Justin Ankar

Chapter 408 - Hunting

The group of six ran through a forest, back to where the ten attackers had come from. Sage was seeing a few days into the past and he followed the hit team’s prior path back. They went deep into the woods and Sage frowned. 

Damn, just as I thought. They were only part of a larger group.

His mind spun through his options, and in just a moment he arrived at a decision. If he merely continued to retrace the steps of the group he’d follow them back to th...

Chapter 407 - Ambushed

Back in the hall, the ten attackers continued their vicious assault upon Ruanfu. Their fists smashed forward, a pair of biting mandibles and cutting blades leading the way. After a dozen exchanges Ruanfu leaned back to avoid a punch. She was caught off-guard when the centipede over the man’s fist suddenly lunged forward and crossed the gap, biting down on her shoulder. She let out a very warlike shriek and then smashed her hand down on the centipede, causing the man who wore it...

Chapter 406 - Attacks

They were attacked, just as Sage expected, but in a manner he wasn’t expecting. It was an assassination attempt, that wasn’t unusual, but the method was. Ruanfu and Baozhai were in a careful state of awareness while also talking about nonsense to pass the time. With sudden speed, Ruanfu thrust her fist into the air and struck a small object falling down towards Baozhai from the ceiling. Without any time to see what it was, she hopped back and struck another object that was fa...

Chapter 405 - Calling in favors

“Good. So, what is your status?”

“I have recovered from my… setback. The network will be back soon. I’ll start sending intel again, but I also have a request. I want to bring the Prosperity Company over now. Will the Holy Flame Sect be supporting us?”

There was silence for a moment before she replied, “You are likely to run into stiff competition from the Four Major Businesses of Dou Kingdom. Your Palace of Prosperity will directly compete with Lotus Valley, and Th...

Chapter 404 - City Lord

The ceremony was less troublesome than Sage assumed it would be. Every major and minor player in Lionheart Town made an appearance. They brought gifts and the majority of them were eager to see just who it was that had taken over. Lionheart Town had defensive arrays built into the city walls, but it didn’t have any large scale protecting array. They were quite expensive to build and maintain, and since the City Lord wasn’t a Formation Master, he wouldn’t trust someone else ...

Chapter 403 - Takeover

The shift in power had gone quite easily. In fact, the most difficult part had merely been convincing the guards on the walls not to throw their lives away. After a short argument, they were finally cowed by the bodies of Wu Chang and the Strongfist Brothers. A few of them were quite loyal, but after they were killed by their own fellow guards, the rest of the takeover was disturbingly smooth. 

With the transfer of power basically complete, Sage took over the City Lord...

Chapter 402 - Finished

The snake as well as the five birds returned to their human forms, reactivating their Human Seals. They looked somewhat unusual as their clothing returned to exactly how it looked at the earlier part of the battle, yet their bodies had just as many wounds as they ended the battle with. Most of them looked a bit frazzled, but none of their injuries were critical, they were just like Wu Chang in that they couldn’t be killed without their cores being destroyed. Once the soul had a...

Chapter 401 - Air Superiority

They sure didn’t seem like very impressive weapons. Even if the shafts had pointed tips, how much damage could they cause? Wu Chang didn’t think of them as much, but his instincts told him otherwise. He felt a dreadful danger emanating from the feathers as they flew towards him. With the giant wind column to protect him, he was hoping to completely bore through the defensive barrier and flee with his life intact. Just like that cursed Lang Sheng had just done, he could also r...

Chapter 400 - Flocked

When the thirty foot tall rock monster fell to the ground, it became an easy target. Juzui and Jiyao swept in and struck it rapidly, causing more rends and tears in its rocky body. The rock monster started to climb back to its feet, but Songji called the two of them back. They were curious why, but then they remembered who was missing and they laughed at the poor golem. Right on time, there was a flurried hissing from up above and they glanced skyward to see the strange looking I...

Chapter 399 - Revenge

With his new body, even those at an equivalent rank would be mesmerized when they met his gaze. Hoplites only reached tier 3 at maturity, which meant the vast majority of the army in front of them were completely helpless. With two whole ranks lower than him, not only were they mesmerized, he could control them. Hypnotically at least. If he tried to make them do something against their core values, like killing themselves or their loved ones, they would snap out of it, but they w...

Chapter 398 - Trapped

As he spoke a woman appeared. She had long snowy white hair, thick and with a healthy sheen, along with piercing blue eyes. Her face was sharp and beautiful, though her gaze was deadly, boring into Wu Chang with her killing intent. She wore a many layered sky blue dress over a set of fighting clothes, along with a grey waist sash and hair tie, her outfit colors to the opposite of the golden eyed man. She stared directly at Wu Chang and spoke with conviction, “Hello. My name is ...

Chapter 397 - Terrible Wind

Baozhai leapt through the empty air like it was an obstacle course, darting from side to side to avoid the remaining wind vortexes still sweeping through the skies. The mere remainder of Wu Chang’s attack creating a violent field in the sky. Jiyao was still caught up in a whirlwind, swirling and circling and unable to extract himself, but he still caught sight of Baozhai’s rush and yelled at her, “No, get back!”

She wasn’t swayed by his words, charging towards the...

