Justin Ankar

Chapter 708 - Test

“You did it!”

A loud and exuberant voice spoke with an immense volume, greeting Sage as he walked through the gates. The voice came from a man with the stature of a refrigerator, he was tall and thick with massive arms and legs. This is the sort of physique people of this world call ‘the waist of a bear’. To go along with this large frame, the man was also quite hairy in comparison to the standard of this world, but his usually wild look was very well tamed today. He was very we...

Chapter 707 - Next Stop

A few weeks later Sage was standing in front of a large gate. He took a deep breath and then stepped forward and reached out to push the gates open. Each of these two doors was constructed of stone, ten feet tall and ten feet wide. In addition to the considerable weight of their base construction, they were covered in array formations, formations that lit up as he pushed on them. Upon his first push, the gates slid backwards an inch. Then the formations lit up and the gates paused in place. T...

Chapter 706 - Tower

“There are fifty floors, some of them taken by the Tiankong siblings, mostly near the top. They like to perch at high places. There is also another near the bridge floor the Dragoons live on. Aunt Ping, feel free to choose some of the unoccupied floors and do what you wish with them. If you need anything simply ask the Dragoons and they’ll probably be able to get it for you.”

At this moment, Zhu Ping as well as all those she brought were simply amazed. The central part of the towe...

Chapter 705 - Journey

I can see where Jiao gets it from.

Zhu Ping began to complain to Jiao who was riding in the carriage beside her, but Jiao shook her head, “Just wait a moment, Aunty.”

Sage dismounted and walked over to where all of those that Zhu Ping had brought along were gathered. He waved them all to come closer, “Alright, it is now time for you to make a decision. From this point on, all those that stay with us will be considered one of our people. You will be privy to some sec...

Chapter 704 - Banquet

Unlike a traditional wedding banquet, which would consist of the bride and groom spending much of their time thanking guests for attending and trading blessings and well wishes, this wedding banquet was much more like Sage had taken his new wife to a carnival.

They didn’t mind. They’d already had a meal with those they cared about in the afternoon. Aside from her bridesmaids, the only other person Jiao cared for in the Zhu Clan was her Aunt Ping, and she had been there with them. Fo...

Chapter 703 - Ceremony

That night, Lang Sheng lost his status as a legendary wizard. A great sage no longer, Sage and Zhu Jiao donned a far simpler set of clothing than the day before. He donned a red tang suit which was actually quite casual with only a couple layers, while Zhu Jiao’s dress was a cheongsam, or qipao, with high slits on either side. After Zhu Jiao donned that qipao, he ended up immediately taking it back off her and delaying the start of their day.

The morning was dedicated to introductions...

Chapter 702 - Red

Pop! Pop! Pop!

The loud report of dozens of firecrackers going off in quick succession filled the street outside the Zhu Clan. The woman in red from head to toe walked into the carriage and then the petals closed up around her. The good luck woman, a woman who had many healthy children, living ancestors, and a happy marriage, brought the red umbrella back off the carriage and moved to join the rest of the crowd.

The dozens who had been waiting inside were now outside and various l...

Chapter 701 - Challenge

It took quite a few minutes for the bald man to make his way through eating all of the strange and spicy foods that were arrayed before him. When he was finished the woman on the other side of the table was too disgusted to handle the mess. She just spun and walked back towards the other women. The woman on the far left waved a hand to one of the guards and then towards the table. The guard had to rush out and clean up the mess, but his Storage Bag didn’t have enough room, so he had to get ...

Chapter 700 - Dance

The coldness sunk into their bones. The drums and zither dropped off, leaving the haunting fiddling of the Erhu dueling with the fading hope of the whispering flute. The dancer’s red hair had faded, losing its brilliant color in this bleak and lifeless landscape. His sword seemed too heavy for him to wield any longer, but he did not give up. Even if he couldn’t move the sword, his steps grew longer, making up for his deficiency with long sweeping steps. He looked like he was leaping over ...

Chapter 699 - Swift Horizon

The guard captain was standing just to the side and in front of her, with his saber drawn and pointed toward the ground with a downward diagonal angle. He hurriedly recovered from his slash and lifted his saber in front of himself. The long pink ribbon tassel swayed in the wind, which caused the small chain and connecting ring to tinkle softly. His eyes shot to the left and right as he searched worriedly for the blue eyed man.

