Jiang Mang was now sitting in seclusion, with a pill bottle in his hands. The bottle contained the pill that would aid his breakthrough to the peak saint stage to the very peak of the saint realm. Jiang Mang had reached the point of breaking through after cultivating for another year. He had also retrieved the qi song a mortal life the previous day. He planned to leave the zither sect and travel the Holy continent where the inheritance ruin was located. He would then join the zither palace, half a year later to take part in the inheritance ruin.
His masters had also agreed as long as he reached the very peak of the saint realm. After another hour passed, he took the pill and started his breakthrough. He started sucking all the spiritual energy out of the air, while the pill dissolved into a flood of energy. After both energies were circulated, they went towards Jiang Mang's qi cores, which were growing to the size of orbs and becoming increasingly perfect. The two girls also felt the spiritual energy become dense inside the cave and started breaking through to the high saint stage.
When the night was over, Jiang Mang had reached the very peak of the saint stage, while his sisters had become high saint stage cultivators. His sisters were no strong enough to not hinder him if they were to travel with him on the Holy continent. They possed three intents of which one was the perfected charm intent, and the other two were the soft and yin intent at the great accomplishment realm. Their weapon was a bow combined with a tian tier set technique while their charm techniques were strong enough to charm anyone below the king realm except for monsters like Jiang Mang.
They had also become peak level three formation masters capable of using formations to deal with peak saints. They couldn't become level four formation masters due to their lacking cultivation realm below the peak saint stage.
Xiao Liu was still a low-rank beast king, but he could probably defeat common mid king stage cultivators due to his bloodline. When Jiang Mang left his meditation room, he gathered with Xiao Liu and his two sisters. They were ready to depart towards the Holy continent using the palace's teleportation formation. Teleportation formations could only be established by formation grandmasters.
They first visited Jiang Mang's masters to bid goodbye. Then they moved towards the main hall to file their departure and use the teleportation formation.
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One hour later, inside a building of the holy city, capital of the Holy continent, there appeared three people and a little fox on a teleportation formation. The Holy maiden sect was located inside the holy city's inner city.
The Holy continent is ruled by both humans and beasts. The humans controlled the capital and its nine subordinate cities in the inner area, and the beasts controlled all the cities of the outer area, where resources were rich.
Between the two areas was a middle area with many cities jointly governed by one human and one beast at the king realm. The inheritance ruin was located in the middle area, which was Jiang Mang's target of travel.
When they exited the formation, they were checked by the holy maiden sect's disciples for identification. They were allowed to proceed after showing their medallions of the zither palace. They first planned to explore the capital before continuing towards a subordinate city called Charm city. Charm city is a unique city as most of its cultivators are charm cultivators. The city has a wall filled with markings left by a primordial cultivator called charm sovereign. The wall is open to the public, and fated ones can be enlightened about techniques, methods, or the charm dao. The wall is an artifact with a spirit inside capable of killing peak emperors, which is the reason for the wall not having been taken away by someone.
The trio had started their exploration of the capital. An hour after the trio began sight-seeing, the trio came across an event happening. Today would be the start of a week-long bridegroom search for the daughter of the noble Xia family that is a peak second-tier power. The bridegroom will marry into the Xia family, who governed a subordinate city on the Holy continent called Ice city.
Jiang Mang and his two sisters were passing by the location when they heard a person saying that a sword fight would happen nearby. Jiang Mang wasn't interested, but his sisters were and brought him along to watch.
They arrived at a fighting platform that was surrounded by a crowd. On the platform stood an eighteen-year-old girl at the peak saint stage. She had black hair and snow-like skin and used a veil to cover her skin. Her beauty was rumored to rival that of the five goddesses.
The search was simple, any young man eighteen-year-old or younger, capable of defeating Xia Mei, the daughter of the current patriarch of the Xia family, in a sword duel would become the bridegroom. The young man also had to be in the saint realm.
The only catch to be able to challenge Xia Mei is that she is allowed to choose her opponents herself from the crowd. This wasn't known by Jiang Mang or his sisters, because they would otherwise not have joined the crowd to spectate the duel earlier.
Xia Mei was looking around the crowd at the moment. She was the strongest and most talented person in the saint realm from her family and was thus allowed to choose her husband. Her talent could rival that of holy children as she was a once in a millennium seen talent from her family due to her inheriting the frost sword profound spirit, which is capable of cultivating their strongest inheritance. She was looking for an equally talented husband in using the sword.
She was obsessed with only two things in her life. The first was cultivating the dao of the sword, and the second is pretty things. The reason that she is looking through the crowd is to find a young man that represented the word pretty. She eventually spotted a group of three consisting of a young man and two slightly older women. The young man had a cute looking fox laying on his neck while talking with the two girls. He looked like a sixteen-year-old boy and radiated the aura of an incubus still growing up. His looks could be considered perfect and rivaled her own.
She became obsessed with the boy and loudly shouted while pointing at him: "I want to challenge you!"