G. Tolley

Chapter 222 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

When I left five young cultivators, three of whom had poor foundations and one of whom had an absolutely terrible foundation, alone on top of a mountain for five days, I had expected there to be pr...

Chapter 221 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

I looked around at my group of disoriented, disheveled Disciples.

“First, look at the jade tokens in your hands. Those are your new identity badges. They mark you as members of my new clan....

Chapter 220 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

During my time in the Verdant Fields Sect, I did a bit of research on the Wastes. As I had learned long ago, there were only three major powers in this part of the world: The Su Clan, The Twin Moun...

Chapter 219 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

With the three-month training period complete, my next task was traveling to the Su Clan’s main compound to pay for my recruits.

After dropping Liang, Mo, and the new Disciples off at my gu...

Chapter 218 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

By the end of the second month, both boys had seen significant improvements in their ability to cultivate.

After absorbing the knowledge I had stored in the memory orb, Mo gained a deeper und...

Chapter 217 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

With the competition between the Disciples over, I returned to my courtyard with Liang and Mo, my newest recruit. I gave Mo the same rundown about severing ties with the Su Clan that I had given Li...

Chapter 216 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After Liang decided to join me, I didn’t hang around the new Disciple’s housing area anymore. I grabbed the boy, jumped to the top of the wall, and quickly made my way back to my guest house. 2024-10-17 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 215 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Once the affinity testing process was complete, YuanFei and the Second Elder came up to the second floor and sat down to join the other Grandmasters.

Not wanting to be entirely left out of th...

Chapter 214 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

As I sat on the stage next to Su Heng, the servants finished their preparations on the ground below us. They would occasionally shoot wary glances in our direction, but since we didn’t say anythi...

Chapter 213 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The Second Elder led me past the large gates of the training complex and into the maze of red walls and narrow streets that I was familiar with.

I was prepared to restart my work on creating ...

Chapter 212 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

After leaving the Su Clan, I found the nicest hotel in the immediate area and booked a room. 

There were two distinct centers of influence within Dragon Gate City. The first was the area...

Chapter 211 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

The elder did not immediately react to my pronouncement. As he was a Grandmaster 5, I couldn’t bully him as easily as I had the guards, and we were standing on a large marble platform, not in the...

Chapter 210 – Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak

Dressed as an important prince of a powerful nation, I strode confidently through the streets of Lushan City, the capital of the Proud Mountain Kingdom. Whenever anyone looked in my direction,...

Chapter 209 – Life 73, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

While living in the Verdant Fields Sect, time seemed to pass me by far quicker than usual. Each day, I spent the morning tending to my field of flowers and the afternoon teaching Bao and SuYin to c...

Chapter 208 – Life 73, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

The place where we appeared could barely be considered ‘secluded.’ While we did arrive in an alley between two buildings, those buildings were two cottages spaced rather far apart. If anyone we...

Chapter 207 – Life 73, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

When Bao and I suddenly appeared in a secluded alleyway, he couldn’t help but scream out in shock.

I quickly placed an arm on his shoulder to calm him down.

“Quiet. We don’t want ...

Chapter 206 – Life 73, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

Upon awakening in my small house, I sat in thought.

The elders’ actions had brought the situation in the Su Clan into clear focus for me. 

The Eighth Elder had told us that “th...

Chapter 205 – Life 72, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

After our first training session ended, I carefully watched everyone as they returned to their houses. Upon returning to mine, I took out my journal and started making a map.

I could only mat...

Chapter 204 – Life 72, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

The servant led me out of the residential complex and back to the ornate building I had just left. When I entered, I approached the orb to test my affinities.

As I approached, the elderly man...

Chapter 203 – Life 72, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

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Volume 3 Afterword, Volume 4 Spoiler

Hello, everyone.

First, let me say thank you all for supporting me up to this point. Feels like we have come a long way since the beginning of the year.

So you know, there will be a few...

Chapter 202 – Life 71, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

I opened my eyes and looked around at my small house in the Su Clan. There was a lot to do here, and it would take a long time for me to get it all done. I didn’t know when I would be able to see...

Chapter 201 – Life 70, Age 39, Martial Emperor Peak

The path out of Heaven City was steep and treacherous. Rocks wanted to slip from beneath my feet, and there were rarely handholds that I could use to steady myself. As an earth qi cultivator, this ...

Chapter 200 – Life 70, Age 37, Martial Emperor 7

Going through everything in my storage space was a pain, and I wanted to just dump it all out and start my collection from scratch. However, while most of my hoard had been trashed, there were stil...

Chapter 199 – Life 70, Age 35, Martial Emperor 1

Upon visiting Heaven City’s temple and learning the price of karmic energy, I felt like I was in a bit of a bind. I was only giving myself four years to cultivate before heading to the Summit, bu...

Chapter 198 – Life 70, Age 34, Martial King Peak

Five years after arriving in Earth City, I made my first visit to the Lightning Peak since ascending to Martial King. I was a Peak King, and I was wearing a silver Rank 6 refined robe embroidered w...

Chapter 197 – Life 70, Age 29, Martial King 1

Not long after everyone reached Martial King, I relinquished my position as steward of NanLu City, and we all return to Dragon Peak.

Over the past four years, Jin ZiHan and Cai XiaoYu had cul...

Chapter 196 – Life 70, Age 26, Martial Lord 1

The temporary defenses I had created for NanLu City were suboptimal, and it would have been a bad idea to rely on them long term, but they were more than enough to give Tie Yang and his crew the ti...

Chapter 195 – Life 70, Age 25, Martial Lord 1

Over the next couple of months, almost all my time was consumed with alchemy. 

JiaQi was hiring warriors, Jin ZiHan was hiring builders, Cai XiaoYu was hiring law enforcement personnel, ...

Chapter 194 – Life 70, Age 25, Martial Lord 1

My demotion to the inner sect was a slight problem, but it was one that would be easy to solve. After a couple of months, I would be able to take the sect’s Exam, and a quick purchase of Rank 4 t...