G. Tolley

Chapter 252 – Life 73, Age 48, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Not long after the conclusion of the tournament for Arena Master, the start of the new year came and passed, and it was soon time for me to return to the Su Clan to pick up my next batch of Disciples.

As this was the first training session after I had poached the clan’s Grand Elder, I exp...

Chapter 251 – Life 73, Age 47, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The leadership council spent a month talking to their people and working out ways of choosing new elders that were considered broadly acceptable by nearly everyone. Once they were done, they requested my presence at a council session to discuss the matter.

After guiding me to my seat at the...

Chapter 250 – Life 73, Age 47, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After returning to his temporary home on the plateau, TaiZu explained the situation with the clan to his entourage and encouraged them to do their best to blend in. Then, he sent the three Grandmasters to evaluate the lower levels of the mountain and determine what they would need to do to make t...

Chapter 249 – Life 73, Age 47, Martial Grandmaster Peak

One week later, I met Su TaiZu and his entourage outside the gates of my Rosehill compound. This time, he didn’t try to sneak around or hide his presence. His disappearance from the Su Clan would be obvious soon enough, so instead, he chose to openly display his change of allegiance for all to ...

Chapter 248 – Life 73, Age 47, Martial Grandmaster Peak

When GuiMing had first started building apartments into Mount Jiang, I had instructed him to only build them along the outside edge of the mountain. Even if it meant the mountain wouldn’t be able to house as many people as otherwise, I didn’t want the people in my clan to feel trapped and cla...

Chapter 247 – Life 73, Age 42, Martial Grandmaster Peak

A year after starting everyone down the path of Soul cultivation, I received an important letter from SuYin. She had passed her training and had earned the right to become the lord of one of the Verdant Forest Sect’s outlying cities. As she only had a few months left before she would be raised ...

Chapter 246 – Life 73, Age 40, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Roughly a month later, I gathered up Mo and RuLan and took them to meet their parents.

RuLan was from a distant branch of the Su Clan that might have already been pruned from the family tree if I hadn’t stepped forward and started paying high prices for any Disciples with a Su bloodline. ...

Chapter 245 – Life 73, Age 40, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Several years earlier, I had decided that having my storage space be the shape of a sphere wasn’t ideal. If my storage space continued to grow evenly in every direction, then there would eventually be too much ‘up,’ and it would be difficult to make efficient use of all the space. Additiona...

Chapter 244 – Life 73, Age 38, Martial Grandmaster Peak

A novel pill recipe. This wasn’t entirely a surprise, but the message served as absolute confirmation that no one had been able to perform alchemy with parts from demonic beasts before.

Did I want to submit the recipe to the ‘Dao?’ What did that mean?

In the past, I hadn’t car...

Chapter 243 – Life 73, Age 38, Martial Grandmaster Peak

My working theory was that medicinal energy was not a unique form of energy. Instead, it was simply a blend of qi and wu. This blended energy was then shaped into specific structures to give medicinal herbs their unique properties.

If this was true, then learning to grow and tend herbs migh...

Chapter 242 – Life 73, Age 38, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After leaving Bao to get settled in, I went outside to begin work on a new building. Bao was going to need to do a lot of work on soul cultivation, and for that to happen, I first needed to build a Soul Cultivation Library for him.

The plateau was nearly stuffed with buildings by this point...

Chapter 241 – Life 73, Age 38, Martial Grandmaster Peak

While the formation necklace I had given Bao wasn’t a long-term solution to his problem, it was enough to keep him stable. I wanted to spend more time with him, but before I could do that, I had to check in on SuYin.

When she had left the letter with Bao, SuYin hadn’t known which city s...

Chapter 240 – Life 73, Age 38, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After leaving Mount Jiang, I headed directly for the Verdant Forest Sect, and upon arriving there, I went straight to SuYin’s house.

When I had left, SuYin’s position in the sect had seemed stable. She didn’t have any enemies, and there wasn’t any reason for anyone to cause trouble ...

Chapter 239 – Life 73, Age 37, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After returning from the Su Clan, I gathered all the Disciples who had just turned 20 and gave them each a Rank 2 cultivation technique. I considered the trial run on Martial Master advancements that I had done with the leadership council in the previous year to be a success, but I made a few cha...

Chapter 238 – Life 73, Age 36, Martial Grandmaster Peak

With the first group of Disciples advancing to Martial Master, there were a few expansions that needed to happen to our settlement on Mount Jiang, and the first one I wanted to tackle was an extension to our Technique Hall.