At the same time the woman also looked around, “What was t...

Chapter 698 - Procession

From atop the back of the lion type Demonic Beast, Sage waved a hand and a half-dozen riders pulled away from the main group. They were surrounding a large armored cart, escorting it up to the front of the column and towards the gates. While they were rushing to the front, there were those on the other side of the gates that had rushed into a flurry of motion. A pair of runners had already dashed away from the gates, rushing towards the entrance of the main building. The armored cart rolled t...

Chapter 697 - Trip

A few days later, a gold ring was placed into the gap between two rocks for a few hours.

In the Inner World, there was a very somber gathering. Ruanfu had stopped to rest, and because of the accelerated time of the Inner World a month-long rest would be equivalent to an hour on the outside world. During this break, Sage as well as the other Tiankong Siblings had gathered to remember someone important. The Tiankong Clan had a funeral service many years ago in honor of their father, but a...

Chapter 696 - Captured

The three mercenaries would have a few years to build a powerbase for themselves before Sage would call them back out to collect their friends and relatives. It would take Sage a week or so to head to the city they spoke of.

In the meantime, he looked over to the Shou Clan Leader, “The remainders of the Artful Life Alliance won’t be touched.”

She laughed, making her many facial piercings clink and tinkle together, but the laugh was self-deprecating not joyous. She spoke with...

Chapter 694 - Final Stand

As bad as things looked, there was still someone with a fervent look in his eyes. The Shou Clan Ancestor turned towards the three polearm wielding mercenaries and offered them a Storage Ring, “Consider this a new contract. You three will take the Little Miss and escape from here.”

The other leaders of the Artful Life Alliance were flabbergast, but then they realized the problem. There was no way these mercenaries would give up their lives to fight for them. An honorable mercenary wo...

Chapter 695 - Escape

With the death of the four Nascent Souls, the remaining forces devolved into combat amongst themselves. There were those still loyal to the Alliance that struck back at those who turned against them. Most of the traitors were the members of Western Peace City that had quickly switched sides once things were not in their favor. The Purple Mist Sect let them fight amongst themselves, not in any hurry to save the turncoats. They didn’t stop fighting, but they took their time to carefully elimi...

Chapter 693 - Harassment

The battle became much more difficult after suffering a few wounds. The Sound Sword Sect Master quickly swallowed some healing pills and controlled his body to stop the bleeding, there was no way a powerful Nascent Soul Cultivator could be killed by just a few puncture wounds. Nor would he allow such wounds to destroy his precious body. Even so, these wounds still affected his strength. Previously, his speed and power were great enough to hold off the trio of Purple Mist Sect members combinin...

Chapter 692 - Battle

These suits were tight fighting and made of quilted dark purple cloth. Each suit of armor carried identical symbols embroidered with black thread, giving a second layer of subtle detail on top of the quilted surface of the armor. With the fight beginning in earnest, they released their power and called up a second suit of armor. A dense purple layer of energy appeared around them, sheathing them from head to toe. This layer of energy was faintly detailed with overlapping scales, and their hel...

Chapter 691 - Honorable

I can’t have anyone spreading the news of… wait a second!

At this moment the reason for Sage’s confidence suddenly became apparent.

The eight Nascent Souls on the side of the Artful Life Alliance enjoyed the look of regret on their enemy’s face and that spurred them to move forward, ready to strike the enemy down in this moment of weakness. Then, almost instantly that feeling of bloodthirsty glee was dampened. From all around them, they felt the flaring auras of o...

Chapter 690 - Decline

Those strange thoughts were dispelled quite immediately and a message was sent off. The Yincha Sect Leader was not so easily convinced. She seemed quite pleased to find someone that hadn’t immediately given her a concerned look. Her own taste was quite unusual, and she was a frequent part of a very select crowd. This person that was supposed to be her enemy seemed to be a member of her crowd! Lady Diyin and the Sound Sect Sword Master didn’t have any more foolish thoughts, but they also d...

Chapter 689 - Charge

Lady Diyin, the Sound Sword Sect Master, and Shou Clan Leader all wore frowns upon their faces. Their subordinates were sending in reports with slurred words. The forest was dense and they could not see clearly what was going on. They were using their Spirit Senses to observe the situation, but Spirit Sense was best at observing the motion of energy. None of these three had any special methods to utilize their Spirit Sense, so they could only guess about the situation. Upon receiving the repo...

