because it takes full advantage of his strong body.
His body is five times stronger than those of other people at his level because of the level 5 boost from Mountain Karma. But this means that the energy requirement of the rank 3 armament and the stress on both his body and mind are way higher than that of the rank 2 armament.
So he kept the two for various situations.
After checking to make sure that his armament and weapons were in order, he checked the mountain sitting system next.
-MOUNTAIN SITTING DAO
State of Existence: Second Mortal Coil (Tenth Transformation of the Body Refining and Tenth Transformation of Energy Refining)
Life Span: 42/(165)
-DIVINE ABILITIES
1. Mountain Karma: Level 5 (124,250,037,634/10,000,000,000,000)
2. Mountain Foundation: Level 4 (23,634,818,957/100,000,000,000)
3. ????: ------
-POWER.
1. Power (Body Refining) = 10 (Body) × 11 (Life Force) × 5 (Mountain Karma) = 550.
2. Power (Energy Refining) = 10 (Spell) × 11 (Internal Energy QLTY) × 5 (Mountain Karma) = 550
3. Power (Rank 2 Divine Lightning Armament) = ((11 (Life Force) + 11 (Internal Energy QLTY)) × 5 (Mountain Karma)) × 10 (Divine Lightning Armament) = 1,100.
4. Power (Rank 3 Divine Lightning Armament) = ((11 (Life Force) + 11 (Internal Energy QLTY)) × 5 (Mountain Karma)) × 50 (Divine Lightning Armament) = 5,500.
-ATTRIBUTES.
1. Mind: 5 >>> 10. Mental Energy: 400 > > > 1,000.
2. Internal Energy (Quantity): 400 > > > 1,000. Internal Energy (Quality): 5 >>> 11.
3. Body: 10. Life Energy: 400 >>> 1,000. Life Force: 5 > > > 11.
-TECHNIQUES
A: RANK 1.
1. Everlasting Wood Intent: 100% Mastery.
2. Savage Sword Weapon Technique: 100% Mastery.
B: RANK 2.
1. Everlasting Wood Art: 100% Mastery.
2. Divine Lightning Armament Control Technique: 100% Mastery.
3. Unification of Hearts, Mind, and Body Weapon Technique: 100% Mastery.
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33. Lightning Bolt Spell: 100% Mastery.
C: RANK 3.
1. Unification of Hearts, Mind, and Body Weapon Technique: 100% Mastery.
2. Wood Element Host: 5% Mastery.
3. Lightning Element Host: 1% Mastery.
He is 42 years old now and has reached the peak of the second mortal coil. His journey in the second mortal coil began when he was 17 years old and ended when he was 37 years old, so it was a journey that took 20 years.
When he thought of this, he sighed and said to himself, "To think that I started cultivating at the ripe age of 7 years old. I've come so far so fast. What a time."