The wealth of the Red and Blue Fire sect had drawn the attention of many people. But those people had to rein in their appetite because the Red and Blue Fire sect was too strong.
Unfortunately for the them, their strength fell. When that happened, many people who wanted a piece of their wealth immediately attacked the Red and Blue Fire sect for it.
The attacks were always constant. For many years, the Red and Blue Fire sect was mired in battle. This caused their powerful and talented cultivators to slowly die out.
They dwindled in size until they couldn't manage to produce one rank 6 patriarch. This caused their status to fall to rank 5.
They had lost most of their wealth, had to share their cultivation technique, and had lost all of their powerful cultivators. But their troubles weren't over.
Without a rank 6 patriarch to support their sect, they lost the qualifications needed to continue holding on to their foundation. So they had to relegate themselves to the outer regions downstream of the golden Ethera tree.
As if that isn't bad enough, the people of the region they chose to settle down in have banded together to resist them. If they lose this war, it is unlikely that they will ever be able to rise again.
But if they gain a foothold and some time to relax, they should be able to return to rank 6. Then they can work their way to returning to rank 7 in peace. They might even be able to recover the Red and Blue Fire pill that was lost.
After Arthur read this, he moved on to the analysis of the capabilities of the Red and Blue Fire sect. The Red and Blue Fire sect possesses many techniques thanks to their many years of pillaging and prosperity. But the core of their heritage has always been the Red and Blue Fire cultivation technique.
The Red and Blue Fire technique is a rank 7 technique, so it is similar in grade to the Everlasting Wood Art, the Divine Lightning Armament, and the two other cultivation techniques of the Blood Skull sect. Just like these techniques, the Red and Blue Fire technique also cultivates both the path of energy refining and the path of body refining.
Cultivators of the Red and Blue Fire sect cultivate two types of flames using the two paths of cultivation. There is a blue fire that uses life energy as fuel, and there is a red fire that uses internal energy as fuel to burn.
The power of the blue fire is dependent on the power of the life force of its wielder, while the power of the red fire is dependent on the quality of the internal energy of the wielder. When these two fires are combined, the Red and Blue Life Fire is created, which combines the power of life force and internal energy.
This Red and Blue Life Fire is the main technique of the cultivators of the Red and Blue Fire sect. This fire is potent against poison, living beings, and the undead. So cultivators of the Purple Flower sect, Beast Training sect, and the Black Bones sect are especially vulnerable to the fire.
But the Red and Blue Fire sect has also created a special tool to complement their special fire. They call this tool the Fire Cauldron. It is a tool that was created to mimic the original Red and Blue Fire Pill that led to the rise of their family.
The Fire Cauldron can come in various shapes and sizes. It can be an ordinary pot, or it can be a sword. What they all have in common is that they carry the Red and Blue Fire with them.
So the Fire Cauldron allows the cultivators of the Red and Blue Fire sect to have both physical and elemental attacks. This combination increases their power. But not only that, it also grants the Fire Cauldron various capabilities and versatility on top of the destructive power of the fire that it carries with it.
These two things, the Fire Cauldron and the Red and Blue Life Fire, are what they should watch out for in battle. Any other means they will have will either buttress this or be less threatening.
The memory crystal then went on to list some of the techniques and spells that the people of the Red and Blue Fire deft use. The ones that were listed were the notable and famous ones, other than the Fire Cauldron and the Red and Blue Life Fire.
They were given time to read through this list of techniques and try to become familiar with it. Then they began talking about tactics.
The discussion of tactics went on for less than an hour. After that, they were allowed to leave.
Everyone left the hall solemnly. Gone was their jovial and carefree attitude that they had attended the meeting with. This was because, despite the lack of reasons, the patriarchs gave them a lot of reasons to take the war seriously.
They had nothing to lose, but they had a lot to gain. The patriarchs didn't want to lose out on the best that they could gain, so they asked everyone to take the war seriously and do their best.
No one said anything on their way out of the council hall. But after they left the presence of the two patriarchs, they began chatting with each other.
Not that it would make much of a difference because the senses of the patriarchs can cover the entire inner sect, if not the entire outer sect. But they behaved like this as a sign of respect.
What they had to talk about was mostly about Arthur, though. In particular, they had noticed the two marks on his head and wanted to talk about them. So he became the center of attention.
Blood Spider quickly came up to him and asked in awe, "How long has it been since you advanced to the golden core rank? Hasn't it just been two decades? How did you manage to learn the vessel sigil techniques so fast?"