Justin Ankar

Chapter 588 - Turning Point

The battle among the Nascent Souls had completely stalled, but the fight among the fifth rankers had taken a drastic turn. All this while, Baozhai had been searching for an illusion and with the sudden turn for their side, she finally found it. Jiyao, the cocky Diamond Eyed Sandpiper, flitted through the air, waving his clawed feet back and forth, releasing a constant stream of hard to avoid slashes through the air. He had already adapted Black Saber’s signature technique in order to use it...

Chapter 587 - Deadly Women

While Kang Min and Chong Xiezi weren’t as terrifying, they were also incredibly destructive. Kang Min had upgraded her saber, but the rings that Sage created for her were still mounted upon it. Her saber was like a full bag of tricks. It could strike with the weight of a small mountain, or capture enemy attacks within it. Even worse, it could release all sorts of strange things. Flames, Ice, Demonic Beasts, Poisonous liquids, and hidden weapons of all sorts. Each of the rings was a differen...

Chapter 586 - Important People

Zhu Jiao and Wan Ling!

The two most important women in his life had suddenly appeared at the top of the ramp and then descended with more allies. He was so caught up in shock over their arrival that he barely registered three other important folks stepping out. Abbot Kunga, Bi Hongbing, and Liu Ao. The Seven Stars of the Jade Horde that hadn’t betrayed him. After the three leaders came a small army of Jade Horde members, most of them Hoplites, but many human mercenaries and D...

Chapter 585 - Reinforcements

The Fu Clan Nascent Soul, now revealed to be named Fu Xidong, answered Lady Diyin with a solemn tone. He was pretty sure the reinforcements he called for couldn’t have arrived this quickly. At this point he had to hope that the Cloud Swallowing Thunder Eel’s words were a trick and that the Flying Ship belonged to a third party just passing by. Even while maintaining hope, he started to plot an escape, sending a message to the Fu Clansmen that were locked in battle. The many black robed an...

Chapter 584 - Balance

“The spider and the birds are…”

Sage’s absentminded answer was interrupted by a dazzling display of lightning. Dian Huifang pointed her finger towards the second battlefield and white lightning connected her and a few hundred of the enemy. It chained from one to the next, connecting them all in a brilliant arc of shocking energy. After a few seconds the arc disappeared and dozens of them that were struck fell to their knees and crumbled to the ground, unconscious. The others loo...

Chapter 583 - Storm

Glowing matter splattered onto the ground like a splash of blood. It began to immediately scatter apart like dust in the wind, the glowing specks seeming blown by a nonexistent breeze. Sage instinctively reached his hand down to clutch the place on his side that was just struck. Yet, he was only a Nascent Soul right now, and there was no blood to stem. The flecks of soul energy that was knocked off of him were permanently gone, whittling away at the insubstantial substance that his Nascent So...

Chapter 582 - Not Seeing Red

Many of the Cultivators from the Inner World seemed impressed by this strange place. They only saw the sky for a few minutes before they were trapped in a world of red. Now, their ears were ringing from the booming thunder. The volume of sound was so great that any mortals who heard it would have been blasted into tiny bits. For these Cultivators, aside from ringing ears, they merely felt sore all over, like they’d just experienced a powerful sneezing fit. Their whole bodies felt strained f...

Chapter 581 - Advance

The two giant beasts immediately entered combat against each other. It was almost like they were immediately proving to the thousands gathered on this battlefield that their immense physiques were not just for show. The tiny Cultivators fled away from the Living Disaster and the Swamp Genesis Spider, scrambling back to their feet after being knocked down by the rumblings of the earth. The two giants ignored the tiny cultivators, having eyes only for each other.

The spider’s limbs move...

Chapter 580 - Cornered

What had appeared to be a cornered foe, the lone Nascent Soul without even a physical body to rely upon, suddenly turned into a small army. Over a hundred Core Formation Cultivator’s appeared around him, their faces grim, yet with a curious glimmer in their eyes. Along with those hundred Cultivators, there were a dozen giant beasts. Nine of them were large birds, the five Tiankong Siblings along with the three of King’s wives that settled on the Inner World and a golden eagle covered in l...

Chapter 579 - Hunted

Still worried about all the Cultivators on the surface, Sage stayed beneath the surface of the ground and fled rapidly from the source of heat behind him. His plans to stay in one place and recover his strength were dashed by the foe behind him. Given that he was sunk into the earth, there was no visibility. Spiritual Sense was greatly reduced, it was quite like he’d just sunk his hands into a pile of dirt. It was filled with rocks and he was trying to find something merely with his sense o...

