Jiang Mang informed the team about the spirit spring, and the team decided after a discussion that they would try for it. They had concluded, that Jiang Mang's mastery of illusions and his perfected poison intent should be able to slay the fox king if they planned their attack well.
They prepared themselves for the trip, as it would take a week to arrive at the mountain. Feng Xue concocted some extra healing and qi recovery pills, while Jiang Mang concocted some poisons, which could be used by his teammates.
They started their journey at noon. They had again formed a defensive formation, to defend against ambushes, while they dealt with all the beasts that came their way. While they were moving towards the mountain, Huang Mo, the top ranker, had killed a participant, to rob him of his points. He was a high saint stage cultivator, who had comprehended 4 intents, with two at perfection and the other two at great accomplishment. His personality was cruel and cold, while his bearing was domineëring and arrogant.
He had just found a map inside the storage treasure of his victim, on which a spirit spring was marked. Huang Mo was pleasantly surprised before he started walking towards the place marked on the map.
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The Zhao siblings were slaying a group of wolf saint beasts, and when they had finished, they started heading towards a massive mountain in their sight. Zhao Mo and Zhao Yin were also both at the high saint stage and had grasped shadow intent to perfection and three others to great accomplishment. When they combined, they were even rumored to be stronger than Huang Mo.
Zhao Yin is also known to be the most gorgeous beauty of the outer domain, and able to rival the five goddesses of the inner domain in beauty.
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Two days had passed after their departure, and they were now fighting a group of three people who were all ranked in the top 100. They were all in the mid saint stage with intent at the great accomplishment level. The strongest person was ranked 70th, and his strength was equal to the lower-ranked Hua Ye, who was at the high saint stage. The other two were ranked in the eighties and were facing Jiang Mang alone, while the two girls were supporting both Hua Ye and Jiang Mang.
Jiang Mang was using immortal paradise to attack and trap his two opponents, while Hua Ye was using his water giant sea serpent to entangle with his opponent. Jiang Mang was about to kill his opponent when Hua Ye's opponent attacked him and managed to save his teammates. Hua Ye then managed to hit his opponent, but he didn't kill him. He was impressed by his life-saving action and the team was thus only knocked unconscious and robbed of their points before being left in the wild.
Jiang Mang and his friends continued their journey towards the spirit spring. Jiang Mang always kept his inner view active through his music and guided his teammates through the woods. He had hit a bottleneck in all of his intents together with his cultivation stage. He was now working on his charm intent, which was at the peak of small accomplishment. He comprehended it as making his opponents desire himself through manipulation of a combination of factors, but he couldn't profoundly simplify his comprehension to reach great accomplishment, and he didn't know in which direction he should head.
While Jiang Mang was trying to comprehend his charm intent, his teammates were also trying to improve their capabilities. Gu Hei had just stopped training her usage of hidden weapons inside of an illusion. She approached the soul silhouette of a thinking boy and asked what he was thinking. Jiang Mang decided to explain his troubles.
They started discussing the dao of charm when Gu Hei remarked something that enlightened Jiang Mang. Gu Hei had said that a flower can charm or captivate something through their beauty, but a person can only be charmed when their heart itself is charmed or at least confused. These words had reminded Jiang Mang, that his charm intent had broken through after his comprehension of the seven emotions and six desires, which centered around the feelings of the heart.
This point enlightened Jiang Mang about a way to advance his charm intent. He had comprehended that his abilities to manipulate the heart weren't strong and clear enough, which blocked his advance. He needed to master or create a technique to manipulate the heart of its target, and that would be the moment his charm intent would advance.
He had now mastered the following techniques:
Fox dance for movement and Fox claw for close combat.
Illusion eyes, Illusion Song, and Illusion Paradise as the basis of his illusion skills which could be combined with a variety of qi songs
Charm eyes, Charm voice, and Charm dance as the basis of his Charm skills without accompanying skills
Charm body as his body tempering technique, which has reached the realm of flexible tendons and was followed by jade bones, golden blood, and the six desires and seven emotions stage.
Vine storm and Darkness domain as control skills
Willow leaf throwing dagger art to throw hidden daggers and Poison daggers for creating or coating hidden weapons with poison and using poison intent to create a variety of usable poison qis
Mark as a support skill for subduing and taming beasts.
What he now needed was a set or single technique that could accompany his charm skills to increase their effectiveness and that was targeted at manipulating the heart of others. Jiang Mang eventually decided to create a technique that improved his close combat abilities and could be used in combination with charm dance.
The team's journey continued towards the spirit spring, but Jiang Mang was also using the journey to create his new technique. After four new days, they were only a day away from the spirit spring and they were now resting. Jiang Mang was seated cross-legged but was fighting against Gu Hei inside his mind. He was using thirteen different movements which had a unique grace to them. These thirteen movements consisted of seven fist attacks and six palm attacks which he had named the seven emotions fist and desireless palm.
The seven emotions fist was emulated after the seven emotions of which each emotion consisted of a fist attack. These fist attacks were capable of attacking these emotions and throwing the heart into disharmony.
The desireless palm was emulated after the six desires of which each desire consisted of a palm attack. These palm attacks were capable of severing the desires inside of one's heart while also being capable of planting desire seeds inside of the target's heart, which could be used to successfully charm opponents. The two techniques were also capable of shattering the opponent's heart itself if the user is strong enough.