Chapter 82

The celebration had ended and Jiang Mang sat in front of his masters. They would now discuss his plans for the future and his master Jiu took the word: " Xiao Mang, you have finished your training with us and will start to train on your own to reach peak saint stage and breakthrough to the king realm. We will no longer restrict you to the valley only, but we will only allow you to leave the palace if you have met the following three conditions. You have to reach the peak saint realm, you have to become the strongest inner disciple, and you have to learn the qi song a mortal life. We would also appreciate it if you become a peak rank formation apprentice. We will also gift you with one last artifact, which is a peak rank sage tier sword artifact."

Master Zhu then took the word while gifting him a storage ring:" Inside this ring, you will find jade slips containing all the knowledge needed to learn level four to level twelve formations. You will also find some books containing our comprehension of the sword dao, charm dao, sound dao, and illusion dao which you can use as a reference for further refining your techniques or creating new ones. At last, you can find a pill inside the storage ring that will help you break through to the very peak of the saint realm when you reach the peak of the high saint stage. When you have any questions, you can ask us while you are inside the zither palace."

Jiang Mang kowtowed to his masters to express his gratitude for their effort in teaching him. He then left the cabin and returned to the cave. His two sisters were cultivating, while Xiao Liu was reïnforcing his foundation after his recent breakthrough.

Jiang Mang entered his meditation room and started meditating. While he was meditating, he broke through to the high saint stage, and through his repeated accumulation his foundation wasn't unstable and had immediately stabilized. The next day he started cultivating on his own and occasionally helped his sisters with formations or their charm techniques.

He started reading his masters' comprehension of the dao and compared it to his current comprehension. He used these comprehensions to further perfect his techniques. He also kept his cultivation of the soul-changing method going to try and reach the third realm named the string corruption realm in his charm methods.

He had also started learning level four formations and decided to try and create all the singular core type formations that existed with the three concepts and three thousand foundation formation diagrams in the fourth level. He would also try and create five thousand dual-core formations, three thousand triple-core formations, one thousand quadruple core formations below 100 000 diagrams. He would also try and create nine unique and personal formations through his specialization that had 999 999 diagrams and could rival basic level five formations.

Gu Hei, who was inside his mind had followed him for the entire year and had also learned many things. She had also started practicing the dao of sound and charm. She fused these two daos with her specialization in poison and managed to create her own unique set of skills to fight. Due to her not having a physical body, she created a soul tempering technique that uses poisons to temper and strengthens the soul. She also created three qi songs that were to be sung that infused her poison intent into sounds to poison people. At last, she had created three charm methods that utilized the soul to become shaped like strings to inflict a soul poison that fused with the target soul. The three qi songs were respectively a hallucinatory, an aphrodisiac, and a deadly poison. The three charm methods inflicted a soul poison that erased their memory, which inflicted a torturous pain on the soul, and that made a person fall in love with herself.

Each of her techniques or methods was capable of harming all those below the King realm because her soul has become three times as powerful than normal peak saint stage cultivators. Jiang Mang is also capable of using the three charm methods and three qi songs as he had learned them. He could, however, not temper his soul due to it already being five times stronger than the same stage cultivators.

His bloodline is still only semi-awakened, but his already high amount of yang qi has been increasing lately. Xiao Liu remarked that this was due to him becoming an adult. It, however, made his desire for lust increase incredibly this year. It had now reached the point, that he couldn't control his urges completely and that his behavior had become affected to resemble more of an incubus recently. This had increased his charm abilities but didn't conform with his heart.

Xiao Lei had advised him to not vent his urges as losing his virginity before the king realm would diminish his cultivation talent. His masters were also helpless about his condition and could only advise him to reach the King realm as fast as possible and lose his virginity as fast as possible afterward.

This point maint him well extremely vulnerable to aphrodisiacs that even his poison immunity from Gu Hei wouldn't be effective. It didn't, however, prevent him from growing stronger and even stimulated him to cultivate harder to swiftly reach the king realm.

His training was effective and he was becoming stronger a bit with every passing day. He either polished his techniques a bit further, created a strong formation, increased his cultivation a bit, or furthered the comprehension of his intents. His two sisters were also working hard with their goal being Jiang Mang himself as they wanted to follow him if he were to leave the sect while also being useful to him. They knew that he was superior to them both in the dao of charms and formations so, besides these two, they also decided to master a weapon as barehanded combat wouldn't cut it.

They thought long and hard about what his weaknesses were, and they realized that he didn't possess any truly ranged attacks due to his blindness. It was true that his senses and inner view compensated for his loss of sight but it still made him vulnerable to ranged attacks from archers.

The two girls Lu Chang and Zi Bai thus started learning archery starting from the new year. They had bought king tier bow artifacts, a tian tier archery technique, and another tian tier technique that enhanced their senses.

The two techniques required the users to comprehend the yin intent as the techniques used yin energy to form icy yin arrows and to calm the mind to enhance the five senses. The techniques were called Moon shooting and Icy concentration that composed a tian tier set that complemented their already yin attributed cultivation direction.