Theron had expected Dean Thistle to give him something after he brought up Burne's snub. But this wasn't what he expected, and he also knew he would be a fool to think that there was nothing wrong with the technique at all.
What the Thistle Patriarch didn't realize, though, was that Theron would figure it out instantaneously.
For a long while now, Theron had been building up a solid foundation of Water Mancy comprehension. It wasn't just that his cultivation technique was the simplest, but even his chosen Mana skills were slowly built on top of one another.
In fact, while others were chasing after power Echoes, Theron had actually planned to get one of the easiest Echoes to claim, coming from an Imbued Beast that was known for being difficult to catch and yet having no combat power.
If not for the twist of fate that was the Verdant Bloomstone, he would have easily continued down that route.
