The second golden core elder turned to the third third one and said with disdain, "What do you mean we should ask him? Why would he tell us the reason for his strength? If it were you, would you tell us if we came to ask you for the foundation of your strength?"
The third golden elder defended his suggestion by saying, "I would tell you if you offered me enough benefits to make it worthwhile. Think outside of the box and use your brain once in a while instead of aiming to antagonize me at every point."
The second golden core elder snorted and said, "Anyway, I still think it is a bad idea."
The third golden elder frowned as he asked, "Then what do you suggest?"
The second golden core elder was quick to reply. He said smugly, "I think it is a better idea to ask a patriarch about why Arthur is strong. They are more insightful than we are, so they should be a good judge of the foundation of his strength."
The third golden core elder scoffed and said, "And what makes you think a nascent soul patriarch will fulfill our request?"
His opponent said in disdain, "Who is the stupid one now? Who is the one who doesn't want to use his brain now? Can't we also offer a patriarch something worth their time?"
The third golden core elder widened his eyes in shock and said, "You dare to bribe a patriarch?"
His opponent replied, "And why won't I dare?"
The two of them began to argue again. This time, Raging Thunder didn't bother to stop them. He excused himself and left.
As he returned to his house, he grumbled to himself, "These twins are always at each other's throats. When will they ever agree on something?"
As for the fourth golden core elder, he also chose to leave. He left to go and cultivate.
The speed of cultivation at the fourth mortal coil is very slow. They might not see any progress in 50 years or in cultivating. This discourages golden core elders and makes them consider enjoying their life as a better alternative.
The fact that it is also unlikely for them to advance to the fifth mortal coil also kills any ambition that they once had to rise to the peak of the world. So many of them don't take cultivation seriously anymore.
But after hearing what Arthur had done and seeing what Arthur was capable of, this man's ambitions had been rekindled. He is not aiming to advance to the fifth mortal coil or defeat Arthur. He is only aiming not to be left behind next time the sect is going to war on another world.
All of them have various things on their minds and prioritize different kinds of goals. But no matter what they were thinking or planning to do, all of them were startled when a storm suddenly appeared in the secret realm.
A storm can appear in the secret realm, but it shouldn't appear so quickly and form so fast. But when they saw that the storm had appeared above Arthur's floating island, they thought that the sudden formation of a storm was reasonable.
They knew that Arthur had the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique and could call lightning, so they stopped being surprised by the storm and chose to go on with their lives. But when this storm didn't end after a few seconds, they had to start paying attention to Arthur's floating island and the storm again.
Raging Thunder looked at the storm bombarding Arthur's island for so long and asked himself, "Is something wrong?"
He also has the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique, so he knows that refilling it with heavenly lightning shouldn't take so long. Yet, the storm showed no signs of stopping.
However, when he saw Arthur's figure beneath the lightning bolts and saw that Arthur was still fine, he relaxed. But another question came unbidden to his mind.
He asked himself, "What is he doing now?"
The answer to his question was that Arthur was cultivating with lightning. Or at least, Arthur was trying to cultivate with lightning.
He is still at the stage of confirming his conjecture. He is not sure yet if he can truly cultivate with lightning.
For now, what he has been able to confirm is that heavenly lightning won't harm him as long as it enters his vessel sigil technique first and is slowly drawn from the vessel sigil technique into his golden core.
He learned this lesson the hard way when he tried to use heavenly lightning directly from the sky to cultivate. The lightning bolt that fell from the sky had smashed into his head and incinerated his hair.
It was as if a heavy club had smashed onto his head. If he hadn't escaped at the last moment and didn't have the Lightning resistance talent, he might have lost more than his head. Half of his head would have also been lost.
But after learning that lesson, things went smoothly. The heavenly lightning entered his lightning vessel sigil technique and became obedient.
The heavenly lightning was still powerful and violent even after entering his lightning vessel sigil technique. His lightning vessel sigil technique didn't make it less powerful and less dangerous. But it made it so that the heavenly lightning wouldn't try to kill at the first chance it got to do so.
The rest was up to him. He had to carefully control the heavenly lightning to enter his core at a rate that wouldn't overwhelm his core while simultaneously balancing the lightning with the life force from his wood vessel sigil technique.
The entire arrangement is not easy to accomplish. But so far so good. He can feel that his golden core is getting stronger. He just doesn't know if the growth is an illusion because he is drunk on the power of heavenly lightning or if it is a real and permanent increase to his strength.
He shook his head and said, "Only time will tell."