Chapter 59

The last day of the recruitment test had arrived. Jiang Mang's group had accumulated 24 587 points, which secured everybody to be able to enter the top 100 with a big margin, and even allow them to enter the top fifty if nothing unexpected happened. All four had greatly improved their combat powers compared to three months ago.

Hua Ye, who was the oldest, is a peak high saint stage cultivator with one perfected wave intent, one soft intent at the great accomplishment, and one power intent at peak small accomplishment realm. His strongest attacks were forming a giant sea serpent out of his water qi, the Tsunami wave technique, and his whip attacks.

Chu Lingxin, who was the second oldest, is a peak mid-saint stage cultivator with her sword intent at the great accomplishment, and both her soft and hardness intents were at peak small accomplishment realm. She used dual sword-wielding where she used her yin sword technique with her yin sword and raging sword slashes with her yang sword.

Feng Xue, who was a year older than Jiang Mang has become a hight rank alchemy apprentice capable of producing high saint rank pills. Her wind and scorching intents had reached the peak of the small accomplishment realm. She uses ranged fire attacks aided by the wind to strengthen her fire elemental qi. She has also become capable of forming a fire phoenix that can attack like Hua Ye's giant sea serpent.

Jiang Mang was the person, who has grown to be the strongest of the group, despite being the youngest. His cultivation base was still at the peak of the mid saint stage, but it had thoroughly stabilized, and he would breakthrough soon. His poison intent was perfected, while both his illusion and charm intent had reached the peak of the great accomplishment. His speed and claw intents had also reached the great accomplishment realm through the guidance of Xiao Liu. His growth intent had reached the peak small accomplishment realm through the guidance of Gu Hei, while his absorption intent had also reached the small accomplishment realm due to another discussion with the Zhao siblings. His heart intent remained at the great accomplishment realm but had become more refined after the creation of the thirteen movements of emotions and desires.

He had cultivated the demonic prince technique, the day after his breakthrough. This technique had transformed his body to become larger while increasing his handsome features. His face had become sharper, while his shoulders had grown broader, but his skin remained snow white. His hair had grown much longer and become even blacker. His aura had become a bit wicked and ferocious, and it could now be described as demonically noble. His charm techniques had now increased by twenty percent, but the two girls remained convinced that he would make a fine girl and that his features were more pretty than handsome.

His bloodline was also further stimulated by using Xiao Liu's beastly qi to cultivate the demonic prince technique. His nine-tailed fox bloodline had strengthened his body to become as strong as a peak fox saint beast who had awakened their ancestral heritage, while also allowing him to form a nine-tailed fox out of his life and death qi instead of a six-tailed fox like the technique had explained. The stimulation also increased his yang energy and made him more lustful. Xiao Liu explained that all foxes were incredibly lustful by nature. Jiang Mang was capable of keeping it under control, due to his emotional experiences and his strong soul.

His most powerful abilities were his illusion and charm techniques, followed by his hidden weapons coated in poison and close combat due to his powerful body.

His nine-tailed fox was also capable of entangling and beating Hua Ye's giant sea serpent. This was due to it being the ancestor of all foxes. His inner view had also increased in the range from its previous 100 meters to 200 meters in radius.

Gu Hei had also become stronger by mastering poison daggers, and learning how to play the zither from Jiang Mang. She has become capable of controlling her poison abilities through music and sound and can poison all who hear her music as long as her poison and sound waves are strong enough.

Xiao Liu had returned to his peak but had further consolidated its peak cultivation by daily refining pills that Feng Xue gave him to win his goodwill. He mostly spends time on Jiang Mang's shoulder with its tails curled around his neck or being hugged by Feng Xue.

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The team was now gathering all of their spoils and items, which they would take to leave the island. The test was about to end, and they would all be gathered together, by members of the nine powers who would count their points. When the top thousand was ranked, the third test would begin. This was a series of nine tests. This series would test their affinity with the nine powers. When a person had multiple powers with whom he was compatible, then either the powers, themselves, or the person himself would decide which power he would join.

The four empires, three palaces, and two sects were all under the escort of an elder. The elders were cultivators who had reached the sage realm and had started comprehending the dao. Sage realm cultivators had to have comprehended at least one minor dao to initiation.

It is said that there exist 3000 great daos, while there exist countless minor daos. A person can walk multiple dao paths, but this will increase the difficulty of reaching ascension as you have to form all of your great daos into dao fruits before you can undergo ascension lightning tribulation.

This piece of information is important but only relevant for the future when Jiang Mang reaches the king's realm and has to comprehend his domain, which is the upgraded version of an intent. Domains can only be comprehended by king realm cultivators, as they involve the usage of divine sense. The king realm cultivator from the Chu empire has, for example, comprehended a strength domain from his perfected power intent. This domain allows him to increase the strength of his close combat abilities while weakening those from his opponent if he doesn't interfere with the domain with his own domain.