After thinking about it, he decided that te difficulty he has to overcome is too much. This is because not only does he have to learn and master the Wood and Lightning Vessel Sigil techniques, he still has to master the Life and Death lightning vessel sigil technique, too.
He is not sure that he has to master the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil technique to 100%, but he is sure that he has to at least master the wood and lightning vessel sigil techniques to 100% and learn the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil technique.
This is the main goal for him. If he achieve it, it is unlikely that he will be able to reach the fifth mortal coil.
This made him wonder how the person who set the requirements for the life and death lightning vessel sigil technique expects him or any other golden core cultivator to meet the requirements.
He could only say, "It is probably because my talent for energy refinement is average. I'm sure that the people with above-average and excellent talent for energy refinement will be able to master them faster."
This is the only explanation for how anyone would think that a golden core cultivator with a nominal lifespan of 500 years and an enhanced lifespan of 900 due to cultivating the Everlasting Wood Art, can master three techniques that each require 500 years to master.
As if that isn't bad enough, the golden core cultivator also has to somehow be able to cultivate their golden core and reach the peak of the golden core too. So not only do they have to spend time on mastering the three vessel sigil techniques, but they also have to spend time on cultivation.
The more he thought about it, the more he thought that the requirements were too harsh. But that didn't stop him from continuing his cultivation.
He has learned both of the vessel sigil techniques and has even mastered one of them to 10‰. It should have taken him 200 years to achieve this much, but he managed to do it in 76 years.
He still has 824 years of his life to advance to the fifth mortal coil. Just to be safe, he has to set aside 100 years for the advancement process itself because it can take a long time. If he doesn't want to die of old age during the advancement, he has to start early.
So he only has 724 years left to master all three vessel sigil techniques. Thanks to the help of the Mountain Foundation divine ability and the virtual copies of his mind that it provides, he will be able to master all three of them and have time to spare. This favorable forecast is why he is so dedicated to cultivating.
There is something to look forward to, so he can work his hardest to achieve it. If there was no way for him to master all three techniques in the time he had, he would have given up.
He sat in his cultivation room with his eyes closed and his mind concentrated on pulling and refining the mana around him. His skin was violet, and he had silver tattoos all over his body.
There were also two marks on his forehead. One mark was bigger than the other. This mark was the lightning vessel sigil technique. It was also brighter. This was because it contained more energy than the wood vessel sigil technique.
He had to stop doing this three days into the seven-day deadline for the war because he was called over to have a council meeting.
All the golden core elders appeared for the meeting and attended in person. There were still 31 of them, even though two more golden core elders appeared after Battle Furnace and Blood Spider. This was because two old golden core elders had died.
Despite the number of golden core elders remaining the same, the overall strength of the golden core elders of the sect has fallen because the proportion of young and weak elders has increased, while the proportion of older and powerful elders has decreased.
Be that as it may, no one appears to be concerned even though the enemy is a sect with over 50 golden core elders, 5 nascent soul patriarchs, and a technique similar to the armament that combines the power of life force and internal energy in order to grant power that is double the output of their natural power for either the path of energy refining and the path of body forging.
Not even the two patriarchs of the sect, who should be fully aware of the power of their enemies, looked concerned. Arthur had considered why this was the case, but he didn't have to anymore because it was the first thing that was addressed in the meeting.
Patriarch Thunder Drake's avatar spoke from his seat, saying, "This war is going to be tough to win. Technically, we outnumber the enemy, but our effective power will be less than it appears to be because it is impossible for all five sects to work together perfectly without disputes."
"In total, we have over 50 golden core cultivators on our side and 7 nascent soul cultivators overseeing the war, while, according to the latest investigation report, they only have 5 nascent soul cultivators and probably a sixth.
"So on paper, we outnumber them. But in battle, that might not be the case. In actual battle, it is to be expected that the people of the Red and Blue Fire sect will work together better than us and even try harder than us."
"We also have to watch out for their equipments and special machines. They are said to have advanced technologies that Wil give them an edge in war."
"So this war will be difficult to win, even with our advantage of numbers, if it is even possible to win at all. However, there is no need to worry because there is nothing for us to lose even if we lose the war."