Leroy's goal is to achieve the fifth mortal coil, but he doesn't think he can achieve it. However, he believes that Arthur is more than capable of reaching the fifth mortal coil. This is why he was jealous of Arthur.
He doesn't hate Arthur at all. He doesn't even have feelings of dislike for Arthur.
He has no reason to hate Arthur. He is just jealous of Arthur's potential, and no matter what Princess says to cheer him up, he won't be cheered up because Arthur isn't the source of his jealousy.
He didn't dare tell her the source of his problem and the reason he is lacking self-confidence. because he doesn't think she can say anything helpful.
From what he has heard from her, her family will definitely hate him and look down on him. As a family of beast hybrids, they look down on every human.
It can be said that they are racist and it can be certainly said that he won't be an exception to their racist opinions towards humans. So they are beast supremacists.
To be honest, he believes that he shouldn't worry about this too much. But he can't let it go easily because of his upbringing.
As someone who was raised to seek out the approval of his elders and the family of the bride before a wedding can take place, he can't just ignore the fact his lover's family will definitely not approve of him.
His only hope he had to gain their approval was to try his best to grow stronger. He believed that if he managed to advance to the fifth mortal coil, Princess's family would have to approve of him.
Arthur's existence has indicated that what he had in mind was a good plan. But Arthur's existence has also shown what he lacked in order to successfully execute that plan.
Princess continued to encourage him while being oblivious to his internal turmoil. Meanwhile, the flying ship sailed through the air on its journey.
These four people and the many others in the ship had come to participate in the exchange program either to gain contribution points from the sect, partly to see Arthur, or both.
As for the people from the Red Alliance that signed up for this mission, most of them did so in order to see Arthur.
It can be said that their wishes have been granted. No matter the outcome of the exchange program, they are already satisfied because they got to see their idol and hero.
Just as they took off, the disciples that were to leave the Purple Flower sect also took off. Since the two teams were moving along the same line in opposite directions, they met each other along the way.
The flying ship of the Blood Skull sect was of a higher grade and was faster, so when the two flying ships met on the way, they met at a point that was closer to the Purple Flower sect, not at the point at the exact middle of the two sects.
When the two flying ships began to approach each other, the people on both ships had sighted each other a long way before meeting. So when the two ships finally met, there were a lot of people on their decks looking out to see the kinds of people that they were going to stay with for six months to a year.
The people of both sects aren't exactly strangers to each other. They know of the existence of the other sect. But most of the disciples in the second mortal coil don't know much about the other sects.
For those who participate in the intersect competition regularly, they are familiar with the disciples of the other four sects. But those who haven't participated once in this competition don't know much about the other sects.
Since only the best disciples at the peak of the second mortal coil get to participate in the intersect competition. This leaves the new disciples of the sect ignorant of the other sects.
The best at the second mortal coil go on to advance to the third mortal coil, so the 105 elders at the third mortal coil are familiar with the disciples of the other sects, and part of the 100 disciples at the peak of the second mortal coil are also familiar with them.
This leaves the 300 disciples at the early stages of the second mortal coil being completely ignorant of the disciples of the other sects. They are also the ones that stood on the deck of both flying ships, staring at their counterparts on the other ship as the two flying ships passed each other by.
For some of the disciples, this mission is something exciting to them. The prospect of getting to see and experience life living in another sect.
Many of them have spent the most of their lives in the Blood Skull sect, so this will be the first time that many of them are leaving the sect. So the lack of experience with the world gave them something to look forward to on this mission.
But for Arthur, he wasn't that interested in experiencing life in the purple flower sect. In fact, he doesn't think that his time there will be pleasant at all. This is because he was sort of a menace when he was in the second mortal coil.
Because he peaked in strength very early on, he got to participate in the inter-sect competition four times in a row. So for 20 years, he terrorized the disciples of other sects.
He killed many disciples from other sects, and he is sure that the people that survived his reign of terror wouldn't have forgotten about him so soon.
After all, it has only been a little more than ten years since he stopped terrorizing the people of other sects. That is just a little over half the time he spent terrorizing them.
With this kind of resume, he is sure that he will be remembered, and he will be remembered for a reputation that doesn't exactly make the people from the other sects like him.