Justin Ankar

Chapter 768 - Clan Extinction

Sage collected the members of the Purple Mist Sect and used the Red Comet to hurry back to the main battlefield. He was supposed to be a sort of reserve and they had already been on the way underground before he left. Once he arrived back at the entrance to the underground caverns he spotted large numbers of Chong Clansmen flowing in and out of the cave so he flew directly inside and signalled the Chong Clan guards with his Clan Token. He flew over the largest crowd and then followed the soun...

Chapter 767 - Escape

This confrontation might seem to be to the former Fu Matriarch’s advantage, but she didn’t seem to be treating it that way. Inwardly she was extremely nervous. If their escape was discovered the chances of them getting away and starting over somewhere new were drastically reduced. Even if they feel successful later, if someone knew they were still out there, how would they be able to feel safe and secure? Wouldn’t she always be keeping an eye open to look out for their former enemies? I...

Chapter 766 - Disturbance

Sage shot through the sky, simultaneously pouring Qi into the object he was standing on and also into Cosmic Traction, using it in the manner he learned from King. Moving through a little fold in space to avoid air friction and increase his flying speed. The object he was standing on looked like a red canoe at first glance, but anyone who gave it a closer look would see a venation pattern, also known as the arrangement of veins on a leaf. This large red leaf looked partially dried, and its ed...

Chapter 765 - Tilted Scale

The Fu Patriarch was suddenly going up against two Nascent Souls at once, but he didn’t seem to care. In fact the other two were in far more trouble when the Fu Patriarch started running towards them as he did a sort of spin move and released a cloud of poisoned needles from his back. The spin move made him launch the needles in a full spherical cloud, giving no room for the Xiyi or Wa Elder to dodge the attack. The Wa Elder was already injured so the front half of his body was instantly tu...

Chapter 764 - Groundbreaking

Just as the old man from the Wa faction was treating the ground like clay because of his great strength, the Chong Clan Matriarch was doing the same but for a different reason. She reached up and grabbed the curved hook of the giant scorpion’s stinger and it flicked her into the air. The earth flew into the air and wrapped around her as she flew, forming into a perfect sphere of stone and colliding against the incoming peak Nascent Soul of the Fu Clan. The old woman with a bat avatar made o...

Chapter 763 - Attention Getter

One of those three was Fu Xidong, that smoke user that Sage faced off against previously, and he used that smoke to form a stairway, rapidly climbing up it to escape the assault of the Chong Clan Matriarch and her house sized scorpion mount. The other two new Nascent Souls weren’t so lucky and their attempts to escape from the moving walls were unsuccessful. There was a series of loud cracks and the two of them were sent flying. Blood spurt from their mouths and their bodies bent into unnat...

Chapter 762 - Game

With this somewhat disconnected mindset, would it make the people in his life more like characters in a game and less like real people? This idea was somewhat worrisome, but for those he cared about, he could simply take them into the Inner World or maybe he would just figure out a way to move his consciousness back to how it had been. Either way, it was something to deal with in the future. At the moment he was studying the ‘negotiation’ and everything seemed to be going quite well.

Chapter 761 - Council Conflict

Sage wasn’t close enough to the main battlefield to hear what was being said, but it was pretty apparent that the Fu Clan was attempting to negotiate with the Chong Clan. The Fu Clan had somewhat pained looks on their faces, likely because of their losses so far as well as the concessions they were offering to the Chong Clan.

It was unfortunate that Nascent Souls were so observant and powerful since it meant Sage couldn’t just send in an insect or bird to act as his eyes or ears for...

Chapter 760 - Provincial Governor

The Chong Clan fought its way through the city, pushing towards the center where the large entrance to the subterranean caverns was located. The streets ran with blood, but it only took a few hours for the Chong Clan to take control of Good Fortune City. The other Clans, Sects, and groups in the city had already pledged neutrality or had surrendered to the vicious fellows with centipede masks. The Chong Clan formed a perimeter around the Fu Clan compound, keeping them contained while they sol...

Chapter 759 - Advancements

The telescopes were created using the same Transparent Gemsteel he’d develop to use as windows. Sage explained to the researchers a few tidbits of information he’d picked up, how white light was made up of all the colors of light and how the color of an object is related to absorbing all the other colors of light so it only reflected back that one color of light. Then he carefully made a prism by shaping the Transparent Gemsteel into a triangular shape and demonstrated the colors and bend...

