In the end, Ning ChenKun decided against joining us, and I couldn’t blame him. We weren’t willing to tell him anything about what was really going on, and even if we did, I knew it would be hard to accept. However, before he left, he shared some valuable information.
According to ChenKu...
2024-09-13 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a lot to fix in NanLu City, but before anything else, I had to work on its defenses. If I tried to improve my citizens’ quality of life first, hungry Lords from the surrounding lands would swoop down and destroy all my hard work.
My first impulse was to find a way to construct v...
2024-09-12 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, I was being a bit rash. Lord Hao was not, in point of fact, Lord Hao. Grandmaster Hao had yet to reach such a lofty position.
This was unfortunate, but I wasn’t going to allow it to delay us. After conferring with Yan, I chose to purchase the title to NanLu...
2024-09-11 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChoosing the path we would walk on our way to Yellow City was more complicated than I had originally imagined.
For LiTing, Yan, and Meng LuYao, the path that made the most sense was the Path of Soul. They had sufficient knowledge of high-level martial and profession skills, so the oth...
2024-09-10 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostUpon leaving the Metal Peak, I found JiaQi standing near the Gateway Plaza and waving at me. After a quick greeting, she led me to an apartment complex where everyone else had already settled in.
Upon entering, I said nothing to my friends and immediately set to laying out a formation...
2024-09-09 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Change Kang LuYao to Meng LuYao. Sorry for the confusion.
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In the brief time I had before the sect’s Entrance Exam, I quickly raised my cultivation level as much as I reasonably could, reaching Martial Grandmaster 4. ...
2024-09-06 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Change Kang LuYao to Meng LuYao. Former was too close to the name of a real person, and thought it would be best to create more separation as the character's role has expanded.
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System Alert: A novel cultiva...
2024-09-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIf I wanted my ambitious ideas for this life to come to fruition, I had a lot of work to do. Designing the cultivation technique I had in mind was far beyond anything I had done before, and it would require all the time and effort I could give it.
Still, one of my main reasons for returning...
2024-09-04 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter appearing in an alley in South Gate City, I headed directly for the area of town with the Blue Wind Pavilion. When I found an inn that looked nice but not too fancy, I went inside and booked a room.
Before anything else, I needed to get cleaned up and make myself presentable. After al...
2024-09-03 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in a carriage, and my first thoughts were of being savaged by a wild dog, but I quickly squashed them. I had work to do, and I needed to get it done.
My 100-year plan was basically at an end. I was using a technicality in the rules I had created for myself to allow me one last go,...
2024-09-02 12:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostI only had four years before I needed to die and reset.
After laying everything out to my friends and allies, I dedicated myself wholeheartedly to reaching Peak Emperor before this deadline, but it didn’t take long for me to understand the difficulty of raising my cultivation base so high...
2024-08-30 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAfter passing through the final opening, we were teleported somewhere new. While we were still standing in the middle of a cloud bank, our visibility had improved, and we could now see up to a dozen meters away.
In the middle of the clearing, Ning ChenKun stood rigidly with his hands claspe...
2024-08-29 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostOur meeting with ChenKun was brief and to the point.
He had five spots for subordinates. Two would go to others, one would go to Yan, and one would go to me. He offered the last spot to LiTing, but having thought about it over the past several years, she declined and allowed it to be given ...
2024-08-28 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEven though I now had a better understanding of what I needed to do to make my dreams for my storage space a reality, I had to set that task aside for the moment.
The scroll given to me by Emperor Shen included instructions for both carving a formation into one’s soul and removing s...
2024-08-27 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA day after we arrived, Ning ChenKun’s deathsworn and two of the students who had been traveling with him joined us in Earth City. The other two who had left Profound City with us had fallen on the Path of Soul. Adding in the one we lost on the Path of Mind, half of our students had failed in t...
2024-08-26 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI had two options for which set of tests I could take, formation specialist or alchemist. As a member of the Earth Peak, I should take the formation specialist route as it had been made clear in my last life that walking a path other than the one connected to my peak would negativel...
2024-08-23 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBefore rejoining the School of the Great Teacher, my martial and formation skills were already reaching the limit of what I could accomplish with my current cultivation level, so beginning my star there, I shifted my focus more toward alchemy. When I did, my sizable boost in comprehension showed ...
2024-08-22 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhat should I do to assist the School of the Great Teacher? That question had been running through my mind constantly over the past year.
If they were only facing an internal crisis of confidence, I would have considered not intervening. Such crises can lead to a strengthening of reso...
2024-08-21 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostOut in the wilderness with students who knew nothing about soul cultivation, maintaining the appearance of the ‘Great Teacher’ hadn’t been too difficult. I had several libraries worth of books at my fingertips, and I could use them to address any questions or concerns my students raised. Th...
2024-08-20 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI was about to lose my largest backing in this world, and if Ning ChenKun had any ulterior motives, this would be the perfect time to put them into action. He had said he wanted me to join the Ning Clan, but how sincere had he been?
More importantly, by the way I was acting, he would be abl...
2024-08-19 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs I was sitting alone in a cultivation cave working on breaking through to Martial Lord 5, I received a visitor who I had hoped to not meet again until I had more power to defend myself.
An old, emaciated man walked into my cave. He wore robes of a stunning light blue, and a small gold cir...
2024-08-16 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the message I had left for myself.
Torture. Were they torturing everyone during the Exam Trials? Was that the true reason we weren’t allowed to remember anything that happened inside? What was the point of it all?
I had to trust that if I had learned the reason for it du...
2024-08-15 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostStepping through the stone arch caused my surroundings to flash, but it appeared as if I hadn’t moved. The only changes of note were that the stone arch had vanished and there was now a large desk in the middle of the road with an elderly man sitting behind it. A quick check with ...
2024-08-14 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Not sure how many this might impact, but just want to put it out there to make sure everyone is aware and warned. Patreon is doing something with iOS pricing, so if you subscribe through the iOS app, you will be charged an extra 30%.
Not too sure on how this differs fr...
2024-08-14 01:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor several days after meeting those young men, my life with LiTing alone in the forest continued as normal as we cultivated our souls while discussing philosophy. Unfortunately, the peace and tranquility of our seclusion was broken when an alarm formation alerted me that a large group was approa...
2024-08-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAfter entering the Path of Soul, I didn’t feel even a twinge from the soul pressure that I was supposed to be under. With the defenses provided by my soul cultivation technique, this level of pressure was entirely meaningless.
LiTing, on the other hand, wasn’t doing quite so well....
2024-08-12 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Path of Body that led to Yellow City looked very different from the one on the way to Earth City. Instead of being a dense jungle, this one was more like a rocky wasteland.
The entrance to the path was a stone arch that made my space affinity tingle, so I couldn’t be sure the path was...
2024-08-09 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostWith 100 stages to complete, I needed to be extremely efficient. I had reason to believe I could complete 50 in one day, but I didn’t believe for a moment that the second 50 would be as easy as the first 50.
My quickest and most stamina-efficient way to take down the Trial’s constructs ...
2024-08-08 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI was Grandmaster 7 and LiTing was Grandmaster 4, but before leaving Mortal City, we both needed to reach Peak Grandmaster.
We could have tried to rush through Yellow City as quickly as possible in an attempt to evade Lord Hao, but doing so would have been reckless. If we did that and...
2024-08-07 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter escaping through the forest and returning safely to Golden River City, our group quickly made its way back to the sect.
As we had killed our ambushers, we wouldn’t be getting any contribution points for the mission, but I still needed to report the details of what happened to the Ha...
2024-08-06 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post