Since what he got Ouroborus for is to give him life essence, the green plant python is actually busy with his job when it is eating. And since Ouroborus is producing a lot of life force, he is very good at his job.
Arthur just can't blame someone with this kind of work ethic and performance. What he should do is promote Ouroborus. If he can't do that, the least he should do is not to criticize Ouroborus for being hardworking.
Thus, the man, the man-eating plant, two foundation establishment cultivators, and one energy refining stage cultivator left the sect as a team. What they are going to do is not a strange thing in the Blood Skull sect.
The two foundation establishment cultivators that he went with are people with whom he is familiar. They used to be his neighbors when he just entered the sect.
The two of them are Leroy and his lover, Princess. The two of them have reached the peak of the third mortal coil and are getting ready to advance to the fourth mortal coil. This trip might help them get the resources they need to finalize their preparations.
They didn't go to the territory of the Black Bones sect. There is nothing there to be gained either in the form of money or body parts.
Despite the second strongest sect, the area under the Black Bones sect is perhaps the poorest area in the Five Veins region. This is all because of the tyrannical rule of the Black Bones sect.
What the region under the control of the Black Bones sect has in surplus are zombies, ghouls, and corpses. They don't want any of these, so they stayed clear of their Black Bones sect.
As for where to go, they couldn't decide yet until they had done their investigation and found the best target. As long as the area they are going to fish is not under the control of the Blood Skull sect, everything should be fine.
After some deliberation, Arthur chose to go to the kingdom under the control of the Beast Training sect. They still haven't decided which family to target and how they will target them. In regard to this, Arthur told them that they would discuss their plan together.
Arthur picked the territory of a cultivation family at random. When they got there, they rented out a place to stay to discuss and plan.
But before they could discuss, they decided to acquire information about the area, so after they arrived at their destination, he asked the disciple at the peak of the energy refining to go and purchase some information about the cultivation families in the region for them.
The four of them were in a private room in a hotel. They got one room for all of them in order to lie low and discuss.
Arthur didn't mind the arrangements, but the others didn't like being around him. Even though he had his aura under control, the other two were still sensitive enough to tell that he was very dangerous to be around.
They were unlike the energy refining boy, who didn't know that the person accompanying them was a golden core elder. To the boy, Arthur was just another foundation establishment senior. But to them, it was as if they were sharing a room with a bomb.
So they couldn't relax at all. His aura, though subdued, was still suffocating them.
He didn't know this, as they did well in hiding their feelings. So he felt very relaxed about the situation. He was so relaxed that he didn't get angry when the energy refining disciple spent more than twelve hours outside without returning.
But he didn't remain calm when they received a letter saying that their partner had been kidnapped and that they should bring 100,000 low-grade energy stones to a certain location at a specific time in order to liberate him. So the letter was a ransom letter.
As if kidnapping someone from the Blood Skull sect wasn't enough reason to get angry, the fact that he is to blame for the kidnapping is surely enough reason for him to become angry.
He is to blame for the kidnapping because he was the one who brought the disciple out and also the one who shackled the life seed of the disciple in order to reduce his cultivation and make him blend in with the populace.
He had reduced the cultivation of the boy to the peak of the first mortal coil in order to stop him from drawing attention to himself on the trip to acquire information. Unfortunately for them, this backfired and led to the kidnapping.
The shackled life seed made it impossible for the boy to resist the kidnappers. So if anyone is to be blamed for this, he is the one.
What he should do now is to try to retrieve the boy as soon as possible. But he also couldn't be ostentatious about it, or he would draw too much attention, which would put the fishing trip in jeopardy.
So, after reading the letter, he gave it to Leroy and Princess to see. Then he said to them, "Go to the location and kill everyone. No matter who you find to be responsible for this, just kill them."
He also gave them the key to the lock that he placed on the energy refining disciple's life seed and said to them, "Just being this close to the boy and switch it on. As long as he is within a hundred meters of this, he will become free and recover his strength. Once he regains his strength, he will be able to protect himself, so you will have nothing to worry about killing everyone involved."
Leroy and Princess had already been pressured by his presence for so long, so they were very eager to leave. The kidnapping granted them the opportunity to escape his presence and vent their frustration on some people. So they left with the determination to make blood flow like a river.