After blasting Master Fu flying, Yasenia returned to her original position while looking into the distance. However, unlike what she expected, Master Fu decided to retreat. With him retreating, Yasenia's taut nerves calmed down. After all, she didn't know if the Sixth Realm cultivator had an [Intent Domain] or not. This thing frustrated her slightly, so she communicated with Tatyana through her spiritual sense. 'Are there really no ways to counter an [Intent Domain]?'
Tatyana explained. 'More than there not being any way of doing so, the reason why it is considered impossible to face one is due to the level of influence an [Intent Domain] has over your [Intent]. Let's review for a second what an Intent is so that you can understand it better, Little Treasure.'
Seeing Yasenia nod, Tatyana proceeded to explain briefly. 'An [Intent] is the ability of a cultivator to interact with a concept and envelop themselves with it. For example, your [Monarch Intent] allows you to have the presence of a Monarch and also the deep understanding that comes with becoming such. A Monarch is not someone who leads with brutal power, but someone who leads with wisdom and can easily devise plots against those who want to push them from their throne.'
Tatyana smiled. 'Your innate dragon senses and your Progenitor Queen bloodline, added to your intent of protecting those around you at any cost, pushed you to understand this kind of path. The path of a Monarch.'
Yasenia agreed. 'Indeed.'
Tatyana then explained. 'Then, what happens if someone uses [Monarch Intent Domain]? It isn't just you who is affected by the [Intent] but everything in a certain area. All creatures in that area will see you as the Monarch. They will take you as the monarch. Inside the [Monarch Intent Domain], everyone who dares defy you is literally going against Heaven's will. Their strengths would be weakened and their thoughts muddled.'
Tatyana's voice was cold and imposing. 'Inside the [Monarch Intent Domain], you are the ruler. You are who dictates life and death. Hence, if someone doesn't have another domain to block off your influence, they will eventually be consumed by it to the point that just a few words from you are enough to kill them.'
Yasenia crossed her arms. 'However, can't I resist with my [Intent] since it is enveloping me?'
Tatyana asked with a smile. 'If you are enveloped in lake water in the middle of the ocean, what will happen to that lake water? Will it protect you? Or will it be mixed with the vastness of the ocean and eventually become seawater?'
Yasenia paused and understood. 'An [Intent], even if it is strong, is a much simpler version of an [Intent Domain]. So, even the simplest [Intent Domains] can probably overwhelm the most powerful [Intents]. For there to be an exception, one must understand their concept to the point that you can fight against a domain affected by Heavenly Laws.'
Tatyana nodded and glanced at Yasenia. She had expected Yasenia to show an understanding look. However, once she saw those golden eyes, her heart skipped a beat. Yasenia was glancing forward with a solemn expression and a dangerous squint. 'So… It isn't impossible per se…I just need to make my "lake water" be unable to mix with the ocean…'
"Now that everyone has rested enough. Let's start with the next competition! Give a warm welcome to the Master Spiritual Tailors that will bless our eyes with gorgeous clothes today!"
Spiritual Tailors and Spiritual Blacksmiths were very similar. Both of them created equipment for the cultivator to wear, but the essence was different. A Blacksmith followed the path of mixing ores and maximizing their effects through different techniques. They could turn a lump of metal into a sword that could slice mountains.
Meanwhile, Spiritual Tailors combined blacksmithing and formations. They used threads made from all kinds of materials, including metals, to produce robes, whips, and many other cloth accessories or weapons like ribbons. These weapons intertwined the complex nature of those threaded materials with complex sewing techniques that resonated with Heaven and Energy.
Mortal ranked tailors didn't need to do much other than follow certain steps and be sure that the threads were energy-conductive. As long as the tailor was skilled enough, creating a Heaven-ranked cloth with defensive capabilities close to heavy armor was not that complicated.
However, things changed once a tailor's products entered the Transcendence Realm. The tailor's job became the opposite of before, from using energy to fuse threads to using the material's threads to interlock heavenly energy in the garments they produced.
A powerful tailor could create robes that increased the cultivator's strength several times and also protected them in many ways.
"For the Tailoring competition and the others, the first segment will be the same as the Alchemy competition. I will repeat it for those that didn't stay or attend the alchemy competition."
Then, the handsome voice of the announcer repeated all the rules, conditions, etc, of the first test. Evelyn pondered. 'I am not too confident on this one… My knowledge of different clothes that can be made with specific materials is quite strange. After all, I hardly follow any books, and I've always been self-learning.'