Chapter 578 - Spirit

With the intervention of a Soul Cultivator along with a Nascent Soul that was also in a spirit form, the symbol on Hei Bai’s head finally shattered. The glowing mark shattered into tiny fragments of energy, immediately fading from view while her energy flared to life. She had pushed herself to the limit and as soon as the Human Seal shattered, she fell to the ground, gasping for breath and with a trickle of blood at the corner of her lips. At one instant she looked so old and frail, lying w...

Chapter 577 - Deep

A couple hours later, Whitestaff returned to the shore atop the Living Disaster. It moved into the shallows, where the water barely came up to its ankles. The water was only twenty feet deep, but that was nothing to the giant beast. It looked down at the three Nascent Souls, knowing that this trio were the only ones that could rival it. The fire in its eyes was still dim, and there were still no lava flows upon its back or tracing through its joints. It was still weak from its conflict with S...

Chapter 576 - Dredging

The Swordsman had targeted his attack at the edge of the swamp.

Once they knew what they were dealing with, they could search out spots hidden below the surface where the web had been anchored. With how large the Swamp Genesis Spider was and how big the web it built was, it would need an equally strong place to attach the edges. The giant spider had to dig tunnels under the surface of the water and fill them with webbing like making its own sticky stakes. With all the mud and debris tha...

Chapter 575 - Back in Action

Once he’d dove downwards, falling through the water and the web that held up the whole of the swamp, Sage readied a counter attack against the Nascent Souls that might follow him down. Sensing no immediate pursuer, he reached up to the web and touched against one of the roots of the Sacred Banyan that had extended through. Once he’d made physical contact with a part of it, it established a connection to them all. The Sacred Banyan created a forest with only one canopy, and by touching one...

Chapter 574 - Round Two

Seeing the spider being pushed around, Sage had to move his plan to the next stage. He yelled up at the Swamp Genesis Spider, and somehow it understood his tone of voice and immediately retreated. Having just pushed back the trio of Nascent Souls, it had the time to retreat a few steps and then sink into the water. The swamp they were battling in was only three to five feet deep in most places, but somehow the giant spider was able to dive down without an issue.

It hadn’t moved very f...

Chapter 573 - Approach

After being launched like he was shot out of a cannon, the Swordsman spun in mid-air and stabbed his sword into the giant spider’s back. Digging in effortlessly, the sword carved a path across the spider’s body, and only when the swordsman added a little twist to its path did it actually slow him down. It cut too cleanly and perfectly through the carapace, there was no resistance unless he wanted there to be. The slice was as thin as the blade of his sword, so even though it was quite lon...

Chapter 572 - Swamped

Sage had always spent more time on dozens of other areas of study, and his repertoire of Qi Techniques was quite limited. It was quite ironic considering he had the whole of the Timeless Master’s library to study, yet he passed it off to others and focused on Blacksmithing, Array Formations, Seals, Heavenly Materials, and transforming his physical body. It wasn’t that the Sacred Banyan was weak, but it was slow and he always had other more direct methods. At this point, Sage had run out o...

Chapter 571 - Outnumbered

He wasn’t sure if the Swamp Genesis Spider could even understand the words he was saying, but the way that Soul Resonance connected them meant they still had an innate understanding of one another. Even if they couldn’t communicate directly, they could still glean each other’s meaning by just a few looks and gestures. The two of them knew this was not a good situation, but they weren’t going to go down without a fight.

The ground started to rumble again, which they could see was...

Chapter 570 - Spider

It took Sage a moment to recover his senses, time which he gained when the Living Disaster was fighting off the Samsara Flame shot into its mouth. That strange experience he’d undergone was his usage of the Soul Resonance technique. The residual pain of its use was flaring up now, but despite experiencing all the memories of the giant spider, it took only an instant for the transfer to occur. They had each lived the other’s life and almost immediately Sage realized it had been successful....

Chapter 569 - Last Stand

Unfortunately, without a body he couldn’t use the Timeless Eyes. Unlike whatever Hei Bai had used, his own eye techniques actually required eyes to perform. It was also the most obvious reason he couldn’t use them both at the same time. Despite staring down the giant tortoise, Sage couldn’t use the same trick he used to beat Hei Bai. His seal knowledge was quite lacking, and without a sufficiently pure crux, turning the Living Disaster even 30% human wouldn’t do much more than piss it...

