Chapter 58

When the group checked their spoils, they concluded that they had gathered eight thousand points, gained a peak rank saint beast who had awakened his ancestral bloodline, and had acquired a spirit spring to be used by one person. When they had searched, the fox territory, they found out that Huang Mo had left behind a storage artifact while he was escaping. Inside the storage artifact, they found twelve thousand points worth of corpses, a variety of pills and artifacts, and two technique manuals. They found out that these were probably all the goods that Huang Mo had robbed during the recruitment test, as there were no rare items inside it, but well an enormous amount of everything else.

The two technique manuals existed out of a water elemental technique and a sword technique. The water elemental technique was called Tsunami wave, which required the user to comprehend wave intent. The technique was a perfect fit for Hua Ye, who had already comprehended wave intent to great accomplishment. The sword technique was called Raging sword slashes, which was yang attributed sword technique. This technique perfectly suited Chu Lingxin's need for a yang attributed sword technique to combine with her yin sword technique. To use this technique, she would well have to comprehend the hardness intent.

Feng Xue was the only person who didn't gain anything, but she didn't complain as the many herbs they had gained would be given to her to make pills and practice her alchemy techniques. She estimated that she would reach the high apprentice rank as an alchemist by the end of the recruitment test.

All the members of the team had managed to gain something. This allowed everyone to be happy. They had also earned a total of twenty thousand points, which guaranteed that every member of their group would enter the top fifty as saint beast were becoming scarcer on the island. While the remaining participants are the strongest remaining of the more than 10000 recruitment participants. The nine powers wouldn't differentiate much between the top one hundred but pay more attention to the age and accomplishments in the cultivation of the participants.

The team had thus decided to spend the remaining time on this mountain, and only deal with other participants if they entered the fox territory. Jiang Mang had decided to enter the spirit spring to enhance his cultivation stage as his intents had met a bottleneck. He would also cultivate his recently gotten technique demonic prince, with Xiao Liu's help. Feng Xue would focus on alchemy, while Chu Lingxin and Hua Ye would focus on their new techniques and reïnforcing their cultivation stage.

When Jiang Mang entered the spirit spring, he felt that his rate of cultivation had soared. His profound spirits were quickly absorbing the liquified spiritual energy. While the spiritual energy circulated through his meridians through the cultivation method provided by his profound spirits. His meridians were being strengthened, due to the pressure of the surging amount of spiritual energy. When the energy had made a full circulation, it entered his two qi cores, which were growing steadily. The pure energy was also expelling impurities from his body and increasing his cultivation talent even more.

Gu Hei was observing his body from his mind and was shocked by the amount of energy. She predicted that he would directly soar to the peak of the mid saint stage, while his freakish talent would further increase by ten percent or so. She was also observing Jiang Mang's soul, which was being strengthened by his rising cultivation base. His soul was more powerful too than his peers, and not by just a bit. Jiang Mang's soul was five times more powerful than ordinary same stage cultivators, this should be due to his profound spirits, which specialize in illusions, and his nine-tailed fox bloodline. It should still be mentioned that while he is incredibly powerful and talented, the power of his qi rivals that of ordinary cultivators who are a stage below him in terms of cultivation. He is only capable of defeating stronger opponents in close combat due to his strange intents and his higher mastery over them combined with his physically stronger body that compensates for his weaker qi. His hidden weapons also allow him to ambush and surprise his opponents.

She concluded that he should further specialize in illusion and charm techniques while compensating for his weaker qi through body tempering and comprehending unique dao paths. While she was evaluating Jiang Mang's talent and future. Xiao Liu was doing the same, and he came to the same conclusion as her. However, due to his knowledge of the nine-tailed fox and its bloodline powers, he knew that Jiang Mang's bloodline was currently only partially activated and would only be fully activated when he reached the king realm. The bloodline would then increase the power of Jiang Mang's qi exponentially while providing him with the ability to fully transform into a nine-tailed fox. Jiang Mang would then become both beast and human and thus becoming a demi-human. Beast kings were also capable of taking human form after reaching the king realm, which allowed them to mix into human societies if they didn't approach the territories nine powers who could detect beasts transformed into humans.

Jiang Mang would, however, not have a beast core which was the sole difference between beasts and humans. There also existed demi-humans in the beast territories and beast empire who were the offspring of humans and beasts. These demi-humans often had no beast core, but still retained features of their parents, like tails, ears, or fur. Demi-humans were often treated as slaves by both humans and beasts and were only capable of hiding their features after reaching the king realm, but most time, they would already have become slaves before they reached that realm.

Jiang Mang would thus better hide his bloodline as he would probably be viewed as a demi-human if it became known, as pureblooded bloodlines were virtually extinct. If the news of a pureblooded bloodline became known, he would become hunted by all in the human territory, which would be even worse than being regarded as a demi-human.

Xiao Liu decided to tell Jiang Mang about this when he finished his cultivation session the next day. Jiang Mang had finished using the spirit spring after an entire day of cultivation. He had reached the peak of the mid saint stage, and his talent had increased another ten percent.

Gu Hei was the first to talk to him, and she told him about her observations and deductions. These surprised Jiang Mang as he didn't know that his soul was so strong. Xiao Liu was the next one to tell him about its thoughts. Jiang Mang was again surprised by all the information. He was further convinced to keep his bloodline a secret while in the inner domain's human territory. He also gained a technique to keep his bloodline hidden from the divine sense of cultivators below the ascendence realm. This was a technique from Xiao Liu's ancestral memories that primeval beasts used to hide from humans. Unfortunately, beasts could still be found through their beast cores. Jiang Mang wouldn't be hindered by this aspect, as he didn't have one. He immediately started cultivating this technique.