Evelyn's talent in tailoring went without saying. However, that came biting her back when it came to doing a theoretical exposition. Evelyn loved first seeing the materials that she would be threading and mixing the things as she felt they would fit best. Her senses were so sharp in this regard that her skills had even caught up with the tailor maid that had been teaching her.
While Evelyn pondered, the announcer continued. "For the second competition, the tailors will need to use the same batch of materials and create the best cloth set possible. There needs to be at least a dress/robe, jacket or any type of overall garment, undergarment, shocks, and a pair of shoes. It can be for female or male cultivators. However, it can't be unisex. You must choose either male or female."
Evelyn blinked and nodded. 'That doesn't seem too bad. I should be able to create something nice.'
"Finally," the announcer continued. "The last round will be to fix the robes of our guests. A group of guests with different damaged Transcendence Ranked clothes will come, and you, as tailors, must be swift and effective. The things to value will be the fixed robe's quality, the time you took, and the materials you used. The fewer materials you use, the better, of course. Naturally, if the quality of the robe drops, there will be points deducted."
Evelyn frowned for a second. 'I hope it is a woman… If I need to fix male robes, I will be in trouble.'
Living among primarily women, Evelyn's skills when creating female vs male clothing were quite different. She was not unskilled when crafting male garments, but the comparison between them would make any other tailor weep. For male garments, she was a genius. For female garments, she was a monstrous genius.
"Now that you have the scroll with the materials on your tables, you may begin! The limit is 20 hours, and the number of materials is 800."
The reason for having so many fewer items was that, unlike Alchemy, which used hundreds of auxiliary herbs, tailoring focused on a small but perfectly matching group of materials to create their threads. Therefore, with 800 materials, creating tens or hundreds of thousands of different pieces of clothing was not impossible.
Evelyn glanced at the list and scratched her head. 'Why are some names so strange? Thankfully, they come with the image…" She sighed. "To think that Kali could create over 100,000 recipes with a list similar to this one is ridiculous. I am still a step behind compared to Angel, Andrea, and Kali."
In truth, Evelyn underestimated herself a lot. Not only had she started much later, but her proficiency was only catching up to the others and never the opposite.
Evelyn focused on writing down the method of crafting dresses, gloves, cloaks, jackets, robes, and many other pieces of clothing. She wrote as the ideas popped into her head, never using any type of guide or theory. Just instinct and practical knowledge.
Twenty hours were neither long nor short. Naturally, due to Kali's performance, many people were paying Evelyn attention. They were curious whether this petite and pretty blue-haired and violet-eyed woman would do as well as the other junior.
Evelyn's calm and serious appearance while writing down on the scroll captivated many. After being nourished for almost 80 years straight by Yasenia's Dual Cultivation, her original plain appearance had been completely overturned.
As of now, Evelyn's face carried the beauty of a mischievous woman. However, that was when she was teasing people and doing her usual silly shenanigans. When she turned serious, a feeling of nobleness and deference was emitted from her, and her facial features combined into a beautiful and charming face. Her lips were slightly plump, and her eyes showed innate arrogance and confidence. Never too much, but enough that she couldn't be underestimated. Her skin was flawless as well, and her body went from being as flat as a board to slightly curvier and slender.
Thanks to pregnancy, her breast grew to a gentle B cup, approaching a C cup. Her waist also became much more slender, and her hips became plumper. She had a perfect body to hug that would fit snugly between your arms.
Evelyn didn't even realize that her attractiveness had reached a level where many men would take a second look. Yasenia glanced around and saw the looks some people gave Evelyn, making her somewhat jealous.
Of all her girls, Yasenia was the least accustomed to people coveting her mischievous little girl. For Yasenia, Evelyn was like the hidden and beautiful little pearl that she wanted to take care of and love for her entire life. However, they said that a gem's glow can't be hidden when they are hit by the spotlight, and it was the truth.
Right now, as Evelyn worked tirelessly and seriously, with a few strands of her gorgeous and soft blue hair sticking to the side of her face, Evelyn was glowing.
"Stop! Put your writing quills down!"
Evelyn placed down the pen and sighed. "What a shame, I could barely write a few of them…"
The judges took the scrolls, and thanks to Kali's problem, Evelyn's scroll worked properly and was analyzed depending on the possible nature and not a predetermined catalog.
The number of garments Evelyn managed to come up with was 23,400.
"Let's start the evaluation! Master Zhan… 25,600!"
Evelyn blinked. 'Huh? They have also written so few?'
Eventually, Evelyn was speechless when, among the 9 participants, she ranked 6th.