Chapter 568 - Stomped

A golden band flickered in the light, spinning as it was launched through the air, hurled away by the force of the tortoise’s foot smashing into the water. A wall of steam rose into the air along with a huge wave splashing over the area of the swamp around them. A purely physical attack wouldn’t do much to a spirit being like a Nascent Soul, but the Living Disaster’s attack was not purely physical. Like most Demonic Beasts, its body was covered by a layer of Qi, one that empowered its d...

Chapter 567 - Not Again

It had a shiny black carapace, the sort of insectine appearance that always seemed to be a little wet. It was all sharp angles and blade-like slanted lines. It had eight towering legs that looked like obsidian spires with giant swords attaching them to the black citadel of a main body. It had many huge glassy black eyes, only the spherical shape and higher reflectivity of their surface making them seem anything like any other creature’s eyes. It was something of a combination of a dark lord...

Chapter 566 - Pursued

Examining the changes in his enemies, Sage noticed something a little more positive. While Hei Bai, Whitestaff, the Artful Life Alliance, and the Fu Clan were riding on the tortoise’s back, the tortoise was not the same as it was before. Previously, the Living Disaster’s joints glowed with flowing magma, and only when it curled up into its shell did it appear like a normal mountain. Now, those burning veins and glowing stones were gone. It truly looked like a giant stone statue. If it was...

Chapter 565 - Volcano

The initial eruption shattered the armor of the Blacksilver Knight like it was a thin candy shell. Such extreme heat and pressure boiled away its Black Enhydros flesh rapidly, giving Sage only enough time to flee into the Universe Ring. From the inside, he couldn’t sense what was going on outside, that overwhelming power instantly destroyed his Spiritual Sense as soon as he tried to extend it out. A moment later he felt a connection inside him shatter. His Soul Fragments had been destroyed....

Chapter 564 - Heart of Eruption

Within a giant ditch, a group of six stood around a charred corpse. The huge trench was newly excavated and a fire in the distance with people huddled around it showed its status as a temporary camp.

The charred corpse was not human. Burnt bone protruded from between torn scales and blackened flesh. The corpse was smashed flat and spread over a large area, looking much like a piece of burnt roadkill large enough to floor a whole living room.

One man covered in black from head to t...

Chapter 563 - Dire Straits

With only one limb remaining, the Blacksilver Knight was in a terrible position. Sure, the strength of the Blacksilver creations was their rapid regeneration, but could it regrow its whole body before falling a dozen feet into the swirling lake of lava? Not a chance.

On the other hand, their trip here had given Sage some ideas.

The Second Skin Barrier disappeared and Sage threw all of his Spirit Power into pulling things out of the Inner World. Huge boulders appeared rapidly, one ...

Chapter 562 - Rock and a Hot Place

Sage had already been outside the Universe Ring for a few minutes now, and he was constantly burning Qi to maintain a shield with the Sovereign Stone. While he was away from the Warp Worm, the Blacksilver King that armored it was constantly deteriorating. He could feed it Qi through the Soul Fragments, but that meant he’d have less available to protect himself. The more time he wasted now, the less time there was until the Universe Ring started taking damage again. Without his continuous su...

Chapter 561 - Exploration

He retreated back into a tunnel and recovered in the Warp Worm for a while before heading back into the cavern and zeroing in on what he’d felt earlier. A flow. In the tunnels he couldn’t feel it, but now that he was in the area of higher power density he could sense a directional flow to it. Just like finding the direction of an up and down stream in a river, it gave him some clues as to where he was or where he might need to go. A few tests later, he found the ‘up’ stream, where the...

Chapter 560 - Slow Burn

Despite his impressive initial showing, Hou Hei was only able to make it an hour before he was sent back to the Inner World to recover. On the plus side, because of the time dilation, Hou Hei could recover for a few days in just a few minutes and then come back to explore for another hour. A short five minutes was more than a full day on the Inner World, so Hou Hei was constantly leaving and returning again. The Warp Worm kept traveling down one path, while Hou Hei would head back to prior cr...

Chapter 559 - Belly of the Beast

Having bought himself a little time, at least until he ran out of Qi or Warp Worms, it was time to start moving. The armored up Warp Worm slowly inched its way down the tunnel. A fully mature Warp Worm was about three feet in diameter, but the layer of Black Enhydros and coat of large spikes nearly doubled that size. On the plus side, the tunnel the Warp Worm was traveling down was around ten feet wide, so the worm had plenty of room to move.

Sage had no idea where they were within the ...