They have been traveling for two weeks and were only an hour away from reaching the Sword capital. Chu Lingxin had broken through to the mid saint stage after she had finished refining the qi breaking pill while Jiang Mang had trained in the Poison Daggers technique for two weeks by ingesting more than hundreds of different poisons. He had already comprehended all the applications to the technique and its abilities. He only needed to understand the poison intent in which he seemed to be quite talented as he had comprehended many insights over these two weeks. His understandings of poisons had grown to the point that he could be called experienced in the field. He also felt that he only needed that one more push to comprehend the poison intent. Unfortunately, he had understood that that push wouldn't come through experiencing poisons anymore and could only come through luck.
Jiang Mang had decided to buy some ingredients for a poison concoction. He would use a self-developed poison with this technique until he comprehended the intent. His self developed poisons would specialize in hallucinations and aphrodisiacs by removing the harmful effects. He could amplify their effects with his music performances while his harmful poisons would be too weak to endanger saint realm cultivators.
He had learned poison concoction skills in the Xuan continent and his skills had improved by leaps and bounds as he gained insights into the poison intent and its accompanying technique. Due to his specialty in illusions and charm, he was able to develop two formulas for a hallucination poison and an aphrodisiac, which could be concocted with regular herbs except for the two saint tier herbs called immortal daisy and yin flower, which he had to purchase in the sword capital.
They arrived in Sword capital after an hour and immediately headed towards a pre-reserved inn at the main square. They smoothly checked in, and they immediately left after checking their rooms. Chu Lingxin immediately headed towards the sword wall under the company of two peak saint stage seniors, and Jiang Mang headed to a medicinal shop under the alchemist organization to procure the two saint herbs. He was also followed by two peak saint stage seniors but also by Xiao Lu, who was a low-rank saint beast. Xiao Lu, who had equal cultivation as Jiang Mang was way stronger than him as it could rival high-rank saint beasts who could rival high saint stage cultivators who had comprehended a small accomplishment intent. Jiang Mang should be equally as strong as Xiao Lu, but this was only if he would activate his bloodline ability of partial transformation. Unfortunately, this would expose his pureblooded bloodline, which would attract a lot of trouble before he reached the sage realm or at minimum the king realm.
Jiang Mang arrived at the store after a short walk. When he entered, he was immediately attended by a maid who asked him what his needs were. The store was quite empty as not many people besides doctors and alchemists required them, and these professions were quite rare in the outer domain. Jiang Mang gave a list of all the herbs he required. The attendant went to get them. When she was gone, Jiang Mang asked the accompanying seniors to help him look around and inform him if there were some rare poisonous herbs. Unfortunately, there weren't any for sale, which dampened his spirit a bit. Fortunately, the maid was able to procure all the herbs for a reasonable price of 2500 spirit coins, which they could afford.
He paid for the herbs and collected them in his new storage ring before preparing to leave. While he was leaving, a young girl in alchemist robes entered and asked loudly to prepare an immortal daisy for her. This announcement surprised Jiang Mang as it was for one of the same herbs he had just purchased. He, however, didn't halt and walked towards the door. Unfortunately, the maid who had previously attended him had responded to the young girl, that the last immortal daisy was sold to him.
This made the young girl look at the pretty boy who had just passed her. She blocked his way so that he couldn't leave. The two seniors who accompanied Jiang Mang didn't interfere as they knew that she was an alchemy apprentice who shouldn't be attacked for no reason.
Jiang Mang halted and turned his head towards her direction with an aloof look as he couldn't see her attire and thus didn't know her profession. When she looked into his aloof lazy eyes, she was angered as nobody had ever looked at her with those eyes. She, however, stayed calm as she wanted the immortal daisy he had purchased. She kept looking at him before speaking: " My name is Feng Xue, and I would like to buy that immortal daisy you just bought. I can pay you twice its worth or something of equivalent value." Feng Xue thought that he would kindly accept her offer, as she was a pretty young girl and an alchemist. Contrary to her expectations, he refused with a single no and wanted too directly leave.
His behavior angered her, and she continued to block his way. This conversation troubled the two seniors beside Jiang Mang, but they knew that he also needed the herb for the recruitment for him and Chu Lingxin's sake as they would have advised him to agree in other circumstances.
Jiang Mang was angered by her pestering but before he could speak she attacked him with her early saint realm cultivation. Feng Xue was a well-known cultivation and alchemy genius in the outer domain. She is known as the fire saintess who had reached the saint realm at the age of 17 a month ago. She had comprehended initial mastery scorching intent due to her phoenix profound spirit, which made her qi contain both fire and life properties, which allowed her to become an alchemist and expert fire cultivator. Due to her young age, she was not yet a ranked genius, but she was more talented than most of them and could probably rival the top 3 in talent.
Jiang Mang was shocked by the sudden attack but easily dodged with Fox dance. Feng Xue stopped her attack after she realized that she had lost her temper, but she could not help and say the following remark: "Stupid pretty boy, don't you know who I am and even if you don't know why don't you help a beautiful little girl like me with a simple request. Stupidblock head."
Her remark startled him but made him start laughing and even forget his anger from being attacked and pestered. His laugh surprised Feng Xue but also enraged her further.