After Horo helped Himora Learn to cultivate properly they continued to train hard but not as intense as before.
They made sure to properly spend time with their family especially their uncle Jake since his stay was temporary. While interacting with his uncle Horo unexpectedly received guidance on heart cultivation. In return he used his knowledge from the world of cultivation to informed his uncle on what heart cultivation truly was they both received enlightenment from the exchange.
The siblings also spend time with their cousins as their aunt had brought them by for a visit.
They interacted with people in the city more and more because they had become familiar faces to a lot of individuals. A lot of people knew about their family because they were of high status before their financial downfall.
They built friendships and grew closer to their family as months went by.
Most importantly they continued to grow in every way possible. Even though they have not progressed in stages, they grew tremendously in other areas.
They made most of their techniques skills, they learned as much as they can about worldly matters, and they cleared some of their task
After months of training and cultivating they both opened all of their hidden meridians and entered the core formation realm.
They found that there was nine hundred ninety three hidden meridians and the benefits of doing so was outrageous.
They still haven't discovered all of the advantages of having the hidden meridians opened, but it's much more than they could imagine.
On one sunny day that was nice and windy, it felt so great out that it seemed to have the whole city bustling with its entire population.
Horo and Himora were exploring the city like they usually did whenever they had free time.
They stopped at a couple of stalls on the street and purchased some things. They stopped at one stall the seemed weird and awkward. They really only noticed it due to their special eyes.
They approached the stall and began a dialogue with the vender about item that caught Horo's eye, or more like Alma's eye.
Horo used the appraisal function so much that me set the function to automatic mode so that he would be able to recognize any special item or treasure.
As his eyes glanced passes and item the function activated and showed him information related to an item.
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[ Ethereal heart of the White volcano ]
This gem was once the core of a super massive volcano in the center of a region of volcanoes. Outside of it being in the center of the region, as well as being one of the largest volcanoes to exist, It still was beyond ordinary. The temperature of its core was so ridiculously high that its lava was white. In the midst of a battle among powerhouses in ancient times the volcano was about to be destroyed, but before that occurred, with the little consciousness the volcano had from being so old, it imploded until it reached a breaking point but condensed into this gem. It's so special it can interact with all things ethereal, and it has the potential to blow up entire seas.
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Horo told Himora it was something perfect for her before she could appraise it herself.
After doing so she agreed internally and purchased the item from the stall owner for a decent price.
Before they could continue their journey around the city, the stall owner asked for their names.
They told him their names and in return he told them his name was Vergil. He told them he was blind but had a good intuition which is why he chose to be a merchant.
After conversing with Vergil for a little while they bid farewell and turned around to leave, but just as they did a young lady bumped into Horo's chest. He was a whole head taller than the young lady, so he had to look down in order to catch a glimpse of her face.
Once he got a good look he recognized it was one of the friends they have built a relationship with over this past months.
Her name was Emei.
Horo giggled and said "You have to watch your step Emei, you can't keep running into brick walls or else you have brain trauma."
The girl named Emei blushed and rubbed her head while saying "Oh please, don't get full or yourself, you're not that solid."
As she said that she also poked his chest, but when she did she was dumbfounded. She found that he was literally as solid as iron.
Emei was actually seven years old older than them, but she wasn't aware of the age difference because Horo and Himora looked like higher teenagers, and they never talked about their age.
In fact they never hugged or anything like that. They weren't that close yet despite how they talked to each other.
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As the twins were interacting with their "friend", someone else happened to be passing by, and that someone was far from ordinary.
It was a young man with hair that looked like blazing fire, dressed in bright red robes that had a sun on the back that moved on his clothes as if it was an actual burning sun.
The moment the young man laid his eyes on Himora his world seemed to stopped.