Justin Ankar

Chapter 672 - Archer

Things were not going his way.

Sage had never faced such a potent archer before. In the cultivation world, bows were a very uncommon weapon. As a cultivator climbed through the ranks, their physical strength would usually pale in comparison to the strength of their Qi. In order to launch projectiles with enough force to threaten those at higher ranks usually required increasingly expensive equipment. That was why it was far more common for crossbows to be used. With the various methods ...

Chapter 671 - Ambushed

The Golden Mantis Body had absorbed most of the damage, but the shockwave from that impact still rippled through and shook up his internal organs. This enemy was turning out to be more difficult than he assumed. Sage threw out a metal disc, geometric shapes and unusual symbols lit up upon its surface, drawing power from Spirit Stones embedded at the center of the disc. The Formation Plate came to life, creating a massive dust storm that rose hundreds of feet into the air. The swirling winds o...

Chapter 670 - Unforeseen Circumstances

The only reason that tree could withstand the strike of the archer was that Sage’s Qi was empowering the Sacred Banyan to continually grow and reinforce around it. Many layers of hardening vines were shattered apart and Sage immediately realized he couldn’t sustain this layer of defense continually. Those arrows were just too powerful. He made a quick decision and poured most of his Qi into the tree in front of him and then dashed to the side.

His motion put him back into the line o...

Chapter 669 - Next Stop

Sage moved confidently, having already plotted a route that would take him to every member of the Artful Life Alliance. With so many different groups as part of their alliance, there was no way for him to take them all out before news of his assaults could spread to the others. No matter what he did, whichever groups he went after last would always be prepared for him. So he chose to simply stop his attacks. He was sure they had already planned something nasty for him and were now just waitin...

Chapter 668 - Planning

Decade? That was what the Great Elder took to be extremely fast? She talked at length about some of her plans to expedite the conflict. Sometimes a war would foment for a full century among these great powers, a fact that Sage hadn’t really thought about until the Great Elder started talking about it.

He’d suffered so many rapid-fire attacks in succession that he felt her explanation was ridiculous until he realized that things were very different when these first rate powers were b...

Chapter 667 - Finished

Sage was pleasantly surprised. The Great Elder rose to her feet and then swept her gaze over the other Elders and they all realized what she was signaling. Though by the amount of time it took for them to comply, Sage figured there was some secret messaging going on before they came to an agreement. Once the Elders were all standing, minus those of the Jinxi Faction who had already left, the Great Elder finally made an announcement.

“The Jinxi have lost the challenge. Xie shall now ho...

Chapter 666 - Devil

“How could he—”

“The branch head is a monster.”

“You’re wrong, he killed the Clan Head, only a devil would do that!”

Many of the mid-level members of the clan were terrified, as they knew how great the Jinxi Patriarch’s influence had been among the Kingdom. Without him, what would they do against all the other powers? Who was going to lead them now? Would they be safe here? Would the Chong Clan be taken down? That same old man had been the Clan Leader so lo...

Chapter 665 - Changes

The sudden ferocity of his attacks caused the Jinxi Patriarch’s features to tighten. There was finally a shred of doubt in his heart. Sage felt a surge of greater Law energy from his foe and knew that he was finally ready to bring out his strongest techniques.

The old man was many millenia old and fighting an orphan who was barely older than a century had been a joke in his eyes. He was using this challenge as an excuse to show off how powerful he was by displaying the techniques of t...

Chapter 664 - Mental Attack

The Jinxi Patriarch truly thought he had the upper hand, sending such a vast amount of energy to assault Sage’s mind. The thread of will that controlled the golden cricket only then realized that it was mistaken. Upon breaching the gate of the fortress and bashing through a wall, it felt it was a moment away from finally defeating this adversary, but it realized this was only the beginning. It was not a fortress, it was a maze. When the Jinxi Patriarch was just realizing that his mental att...

Chapter 663 - Lotus

Sage walled the Jinxi Patriarch onto a quarter of the stage, and the old man responded by turning his giant cricket into a swarm of golden crickets. In response to the crickets spreading over the forest, the purple lotus blossoms darkened.

The giant golden cricket had transformed into a thousand smaller crickets, and these crickets started to fly in a strange pattern that caused two of their four wings to brush together. Just like the giant one, this released a chirping sound, but from ...

Chapter 662 - Crickets

While he hadn’t really felt threatened during the course of the fight, Sage was suddenly caught off guard. With Foresight he knew what the old man was going to do with plenty of time to adapt his strategy in order to put on a good show without actually getting into any danger. Only this time, he was suddenly faced with a situation with no way out. Somehow no matter where he attempted to dodge, he only saw himself getting struck by the giant cricket’s attack. Sage pulled himself up from th...

Chapter 661 - Narrow Miss

The crowd gasped. The Jinxi Patriarch had been doing such a good job building an image of his overwhelming might that they were suddenly taken aback to see him nearly skewered by a surprise attack. They saw him avoid the root lance even as a pink gas was spreading rapidly from it, catching his arm. The Jinxi Patriarch’s arm started to move oddly, making slow and loose movements like he’d lost control over it. There were many gasps of concern, but then they saw the look of confidence on th...

