Chapter 424: Types Of Foundations.
He found the universal compatibility of the Life Pill Art to very impressive because he just learned about the various kinds of foundations there were.
In the Blood Skull sect alone, there are four different ways to establish one’s foundation and only two of them, the Everlasting Wood Art and the Divine Lightning Armament, are supposed to be barely compatible with each other.
No one is sure that they are compatible because no one has been able to fuse the two cultivation techniques in the entire history of the sect. If he succeeds in fusing them, he will be the first to achieve it.
Yet, the Life Pill Art can work with any other type of foundation and cultivation technique for establishing a foundation. So there was no way he wasn’t going to be impressed.
The types of foundations was one of the lessons he learned from the inheritance. He found the various types interesting, especially when he found out that the armament of the Blood Skull sect is a type of weapons foundation and considered low quality.
In general anything that can lead to the proliferation of life seeds within someone at the peak of the second mortal coil is a foundation.
This foundation can be of any quality. The quality can be as low as adding just one extra life seed to the cultivator.
So anyone who uses this foundation will be stuck at the first transformation of the third mortal coil. This is obviously a bad thing, but as long as an object can grant more power, it will be called a foundation.
The first type of foundation is the organ type, and the process of establishing it is called transplanting. The organ in particular is a life seed from another entity, and it can be sourced from a human or a beast.
It goes without saying that this is the worst type of foundation there is. Not only is it incapable of growth, but in most cases it can’t increase power at all. The best it can do if successful is to grant another reservoir of energy.
The advantage of using the organ type of foundation is that it has a wide range of viable materials. In fact, someone at the peak of the second mortal coil can take the life seed of someone else cultivating the same cultivation technique as them and implant that life seed into their body.
So it is a very cheap and easy foundation to use. But it comes with too many disadvantages, one of which is death caused by organ rejection.
The second type of foundation was the natural wonder foundation. This was to take a special item created in nature and implant it into one’s body in order to supplement one’s lacking innate potential.
This was the second type of foundation used in history. It was discovered after the organ-type foundation.
The natural wonder type of foundation is somewhat safe. It is safe in that the fusion with the natural wonder is not dangerous as long as various conditions for fusion are met.
But this type of foundation can be much more dangerous than the organ type if the conditions for fusion aren’t met. After all, at least the organ foundation used to be an organ.
The natural wonder is not an organ at all. It is like putting a rock into someone’s body. It is a very dangerous thing to do.
That aside, the natural wonder has a lot of potential. The potential of natural wonders is determined by nature, and nothing can be done to change that, but most natural wonders are capable of growth.
Apart from the danger and the strict requirements that needed to be met before fusion, the other disadvantage is that natural wonders are rare. The fact that they are not man-made means that the number of people who can become foundation establishment cultivators using them is rare.
In order to fix the problem of the rarity of natural wonders, artificial wonders were created. This led to the discovery of the third type of foundation. This foundation is called man-made wonders.
Man-made wonders vary in form and function. They are so versatile that they have continued to be used till today. Even the divine lightning armament is a man-made wonder.
Man-made wonders have two major components. These two are the base and the technique. These two components grant the potential for growth and the direction for growth, respectively.
The technique is something like the Everlasting Wood Intent and the Divine Lightning Armament. The base is the raw material that is used to set the foundation.
In the case of the Everlasting Wood Intent foundation, the base is wood essence. As for the Divine Lightning Armament, the base is the armament forged from a mixture of metal and processed carcass.
In both cases, the base is absorbed and fused with the life seed in order to grant it potential and help it proliferate. The function of the technique itself is to induce proliferation, that is, the growth of the life seed, and to limit the proliferation of the life seed so that the life seed doesn’t turn into a full-blown cancerous organ that they lose control of.
There are also other types of artificial wonders like pills and weapons. The pills of alchemists and the swords of sword masters are examples of these two forms of artificial wonders.
As Arthur read, he shook his head in wonder and said, "There are just so many types of foundations. Even artificial wonders have various kinds."
Artificial wonders are similar to natural wonders in their variation. They can be created through various means and various conditions. They also bestow various levels of potential and different kinds of power.
Perhaps the best thing that artificial wonders have in common with natural wonders is granting their users special abilities and advantages such as fire resistance, extra durability, extra speed, extra damage power like lightning, etc.
So in terms of quality they are similar to natural wonders. But in terms of quantity and availability, they are better than natural wonders.