Their meals were served when they had finished reading through the rankings. This brought their attention back to their surroundings, and they started eating and enjoying their meals while only having fun. While they were happily eating, a new group led by a young man entered the restaurant. It could be determined by his clothes that he was a noble young master. When the servers noticed him, they notified the manager, who greeted the young man before guiding him to a table.
This table was right next to Jiang Mang and Chu Lingxin's table. They didn't pay attention to their surroundings, but the young master did. He noticed Chu Lingxin's beauty and noble bearing. He sat down before inviting her to share a meal with him. Chu Lingxin and Jiang Mang looked his way before she gently declined before ignoring him.
This behavior hurt the young master's pride and angered his servants to condemn Chu Lingxin's behavior. They said: " Miss, you should feel honored to be invited by young master Hua Long. How dare you decline his good intentions when he is interested in you. Apologize immediately and accompany our young master for a meal."
These words satisfied Hua Long before he turned his attention towards Chu Lingxin. She was stunned by the sudden outburst before she started laughing about their absurd reasoning. Since when did she, a princess, have to accompany a young master because he favored her.
Jiang Mang was also shocked by the situation before inwardly snickering as she isn't a white flower but a spicy pepper. The duo's behavior increased Hua Long's embarrassment, who ordered his servants to forcibly bring her over. These servants were all early saint stage cultivators who thought they could easily beat the duo.
Unfortunately, they met two recruitment participants as their targets. Jiang Mang reacted before Chu Lingxin to avoid causing damage to the restaurant as they couldn't afford to pay for the damages. He used Illusion eyes to put the servants in an illusion with a single look towards the direction of their movements.
Young master Hua Long was the only one remaining awake and was shocked by the current circumstances. However, instead of trying to defuse the tension, he started threatening Jiang Mang and Chu Lingxin with his identity as the second young master of the sea serpent group.
Jiang Mang and Chu Lingxin were surprised by his identity but didn't fear them as its top power was equal to the chu empire with a ruler at the mid-King stage. The sea serpent group was only richer and stronger in resources and saint realm cultivators, but this wasn't enough reason to fear the group with their backing.
The duo ultimately decided to avoid trouble by putting Hua Long in an illusion maze for twenty minutes, before informing the manager so that he could inform the Sea serpent group. They instantly left afterward, as their mood had been ruined by the young master. They left the restaurant after paying before starting to sightsee the whole city to relax for the day.
A couple of minutes after their departure, a group of guards from the Sea serpent group arrived to check the young master's condition and guarantee his safety. They were relieved when they didn't found any damage, and they silently waited for another 15 minutes until Hua Long awoke.
He was first confused until he was informed about what happened. This piece of information enraged him as he was shamed and humiliated by a pretty boy and a young girl. He started scolding his servants' incompetence while ordering the guards to find and bring the duo to him to make them kneel and beg.
The guards, however, were conflicted as the duo was of a mysterious background. They were probably traveling geniuses from a top power in the outer domain, who were headed towards the recruitment venue. Their inactivity further aggravated the young master, but before he continued making a scene, another person entered the restaurant.
This person was Hua Long's older brother, who was ranked 96 on the genius ranking and would participate in the recruitment. His name was Hua Ye and was like his brother, an arrogant spoiled young master, but he had the talent to act this way. He had shown up to stop his little brother from causing a scene while investigating the unknown duo's background.
He would humiliate them if they were nobodies and apologize if they couldn't be offended. He was a typical bully the weak and fear the strong type of person. When he learned about everything that happened, he admonished his brother for his unruly behavior while becoming interested in the so-called beauty duo, who immediately incapacitated an entire group of early saint stage servants.
Jiang Mang and Chu Lingxin were unaware of the aroused interest in them. They returned to their rooms in the evening after a relaxing day. Jiang Mang busied him when he finally had the time to inspect his new technique. After looking through the technique manual, he realized that the difficulty of comprehending the poison intent as he realized that comprehension was only possible if you experienced a myriad of different poisons yourself but the intent could only be comprehended by those who have talent in poison and medicine.
Jiang Mang was perplexed by the training method of this intent and skill. Only a crazy person would poison himself without knowing if he can comprehend the intent, but he is a crazy person as he trusts his comprehension ability. That night, he had gathered hundreds of different poisons with different effects which he could easily dispel with his qi or an antidote and would not harm his body in the long term.
He started his first session that night, in which he experienced ten different poisons while he gained some insights into the workings and types of poisons. This was a promising sign but didn't insure anything.
The next day would be their last in Sea city. The duo had planned a last visit to the colosseum where people could fight against beasts, slaves or solve their grievances.
They had decided to test themselves against some saint realm cultivators to gauge their combat power as they have become stronger but haven't fought against a decent opponent. The duo arrived at the colosseum accompanied by two peak saint stage seniors. They spent the first hour observing the colosseums rules and customs before heading down into the arena.
Chu Lingxin was the first to fight in the arena against a low saint stage slave who had comprehended the first intent to initial mastery. She defeated him in only three moves before killing him. She then continued to fight until she was defeated by a mid saint stage cultivator who had comprehended blaze intent to the small accomplishment and had a fire elemental profound spirit. Lucky for her, that she was faster than him and could thus avoid the majority of his attacks which allowed her to surrender without injuries.