When Arthur heard that patriarchs must create a replacement before they leave the sect, he remembered what Lady Evergreen had said about being tricked by her master.
She had said that she had been tricked into becoming a patriarch and taking up the curse that binds the patriarchs into finding someone who can create a foundation with two elements.
Sword Flash didn't mention this or provide any reason why it was a tradition of the sect for the leaders of the sect to create replacements before they died.
He only said, "Over the history of the sect, the number of patriarchs have sometimes reduced due to unforeseen accidents, but the number of patriarchs have largely remained the same."
"In fact, the number of patriarchs have increased over the years. This is all due to the tradition of finding replacement and helping talented juniors advance even there is no need to."
"But according to tradition, the sixth mortal coil patriarch that wants to leave must use their strength to find the resources needed to create a new patriarch, while the old fifth mortal coil patriarch must willingly give up their nascent soul to be used as resources to create the next generation of patriarchs."
"The resources that both sixth mortal coil and old fifth mortal coil patriarchs must provide is a nascent soul. It can be their's or belong to another nascent soul cultivator outside of the sect."
"This requirement is because the sect possesses a method to convert nascent souls into nascent soul pills. These nascent soul pills can improve the chances of advancing to the fifth mortal coil by 50%. This is why we have been able to create nascent soul patriarchs on a regular basis."
Arthur was shocked when he heard this. He was stunned to hear that nascent soul cultivators could be converted into pills, that patriarchs of the sect had to give up their lives in order to create the nascent soul pills, and that the nascent soul pills could raise the chances of success of advancing to the fifth mortal coil by 50%.
The last part was the most shocking to him because it was the most important part to him. It was especially impactful because the best chance of success of advancing to the fifth mortal coil was 10%. So the nascent soul pill provides an increase of 500% to that 10%.
In comparison, he doesn't care much that pills are refined from cultivators because he is familiar with pills refined using beasts and plants. He has taken such pills many times.
He has also taken the life essence elixir that is refined from either living or dead people. So he is not adverse to pills refined from people.
He just can't believe that powerful people have to willingly give up themselves to be forged into the pills, which is why it was surprising to hear. Sword Flash had said that these patriarchs only had to do it when they were old and about to die, but it was still shocking to hear.
He thought to himself, "I've already signed the contract that gave the Blood Skull sect ownership of my corpse after I die when I joined the sect. I just didn't expect that I might have to give up my life even before I died."
Arthur wasn't the only one shocked to hear this information. There were some others who were just as surprised as he was. This was especially the case for the new golden core cultivators.
Sword Flash saw this and said, "In the Blood Skull sect, new patriarchs are created from old ones. This is one of the reasons why we have to wait for a patriarch to get old before a replacement for them is nurtured. It is why, at this point, we can only nurture three nascents."
"We combine the 10% chance of success from the vessel sigil technique with the 50% chance of success from the nascent soul pill, plus the 10% of success of cultivating both the path of body forging and energy refinement to the peak of the fourth mortal coil, and the 10% chance of success from the usage of a breakthrough pod for a total of 80% chance of success."
"Other sects might have something similar to our nascent soul pill, but I doubt it. In fact, our nascent soul pill is many times better than the ones that some alchemists make."
"Most nascent soul pills can only improve the chances of success by 10%. Only a select few can raise the chances of advancement by 20%. It is very difficult to find a nascent soul pill that can improve the chances of success by 50%."
"To be fair, those weaker nascent soul pills are cheap to make. They only need certain rank 5 plants to make, and the quantity that can be made from a single portion of refinement ranges from 1 to 5 pills, depending on the skill of the alchemist."
"But we use the entire foundation of the cultivation of a nascent soul cultivator to forge a pill. So a 50% increase is an expensive luxury that we enjoy."
"The best part is that I recently got a pill refinement inheritance called the Life Pill. This inheritance has been improved by me and can be used to further improve the quality of the nascent soul pills that I can refine."
"I don't dare to brag, but a 60% increase in the chances of success is nearly certain to be achieved. And we have Arthur to thank for getting this inheritance for us."
At this point, everyone turned to Arthur and began to clap. Arthur could only smile.
He thought to himself, "So Sword Flash has managed to achieve Daoist Blood Pill's dream."
The inheritance that Sword Flash is talking about was acquired by Arthur when he was at the third mortal coil and participated in a trial for an inheritance. It is the only thing that Arthur knows that can help with refining pills for advancing.