Another year had passed inside the Zither palace. Many things happened that year that shocked the inner hall. There had been a competition mandatory for all the inner hall disciples to participate. This competition was an arena competition to decide the ten strongest inner hall disciples. These ten would then be allowed to enter an inheritance ruin under the control of the nine powers. This inheritance ruin had never accepted a successor. It had, however, rewarded many people depending on their performance inside the ruin. The ruin opened once every decade two and a half years after the recruitment of the outer domain. It also allowed only ninety-nine people to enter.
The legacy belonged to an unknown person that has ascended during primordial times by the name of yin yang sovereign.
When the inner hall competition was held last week, Jiang Mang participated and crushed all his opponents with a single look from his abyss eyes. His two sisters had also participated and managed to reach the top ten despite their low cultivation base, because of their charm techniques and archery techniques. They defeated everyone by remaining at a distance with their bows and using charm techniques to either directly charm their opponents or to interfere with the dodging capabilities so that their arrows hit the opponents.
The two girls had reached the great accomplishment realm in their yin intent, which allowed their peak mid-saint stage cultivation to pierce their opponents' defenses with their arrows. Their charm abilities had also grown to the point that they could shape parts of their souls to become hardly detectable strings.
Lu Chang had also met that surnamed Wang disciple from a little less than two years ago. She took her revenge on him by using her charm techniques to control him temporarily and act in some humiliating ways. This had enraged the former top inner hall disciple Wang Luofeng who was his brother. He had, unfortunately, met with Jiang Mang, who can sense the hearts of others through his perfected heart intent. Jiang Mang sensed the hatred directed towards his sisters and taught Wang Luofeng an indescribable lesson with his netherworld eyes. Wang Luofeng had been trapped inside the illusion for ten seconds, but the time inside the illusion realm is many times longer. He had been tortured by hellions who lived inside the illusion for an entire day.
Wang Luofeng had formed a heart demon towards Jiang Mang and would flee from him at first sight from that experience on. Jiang Mang had also received the nickname Prince of purgatory. Prince referred to his charming demeanor and looks while purgatory referred to his vicious illusions.
Elder Wang, who was the father of the two surnamed Wang brothers wanted to take revenge on Jiang Mang and Lu Chang. He was, however, visited by elder Zhu after the tournament, which made him dispel his notions of revenge.
Jiang Mang had also become a level four formation master after completing the level four trial, which requires the user to layout a peak level four defensive formation that can defend against ten peak saint stage puppets for ten minutes.
Jiang Mang had managed to create his nine unique formations that used 999 999 diagrams. They all used the duality concept of life and death as their support except for two, which used the trinity concept. He had learned from his sisters and used their idea of using bridges and singular core formations.
The nine formations he created all centered around one kind of diagram and used bridges to enhance their attributes. The first formation was an offensive puppet formation supported by the duality concept of life and death, the puppet diagram as the core, and a unique combination of the beast, poison, illusion, sword, charm, and sound diagrams to form two bridges connecting to the core.
This formation created two black and green females with swords, that resembled succubi capable of using illusions through singing and their swords for close combat. The two succubi also had the aggressiveness of beasts, and their combined strength rivaled an early king stage cultivator.
This formation was called the minor succubus hell. He had also created two other offensive formations that revolved around the sword and beast diagrams. They were called the minor elusive sword storm and the minor undying fox demon.
He also had three defensive formations that used the sound, poison, and charm diagrams. The sound formation used a wall of sounds to defend, and all who entered would experience one of six effects that revolved around the illusion, charm, puppet, beast, sword, and poison diagram bridges. The formation was called the sound wall. The other two formations were called minor poison shield and minor six charm domains. These two formations didn't block attacks but were difficult to breakthrough as the first would poison you with six different poison, and the second let you cross six domains that contained different charm attacks.
The last three formations were trapping formations. One was a superior version of the previous minor samsara formation and used the illusion diagram as the core. He used this formation to replace the former level three minor samsara formation.
The other two formations used the life or death diagram as its core and the trinity concept as support while using the other eight formation diagrams to create a unique bridge he called the life or death bridges. The first formation was called minor life formation and used five death bridges to connect the life diagrams to the five elements. This formation trapped a person to heal their wounds and cure diseases. The formation would only stop after the target was completely healed. The second trapping formation was called the minor death formation that trapped people to suck their life force until they are dead.
He had called these formations all minors due to his ambition to also create counterparts at level eight and level twelve that were called major formations and supreme formations. All the minor formations were capable of either trapping early king stage cultivators and defending, obstructing, healing, or killing them.
Jiang Mang had also perfected all of his intent and had in total ten perfected intents. His charm methods had reached the third realm of string corruption and were thus incapable of advancements at the moment. His qi song soundless killing remained in the second realm but had become more flexible and controlled. His illusions remained the same, except for having become more real and harder to escape. His thirteen movements technique had seen the most improvement. It would immediately reach the Tian tier when Jiang Mang broke into the King realm, while he had also remodeled the technique to also be able to be used with hidden weapons.
He had split the technique into three parts that form the thirteen movements of emotions and desires set technique. The three parts were thirteen hand strikes, thirteen sword slashes, and thirteen poisonous hidden weapons. Each of the thirteen movements was based on one emotion or desire from the seven emotions and six disciples, and every attack contained a charm attack targeted towards the heart's seven emotions and six desires individually.
At last, he had increased the speed from hidden moon traversal to be doubled, and he could now rival an early king stage in speed.