Chapter 396 - Strongfist Brothers

To one side, Tujiu was toppled, falling to the ground with the eldest of the Strongfist Brothers clutching his shattered shin. To the other, the youngest brother thudded to the ground with a fist sized hole in his abdomen, spilling blood onto the dirt. A moment later, a curvy woman in tight black leather landed on the ground as light as a feather. Her right arm was covered in blood nearly up to her elbow and she laughed at the other two brothers, her voice sounding like a child b...

Chapter 395 - Change in Tactics

The lance of fire passed between a half-dozen of the Vulture Geckos and the riders thought themselves safe. At least for an instant. They felt themselves pulled towards the flames and screams filled the air. The lances of flame didn’t just swirl like a vortex, they also drew in everyone around them like inverse tornados, pulling everything into a spire of raging flame. With only a few thrusts of his lance, the six hundred cavalry were thrown into chaos, large lines of fire maki...

Chapter 394 - Commence Battle

Waves of crossbow bolts fell from the sky, slowly coloring the ground around the group the color of brown wood with splashes of grey metal and white feathers. The attacks continued for a few minutes, until the three Strongfist Brothers locked eyes and finally called an end to it. Their five targets were still completely unharmed, the strong icy winds hadn’t let up in the least and caused the crossbow bolts to lose their effectiveness. 

The three men and two women had...

Chapter 393 - Return to Lionheart Town

A man dressed in the armor of the Lionheart Town City Guard burst into the main chamber of a huge manor. The lower half of the building was fortified with stone and it was so large it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to call it a Castle or Fortress rather than just a manor. The guard’s boots scuffed on the smooth stone tiles and he dropped to his knees in front of a man who was busy admiring a large painting on the wall. 

A look at the painting would quickly draw a co...

Chapter 392 - Debrief

Sage pondered on his next step while the five youngsters got rowdy. Eventually, he raised his hand, “Enough, enough. Jiyou just took an unnecessary risk, but we were still going to kill him anyway. I never counted on us staying hidden in the first place, all it means is there’s a chance they know we’re coming now. It seems like Abbot Kunga and Bi Hongbing didn’t know what Wu Chang was up to, which is what I thought, but we can’t be sure. We’ll get back to them later. ...

Chapter 391 - Meeting the Boss

The four young people were sharing a single courtyard at a large inn. Essentially, there was a small courtyard, about forty feet square, which was surrounded by a building on three sides and a wall on the fourth. There was a gate on that wall which led to the inn. The Inn was large and expensive as it had eight of these courtyards with eight rooms each. There were only four in their party, but they didn’t hesitate to rent the whole courtyard. For one, they didn’t want to have...

Chapter 390 - Find the Culprit

Unfortunately, those guarantees were proven wrong. 

About an hour later, the grove was still being cleaned up and the fear from the attack had gradually calmed down. The troops were dispersed into the air, combing the surroundings for signs of the culprit. Each of the Seven Stars had their own personal legion of a thousand soldiers. Half of them had been attending the event as guards while the other half had been carrying on their normal duties. After the spectacle at ...

Chapter 389 - Wedding Crasher

The solitary youth laughed at the hundreds who had surrounded him. He didn’t seem to care how badly he was outnumbered, instead he just swung his black saber to the right, the left, and then bent over backwards and swung his sword over his himself. The three cutting arcs were completely invisible to those facing them, but from behind they were very easy to see as glowing black trails. The cuts smashed against the front lines of the three shield walls and knocked them all back a...

Chapter 388 - Long Winded

Faded purple flower petals danced across new spring grass. A grove of trees covered in small purple flower blossoms were in full bloom and, with the help of a gentle breeze, creating a magnificently romantic scene. A red brick path cut through the grove, the trees bordering it were in a perfectly straight lines and adorned with red silk streamers and hung with red paper lanterns with golden tassels. At the end of the path was a large banquet, with hundreds of people at tables pla...

Chapter 387 - Hoplite v2.0

It would have been hard for him to forget the betrayal he suffered. In his past, there had been more than a few times he’d nearly died, and most of them were caused by a betrayal. He’d taken to lowering himself before others, presenting himself as non-threatening. If he wasn’t feared, or respected, as long as he didn’t show off too much wealth there should be no reason for others to wish to harm him. He’d been using this slippery persona for so long that when he finally...

Chapter 386 - Uninvited Guest

Sage turned around towards the voice and he was greeted with a young boy in white robes, who had snowy white hair, yet despite being slim he had a chubby pot belly. His eyes were a deep black and his monochromatic look was only set off by a bright red sash around his waist and tying back his long hair. 

As soon as Sage saw him, he felt a shudder from Guan Zhenyan. At the same time, his habits kicked in and he immediately bowed to him, “Please forgive me, Great One, f...

Chapter 385 - Second Experiment

They moved on to the second experiment area, which covered a few acres. From a distance it looked like rows of trees and hedges, but as one got closer their unusual nature became apparent. Of course, as a Cultivator he could see such details from a great distance, but the hills and other vegetation blocked their view and he even specifically took a route that only showed this section once they were right up next to it. For some reason, he felt compelled to hide things from Guan Z...

Chapter 384 - Another Deal

After receiving a bit of free advice, Sage wasn’t quite done with the Inner World. He had to stop and ask something of Guan Zhenyan, “You said I can’t have the Universe Ring back until I pay you ten million Spirit Stones, but how about the price to retrieve some of the items out of it? There are two experiments I was working on that I wish to move to the Inner World.”

“Experiments? What do you mean?”

“These are two of my secrets. Si...