Chapter 432: Burning Wood.
He doesn’t know how he will be able to assign a life seed a positive and negative terminal or if it is possible, so all of his inspiration and enlightenment is all theoretical.
He also doesn’t know how he will assign each life seed a different voltage. But he can imagine that working on each life seed and maintaining what he did to them at all times cannot be easy even if they are possible to do.
However, despite the uncertainty around how he would be a good host for Lightning, he has become more and more confident of his plans for establishing his foundation.
He had forged his current divine armaments with the integrated circuit format, and he plans to forge the divine armament he will use for his foundation in the exact same way.
Now that he has more definite plans about how to combine all the life seeds into one, his plans for forging his foundation have become validated. He doesn’t plan to change it anymore and even feels confident enough to establish his foundation right now.
He thought to himself, "All I need now is a wood substrate, and I will be set to forge my foundation."
He can’t use a corpse to forge the divine armament that he will use to establish his foundation because he plans to fuse the Everlasting Wood Art with the Divine Lightning Armament.
He has the option to use a pure wood base to forge his foundation, and even one of high quality has been prepared for him by the sect. He just needs to prepare the money to buy it.
Elder Storm Hawk told him that much. But he doesn’t want to use pure wood, as that will increase the difficulty of combining lightning and wood. It will also reduce the power of the output of the combination if it succeeds.
If he hadn’t seen Thor’s work with the Silver Pine Trees, maybe he would have chosen to use a pure wood base like a plank taken from an ancient tree. But he became aware of the Silver Pine Trees, so he can’t settle for less now.
Wood is generally a poor conductor of electricity. In normal circumstances, wood is an insulator of electricity. This is the case when wood is dry.
But when wood becomes wet and the electricity is of a very high voltage, like lightning, wood can conduct electricity. But this usually comes at the great cost of being burned, exploding, and catching fire.
Because of the massive resistance within the wood, a lot of the electricity that passes through it gets wasted and converted into heat. This causes wood to catch fire after being forced to conduct electricity.
So in short, if he wants to use wood as the base for his foundation, he has to overcome great resistance. Then he has to be prepared for most of the power of lightning to be wasted.
He doesn’t want the power of his foundation to weaken because of the wastage of lightning. But even more, he doesn’t want his foundation to heat up within him and catch fire.
In the Silver Pine Trees, he sees the hope of a perfect fusion of wood and lightning thanks to the metallic properties of the Silver Pine Trees. So he has decided to spend time on creating a version of the Silver Pine Tree that reaches the third mortal coil.
He is so serious about this that he also decided to set up a mission in the agriculture hall for someone to create a third-rank version of the Silver Pine Tree. This way he will be able to make full use of the expertise and talents of the sect to solve his problem.
It is just that this solution won’t be checked. He will need to offer a high reward for the mission if he hopes to solve it quickly.
Fortunately, he is not lacking in funds. So he can give his idea a go.
Days went by as he planned. When the day of the auction came, Arthur went alone to attend it.
He went covered in a cloak with a hood. The hood was raised up, and he even wore a mask to cover his face.
It was clear that he didn’t want anyone to recognize him. No one bothered him about it.
In fact, there were other people with the same getup. They didn’t want people to know their identities for one reason or another. So his dressing didn’t attract much attention.
He paid for a private room in the auction. It was when he got there and made sure that the door was locked behind him that he sighed in relief and relaxed.
He took off his mask briefly to drink the beverage that was placed on the table beside him. Then he focused on the proceedings of the auction through the one-way glass in front of him.
His private room, like the other private rooms, was arranged on the second floor of the venue. The platform for the auction was on the first floor.
They didn’t start the auction for an hour as people trickled in to the venue and sat down. The people on the first floor were chatting openly, but the people in the private rooms didn’t appear to be chatting even though they could.
The private rooms weren’t soundproof, so the people in them could converse with their neighbors. But most of the people in the private rooms were at the third mortal coil and could chat with each other using their divine sense.
So any discussion that was going on on the second floor was silent. This created the illusion that the people there weren’t chatting.
But some people, like Arthur, were truly silent. He didn’t want to chat because he didn’t want people to know his identity.
There many people who were keeping their identity a secret, so that they wouldn’t be targeted after the auction for the things they buy in it.