Roar hasn't gained any increase in power apart from speed. But even making full use of his speed will take some time getting used to.
Any increase to raw power that Roar can have due to his advancement to the third mortal coil will take time to realize. That is the nature of the third mortal coil.
However, the things he gained, such as an awakened mind, the increase to intelligence that accompanies it, and the ability to sense mana, are all life-changing.
Now that Roar can sense mana and his intelligence is increasing, he will be able to cultivate techniques instead of relying on eating to grow stronger.
Roar is also be able to cast spells now. This is perhaps the greatest change in his capabilities. It is what both loose cultivators and the majority of cultivators from families will be jealous of.
So Roar has a lot of things to learn and many newfound capabilities to explore. Arthur can't blame him for being so enthusiastic about it.
He smirked to himself and said, "I wonder how he will behave when his mind becomes more powerful than his body and solidifies into a divine sense."
A divine sense is also something that Arthur wants. So he has a feeling of anticipation that can help him gauge the sense of satisfaction that Roar will feel when he doesn't have to use his eyes to see the world and sense mana anymore.
He thought about this while chuckling to himself. Then he absentmindedly brought out the sect ID card and checked the progress of his mission.
He was hoping that the mission would have made some progress, but when he saw that the minor goal that he set had been accomplished, he was still surprised.
He asked himself in wonder, "How long has it been? Isn't it just up to two months since I put up the mission?"
He had worked on finding a way to help the silver pine tree advance to the third mortal coil for nearly five years without a viable solution. But it took the sect two months to come up with a solution for him. This astounded him to a certain extent.
He decided that he couldn't wait anymore. He took out this flying board and flew to the nearest agriculture hall to get what he wanted.
He had to give up 10,000 low-grade energy stones, and in exchange, he got a sample of the rank 3 pine tree and the method to mass produce it.
The method he got was a bit unconventional. It involved using a secret agricultural technique to graft the potential of another rank 3 plant onto the silver pine tree.
The secret technique belonged to a rank 4 elder of the sect and wasn't for sale. So if he wanted more of the rank 3 pine trees, he would have to buy them, and he would have to pay another 10,000 low-grade energy stones for them.
This was bad news, but he couldn't complain that the process of advancing the silver pine tree wasn't easy to reproduce. He especially couldn't complain to a golden core cultivator about it.
The silver lining was that the secret technique could be learned from the sect and could only be carried out by those who had cultivated the Everlasting Wood Intent. So he would have the opportunity to learn it in the future.
He was informed that even though the technique could be learned by anyone who set their foundation with the Everlasting Wood Intent, very few people actually managed to learn and use it with a passable level of proficiency.
In fact, the technique was hailed as the ultimate technique for the Everlasting Wood Art and was very difficult. But he wasn't concerned about the difficulty.
He gleefully took the rank 3 Silver Pine tree and returned to his accommodations with the determination to preserve its life. He promised himself to preserve its life because as long as it doesn't die, he won't need to pay for another one.
This promise is the reason why the first thing he did when he got home was to plant the Silver Pine tree and take tissue samples to study extensively before he started cutting part of it for crafting the base for his foundation.
He already had a plan in mind. So what he was studying from the tissue samples of the rank 3 silver pine tree was how best to execute that plan without wasting too much of the silver pine tree during the process.
He considers himself a formation master, and it goes without a doubt that he intends to forge a top-grade rank 3 armament. He doesn't need to forge a rank 3 armament, but he wants to.
A rank 2 armament will do. As long as the base of the armament has the potential to grow to rank 3, he would have met the minimum requirement to establish his foundation.
But he wants to forge a rank 3 armament so that his foundation won't need too much time to grow to its full potential. This way, he won't encounter any bottlenecks until he reaches the peak of the third mortal coil.
He also doesn't have to forge a top-grade rank 3 artifact, but he wants to so that once his foundation is established and they start multiplying within him, there will be the least amount of resistance to coupling the life seeds and mobilizing all 1,000 or so of them together at once.
He especially wants to engrave the positive and negative terminals that he theorized about when he got enlightened by Elder Storm Hawk.
Instead of waiting after his foundation has been established to see if he can assign terminals to his individual life seeds, he wants to make sure of it now.
He wants to make sure before he establishes his foundation that he can truly assign terminals to his life seeds and even make sure that the terminals will be stable, long-lasting, and effortless to maintain.