Chapter 660 - Felling

The mental attack that the Jinxi Patriarch had sent his way smashed ineffectively against the walls of a fortress. Unlike others without any mental cultivation, there was an island at the center of Sage’s Spiritual Sea. Not only that, but upon that island there was a large fortress. A fortress with two huge gates that rattled whenever the wave of energy knocked against the walls. The old man’s Qi wasn’t immediately dispelled after crashing against the walls of the fortress. There was a ...

Chapter 659 - New Battlefield

This was the Chong Clan so there were many among the crowd who were able to clear up some of the confusion, “Golden Crickets can create illusions and mess with people’s heads. To think that the Patriarch was so powerful that he could make the whole crowd see night instead of day.”

As the match proceeded, there were many that stopped referring to the old man as the ‘Jinxi Patriarch’ and simply called him ‘Patriarch’. There was always a division of the factions in the Chong ...

Chapter 658 - Untouchable

After attacking a dozen times in a row, the explosive sounds came to a sudden halt. The Jinxi Patriarch came to a stop on one of the few unblemished parts of the fighting stage. Across from him, Sage was standing amid a pile of rubble. Nearly three quarters of the ten foot thick stone stage had been turned into broken stones. Compared to the clean flat ground that the patriarch occupied, Sage looked like he was out hiking through a gravel filled ravine. The old man looked completely calm and ...

Chapter 657 - Golden

With the sneak attack unsuccessful, there was no need to hide it any longer. A golden light sprung up around his body, but unlike the times in the past when it was something of a formless aura, this time it took on its true shape. The golden energy looked to harden, like a form of neon body armor. It formed into chitinous plates segmented with joints that covered his entire body. The golden layer was an inch thick all around his body, fitting him perfectly with the exception of a few places. ...

Chapter 656 - Patriarch Jinxi

With the provocative words from Lang Sheng, everyone in the crowd realized that this challenge for leadership of the clan was truly serious. For many of them the sheer number of people involved had given this even something of a festival vibe. It was only now that the full weight of this grand battle hit them. They finally realized that this event had immense implications upon the clan and their own lives. How much would things change after this battle? Would they be for the better or the wor...

Chapter 655 - Preparation

Sage suddenly received many invitations from others in the Chong Clan and also from the important people in Golden Cricket Cove. There were many who thought themselves smart that wanted to form a relationship with him. If the challenge for leadership was successful he would be someone that the new Chong Clan leader had a close connection to. On the other hand if he lost, they figured the Jinxi Patriarch wouldn’t let him live. So, many were eager to meet him, but very few of them bothered to...

Chapter 654 - Challenge

The vast majority of the people in the room felt that this upstart branch head had no chance whatsoever, but they were all hoping he would put up a fight. The many younger talents in the room were eager to see how powerful their Clan Leader was, as the majority had never seen him fight. They were eager to see how strong such a person was that even the mighty Great Elder Xie wouldn’t dare to battle with him. The Great Elder was quite violent and many here were familiar with how terrifying sh...

Chapter 653 - Open Provocation

His Soul Clone had many years to adapt the Windscreen into a more powerful defense technique, and even to learn how to incorporate the Law of Corruption into its use. Sound is a vibration of molecules, with each knocking up against another to transfer energy and he knew that everytime sound changed mediums much of its energy was lost. For example, trying to hear someone talking while submerged under the water nearby.

He gave his strengthened technique an unimaginative name, Soundshield,...

Chapter 652 - Issue of Concern

Those on the side of the Xie Faction were already prepared for something unusual happening during this meeting. Since nothing had happened yet, they were all waiting patiently. On the other hand, the opposition was not so forewarned and only now that they heard Sage’s outburst did they realize they were jumping the gun. The Elder that had risen to his feet promptly sat back down while the others that were walking away quickly returned. They tried to cover up their embarrassment by sending a...

Chapter 651 - Council

The Great Elder was left with no choice. If she let Lang Sheng call a meeting through a different faction it would look like she couldn’t even control the members of her faction. In the interest of not undermining her own authority she had to be the one calling the meeting. She wasn’t sure what Lang Sheng was planning, but she quickly informed her allies of what was going on and to prepare for a very unusual council meeting.

Unfortunately for her, she still underestimated what Sage ...

Chapter 650 - Proxy War

“Can it be avoided? What proxies are involved?”

The simplest way out of a proxy war was to abandon the parties involved. It really wasn’t all that honorable, but he was merely asking questions after all.

“The Chong Clan rules over 10,000 Wave Province. We have direct control over the most valuable resource in the province, Breeze Shells, and the entire clan is responsible. They wouldn’t dare to mess around with that industry, but there are also valuable resources gathere...

Chapter 649 - Great Elder Xie

Sage stayed in his position for a bit longer, bowing at the waist to present the Great Elder an opening. He was daring her to make a move, but she didn’t take the offer. Instead he slowly rose back up to a standing position and smiled at the woman. He recalled his law energy, “Now that you’re done trying to intimidate me, are you going to move on to trying to make me feel guilty and indebted to the Xie faction? Why don’t you just skip to the end and tell me your plans and how you want...