Jiang Mang had to decide between gaining the inheritance and killing those close to him or to die while those close to him live. He knew the answer immediately in his heart and dropped the knife while shouting that he wouldn't kill anyone.
Jiang Mang immediately vanished from the trial and was back in the white room from which he entered. Xiao Lu was also present and was happy that Jiang Mang was fine. Before the duo could reunite that voice appeared again with a message: " Congratulations to the trial participants. Both of you were able to conquer all trials and are qualified to receive the empress's inheritance. The inheritance comes from a prestigious emperor realm cultivator who stood at the peak of her time. She was a spirit beast capable of taking human form and her original form was a nine-tailed fox who specialized in illusions and charming techniques. She had set that spirit beast could inherit her inner core to speed up their cultivation while humans could inherit all of her self created techniques and bloodline."
Xiao Lu received the empress's inner core, which he could refine to increase his cultivation speed, and Jiang Mang was infused with the nine-tailed fox's bloodline while also gaining techniques and information through a mental transmission. They were then teleported out of the cave into the woods. The crane and boy were dazed for a moment before realizing what happened. Jiang Mang decided to set up camp before checking his gains from the trial.
After having set up camp, he went into meditation and looked through his new memories. He learned that the Fox empress was a peak primordial cultivator at the emperor realm from the spirit beasts. She was heavily wounded in that legendary battle which split the Spirit continent apart in pieces. She then sat up an inheritance on one of these pieces before dying, which was the previous inheritance the duo went through. He also learned that there exist 7 cultivation stages beginning from the foundation realm to the saint realm, followed by the god realm, which is called the king realm, which is followed by the sage and emperor realm before ending at the legendary ascension realm. Those who break through to the ascension realm are rumored to ascend to a higher world, which makes the emperor realm the highest cultivation realm of this world. Jiang Mang was also informed that the Spirit continent was split into 9 large continents comparable to half of the spirit continent and 81 smaller continents like the Xuan Continent who occupy the other half.
The 9 large continents are lead by 9 powers with an emperor cultivator as their leader while the 81 continents are lead by King realm cultivators and are equivalent to third rate powers on the large continents.
Besides gaining knowledge about the world, Jiang Mang also gained all of the empress's self-created techniques. He gained a body cultivation technique that can be trained from the foundation realm until the emperor realm. This technique is similar to the Flower's beauty technique as it trains the flexibility and explosiveness of the cultivator while elevating the user's beauty. It is only way more superior than Flower's beauty. It is named charm body as its unique quality lies in increasing the cultivator's charm. The technique is split into six stages which corresponded to all cultivation realms. The stages are called jade skin, supple muscle, flexible tendon, jade bones, Golden blood, and the six desires and seven emotions stage. The first stage of jade skin requires almost the same herbal concoctions as Flower's beauty except for needing the withered rose and instead requiring ten jade flowers and five stalks of Moon grass.
He also gained some illusion and charm techniques usable from the foundation stage until the emperor realm, besides also gaining some necessary combat techniques, which are a movement technique called Fox dance, and an attack skill called Fox claws. There are three charm skills called Charming voice, Charming eyes, and Charming dance as there are three illusion skills called Illusion eyes, Illusion song, and Illusion paradise.
The movement technique makes the user incredible agile and improves dodging skills and specializes in combat endurance and not top speed. The attack technique allows the user to attack with their hands as if they are claws and they should be able to damage all those within the same realm unless their defense exceeds the power of the realm. This technique will not inhibit the flexibility of the user's hands if executed.
The charm techniques should be able to charm all those who are attracted to the user or those who have strong emotional feelings towards the user if they are within the same cultivation realm or below. Those who are successfully charmed will obey all of the user's commands as long as it doesn't strongly conflict with the target's will. The charm effect can be temporary or permanent depended on the cultivation stage and the target's will and emotional state. If the effect is reduced, it can still enhance the perception of the target of the user towards friendliness or love.
The illusion techniques will pull the target in a mental illusion comparable to his qi song Illusion land as the target needs to break free through circulating a certain level of qi to break free. The eye technique is the most inconspicuous of the three techniques but also the easiest to resist or break free from. The qi song will generate the most powerful illusion and is an area of effect skill but will stop the illusion if the user's performance stops or is interrupted. The strongest of the three techniques would be Illusion paradise as it is a mental attack illusion where the target will be attacked inside the illusion by creatures of equivalent power as the user and the will die if murdered inside the illusion, but they will not be injured if they survive the illusion attack.
The user can simulate all kinds of illusions through these three techniques, but the most effective would be maze illusions, nightmare illusions, lust illusions, or eternal illusions. The eternal illusion type is an illusion where the target will stay inside the illusion forever and live another life if they forget their identities. This type can only be cast through the eye technique as it is the easiest illusion to break out off as it only requires strong will power but if used on the right target it will be the strongest type of illusion as only the target itself can break free unless a much higher stage cultivator intervenes.