At the moment, the hall was a rather empty single-story structure. ...

Chapter 237 – Life 73, Age 36, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The Su Clan’s three-month training camp proceeded without any surprises. The elders were more than happy to receive the pills that I had promised them, and they ensured that no one was killed during the sparring sessions. Unfortunately, they hadn’t been able to find any Earth Dragon’s Tongu...

Chapter 236 – Life 73, Age 36, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Note: I am planning to add a few more details to 229/230 concerning the arrangements he made before leaving the clan for the sect, including adding scrolls for the Earth-Rank cultivation techniques to the library. Looking at it now, I feel these preparations were glossed over a bit too much.

Chapter 235 – Life 73, Age 35, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The following lectures focused on various methods for altering the energy levels within a field and determining the correct balance for any given herb. The elder covered a few qi techniques that were useful for making small adjustments, but her main focus was on how to make physical changes to a ...

Chapter 234 – Life 73, Age 35, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Young Master Wang dropped Bao off to be shown around the outer sect by another disciple while he led SuYin and me deeper into the city hidden amongst the treetops. After showing us to the house that had been assigned to SuYin, he then gave us a detailed tour of the inner sect.

As we walked,...

Chapter 233 – Life 73, Age 35, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Green Leaf City was located in the middle of an expansive vibrant forest. Unlike the remote cities and villages that served as gateways to other sects, such as South Gate and River Rock, Green Leaf was a veritable metropolis. It wasn’t just a small town where the sect held regular recruitment d...

Chapter 232 – Life 73, Age 35, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Once SuYin was ready, I consumed a Shadowed Soul Pill and followed her out of the hole. While it was unlikely that Young Master Wang or the others would try to attack her at this point, I stayed close by her side to ensure that nothing went awry.

The moment we made it back to the surface, t...

Chapter 231 – Life 73, Age 35, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The discussion amongst those in the pavilion made me question Bao’s interpretation of events. I needed to withhold judgment until I had more information. But before anything else, I needed to find SuYin and ensure her safety.

So, ignoring Young Master Wang and his lackeys for the moment, ...

Chapter 230 – Life 73, Age 35, Martial Grandmaster Peak

With everything stable in my nascent clan, I felt things were secure enough that I could spend some time away. So, after replenishing the settlement’s supplies, I hopped on my horse and rode north to the Verdant Fields Sect.

When I had left, SuYin and Bao had been planning to enter the ou...

Chapter 229 – Life 73, Age 33, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After returning to Mount Jiang, I handed my new recruits off to Mo, ShouLi, Liang, and the siblings. They had done an excellent job of raising NiangBa, and I was hopeful that I wouldn’t need to step in to help them too much with this larger group.

Once I was gone, everyone naturally divid...

Chapter 228 – Life 73, Age 33, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Note: DST had ended in the US, so release times are going to shift for those in other countries.

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At the end of the three-month training period, I brought NiangBa to witness the final competition between the Su Clan Disciples.

Per my request, NiangBa was dressed ...

Chapter 227 – Life 73, Age 33, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After reaching a deal with the Su Clan’s Grandmasters, they got down to the business of deciding who would be this year’s elites. Even though I had told them I wasn’t interested in poaching any of these ‘top talents,’ they still glanced at me frequently during this process to see if any...

Chapter 226 – Life 73, Age 33, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Upon my return to the Su Clan, I went directly to the training complex without stopping in Dragon Gate City. Even though I had not informed the clan of my plans, Su Heng was already waiting for me at the gates when I arrived, and after a few pleasantries, he led me back to the same house I had us...

Chapter 225 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Upon leaving my house, GuiAi went to talk with the others about taking a trip down the mountain. It quickly became clear to me that while a cost of 25 points a day was enough to deter long vacations, everyone was ready for a day off, and they were more than willing to pay a couple dozen points to...

Chapter 224 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The next day, the Disciples came to meet me in front of the Affinity Hall, and I guided them all inside. As they entered, I gestured to the new pedestal that stood to the right of the entryway.

“You should all recognize this. It is an orb used to measure one’s affinities.” They all no...

Chapter 223 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After leaving the Affinity Hall, I moved to a location roughly a dozen meters away and started building a new Technique Hall. However, as I worked, I kept all my focus on what was happening inside the Affinity Hall. I was certain the Disciples were unaware of how easily I could detect what was ha...