Sword Flash believed what he was saying about the Red and Blue Fire sect because the future prospect of the Blood Skull sect had increased simply from looting the Red and Blue Fire sect.
Take their secret realm, for example. Now that they've upgraded it to rank 5, when the mana tide comes, and it is time to upgrade the secret realm, the force that should upgrade the secret realm would just move on to the rank 3 secret realms attached to their secret realm.
The force in the mana tide that should upgrade their secret realm won't upgrade it anymore, since they've already spent a mana seed to upgrade it. But that force won't go to waste. It will just go and upgrade the five rank 3 secret realms further down the rank 5 secret realms.
This will cause the five rank 3 secret realms to upgrade. Maybe not all of them will be upgraded to rank 4, but at least one of them will be upgraded to rank 4.
So the Blood Skull sect will gain ownership of a rank 4 secret realm that they can use to raise resources or sell to a cultivation family. Either way, when the mana tide comes, the Blood Skull will gain a lot of benefits.
These benefits are supposed to belong to the Red and Blue Fire sect, which shows that they knew what they were doing when they chose this region. But the blood octopus didn't agree with him.
The rank 6 blood beast artifact snorted and said, "No matter how good their decision was, the best thing for both sects is for the Red and Blue Fire sect to choose a region without another sect with the potential to create a rank 7 being."
"By coming here to compete with us, it will become more difficult for us and them to produce a rank 7 being. If they are as smart as you say they were, they should have considered this. If they considered it and still went ahead with their decision to come here, then it must mean that they didn't consider the Blood Skull sect a competitor at all."
"It means that they came here with the goal of hoarding all of the resources in the region and cutting off our path. So I think that they got what they deserved."
Sword Flash said in agreement, "You're right about that. They truly looked down on us."
What he didn't say was that the fate of the Red and Blue Fire sect was fixed and that they would have encountered the same outcome regardless of which region they chose to settle down in.
He didn't say this because he didn't want to argue with the rank 6 artifact anymore. He wanted to hurry up the process of refining the pills.
So he changed the subject and said, "About the pill refinement. I have a new technique that I want us to use to refine it."
The blood octopus became intrigued. It asked, "What new technique? And why should we change what we've been using for so many years?"
Sword Flash produced the corpses of the nascent soul patriarchs that were still intact. He also produced the corpses of some rank 5 beasts.
The rank 5 beasts were killed during his trial in the League of World Eaters. Unfortunately, he couldn't get their souls as those belonged to the league. He could only get their corpses as loot.
As he brought out these ingredients, he explained to the rank 6 artifacts, "The new refining technique is called the Life Pill Art. It will increase the efficacy of the refined pills if we use it to refine the nascent soul pills."
The blood octopus snorted in disbelief and said, "I find it difficult that there can be any technique that can be better than the method my master invented."
Sword Flash chuckled and said, "The technique itself is not better than our original method. But the two of them can be used together, which will improve the quality of the finished product."
"Besides, this new technique was made by me. If a rank 6 ancestor is capable of creating the original technique, I should be able to create something that rivals the original technique, if not better than it. After all, I am also at rank 6."
He said the last line of his sentence with pride. The blood octopus saw this and said, "I'm not surprised that you would think that. You've always been full of yourself."
Sword Flash smiled and said, "That's because I have the right to be."
The blood octopus said unwillingly, "That's true. But I'm still unconvinced. Let me see how good your new technique is before I agree that you are right to compare yourself to my creator."
Sword Flash chuckled, but said no more. He decided to act instead of talking to show that he deserved to be proud. After all, actions speak louder than words.
The two of them began working on the pill refinement while Thunder Drake watched.
Thunder Drake was brought mainly to learn the method of pill refinement. This will be his first time here and his first time witnessing how the Blood Skull sect produces its nascent soul pills.
The last time that Sword Flash was here, he brought Evergreen to witness the pill refinement process. At that time, they were refining the pill that Thunder Drake was to use to advance to the fifth mortal coil.
The two of them were here with an old patriarch of the sect. That old patriarch didn't leave the hall with them. This was because the old patriarch was the ingredient to refine the pill. So three rank 5 people went into the hall, but only two rank 5 people and one nascent soul pill came out of the hall.
If Sword Flash leaves the sect, Evergreen will be the one in charge of refining the pills. If she can't be available to do it, then Thunder Drake will be the one to refine the nascent soul pills.