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 har...
2024-09-13 12:00:13 +0000 UTC
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There 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 wo...
2024-09-12 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As 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 wasnâ...
2024-09-11 12:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Choosing 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...
2024-09-10 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Upon 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.&n...
2024-09-09 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Author'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...
2024-09-06 12:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Author'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.
2024-09-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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If 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 woul...
2024-09-04 12:00:12 +0000 UTC
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After 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 ...
2024-09-03 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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I 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 ...
2024-09-02 12:00:22 +0000 UTC
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I 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, ...
2024-08-30 12:00:14 +0000 UTC
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After 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 doze...
2024-08-29 12:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Our 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 LiTin...
2024-08-28 12:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Even 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...
2024-08-27 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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A 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 t...
2024-08-26 12:00:12 +0000 UTC
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I 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 ma...
2024-08-23 12:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Before 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 ...
2024-08-22 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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What 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 ...
2024-08-21 12:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Out 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 book...
2024-08-20 12:00:10 +0000 UTC
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I 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...
2024-08-19 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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As 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 ...
2024-08-16 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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I 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 i...
2024-08-15 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Stepping 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 n...
2024-08-14 12:00:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello 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 subscr...
2024-08-14 01:28:08 +0000 UTC
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For 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 tran...
2024-08-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC
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After 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 pre...
2024-08-12 12:00:17 +0000 UTC
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The 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 t...
2024-08-09 12:00:15 +0000 UTC
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With 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 t...
2024-08-08 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I 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...
2024-08-07 12:00:12 +0000 UTC
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After 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 cont...
2024-08-06 12:00:10 +0000 UTC
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