Chapter 69

A month had passed since his first training. This day, he made not a single mistake and managed to execute every movement he was asked to perform flawlessly. His demeanor and behavior had also changed to become incredibly charming. Every movement and action he performed contained a certain charm. His skin had also become soft, while his features had lost its sharpness. He now looked like a sixteen-year-old prince, who had never faced hardship and was pampered and protected since bird. His master had described his current looks to be cute and pretty.

His behavior even used that cuteness to achieve charm. He had fully accepted the dao of charm and had even started liking it. He was always accompanied by his master and the two girls while training simple things for an entire month. The training was strict and rigorous, but he could feel a certain warmth to it as his master had truly put the effort in the cultivation of his charm techniques.

He had also furthered his mastery of Charm dance and Charm voice and had perfected his usage of Maiden steps. He only struggled with Charm eyes. The next step for him would be to start using all of the charm techniques passively, which would mean having perfected their usage of them.

The two girls had also changed significantly, their looks hadn't changed, but their demeanor resembled that of succubi. They had become incredibly confident and were extremely grateful to elder Zhu for training them alongside Jiang Mang. During this month, they had also become enlightened about being one with nature through comprehension of the charm intent. They had reached the saint realm and were qualified to become inner palace disciples, but after a discussion, they had decided to remain in the outer palace to stay with Jiang Mang. Elder Zhu had also spoken to them and had managed to acquire them the same benefits as other inner palace disciples, except for being allocated a master and some outer palace disciples. She also promised them, that they were allowed to keep accompanying him to training that involved charm lessons. They would, however, not be taught any techniques by her.

The two girls accepted her arrangements and even thanked her as they knew that they would probably learn more by accompanying Jiang Mang than having another elder as their master who would have more than a hundred disciples to guide and look after. Here they were provided with individual guidance and could also learn from Jiang Mang, who was incredibly talented and had a higher cultivation realm than them.

They had also learned some techniques from the technique library inside the palace by using their merits. These techniques had been advised by elder Zhu as she was willing to give them some advice on which techniques to learn despite teaching them no techniques.

She was of the principle of guiding them a bit and leaving their performance up to their effort. Jiang Mang also approved of their decision because he liked these two elder sisters of his and had seen the effort they had put into it despite only starting with it to humor him.

When the last training of the month ended was Jiang Mang asked to remain behind to discuss something with his two masters. He entered the cabin with his master Zhu and followed her towards his master Jiu.

She started the discussion: " Xiao Mang, you have finished the first part of your training under me now. Chen will now take every day over from in the afternoon to teach you about the zither. You will also start learning about formations every weekend after you have taken your medicinal bath."

Jiang Mang nodded to prove his understanding before his master Jiu took over: "Xiao Mang, you have been training under Ming for a month but is now time to also start spending time on the dao of sound and the dao of music. These two daos go hand in hand, but one is about the art and expressing something, while the other revolves around the production and manipulation of sound itself. Xiao Mang, your ability in the dao of music can already rival, musicians in the king realm. Your ability in the dao of sound is, however, extremely shallow like your dao of charm used to be."

He paused for a second before continuing: "Your training will involve relearning how to play music from the basics, you will also have to learn how to play music with all the musical instruments stored inside this storage artifact. At last, you will continue vocal training under me on Friday and not Ming, to learn how to properly use your voice. Those two girls are also allowed to follow you during these vocal lessons. When you have perfected your mastery over all these things, I will teach you one of my unique qi songs that utilize the dao of sound to attack enemies."

Jiang Mang then returned to his cave and informed the two sisters about the change in his training schedule which they accepted. They would utilize this time to stabilize their cultivation and deepen their understanding of their techniques. They had chosen to learn a complete set of Di tier charm techniques that involved the usage of the body, voice, and eyes and an attack technique called soft palms, which required them to comprehend the soft and charm intent. They had also set their sights on a body tempering technique as they had gotten to know about the benefits by Jiang Mang. This technique costs three hundred merits, and a set of herbs would require thirty merits. The technique required them to temper their bodies two times a month for half a year, but they would gain a body strong as an early saint beast, while their flexibility and beauty would be significantly enhanced. They would, however, have to save merits for two months before they could require the technique and two sets of herbs.

Xiao Liu always stayed in the cave, absorbing spiritual energy in its small cute form. It had also informed Jiang Mang that it would require the beast core of an illusion type beast king if it wanted to advance to the king realm and improve its cultivation. Jiang Mang had asked sister Chang about such a beast king core and was informed that he could acquire such a core with three thousand merits. This meant that he either had to wait for three years or manage to fulfill some mission. He could also try the formation apprentice trial after he had achieved some things as a formation apprentice. He had set himself the goal of acquiring the core within a year.