Chapter 758 - Defenses

The army of Fu Clan Cultivators arrived to bolster the defenses of the eight small fortresses. Most of them ran into the armored pagodas and the barrier around the city immediately strengthened. The many arrow slits all over the pagoda were soon filled with the glint of bits of metal. The Branch Clans recognized what was happening and quickly reordered their lines. The Jie had huge beetles that used their bodies as a shield. The sea of ants climbed on top of each other and formed into big bal...

Chapter 757 - Closing In

The aesthetic of the Fu Clan Headquarters turned out to be far different than what Sage had come to recognize as their style. In the past every time he’d seen a Fu Clan member they were dressed up all in black with masks over their faces. Every single one of them followed this convention but the actual style of their clothing and masks were highly individual. To Sage they all looked like shinobi wannabes, but their capital city was entirely different. From the information they gathered, eac...

Chapter 756 - War

When the hologram-like image finally resolved, it depicted the Fu Clan’s headquarters from above. It looked very much like the image that a drone circling the area from a few miles out would see. Of course, they didn’t have drones in this world, but they did have tiny spheres that could contain a person’s memories and swords that flew through the air to deliver messages. Even without creating a special magical device to record this hologram, a cultivator could have flown this route and ...

Chapter 755 - Startled

All three of the Xie Elders were beautiful women. Two of them looked to be twins, but there was another woman standing behind them that looked exactly the same. These triplets were all level 61, and were the old Elders that Sage first met on the council. One of them had given up her seat at some point and the Great Elder was sitting upon it. This third elder of the Xie had at one time stepped down from the council because the Jinxi Ancestor felt pressured by her. She was currently at the peak...

Chapter 754 - Council

The council members had heard a few stories of this sort when they were preparing to return to the outside world, but it was a bit more impactful when told directly by their relatives. Sage had compiled much of the information on the world that he could remember, especially the Clan’s possible enemies and relations, so that the Clan members would know what they were dealing with in the future. For his children they’d heard about these things hundreds of years ago, so it was quite somethin...

Chapter 753 - Message

Sage went to meet with the messenger immediately after having heard where they were from. The person waiting for him was someone that he felt like he hadn’t met with in a lifetime. She was wearing a hanfu, which was a long robe that overlapped in the front like a kimono might, except it was usually belted very simply with a rope or sash rather than a thick belly band. Additionally, the hanfu usually had a different style and color from the waist down so it looked like two pieces. Usually th...

Chapter 752 - Real Master

Sage left the Lang Clan tomb and returned to spend the evening having dinner with Ling and Jiao. They could hear the raucous noise of large and boisterous families carried over the night air. The home design for the clan all had their main room connected to their open air courtyards. Others might find this design to impinge upon their privacy, but Sage was quite pleased with how lively it made things. You would always be able to hear the younger children playing and the slightly older childre...

Chapter 751 - Riches

Yating was an exquisite businessman, like his mother, so Sage expected the new Lang Clan to flourish. The Prosperity Company had also sent many people out of the Inner World to build their numbers, and Ling would definitely be using them to assist the Lang Clan. Sage was quite confident in their skills, so he didn’t feel any conflict over keeping this new influx of wealth to himself. Especially since he was already wondering what sorts of gifts he would give them all. Thinking in this direc...

Chapter 750 - Prospect

The terror continued to overwhelm him, growing to greater and greater heights. Sage fell down to his knees and was seriously considering begging forgiveness when the strange aura suddenly disappeared.

“Wahaha, nicely done! You resisted pretty decently, but you need to work on that backbone of yours. Seems like you only recently formed it, eh? After I fed that fellow his teeth all those years ago he became my best friend for many lifetimes worth of adventures. Respect is something you ...

Chapter 749 - Mission

Walking up towards the third dais, Sage remembered he had questions for the Ancestor that were left unanswered. He’d been distracted by the sudden appearance of Guan Zhenyan and even the Soul Clone was busy trying to figure out how to deal with the problem of Zhenyan. It was only now that he finally remembered some of the holes in the past that he now was curious about.

The ancestor on this casket was very different from the first two. The statue on top of the casket had been fashione...

