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Chapter 437: Three Spiritual Visions

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Chapter 436: A Quiet, Rainy Courtyard

Even though Zae Zin Nim had been skeptical about the dryad village at first, especially how there was dirt everywhere, she had become accustomed to it. The walkways were all hard-packed, not filthy...

Chapter 435: The Poverty of Young Masters

Kai sliced through the forests, not leaving a single footprint, leaves sliding off his armor. He'd become far more effective in the forests, not so much because his strength had increased as becaus...

Chapter 434: Delving into Spiritual Sight

Technically Omilaena was engaged with developing their final trump card, but honestly she was barely using a fraction of her mind for that. Access to a major sect's resources didn't come every day,...

Chapter 433: Attacking From All Sides

When they left the sect headquarters, Kai still wasn't entirely sure what the plan was. He knew they'd come out with quite a few new benefits: new command medallions that would let them back in eas...

Chapter 432: The Dryad Matriarch

The sudden attention of the dryad matriarch put Kai on edge and his instincts, so long indulged in monstrous form, very nearly pushed him to attack before he reined himself in. He didn't have a com...

Chapter 431: Infiltrating the Verdant River Sect

Initially Omilaena thought that getting inside might be a challenge, maybe even a fun one, but the dryads had already set up half the steps. They weren't breaking into the central chambers of the V...

Chapter 430: Entering a Dryad Community

Technically they were going to deal with much bigger problems as soon as they reached the dryad town, but Kai was mainly glad that he hadn't screwed up his marriage. Surprisingly, Zae Zin Nim hadn'...

Chapter 429: Revenge in the Night

Reuniting always added an extra edge to their sex, even after a relatively short time apart. Omilaena was usually the insistent one, but that night Zin Nim seemed ravenously hungry for both of them...

Chapter 428: Unexpected Growth in Unexpected Places

Several days later, Kai was ready to choose his next target. When no shipments came in from the destroyed work camp, the sect sent a group to investigate - the group only had one Earth Soul and the...

Chapter 427: Dryads in the Southern Rivers

It seemed like the risk had been worth it: Zae Zin Nim confirmed that no qi signals had gone out and Omilaena was interrogating the cultivator left alive for all he was worth. Hopefully Cragrila co...

Chapter 426: Becoming a Monstrous Predator

After the long journey south they had finally reached their destination: slaves, answers, and potentially even immortality were all within reach. The only problem now was that such things were neve...

Chapter 425: The Great Verdant River Sect

Dispersing the slaves slowed them down slightly, but Kai estimated that the distance they moved south in a month couldn't have been completed much faster. The others must have made the same estimat...

Chapter 424: Breaking Down Cultivation Variants

Years after torturing crystalliers, Omilaena was starting to realize that her work hadn't been wasted, just slightly misguided. Everything was more connected than she had believed, and even crystal...

Chapter 423: Fear, Quills, and Immortality

At first they headed south as cautiously as possible, but when retaliation didn't come within a few days, Kai began to relax. Technically he might see beams of light in the sky at any moment, he'd ...

Chapter 422: News from an Old Revolution

In the wake of the confrontation, Omilaena took over operations, directing them to take various measures to leave the area in case there was immediate retaliation. The slaves obeyed her instantly, ...

Chapter 421: Crowning Escalation

"That's him, that's the one!" Kai recognized the man speaking: it was the idiot from the restaurant, hovering just behind the leader of this new group. "You see, he has those women ensorcelled some...

Chapter 420: Tracking the Source of the Crystals

They reunited that night to share information, just finding a hotel where they could sit together instead of any grand institutions. Kai far preferred that, since all he really wanted was Zae Zin N...

Chapter 419: Floodisle City Investigations

That kind of bullshit was one of the main reasons Omilaena hadn't gone to Cloudspire.

She was still thinking about it the next day as they split up to finish their business. It had ruined the...

Chapter 418: The First Slap

At first, Kai honestly wasn't sure what to make of it. His gut reaction was to take things at face value: the young man had accused him of impropriety, which wasn't fair at all since Omilaena was t...

Chapter 417: The Best Laid Plans of Cultivators and Men

As far as Omilaena was concerned, the two people exploring alongside her were more interesting than the city itself. Floodisle City was big, sure, but it was another cultivator city with cultivator...

Chapter 416: The Greatest City in the South

Kai had thought they were almost on top of Floodisle City, but the city kept growing... and growing. He realized that it was far larger than he expected, built atop an island that was more like a m...

Chapter 415: Entering the Southern Rivers

The month of travel to the Southern Rivers was honestly a relief, not solely from the warfare but from being entangled with other people and organizations. They had to stop occasionally, but otherw...

Chapter 414: Departing the Western Wilds

By this point, Kai was starting to get anxious. He had known that it might take several days, he just couldn't help but worry. They had rejected the idea of any sort of secret message system, becau...

Chapter 413: Cultivation at the Ice Springs

By the next day, Omilaena was bloated with qi and soaking in the Ice Springs. They existed within another of the inner caverns of the mountain, behind three layers of sacred seals, but instead of a...

Chapter 412: Burning Fragments of a Soul

Since the Pureflower sect had given her access to all their medicinal resources, Omilaena had a truly excellent opportunity for thievery. And yet, despite that temptation, she was focused only on f...

Chapter 411: The Last Lifeline of the Pureflower Sect

Technically, going to the Pureflower stronghold should have made Zae Zin Nim feel more safe, yet as they ascended away from Kai she only felt isolated. Leaving all men behind would have been a bles...

Chapter 410: Final Business in the Western Wilds

They had to spend over a month essentially running errands, but it didn't particularly bother Kai. Since they were using the Pureflower vessel, they could train easily while they traveled, and it w...

Chapter 409: Departing the Manticore Tribe

The Manticore tribe civil war was over. It should have been the happiest day of Ahn Rit Kulha's life - all the factions led by his enemies were dead, Feida's faction was cooperating with him, and h...

Chapter 408: Death of Manticore Factions

Enemies were falling on all sides, blood was spraying through the air, and allies roared in victory. Kai moved in the fray, dropping enemies on all sides... dissatisfied.

He just didn't share...