After Arthur delivered the young girl with a broken arm and several fractured ribs to the Medicine Hall, he immediately decided to head back towards his cultivation room.
The sound of rain was still going strong, cancelling out most of the noise that one would hear around this hour. The soft tone of water droplets colliding against the river cleared Arthur's mind as he readied himself for the next stage of cultivation.
He had been at the peak of vapour ruby origin essence for more than two entire months now, almost three months as was now ready to reach liquid ruby origin essence.
If anyone had just heard the thoughts in his head, they would immediately curse him and his luck for awakening a Sovereign Boundary Physique. Three months was way too short a time to go from vapour ruby origin essence to liquid ruby origin essence.
Even a first-tier talent like Randolf or Dominic would need at least half a year in order to push past that mark, perhaps slightly longer if they didn't have any origin essence regeneration Fae.
It only went to show just how powerful the Thirty Three Sovereign Boundary Physiques really were....
Arthur let out a deep breath, clearing his mind to the point were it became as still as frozen water. Even though it was only a Rank 2 sub-realm, he still never once ceased his focus or his cultivation. He wanted to reach the apex in the shortest possible time, without hurting his foundations.
And in order to do that, he could never halt his cultivation progression.
Taking in a deep breath Arthur felt his 300% vapour ruby origin essence sea condense. The crystalline gaseous substance rotated rapidly around a single point, as if trying to create a ball of crimson coloured yarn.
The vapour origin essence rotated constantly, rapidly, to the point where it could slice off the tip of someone's finger if they got too close. The large ball of ruby coloured gas grew smaller and smaller, condensing more and more, to the point where it was no longer translucent.
The sheer amount of origin essence within Arthur's origin essence sea was more than anything that he was used to. In his previous life, his maximum origin essence sea was more than 290%, but the final 10% made all the difference in the world.
Eventually Arthur released his hold on the rotating ruby ball of origin essence, letting it expand slightly before retracting it instantly back unto itself. The sudden release of pressure, followed by the equally as sudden increase of pressure caused the size of the vapour ball to decrease even further.
This constantly refinement between large and small gradually allowed the size of his origin essence to condense further and further into itself.
The fluctuation between large and small, expanded and compressed, created allowed Arthur to condense the ball of origin essence further and further into itself.
As time passed, Arthur's origin essence constantly shifted between its large and small forms. Often staying in one form for the time it took to blink before shifting back towards its opposing shape.
Eventually.... after more than an hour of this repetitive action, the gaseous, ruby coloured origin essence within Arthur's origin essence sea, condensed into a single drop of ruby coloured liquid....
Even though Arthur only had 1% of his origin essence left remaining, he had finally breached the barrier between vapour ruby, and liquid ruby.
Arthur was a Rank 2 liquid ruby origin essence Fae Master!
The young man let out a deep breath, releasing an huge amount of turbid qi. Not only did his body feel stronger, but his origin essence was at a higher quality than what it was before, allowing Arthur to fight longer, harder and faster than what he could before.
It was the greatest and most obvious benefit of cultivation. Being able to fight harder and for longer is what separated someone from being killed, and killing their opponent.
Arthur let out a sigh as he felt his Wood Essence Fae, bloodseeker leaf Fae and a couple other origin essence regeneration Fae do their thing, and quickly regenerate his origin essence. Most of them were only Rank 1, but with even a single drop of liquid ruby origin essence, it was more than enough to use multiple Rank 1 Fae at the same time.
There was also the effects of the Vein Limit Fae, although that wouldn't be as noticeable as time passed.
Arthur would either have to use a Vein Purification Fae and remove the Vein Limit Fae's effects and use another one, or just settle for his current Rank 1 Vein Limit Fae and forget about it.
..... Not that he would, of course, but in Winter Rain Mountain, the chances of finding either a Vein Purification Fae or a Rank 2 or higher Vein Limit Fae was.... next to nothing really.
"I know where I can find one in about 50 years. And after that there is another one in 130 years. Both of them Rank 5 Vein Evolution Fae....".
So for the time being, that was put on the backburner....
Arthur just shook his head, watching as his origin essence slowly regenerated.
"At any rate, for the time being I'll need to be careful about how I go around showing off my cultivation. If anyone had ever heard of someone with a bottom-tier, second-tier talent reach liquid ruby origin essence within the span of 14-15 months, they would kill whoever said that and then call them a liar. Even with Wood Essence Fae and other origin essence regeneration Fae, something like that is much too quick. I'll have to make use of "that" then....".
Arthur took out a Fae from his origin essence sea, letting its affects activate, and making him feel slightly warbled, as if he had just been placed inside a glass jar.
This particular Fae was the Rank 2 Origin Essence Shadow Fae. It's only ability was to hide the origin essence sea of a Rank 2 Fae Master or lower from people trying to peer into his origin essence sea.
So Elders like Elder Zarek and Elder Vova couldn't see into Arthur's cultivation, or even someone like his Father, Niklos, a Rank 4 Fae Master.
Normally someone with a higher cultivation should be able to see into origin essence seas without too much trouble, but using this Fae would restrict such an ability.
Of course, against certain investigative-type Fae, the ability was useless, however to the vast majority of Fae Masters, especially ones who specialized in combat, it was quite effective.
It was just one of the, many, many Fae Arthur had taken from the Clan Reserves after the second Fae Master Tournament.
With this, he was finally ready to start sending out his little "team" out into the areas around Parachenko Village.