With all the immediate crises dealt with, at least for the moment, I could finally take a step back and focus on other projects. So, while ShouLi and the leadership council were busy codifying a new system for selecting their replacements, reestablishing the various guilds, and working to rebuild...
2025-04-17 12:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sovereigns had been dealt with, but that didn't mean we were safe. We had less than a week before the Central Continent’s tribute came due, and if anything went wrong, everything that we had gone through would have been meaningless.
I needed to ensure that didn't happen.
We need...
2025-04-16 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostLi NeiTang was dead, but that didn’t mean we were safe. We were still deep in the Jiu Clan’s territory, and we couldn’t relax until we figured out where their Kings and Emperors had disappeared to.
So, once Liang's condition was stable, I sent both him and ShouLi back into my inner wo...
2025-04-15 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSu HongYi opened the temple’s gates to give us our first look at the courtyard beyond. To the left and right, I could see several of the smaller buildings that I had spotted from above, but our primary destination was right in front of us.
At first glance, the main hall of the Summit’s ...
2025-04-14 12:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the battle against Zhuge YeDu had been far more tense than I would have liked, Yan’s meticulous planning had been enough to ensure that everything had worked out well in the end. Likewise, while we hadn’t had much, if any, control over what had happened in the Li Clan, Emperor Li’s sc...
2025-04-11 12:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostNiangBa led the charge as our army rushed toward Lang’ya City’s ruined walls. At his side were Meng LuYao, Cai XiaoYu, and a collection of our most powerful light, dark, and lightning cultivators.
While the metal and earth cultivators among us might have been the deadliest, those ...
2025-04-10 12:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostOur final meeting to prepare for the assault was held within my inner world. While this meant that Ning ZeKun couldn’t join us, it allowed Yan to discuss things far more frankly than would have otherwise been possible.
There were three different targets that we wanted to hit: the Zhuge Cl...
2025-04-09 12:38:07 +0000 UTC View PostWith a monumental battle against the Sovereigns on the horizon, I needed to improve my cultivation base as much as possible. But to do that, I first needed to acquire a significant quantity of karmic energy.
After traveling back through time, the population of the Su Clan hadn’t even been...
2025-04-08 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMy brow furrowed. “Bloodfire?”
Everyone at the table looked at Ning ZeKun as we waited for an explanation.
“I… can’t share the details…” ZeKun’s face twisted in annoyance.
Recognizing the effects of an Oath at play, I wanted to pull ZeKun into my inner world so t...
2025-04-07 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostShouLi stood from her throne and calmly approached the Sovereigns while I followed behind. As we moved, the Sovereigns’ faces morphed into looks of suspicion.
Before coming here, they would have known that I was an accomplished Formation Emperor, and they had to have assumed that I would ...
2025-04-04 12:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostEven though Shen had been able to build his anti-Soul Lamp formation, he didn’t have much of an understanding of the principles under which it operated. So, before we could look to either expand it or reconfigure it into a grand formation, we first needed to get a better grasp of how it functio...
2025-04-03 12:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostBecause of Jian DuJian’s antics, it took me a bit longer to reach Heaven City than I would have liked, but my time in Earth City hadn’t been wasted.
Even with all the free formations that I had handed over, I had still been able to earn enough contribution points to purchase two levels'...
2025-04-02 12:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostShen took me deeper into his mountain abode, to a perfect replica of Jin’s anti-Sovereign conference room. After tapping the formation in the center of the table to activate the room’s defenses, he turned and looked at me expectantly.
Reaching into my inner world, I pulled out a tray co...
2025-04-01 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter arriving in South Gate, I booked a room at an inn and entered seclusion.
The alteration I purchased for my identity jade would allow me to enter the sect whenever I wanted, but I wanted to wait until I broke through to Grandmaster. While I might be able to blend in with the mortal des...
2025-03-31 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello,
Just as a reminder, at the end of book 5, I plan to pause Patreon payments and take a month off. The information below is for those who want it for making subscription decisions.
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77 will be the last major life of...
