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231. The Beauty of a Carnation

To his credit, Georgios acted almost as fast as Alistair. Despite his hefty plate armor and his enormous warhammer, he flew like the wind, smashing one of the crabs into the stone ground with a ter...

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230. Temple of Descending Currents

A/N: I changed the ending of ch 229 to reflect that the correct mission, you will see in this chapter what I mean

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Alistair and Elektra spent the rest of the hour eating the dele...

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229. Memories

Alistair introduced the surviving members of his squad to his friends. Red and Fuhao just so happened to be on the same team, while Pristine was with the number 1 ranked outer disciple, Korinth Kae...

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228. Gilded Imperial Longhouse

Before Elder Aylesfort’s lessons, Alistair would have been confused about the setup of the competition. In his prior unlearned opinion, he would have assumed that since the top hundred inner disc...

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227. A Difference of Philosophy

Team Goldhair refused to meet Jaden Erryngton’s demands. Instead, they watched as he ran roughshod through their preparations.

With balls of cerulean plasma, he vaporized the desiccation pi...

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226. 100 vs. 100

Alistair used [Reality Sense] to gauge the situation from afar. By focusing his perception, he could see things miles away. 

While it wasn’t literally miles, the slums...

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225. A Friendly Competition

Alistair frowned at the faint wisp of Red’s aura. It was barely visible; just a trace. He wondered if the elders had noticed it in the brief moment Red had passed it to him, just before being dra...

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224. The Pits of the Discipline Hall

Red sits cross-legged deep within the bowels of the Discipline Hall.

The subterranean section of the Discipline Hall contains dozens of unused cells. For the most part, the sect is free of cr...

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223. One Month Later

A/N: Sorry for the delay, my chapter length is getting super long recently

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But before Alistair could do anything else, he had to greet the long line of spectators who had wat...

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222. #4,352

The Training Grounds sprawled before Alistair like a monument to controlled violence. Seeing the ocean part like the Red Sea above his head felt strange.

The attendants at the Training Ground...

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221. Wuxing

A/N: Sorry for the delay

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Alistair arrived at Elder Aylesfort’s combat lesson the next day with renewed enthusiasm. He was curious how the elder was going to grade their writ...

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220. Gala

A/N: Chapter 221 will be uploaded in a few hours, don't worry.

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Alistair felt his heart flutter nervously as he sat in Fuhao’s dorm room.

Technically, you weren’t s...

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219. [Karmic Battery]

The answer to Alistair’s question, unfortunately, was that Aylesfort had no lesson for them.

The next day, when he arrived at the Contribution Hall an inner disciple told them that the elde...

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218. The Dao is the Dao

Eun Dawo gritted his teeth, clenching both fists.

This was supposed to be an easy ambush. He had hired ten priests of the Cult of the Wordless Devil just in case, since their intel indicated ...

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217. Domain Unleashed

The first thing that Alistair realized was that the scarred woman and the two armed guards had vanished.

A setup, or just them saving their necks? It doesn’t truly matter. Now, we have ...

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216. A Stroll Through Dystopia

Even though he knew that the sects were dangerous, his first week ending in a murder was not something he had expected.

Alistair had been interrogated by the first balding cultivator he had e...

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215. Interlude - Sect Elders

Elder Shakti Exotropay, Head of External Affairs, combed her luscious brown hair as she waited for all the Clear Water elders to arrive.

Even as a mortal, she had prided herself on her flawle...

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214. Elders' Lessons

The next day, Alistair picked up two more missions, earning himself another 312 merit points, placing him at 2,977. It felt rewarding that two parts of his cultivation—ghosts and Karma—were now...

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213. Training Grounds (II)

Thalen helped him find suitable opponents. The next two duels passed in quick succession. Both were stat-equalized like his previous match, focusing on technique and strategy rather than raw power....

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212. Training Grounds (I)

Alistair rushed Red back to the Teleportation Circle. His friend’s life force seemed stable, and the bleeding had stopped, but still. Over a quarter of his body had been crushed ...

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Ghost of the Truthseeker Links

Recap of Book 3

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211. Old Man of the Lighthouse

It came as no surprise that the first move of the swarm of sea snakes was a roar filled with killing intent.

They were completely unaffected.

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210. First Sect Mission

When Alistair returned to the outside world after taking on Ashendar, he realized something was off. It wasn’t obvious right away, though as he looked at the Soulnet and messages from both Evange...

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209. Ancestral Grounds

Alistair bowed before the burgeoning presence.

Of course, it was familiar. How could he ever forget the presence of a dragon?

The dragon materialized fully before Alistair, its form no ...

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208. The Various Divisions

Alistair had received two conflicting pieces of information on what to spend his merit points on first.

Norman Goldhair, the #8 ranked inner disciple, a Middle Profound of only 215 years, had...

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207. Blossoming Friendships (II)

After the sparring, Alistair found himself entirely without Stamina. Sweat soaked Mammothskin Raiment so deeply that he decided to wash it in the rich Mana-filled waters, going shi...

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206. Blossoming Friendships (I)

Of course, Dev'rox had an idea. The lovely little imp wanted him to go straight to the Training Grounds and start challenging people for merit points. That wasn’t the worst plan, but he wanted to...

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205. Settling In

Alistair and Red’s room in the Living Quarters was the size of a large college dorm room. It was larger on the inside by a factor of two, composed of deep blue stillwater. Thankfully, the splashe...

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204. Outer Disciples

When Alistair’s vision returned, he was in front of the unaffiliated candidate quarters. He was not alone.

There were six unaffiliated candidates, male and female, outside the two quarters....

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203. The Culling

By the time the trial began, Alistair’s general region had plummeted a hundred feet, whereas most of his surrounding zones had risen.

His attacker leaped from the new mountain top, intendin...

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