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Chapter 538: Hunting from Krysal to Irun

In the end, it took them a few days to finish off about a dozen Bloodtails. After the first battle, the time was less about actually killing them than finding the remaining ones. Technically they m...

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Chapter 537: The Threats Posed by Pests

By sheer bad luck, Omilaena was in the worst position, with two Bloodtails immediately menacing her and the third blocking off a direct escape. As their tails lashed out, Kai didn't think about it,...

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Chapter 536: Seeking out the Bloodtail

Flying over Krysal to hunt monsters, with only Zae Zin Nim and Omilaena along with him, gave Kai a jumbled sense of nostalgia. Every element of it felt so familiar - the hunt, his wives, the shores...

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Chapter 535: Old Defenses and New Contingencies

Even though they were in the middle of a hive of information, when Kai sat down opposite Krainuun, the meeting felt surprisingly intimate. The desk was small and simple - it might even have been on...

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Chapter 534: Acid Cultivators, Acid Relationships

For the most part, returning to Deadwaste had not been engaging for Zae Zin Nim. The only ones who really interested her were the elites, and there were internal sect politics getting in the way of...

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Chapter 533: The Acidarium

Fortunately, Zae Zin Nim's vehicle took them across Yulthens without any further attention, because they easily slipped in among all the other crystal ships. From the air, Kai got another opportuni...

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Chapter 532: The New Revolutionaries of Krysal

Since the group was moving at normal speeds, Kai had plenty of time to examine them. They were all native Krysali, former miners based on the visible scars, yet they didn't look as welcoming as the...

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Chapter 531: Separate Directions in Krysal

On the other side of the portal, Kai found himself... back at the coast of Krysal. He hesitated, not wanting to revealing his disorientation, then decided that there was no reason to try to act coo...

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Chapter 530: Friends Across the Frontier

After all the intense negotiations, Kai wanted some time to decompress, which meant training, spending time with his wives, or talking to someone who wasn't a Frontier elite. Unfortunately, beside ...

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Chapter 529: Plans for Incursions

"Despite occasional squabbling, we all want the same thing: for Deadwaste to survive the incursion." Sheiri spoke evenly, clearly prepared, and though the information was familiar Kai sensed that s...

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Chapter 528: Debating Courses

Now that Kai was finally here, he felt almost unprepared. From the perspective of raw strength, he had wildly over-prepared, bringing a huge amount of firepower to the table. But when it came to mi...

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Chapter 527: Phase Trials and Negotiation Phases

Technically she should have been concerned about the upcoming trial, but Zae Zin Nim was more focused on the elite who had attacked her husband so aggressively. That was not an appropriate level of...

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Chapter 526: The Mortal Trial of Phases

Kai hadn't heard about "mortal" phase testing before, but since the other elites treated the proposal as a normal one, he decided to act the same. He didn't object as they stepped through a new por...

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Chapter 525: Facing the Frontier Elites on New Ground

Despite everything he had been through, Kai was still nervous to meet the Frontier elites as they walked through the portal. These people were everything he wanted to be, actually giving their live...

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Chapter 524: The Worst Builder

They could have immediately gotten enmeshed in Krysali politics, but Kai agreed to hold back. For one, his wives were correct that he had a bad track record of getting heavily involved there, and h...

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Chapter 523: The New Crystalliers of Deadwaste

Technically Omilaena was watching the fight, but she was also thinking over her past. Unusually contemplative for her, basically just flicking the bean while other people were fighting for their li...

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News and Goals

Cognosticon here, coming on your break day for a quick announcement. I expected a drop in support after the Cloudspire arc finished, but it was larger than expected. I've been doing this for a long...

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Chapter 522: The New Elites of Deadwaste

Years ago, going to Deadwaste had been a horrible decision tantamount to throwing herself off the edge of the world. Now, as she returned yet again, Zae Zin Nim reflected that it was becoming commo...

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Chapter 521: Training Against Cliffs of Injustice

Other than the one fight, their trip back to Deadwaste proceeded smoothly. The trainees really did seem to interact as Kai had hoped: they had forged strong bonds through their common struggles, th...

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Chapter 520: Conflicts Among Trainees

Even though Kai still thought it was bizarre that sex could be training, somehow, he wasn't going to complain about everything he'd learned in dual cultivation. It was a wonderful fusion of two dif...

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Chapter 519: Training Away From Darkmist Island

In the end, they didn't spend much time at all on Darkmist Island. Kai spent two days training the Deadwaste volunteers, or rather evaluating each and then helping them gather the materials they wo...

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Chapter 518: The New Generation of Clanless

Kai hadn't realized how much he was accustomed to traveling with just his wives until he had to deal with other people. It wasn't just that the others didn't have spatial items to make packing easy...

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Chapter 517: Brewing Unreality

Nothing on Darkmist Island felt real. Honestly, the sense of unreality had started when Kai took them all away on his strange new ship, but Juray had been completely adrift ever since they landed i...

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Chapter 516: Wind Attunement

Omilaena sat with her arms folded, glaring at her materials through her goggles, willing them to cooperate.

Now that she had extra-spatial storage space, she could accumulate all kinds of jun...

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Chapter 515: Training Toward Darkmist Island

As he blinked awake, Kai realized first that he was in the main cabin of the Clanless, then that they were still passing over the ocean. He'd taken multiple trips over the ocean at this point, from...

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Chapter 514: Leaving the Eastern Plains

The courtiers of the Brightwind Sect had been on high alert ever since they heard the news, spiking ever higher when the errant daughter returned. Had she been Zae Clen Ban, half of them would no d...

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Chapter 513: The Depths of the Brightwind Vault

(Cognosticon here. For the first time ever, Patreon is withholding all funds. For now I'm going to assume it's a random hang-up, but I hope it doesn't persist another week.)

As they delved in...

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Chapter 512: Looting the Grand Vault

When Kai got the grand vault open, he'd of course intended to contact Zae Zin Nim to learn more, but he'd expected to enter quickly. Just standing near the opened door he could feel the intense qi ...

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Chapter 511: The Brightwind Patriarch's Harem

Of course Omilaena actually did the things she was supposed to do, but at soon as she had done what she judged to be the optimal minimum, she went off to track down Zin Nim.

Not out of any se...

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Chapter 510: The Redstorm Scion's Vendetta

Kai realized in the middle of the fight that he'd gotten another rival, even though he wasn't sure exactly how. The scion of the Redstorm Sect seemed to have it out for him, treating their fight as...

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