Chapter 425: Energy Foundation.
The special abilities that natural and artificial wonders grant their users are something the organ-type foundation lacks. So not only are artificial wonders as good as natural wonders, but they can also be created artificially, which ensures supply.
These two reasons are why ever since the artificial natural wonder foundation was discovered, there hasn’t been a need to discover a new type of foundation. But that did stop people from discovering one.
Besides, there was a want for a foundation that didn’t try to kill the cultivators that used them. This want led to the discovery of the energy-type foundation.
The energy-type foundation is established by creating more and more life seeds in the body by breaking through to the second mortal coil over and over again using the blood essence of powerful creatures. It is a process of establishing a foundation by shoring up life seeds one at a time.
So in a way, the energy-type foundation is similar to the organ-type foundation except that the source of the organ that is transplanted is from oneself, so there is no organ rejection and it is easy to assimilate.
The energy-type foundation rarely led to death during the process of assimilation. Establishing this foundation is also cheap and easy, unlike artificial foundations.
But that’s where the advantages of energy-type foundations end. The main disadvantage of the energy-type foundation is that the potential they grant is lacking.
After all, the main reason artificial foundations and other types of foundations are risky to assimilate is because they are too different from the normal human body and grant too much potential. These differences cause a lot of changes in the body, which can be fatal if not handled right.
On the other hand, the energy-type foundation is easy to assimilate and doesn’t cause much stress on the body. It doesn’t create many changes either, so it doesn’t grant much potential.
The other main disadvantages are that using the energy-type foundation takes a lot of time, rarely grants special abilities, and makes it impossible to reach the fourth mortal coil.
Anyone who uses the energy foundation can forget about transcending the first mortal coil. They can also forget about being able to mobilize more than one life seed at once because each life seed isn’t connected to a single foundation.
In fact, the only purpose of the energy-type foundation is that it grants extra energy. It doesn’t grant extra potential and extra power. It only grants more energy in the form of more life seeds, which is why this type of foundation is called the energy-type foundation.
So there are, in general, four types of foundations, and all of them are internal foundations. But the Life Pill Art is able to create an external foundation that can work with all of these foundations without a problem or any danger.
It made him think. "Is the Life Pill a fifth form of a foundation?"
The Life Pill is clearly a different type of foundation. But he can’t be sure it counts as a fifth type of internal foundation because it is an external type of foundation.
Since he couldn’t make up his mind, he refocused on the wonder of the Life Pill. This made him say to himself, "It is like an armament but also the opposite of an armament. It is simply genius."
Just like an armament, the Life Pill starts out as an external source of power. There are some differences in the form, production processes, and the kind of power that the two of them provide. But the main difference is that Life Pill grants energy, not consumes it.
Armaments grant great power, but it comes at a steep cost of energy. The Life Pill doesn’t usually grant as much power as an armament and, in some cases, can grant even more than armaments, but it never consumes the energy of its user in order to provide energy.
The Life Pill is like an external life seed. It produces its own energy. It also provides power that is easy to use.
This meant that there was just no way Arthur would look down on Life Pills and say no to it. He just can’t say no to free power.
"It is not exactly free since I have to refine it first, but other than that, it is a blessing."
Life Pills aren’t perfect. They are not capable of growth, and even the power that they grant is not certain.
For example, someone at the third mortal coil will gain more enhancement from a Life Pill at the fourth mortal coil. Meanwhile someone at the fourth mortal coil will gain less power from the same Life Pill.
This discrepancy occurs because the power of the Life Pill will be sidelined so that it will remain compatible with the inner power of the user at the fourth mortal coil. But no matter how bad the enhancement from the Life Seed is, there will always be free energy to gain from it.
His eyes lit up as he said, "So in a way, the Life Pill will always be a battery. It is a battery that can double my internal energy reserves. That means it will work well with my armament."
He was thinking too much about the Life Pill and looking forward to using it, so he didn’t notice that he had finished digesting the Inheritance. But the golem noticed that his mind had become clear again.
It said to him, "Good. It seems I didn’t make a mistake in choosing you. But it is time to leave."
Arthur nodded and said to the golem, "Thank you for your work. I think this is a useless question, but let me ask either way. Is there something I can do to help you?"
The reason he asked that question was because he admired the golem and wanted to have it for himself. What he was asking it was for a way he could free it from its duties and take it away.