Chapter 688 - Clash

The thousands of lower tier Cultivators rushed forward upon the backs of various Demonic Beasts. Seeing so many ferocious monsters charging towards a single direction was a truly impressive sight. The three Nascent Souls of the Alliance held their ground, and in front of them the hundreds of Core Formation Cultivators were being held back in reserve. They chose to send in the weakest members. The Alliance was prepared to make the sacrifice of their forces in order to accurately gauge their en...

Chapter 687 - Decisive

A few days later, the time for the decisive battle had arrived.

“Shou Ancestor, they are in position.”

“Good. Tell the others to begin.”

The Shou Clan Ancestor and the Yincha Sect Leader were standing side by side. The gentleman activated a magic tool and at his command a large group of Demonic Beasts rushed out of the Shou Clan compound. These beasts were of various sizes and shapes, though all of them carried Cultivators. Most of them had saddles with a single ride...

Chapter 686 - Cloaks

The Nascent Souls of the Artful Life Alliance set the Memory Spheres down. The rest of that event was purely a massacre. Most of those trapped at the center of the miasma fell to the ground and never rose again. Most of them died without any external wounds. None of the Mammoth Club survived, and the scout’s memory ended with a provocation.

The original figure in a black cloak escaped from the cage of ropes without a scratch and walked to the edge of the miasma. Then they used a toe t...

Chapter 685 - Blockade

With an ultimatum delivered, then the Mammoth Club had to reconsider their decisions one last time. Unfortunately for the members of the club, the leaders did not stop to reconsider. Instead, they were infuriated by the attitude of this lone person in front of them. Did one fellow in a black cloak think they could stand up against the hundreds of members of the Mammoth Club and their Eight Hooved Green Mammoths?

The leader yelled a reply that was only one step off from a full on roar, �...

Chapter 684 - Harmed

The highest authorities of the Artful Life Alliance were surprised to find that no further attacks were made upon the Shou Clan. The Clan defending array was left unmolested for the rest of the day, and then the next and the next after that. The group of Nascent Souls wondered whether their foe had already left, but the expenditure to keep the defensive array running for three days straight was not small. Yet, the Shou Clan was not small and poor. A massive defensive array like this was set u...

Chapter 683 - Terrible

The group of Nascent Souls rushed back into the building they just vacated, and they felt the Shou Clan’s greatest defensive formation fluctuating above them. Even so, it was already too late to stop what happened to Lady Diyin. At that moment, none of them would have imagined someone would make an attempt on their lives. As Nascent Souls their Spirit Senses could cover quite a vast area, and everything that happened without thousands of yards wall all completely under their observation. 2021-06-24 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 682 - Shou Clan

The old man had captured the attention of the other four quite perfectly, and this respect made it obvious that the arrangement of the chairs in the room was not a true gauge of their status. The five of them were all giving off the law fluctuations of a Nascent Soul, but four of them seemed to unanimously defer to this wrinkled old man with a hideously stooped back.

“How is it? Where is Lang Sheng?”

“At the Wudao Sect he only killed a few people. We’ve investigated and fo...

Chapter 681 - Plot

Sage started the interrogation over, but he didn’t pull much more from the man. The Shou Clan had organized an alliance with their former rival, offering them a large amount of benefits to bury their previous issues. They were going to be quiet for a time, and once they returned to activity they would invite their rival to join the Artful Life Alliance. A new and thriving alliance with all the weakest parts removed. The man didn’t know any other details other than that, he was merely keep...

Chapter 680 - Birds

Upon meeting, there were some more secret protocols to follow, mainly demonstrating that he also knew the techniques from How to be Little Birdy, and then using some secret codewords to show that he wasn’t just someone who stole their techniques. The difficult part was convincing the Falcon to request reports for him. Especially since this whole meeting was being conducted using a bird as a medium. The Birdwatching technique let them influence where a bird flew and listen to what it heard. ...

Chapter 679 - Purple Mist Sect

With so many ‘great’ examples, along with his own failures, Sage chose to make the Purple Mist Sect a place of complete unity. Even if he knew that their strength would suffer for it, he did not wish to encourage direct competition among its members. They would not advance as quickly without challenge or adversity, but that was okay with him. The Purple Mist Sect would reward those who helped the others in the Sect, and encourage unity above all. The methods that Ruanfu had used to train ...