Chapter 13: Tribulation Lightning Spiritual Vein
“I, Jiang Qingwa, would like to ask if there is anyone else who would like to challenge me?”
On the stage in the center of the banquet hall, a young girl wearing a green dress with a sword in hand valiantly challenged the sons and daughters of the officials that have gathered in the banquet hall.
Tianyi watched on with great interest. The food has been served, and now the classical sparring event was being held. Juniors of various families could enter the stage and challenge each other to display their skills and potential. But these juniors were all in the Qi Gathering Realm. None of them were in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
The Xi Dynasty was originally an ordinary mortal dynasty, and Xi Mengfei, who was born with a mutated Heavenly Yin Spiritual Vein, was an anomaly amongst anomalies. When Xi Mengfei left the Great Xi Dynasty back, the highest level cultivator was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, her emperor-father. Almost a millennium has passed since then.
Although Xi Mengfei gave numerous cultivation manuals to her emperor-brother, it cannot change the fact that the citizens of the Xi Dynasty were mere mortals. It took time for people with Spiritual Veins to appear, and thus, even after years, the highest expert was the Xi Emperor, the sole Nascent Soul cultivator. And that was only because he was given numerous pills and elixirs aiding him in his cultivation by Xi Mengfei. He originally had a Triple Spiritual Vein with only a fractured quality Spiritual Vein at best. Xi Mengfei used her resources to remove one shattered spiritual vein and upgrade his fractured Spiritual Vein to flawless.
As for his sons, aside from his third son and youngest, none of them had the right quality Spiritual Vein to cultivate to the Core Formation realm, but prolonging their lives was still sufficient with the pills the Emperor had on hand.
And the officials in the Great Xi Dynasty?
There were only five Core Formation realm cultivators after all these years, and four of them were titled Dukes for their accomplishment by the Xi Emperor. Jiang Qingwa was the daughter of one of the current Dukes, Duke Qi. It was her grandfather that had reached the Core Formation realm and was currently in secluded cultivation, and her father was still at the Foundation Establishment Realm.
“Hmmm, she should be considered quite good to reach the seventh stage of the Qi Gathering Realm,” Tianyi said to himself as he watched on with interest. Of course, Tianyi wasn't comparing her to the Buzhou Immortal Sect disciples, but the scions present.