Chapter 2231 Founder's Rise? Stagnation?
"So what matters is the first immortalization of ourselves."
"Exactly." Founder Alstreim nodded with a satisfied smile, "The starting point is important, and from there, they are only little variations that could be spun to the Immortal Vessel in order to improve it."
"That's why it is important to have peaked in all three cultivations before breaking through to the Immortal Foundation Stage. Don't ever be like me."
Founder Alstreim shook his head, causing Davis to raise his brows.
"Founder didn't achieve Peak-Level Ninth Stage in all cultivation systems?"
His question caused Founder Alstreim to be tongue-tied before he wryly chuckled, "If I could've peaked in all three cultivation systems, I would've made the Alstreim Family a Mid-Sized Territory Hegemon long ago before leaving."
"..." Davis also wryly smiled, feeling that he had asked an insensitive question to a logical conclusion.
At this moment, Lea returned with a bright smile behind her crimson veil.
"What are you two talking about?"
Davis lightly smiled and explained what he came to know, causing her to join in the conversation as well. Hearing Davis explaining to Lea, Founder Alstreim saw that he had absorbed what he told him, causing him to open his mouth.
"Indeed, I'll tell you two what kind of Immortal Vessel I have after explaining about the three levels to the Mortal Immortal Vessel."
Founder Alstreim took on from there, adopting a studious expression on his face.
"The first level is called average Mortal Immortal Vessel, one that is obtained by having a Peak-Level Ninth Stage Cultivation in essence or body cultivation while having non-peaked cultivation in the other cultivation system. It doesn't provide any increase in prowess, but it doesn't lower the prowess like a Cracked Immortal Vessel either."
"As for the second level, that's called the unperfected Mortal Immortal Vessel, which requires you to have peaked in body and essence cultivation and increases your prowess by half a level. There's no way around it. On the other hand, if you peaked in essence and soul or body and soul cultivation, then congratulations, you won't create a Mortal Immortal Vessel but would have created a Cracked Immortal Vessel. But for the soul, you would've created an unperfected Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel."
Looking at Davis make a confused expression while Lea's eyes squinted, Founder Alstreim knowingly smiled and nodded.
"For now, we won't go into the Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel as that gets even more confusing for you two without learning what the Mortal Immortal Vessel for body and essence is first."
"As for the Jade Lotus Valley's Immortal, Loraine, she also does not have a limitation to enter the Immortal King Stage in body, essence, and soul as she had peaked her Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation while reaching the Ninth Stage in Soul Forging Cultivation, making it so that she received an unperfected Mortal Immortal Vessel and an average Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel."
"The most important thing to notice for the Immortal Soul Vessel is that the soul requires a connection with the Immortal Vessel of body and essence. Depending on whether you have reached, not reached, or peaked the Essence Gathering Cultivation and Body Tempering Cultivation in different combinations, you could receive a Cracked Immortal Soul Vessel, average Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel, unperfected Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel, and perfected Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel."
Davis's head spun a bit, but after putting the combinations in his head, he heavily nodded.
"I can now see why Founder sighed when I asked about this matter."
"Ah, it's nothing. Just a waste of breath as I always recommend any youth to just achieve Peak-Level all three cultivations to advance to the Immortal Foundation Stage so that they don't encounter any problems later. Fortunately, my sons who have advanced to the Immortal Foundation Stage possess perfected Mortal Immortal Vessel and perfected Mortal Immortal Soul Vessel as they peaked in all three cultivation systems."
Founder Alstreim smiled widely in pride, but it caused Davis's smile to disappear.
"Didn't Founder say that your sons... died to the rampage of those terrifying beasts?"
Founder Alstreim's smile froze before his shoulders drooped.
"... Yes... that's... unfortunate... Don't remind me about it..."
"..."
Davis blinked, "Alright, let's head back."
Founder Alstreim looked towards the Burning Phoenix Ridge with a complicated expression on his face before he turned around and left.
Together, they returned to the Alstreim Family, but as Davis said, his accommodation was still outside the capital, given in another growing city that didn't lose out to the previous capital before Davis's arrival, perhaps looking even more amazing than the Grand Alstreim City of that time.
As for Davis himself, he returned to the Mortal Hex Emperor Palace with Lea, reuniting with everyone else. Hearing his feats, they were stunned and excited but reacted as though it was expected of him, the person who beat a higher imitation of himself into a pulp in a trial.
He then explained about the Immortal Vessel and made their horizons widen. Some were confused, mostly because their concentration was somewhere else, their gazes falling on Nadia's elegant fur.
Nonetheless, after they left ogling all over Nadia's increased charm, Davis inwardly grumbled.
'Why did the Founder say that and look so happy? Could it be that his sons never died but is in a dire situation, like being held... hostage?'