Chapter 748 - Deal

Expecting to be told off, or at the very least hear a barrage of questions, Guan Zhenyan seemed genuinely taken aback by Sage’s question. Wanting to drive home the point, Sage added fuel to this fire, “You let me beat you up so you could hide inside the Universe Ring. You must really be in a difficult situation. We may not be Master and Disciple, but you still bailed me out of a difficult position and gave me access to a few impressive poisons. Is there any way I can help you?”

Sa...

Chapter 747 - Ancestor

Sage was instantly taken aback. Standing in front of him was not a projection, but an actual person. A person that was supposed to be trapped in a jail cell.

“You? How did a slippery piece of feces like you get here?”

Before Sage had come to terms with what he was seeing, the Ancestor had already spoken out. The slippery fellow turned out to be that pseudo master of his, Guan Zhenyan. The man in question didn’t seem to be affected by the insult and laughingly took a few puff...

Chapter 746 - Seeking Advice

Sage walked across the top of the dais towards the huge stone casket. He couldn’t help but admire the masterful craftsmanship that went into creating the extremely lifelike and highly detailed stone statue on top of the lid. It looked just like a person lying in repose upon a stone slab, but it had the texture of stone. The stone had the same color as a flesh tone might, but he merely commended the artist for their excellent choice of material. He’d seen stone with bright black and white ...

Chapter 745 - Intelligence

While the Fu Clan was trying to gather intelligence upon the Lang Clan, the Lang Clan was rapidly establishing its own intelligence gathering capabilities. Yahui was already quite experienced at building and operating this sort of thing and was many times more capable and skilled at it than Sage had ever been. With Sage and Ling’s help, Yahui took control of the meager intelligence gathering organization that they’d built previously. Outside of a few specific places, the network was prett...

Chapter 744 - Fortress

On the outside, it was a giant wall shaped tree trunk with a very narrow canopy for its size. The lowest branches were a full hundred feet off the ground and those branches had a ‘U’ shape to them so soldiers could use them as a catwalk with thick wooden railing to guard them from incoming projectiles. By using Sacred Banyans instead of stone or other choices, they could incorporate other techniques into the fortress, but that was only one of the benefits. It was also chosen because of th...

Chapter 743 - Return

It would be an oversimplification to say they were building a utopia, but the extreme time difference would give them plenty of time to change things. Especially since the Lang Clan had the most powerful organizations in the world as backers. They weren’t just tasked with improving the clan’s signature techniques, but they also had the huge list of research topics that Sage had assembled through his life so far, but never had enough time to complete. The Soul Clone led some of the researc...

Chapter 742 - Momentum

Finally, after hundreds of years, Sage could finally say that he had revived the Lang Clan.

At least in his own Inner World. All that was left was returning to the outside world and his promise to the Lang Clan Ancestor would finally be fulfilled. Without the ancestor’s interference, Sage would have stayed as a rampaging monster that would likely have been killed many years ago. That favor, along with the Universe Ring, had assisted him greatly on his path to this point and he was fin...

Chapter 741 - Wargames

Due to Yiming’s enthusiasm, Sage asked Yating to include a new training path into the Lang Clan. Once she mentioned it, he realized it was something he’d once wished for in the past, but had never had anyone to trust at the time. That being the position of commanders for the Dragoons. When he’d first created the Hoplites, he recruited human mercenaries, former bandits, and anyone else he could get to give leadership to the chronically dull and simple-minded creatures. Insects in the sha...

Chapter 740 - New Clan Head

With Sage stepping down from his position, he cleared up a huge amount of time for himself and finally picked up his research efforts in full once again. He still spent time with Ling and Jiao, but after being married for a few hundred years they knew each other so well that they’d started a tradition of spending time apart for a few weeks before meeting up again. They would have enough time to start missing each other, but not enough to become detached and grow distant. They would keep in ...

Chapter 739 - Three Nations

The three kings were Nascent Soul Mercenaries that Sage had created an agreement with. They were to share the territory, which should spare the world from any massive wars, and were second to only Sage’s own organizations. The Lang Clan, Purple Mist Sect, and the Prosperity Company were the undisputed rulers of the world, but they had no desire to rule the people. At least the Lang Clan in general did not. As more and more descendants were born and came of age, some of them started to take ...