2025-03-28 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I appeared in the Su Clan’s training compound, I felt like the world was spinning around me. The unbridled emotions created by my faulty ascensions as a Sovereign had completely unbalanced my mind, and even after being reborn, it took me several minutes to regain my bearings.
As I lo...
2025-03-28 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostOrganizing a large-scale exodus of our clan was neither quick nor quiet. However, thankfully, the council had experienced the attack on Mount Jiang in a previous loop, so they had already considered the possibility of such an event happening again. While they didn’t have anything as concrete as...
2025-03-27 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostNing ZeKun didn’t seem overly enthused by the idea of me and my clan running away through time. After all, if this timeline continued after we were gone, then both he and his clan would be in trouble. However, if Emperor Li had talked to him as he said, then he had to have already known what he...
2025-03-26 12:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt appeared that we had been victorious, but I didn’t want to risk anything going wrong at the last moment. So, I pulled NiangBa’s four lieutenants out of my inner world and had them keep an eye out for any rogue portals.
While I did this, Ning ZeKun popped over to where the Emissary’...
2025-03-25 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at the Emissary of the Nine Rivers Saint coldly. While I had expected this showdown, I had not expected to lose my entire cultivation base before it started. That would make things far more difficult.
“I do not believe I have any reason to swear such loyalty to a person ...
2025-03-24 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSix months later, Dragon Gate Kingdom stood empty.
20,000 youths, along with their caretakers, had been moved into my inner world. Everyone else had been sent to live in the territories of the sects. The only people who remained were some of our Emperors, but not even they were in the citie...
2025-03-21 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostWhile my clan’s leadership got to work preparing everyone in the Wastes for what was about to happen, I headed to Blue Wind Pavilion for a chat with an old friend.
As I entered the Pavilion, an attendant stepped forward to greet me, but I didn’t even look at her. I headed straight to th...
2025-03-20 14:47:57 +0000 UTC View PostShouLi guided me out of the tent city and north, to a large, open field that had recently been sown with sorghum seeds.
Seeing the tender young shoots that were just starting to poke up out of the soil, I felt a little bad about what we were planning to do. It was unlikely that any of...
2025-03-19 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Rank 4 Drill of Fellowship had not been ‘novel’ enough to trigger an enlightenment, I had to struggle through the process of upgrading ShouLi’s Rank 5 and 6 techniques all on my own. However, the techniques that I was trying to create weren’t too different from the Rank 4 technique...
2025-03-18 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostEven after decades of research, I was only able to make minor improvements to ShouLi’s Rank 4 body cultivation technique. Everything I tried had only resulted in broken Low-Yellow techniques. Still, even though this rating hadn’t changed, I wasn’t entirely unhappy with my results.
By the time I was able to reach Peak Emperor, my body was only eight years away from entering stagnation. I wanted to rush to break through to Sovereign before that happened, but I knew that doing so would put everyone in my clan at risk.
More to the point, even if I protected everyone by s...
2025-03-14 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter using HongYi to develop a solid Low-Profound body cultivation technique, I returned to my secluded research and worked on finding ways to incorporate Earth-Rank Laws into it. When I had a partial technique that seemed like it might work, I sought out TaiZu and performed another round of exp...
2025-03-13 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWithout actively cultivating it myself, understanding ShouLi’s technique well enough to modify it was rather tricky. However, since I was nowhere near ready to give up on this life, I didn’t want to cultivate a technique with severe potential side effects. So, I had to slowly work through the...
2025-03-12 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter ShouLi advanced to Rank 5 of body cultivation, it wasn’t long before others began racing to join her.
The first hurdle that needed to be overcome was adapting ShouLi’s Rank 5 technique so that someone without her blessing would be able to use it. In the past, this had been a chall...
2025-03-11 15:53:28 +0000 UTC View PostUpon first being established, Dragon Gate Kingdom was producing enough karmic energy for a Lord to break through to King once every 8 months. At this rate, a King 1 could advance to King 2 in only 4 months, and a King 9 could advance to Peak King in about 9 months. This meant that Dragon Gate Kin...
2025-03-10 13:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post