The talent that the Wood Vessel Sigil technique took was the Plant Affinity and Communications talent, while the talent that the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique took was the Lightning Call talent.
These two talents aren't gone. They have just been upgraded. This upgrade process is why only those who have cultivated the Everlasting Wood Art and Divine Lightning Armament technique are the ones who can use the two vessel sigil techniques.
Only those who cultivated the Everlasting Wood Art and used it to create their foundation will get the Plant Affinity and Communication talent. Therefore, other cultivators who established their foundation with other cultivation techniques won't be able to use the Wood Vessel Sigil technique. The same goes for the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique.
Since he met all of the requirements to use the two vessel sigil techniques, once he learned them, his talent was taken and transformed into a mark on his head.
The mark of the Wood Vessel Sigil technique is the outline of a green leaf on his head. The mark of the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique is the outline of a blue lightning bolt.
The reward for all the people that he had helped also ensured that the Fate Binding divine ability was upgraded and that the cultivation feedback in it reached 100‰ capacity. This caused his cultivation speed to increase. After all, he now has five people cultivating for him, not just four people.
The upgrade of the Fate Binding divine ability to level 5 shortened the time for him to achieve one transformation of his golden core from 10 years to 8 years. So even though he advanced to the third transformation a short while ago, it won't take him decades to break the barrier between the third and fourth transformation and advance again.
All in all, he is a very powerful golden core cultivator. This is why he decided to participate in the war. His greed for more formations is another reason he chose to fight.
Fighting at the frontlines would give him the opportunity to kill more enemies and earn more loot, which he can use to quickly expand the Red Dojo. But despite his power and greed, he didn't forget to be cautious.
He still decided to stand at the back and lie low for a while. Not only was it smart not to hide his unreasonable strength, but it was also smart not to be on the frontlines where death is most likely in a war.
Even so, he couldn't help but feel excited. He said to himself in anticipation, "I can't wait to see how wars are fought in this world."
In his past life, he had heard about wars, read about them, and seen many videos of fighting in wars. But those wars were fought by mortals without supernatural power.
This war of cultivators will be a first for him. Not only will it be happening close to him, but he will also be participating in it. And because he has enough strength to secure his life to a certain extent and because he has something to gain from it, he is looking forward to personally participating in the war.
If there is one thing that makes him feel odd, it is the fact that he leadership of the sect is not forcing anyone to participate. It is as if they are treating this war as a vacation, which he doesn't think is the way to treat a war.
He doesn't know how many people decided to sign up for the way, but he knows that the way they were nonchalant about the recruitment both made him uneasy because he thinks that they might not be taking this war seriously, and also made him full of confidence because their nonchalant attitude is a sign of the confidence of the patriarchs of the sect in their victory.
So he doesn't know what to feel about the way the sect is handling things. But he didn't let that bother him too much.
He struggled and said, "Maybe I'm wrong and there is nothing to worry about. After all, I am not the one who successfully advanced to the fifth mortal coil and has lived for a long period of time. If they think that this war shouldn't be taken seriously, then maybe they are right."
"This kind of recruitment might also be the first stage. If they need more soldiers, maybe they will recruit forcefully next time."
"Besides, I should rely on myself, not others. So instead of worrying about their attitude towards the war, I should worry about my trump cards."
With that said, he went to prepare his last trump card. This required him to go outside his house onto the floating island.
His most important trump card is the sliver of spiritual energy that the two patriarchs gave to him. With them, he can create two attacks at the level of nascent soul cultivators.
What makes the sliver of spiritual energy so powerful isn't its raw power output. What makes them so deadly is the kind of attack that they can create.
The two slivers of energy are spiritual in nature. This makes them something that cultivators at the fourth mortal coil can defend at all. So with them, it would be unlikely for a golden core cultivator to be able to harm him.
The problem with this trump card is that every golden core elder of the sects has them. The only difference is how many of them they have.
He has reached the limit of how many slivers of spiritual energy he can, so he has to find another way to increase the number of tuump cards in his hands. Fortunately, he has two methods he can use to gain trump cards.
The first and most important of the two methods requires him to go to a place with access to the open sky. This is why he went outside his house. That way, the roof of his house won't stand in his way.