His new idea to try cultivating with heavenly lightning means that the benefit that he gained from the fight is not limited to the short-term increase in his cultivation. It means that he might be able to replicate the increase in his cultivation by directly utilizing heavenly lightning for cultivation.
This is the second reason why he can't regret participating in the fight against the Sun King. Instead of regret, he wishes he could do it again.
He is so happy with his situation that he wishes he could try out his idea for cultivation immediately. Unfortunately, there are no trees around for him to acquire life force for the Wood Vessel Sigil technique, and there is no lightning in this world for his Lightning Vessel Sigil technique.
The Sun King's explosion has killed every tree around. Besides that, the trees of this world are mostly fire trees, which are saturated with the fire element. So even if he finds some trees outside the range of the explosion, he is not sure if he will be able to get pure life force from them.
As for heavenly lightning, he will have to return to the domain of the Ethera to invoke it. Apparently, not every world possesses lightning. In Aries, the prevalent elements are fire and ice.
Without the opportunity to try out his new idea, he can only take a look at his current power by looking up his status through the Mountain Sitting Dao system. As he looked at his status, he sat there for a while admiring his progress.
-MOUNTAIN SITTING DAO
State of Existence: Fourth Mortal Coil (Fourth Transformation of the Golden Core)
Life Span: 54 > > 76/(900)
-DIVINE ABILITIES
1. Mountain Karma: Level 6 (2.1% Progress).
2. Mountain Foundation: Level 5 (3.2% Progress).
3. Fate Identification: Level 6.
4. Fate Binding: Level 5.
5. ????: ------
-POWER.
1. Power (Body Refining).
Before = 19,660,800 (19.6608C).
Current = 50 (Body) × (50+50) (Armament Power) × 1,024 (Golden Core Power) × 5 (Mountain Karma) = 25,600,000 (25.6C).
2. Power (Energy Refining).
Before = 19,660,800 (19.6608C).
Current = 50 (Mind) × (50 + 50) (Armament Power) × 1,024 (Golden Core Power) × 5 (Mountain Karma) = 25,600,000 (25.6C).
-ATTRIBUTES.
1. Mind: 40 > > 50. Mental Energy: 8,000 > > 16,000.
2. Internal Energy (Quantity): 1,024,000. Internal Energy (Quality): 40 > > 50.
3. Body: 40 > > 50. Life Force: 40 > > 50.
4. Golden Core Power: 1,024.
5. Armament Power: 50 (Life Force) + 50 (Internal Energy QLTY) = 100.
-TECHNIQUES.
C: RANK 3.
1. Unification of Hearts, Mind, and Body Weapon Technique: 100% Mastery.
2. Wood Element Host: 100% Mastery.
3. Lightning Element Host: 100% Mastery.
4. Beast Link.
5. Life and Death Lightning Art: 100% Mastery.
6. Lightning Angel Spell: 100%.
7. Lightning Net Spell: 100%.
8. Wood Burial Spell: 100%.
9. Wood Army Spell: 100%.
D: MINOR DIVINE ABILITIES.
1. Wood Vessel Sigil Technique: 2% Mastery.
2. Lightning Vessel Sigil Technique: 12% Mastery.
-TALENTS.
1. Wood to Lightning Conversion.
2. Lightning to Wood Conversion.
3. Lightning Resistance.
4. Overclock Mode.
5. Magnetic Field Manipulation.
As he looked at his stars, he sighed and said, "I thought I would need 10 to 8 years or even more to advance to the fourth transformation. But it took me just 5 months of fighting and one intense fight with my life on the line to accomplish. Maybe I should fight more."
But then, he shook his head and said, "If only fighting were easy and safe, then it would be a safe route to enhancing my cultivation. But all hope is not lost. At least, I won't lose out to that cheating Thor in terms of cultivation speed."
The fourth transformation of the fourth mortal coil is a very important threshold for golden core cultivators, as it marks the line between junior golden core cultivators at the early stages of the fourth mortal coil and the veteran golem core cultivators at the middle stages of the fourth mortal coil.
After advancing to the fourth transformation, his strength increased from 19,660,800 (19.6608C) to 25,600,000 (25.6C). That is an increase of 30.21%.
An increase of 30.21% in power is a substantial increase in power for anyone. But it is even more significant for him because he was already much stronger than a normal golden core cultivator with a perfect core.
A normal golden core cultivator at the peak of the fourth mortal coil will have a power of 12.3904. So he was already 7.2704C stronger than the maximum limit of a normal golden core cultivator when he was at the third transformation of the fourth mortal coil.
The simple increase of 30.21% in his strength has led him to possess a power that is double that of a normal golden core cultivator. After all, he is now 13.2096C stronger than the maximum limit of a golden core cultivator.
Not that, he is also now much stronger than the elite golden core cultivators of the Blood Skull sect, who have double the power of normal golden core cultivators and can produce a power of 24.7808C.
This makes the 30.21% increase in his power very impressive. It means that the elite golden core cultivators of his sect, like Void Claw, won't be able to look down on him because of their advantage in age. It also means that it will be very difficult for people like Void Claw to snatch his prey in the future.
But perhaps most impressive of all is that this is not the end of his growth at the fourth mortal coil. He can still achieve more, and he can still grow stronger.
So there are still more impressive increases to his power to come. And thanks to learning that his golden core can withstand heavenly lightning, the impressive increase to his power will come sooner than expected.
His advancement to the fourth transformation in such a short amount of time is a clear example of what kind of cultivation speed he can expect to have once he engineers a way to cultivate with heavenly lightning.