Just counting the nascent soul cultivators that came from upstream Ethera, there are nine nascent soul cultivators that are more powerful than those three. If Thunder Drake and Lady Evergreen are added, that makes eleven more powerful nascent soul cultivators.
But they didn't send the more powerful nascent soul cultivators to lead the army because they are too powerful for the world. So if those more powerful nascent soul cultivators come with their true bodies, the possibility of being lost in the void is much higher.
Arthur, on the other hand, doesn't have a nascent soul. He only has a golden core, which is similar to the level of existence of the beings that this world can contain. So as long as he can control himself, he won't be immediately ejected from this world.
But this situation means that he will not have any chance to use his minor divine abilities. He is already too strong for this world, so using the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique to fight is out of the question.
He felt that it was a shame since he had been looking forward to using the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique to bully people after reaching 100% mastery in it.
The Lightning Vessel Sigil technique isn't the only one that he has completely mastered. He has also completely mastered the Wood Vessel Sigil technique. This is all thanks to his dedicated use of the two of them to cultivate these past few months.
After completely mastering the Teo of them, he was able to unlock the Life and Death Vessel Sigil technique and learn it. This technique is more difficult to learn than the previous two. This is because it has a more complicated structure.
It should take him 10 years just to learn it. But he can speed up his progress by using pure life force from his Wood Vessel Sigil technique and heavenly lightning from his Lightning Vessel Sigil technique to build it instead of using his internal energy to build it, as he did for the first two vessel sigil techniques.
Actually, the option to use pure life force and heavenly lightning to build the frame of the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil is more difficult and more dangerous because he has to control two higher-level energies, of which one of the higher energies can explode in his head and kill him.
In fact, other golden core cultivators don't have the option to use pure life force and heavenly lightning to build the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil because they are too weak and can't control heavenly lightning precisely like he can.
Only someone like him, who is ten times stronger than a golden core cultivator, should be able to possess the magnetic field talent and use this option without worrying about blowing his head off his shoulders. So only someone like him can enjoy the benefits of this option and speed up the construction of the Life and Death Vessel Sigil.
Unfortunately for him, he only recently finished mastering the first two vessel sigil techniques, so he has only unlocked the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil for one month now. He hasn't had much time to learn it. This is why his progress in learning it has only reached 10% despite using the fast option.
But all in all, his attempt to learn the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil technique is going well. The virtual copies in his mind have been working day and night to help him learn it.
Thanks to the virtual copies, he can continue to learn and construct the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil technique while fighting without worrying about losing control of the incomplete vessel sigil and losing his head when all the energy he has put into it explodes.
So even if there is another person who is ten times stronger than a golden core cultivator should be, and also possess the magnetic field manipulation talent, which makes them capable of using pure life force and heavenly lightning to construct the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil as he can, because they lack virtual copies in their mind to help maintain the incomplete structure of the vessel sigil, they won't be able to do anything else.
Such a person will have to stay in seclusion all year round and avoid disturbance. Such a person will also have to learn the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil technique in one go, or a single mistake can lead to their death.
So even if someone else has the opportunity to take the shortcut that he is using, they won't do it as long as they are in their right mind, because it is too dangerous. Only someone like him, who is confident of learning the technique in one attempt without making any mistakes, will dare to use the shortcut.
After all, he has already done so twice before when he mastered the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique and the Wood Vessel Sigil technique in one go. So he is very confident in himself.
Already, there is a faint black mark standing above and between the mark of the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique and the mark of the Wood Vessel Sigil technique.
This faint black mark is in the shape of an X. Its position made the three marks form a triangle on his head. The triangle is formed by the green five-pointed leaf mark of the Wood Vessel Sigil technique, the Blue lightning bolt mark of the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique, and the Black X mark of the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil technique.
Once he learns the Life and Death Lightning Vessel Sigil and can operate it, he will be able to advance to the fifth mortal coil. He expects that he will be able to learn it in at most one year, so it is very important that he acquires a nascent soul pill as soon as possible.
This was what he was thinking about while others were agonizing over their golden core, the risk of losing control of their internal energy, and the loss of spells.