Jiang Mang was extremely happy with all of his new abilities as they suited him incredibly well and fulfilled all of his needs. He was also curious about his new bloodline. Through the general knowledge memories, he came to know that there existed incredible powerful cultivation families at the human side who have assimilated a spirit beast bloodline in their bloodlines. These bloodlines can be split into four grades from low to peak tier. A low tier bloodline will help its host reach the saint realm while a peak tier will help its host reach the emperor realm if the bloodline is pure enough. People with bloodlines can also be split in terms of purity where the concentration decides purity. From 0 to 10 percent is a low purity level, from 11 to 30 percent is a medium purity level and from 31 to 49 percent is a high purity level, while those with a 50 percent are known as purebloods.
A person with a low purity level will see an enhancement in their qi and body quality if they activate their bloodline. Those with a medium purity level will have their qi and body passively enhanced and can explode with more power if they activate their bloodline power. Those with high purity levels will inherit certain bloodline skills such as partial transformation and are certain to reach the cultivation realm of their bloodlines tier if they live long enough. These bloodline skills can only be used after activating their bloodlines. A pureblood is capable of partial transformation and other bloodline skills at all times and will receive the same talent as the original owner of the assimilated or inherited blood.
Jiang Mang has gained a peak tier bloodline and is a pureblood. This has increased his cultivation talent to the emperor realm at least and will passively enhance his body. The nine-tailed fox's bloodline doesn't improve the defense or attack power of the physical body but the agility and beauty of the body. It also increases the illusionary and charm ability of his qi which was already quite high.
If Jiang Mang partially transforms, then his beauty will be enhanced while also gaining nine foxtails, fox ears, and fox claws. This transformation will also increase his body's quality. His fox claws will also help him to gain extreme penetration ability if used together with the technique Fox claws.
Unfortunately, it was advised to keep his bloodline purity and tier a secret as high-level cultivation families can steal bloodlines from others to increase the talent of their own families. This makes it important to not reveal his bloodline unless he can kill everyone or if he is strong enough to defend himself. He was informed that only sage realm cultivators could be said to be capable enough to protect themselves.
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Jiang Mang took two hours to go through all of his new knowledge and abilities. He had set himself the goal to travel through the different continents while trying to reach the ascension realm. He would cultivate his charm and illusion techniques as his main abilities while training in close combat and hidden weapons as his supporting abilities. He would graduate from the Imperial academy before making plans.
On the Xuan continent, you are a genius if you breakthrough to the manifestation realm at the age of twenty and the saint realm at the age of one hundred but outside it is generally stated that you are a genius if you achieve the manifestation realm before the age of fifteen and the saint realm before the age of 20. The top 9 powers will only accept disciples at the saint realm and below the age of 20, which became the boy's goal.
He suddenly remembered that the little chu princess had broken through to the manifestation realm a month ago at the age of 14. This meant that she had the required talent to become a disciple of one of the top 9 powers. This piece of information further motivated the boy to advance his cultivation realm.
He went to sleep under Xiao Lu's protection and would resume herb gathering the next day. The next day arrived and Jiang Mang noticed that Xiao Lu had transformed after a night. He had broken through to the level of a fierce beast, which is equivalent to a manifestation realm cultivator.
The duo's herb gathering ability had significantly increased after the previous trial, and they managed to gather all the herbs required for Jiang Mang's body cultivation in three days.
He then returned to the academy to resume training and cultivation. He first reunited with Xia Ruoyin and Song Meiling before starting his new training period. He also promised the headteacher to participate in the inner house tournament against all the strongest students of the academy. The tournament would take place in three months to determine the strongest students in the foundation stage.
He started his training with the body cultivation technique. He had to endure strong medicinal extracts while performing certain postures. Normally, this would be extremely painful and difficult but the trial's torture and enhancement of his talent allowed him to perfect the first stage in only one week. This resulted in a jade-like skin that was able to defend against cuts and bruises if the power is below the manifestation stage. He had also acquired a skin which girls would be jealous of. Xia Ruoyin had commented that she too would train in the skill Flower's beauty as she too wanted such flawless skin. Song Meiling, on the other hand, ridiculed him as a pretty boy who had become prettier.
He started training in all the other inheritance techniques after his body cultivation was finished. He first trained the movement and attack skill and was able to master them in two weeks before starting to train the two eye techniques. These two techniques would be a trump card of his as nobody would expect an eye technique from a blind person. The eye techniques were trained through nourishing the eyes with your qi through certain meridians. This action was seen as dangerous as it could result in blindness, but this was no problem for Jiang Mang, who was born blind.
He was able to reach the initial stage in the two techniques after two weeks and he would only be able to progress further if he reached the manifestation realm. His eyes were now capable of charming and pulling a target into an illusion with a simple look into the eyes of his target. This requirement will cease to exist if the technique is mastered as he would then only have to look at the target and not into their eyes to charm or pull them into an illusion.
Only less than two months were remaining in which he had to train the other four techniques. He was able to master the Illusion song in only a week, but Illusion paradise took him two weeks. The last two charm techniques were learned in the remaining month but he had only barely learned Charming dance as he was untalented in the art of dance while Charming voice had also reached the initial stage like the eye techniques. This had enhanced his singing capabilities and flute playing skills.