Jason also pointed out, "I also defeated you, remember? I was at the seventh transformation when I did so."
"I think your problem is that your strength is not as reliable as Arthur's. You couldn't even break his fighting excellence record despite having a golem with a power that is at the peak of the third mortal coil."
Thor had to agree with what they said. He said, "That's true. I couldn't continue the levels of the fighting excellence test because I ran out of mental energy to control the golem in the middle of a fight."
He rubbed his face where Princess had punched him when he was stunned by her divine ability. It was as if he could still feel the pain.
Goldwyn complemented what Jason said with another piece of irrefutable fact. "You had a lot of mental energy, but she defeated you, and she defeated you easily. Now you might need Arthur to help you beat her. The fact that you think Arthur can beat her should tell you the difference between your strength and Arthur's."
Thor nodded in agreement. Then he glanced at Leroy and Princess again before looking at Jason and asking, "I wonder how he was able to make such a lady fall for him."
Arthur smiled as he replied, "I heard that he beat her. He beat her a lot of times, so if your goal is to win her heart, you are on the right path with your decision to beat her."
Thor scoffed and denied what he was insinuating. "I would rather fall in love with one of my golems or not fall in love at all than fall in love with her."
Goldwyn smiled softly and said, "Why are you talking about falling for her? No one was talking about that. Could it be that there is a possibility that you can fall for her?"
Thor had had enough. He snorted and walked away.
As he left, Jason took one last chance to tease him by saying, "Don't use the bomb to beat her, though. Or you won't have anything left to fall for after you're done with her."
Arthur and Goldwyn chuckled by the side. Then they continued talking without Thor.
While they were talking, Arthur saw Jade glancing at him. He shivered once or twice because of the possible reasons that she was looking at him that he came up with.
Inwardly he groaned and thought to himself, "Of all the people who could be interested in me, why did it have to be her? Actually, why are cultivators even interested in anyone? Don't they shed their urges as they transcend?"
He asked himself those questions in frustration, but of those three questions, he knew the answers to two of them. He knew the answers to the second and third question.
The reason cultivators are still interested in sex, love, and reproduction as they grow stronger is because they still have urges. And the reason they still have urges is because they are on the path of body refining and refine their life force.
Not all cultivators have sexual urges or interest in sex. As cultivators grow stronger, they lose interest in sex. But the most important determinant for sexual urges is high life force.
Those who cultivate their internal energy and only their internal energy slowly lose their sexual urges. Their sexual urges aren't the only things that die either.
A strong internal energy kills their ability to reproduce, while a strong mind, which is the requirement to control their strong internal energy, also helps cultivators focus on important matters that help them grow stronger and kills their interests in matters that won't help them grow stronger.
These two effects are why those on the path of energy refining are cold and focused, while those on the path of body refining are emotional and affected by their force intent.
It is a case of zero emotions and too much fixation on one particular emotion. Both are side effects of cultivating the path of energy refining and body refining, respectively.
Cultivating both paths will cause these side effects to cancel each other to a certain extent and restore the person to their normal state with normal emotions. But there might still be slight side effects left, especially if the cultivation technique or blood essence used to transcend are particularly strong.
As disciples of the Blood Skull Sect, they cultivate both body and energy refining. This makes their life force powerful enough to withstand the power of their internal energy and preserve some of their emotions.
This is why Princess, Jade, and Leroy are interested in sex. It is also why he is still interested in sex and has some occasionally when he is free and has a willing partner.
If he were a disciple of the Purple Flower sect, then he won't be interested in sex at all because their cultivation technique for energy refining will make him lose interest in sex, while their cultivation technique for body refining will poison his body and make him lose his reproductive capabilities.
His situation can be considered good or bad. It depends on whoever is asked. But regardless of what his current situation is, he will eventually lose interest in love and sex as he grows stronger.
Losing interest in sex or love can be considered a side effect of growing stronger.
He has only shed one mortal coil, which is why he still has those interests. But as he transcends, sheds more mortal proclivities, and changes his existence to a higher state, he will slowly and surely lose interest in sex and love.
In fact, it is something that he expects to happen when he reaches the third mortal coil. At that point, he would have changed himself too much to be a human.
An extraordinary being at the third mortal coil can be considered a new species of humanoid beings, not human. So it is unlikely that he will be interested in humans sexually. Even if he were, he won't be able to reproduce with them.