After answering Arthur's question, Sword Flash said to the others, "I made the restriction of needing the Everlasting Wood Art cultivation technique or Divine Lightning Armament technique because they are the most popular cultivation techniques among the golden core and nascent soul members of the sect."

"I want your artifacts to be useful for other members of the sect after you die, so I made the restriction. So I wasn't being impartial with Daoist Lightning Tyrant when I said that his artifact, which doesn't need any cultivation technique, can also go first. After all, if he dies, everyone else will be able to use the artifact."

Thunder Drake heard this and nodded. Then he said, "By that triangle of thought, Daoist Lightning Tyrant's artifact should go first since the artifact would be the most useful to the sect if he dies."

Arthur's face fell when he heard this, but he quickly recovered because Sword Flash and Thunder Drake hadn't said anything wrong.

If he does die, it won't matter to him who gets to use his artifact. He just doesn't like the thought of dying and having his beloved artifact become someone else's tool.

Besides, he had another more important matter to dwell on. As he thought about what Sword Flash had said, he thought to himself, "It seems my hammer and storm of Blades won't be able to get the help of the sect to upgrade. After all, only I can use them. It is not a matter of cultivation technique."

He didn't say this. Instead, he bowed to Sword Flash and had his seat.

With this short interlude dealt with, Sword Flash moved on.

He said, "For the third good news. I have accepted the leadership assessment on behalf of our sect. I have also received the information about the world that we are going to defend and the enemy we are to resist. And by my estimation, we should be able to pass the assessment as long as we don't make a major mistake."

He paused to give everyone time to clap for this good news. Then he said, "But there is some bad news."

Everyone's heart fell when they heard this. The mana in the council hall became turbulent again.

Sword Flash said, "The world we are going to defend is a small world just on the rise. It is weak, so it can't withstand any being with a state of existence that is higher than the fourth mortal coil."

"This means that the patriarchs and I can't interfere directly with the defense of the world. The defense of the world will have to rely on all of you."

"Not only does this handicap us and make it difficult for us to fully display the power of our sect, but it also means that I can't allow any of you to advance to the fifth mortal coil anytime soon. The creation of new patriarchs will have to wait until the end of the assessment."

Then he sighed and said, "That is the bad news."

The hearts of many people sank even further when they heard this. Even Arthur, who didn't care about advancing to the fifth mortal coil anytime soon, felt some trepidation because they would be going into battle on another world without the support of the patriarchs.

Lady Evergreen saw their faces and saw that they were afraid of fighting alone, so she snorted and said, "What are you worried about? Isn't it just fighting other people at the fourth mortal coil? When have we, the people of the Blood Skull sect, been afraid of people in the same rank as us?"

Her questions were disdainful, but they also filled everyone with confidence.

The people of the Blood Skull sect used to be very confident in the past. But they lost a little bit of their confidence after the war with the Red and Blue Fire sect.

There were a lot of things about the Red and Blue Fire sect that made them lose their confidence. But the main culprit was the sight of the foundation establishment members of the sect displaying the power of the golden core rank and the golden core members displaying power at the nascent soul rank.

It can be said that the people of the Red and Blue Fire sect had cheated by using armor suits to raise their power. But if the Red and Blue Fire sect can use something like that, they should expect other enemies to be capable of doing something like that.

Sword Flash also spoke to encourage them. He said, "You don't have to worry much. The sect will support you. After all, we have a lot riding on this leadership assessment."

"In order to support you, I traded all of the rank 6 artifacts that we got from the patriarchs of the Red and Blue Fire sect for a rank 7 artifact that can provide all of you with some protection regardless of where you are in the universe."

"I also traded the armor suits in for universal armor suits. These suits don't enhance power like the ones that the Red and Blue Fire sect used. But they can be used by anyone regardless of their cultivation technique, and their defense is impeccable."

"All of these will ensure your safety to a certain level. I will also provide some of my golems for you to use. So you can fight with confidence."

After Sword Flash listed the things he had prepared to keep them safe, everyone finally relaxed. Then they became curious about the world they were going to. Some of them even became excited at the prospect of going to another world.

Arthur was one of the people who was excited to go to another world. This was because he had always wanted to meet aliens.

Meeting aliens is something that the humans in his last life had fantasized about, so he was intrigued about going to a new world to see new kinds of people.