Between the usual bouts of testing out Guan Zhenyan’s poison’s first hand, Sage delved into the Spirit Cultivation Technique that he’d been given. The main prerequisite was actually the step that Guan Zhenyan had already pushed him to previously. The formation of an island in the Spiritual Sea. The Spiritual Sea was the source of Spirit Power also known as mental energy, psionic power, psychic energy, or any number of other similar names. They only called it Spirit Power he...
2020-01-10 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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As Sage spent more time with Guan Zhenyan he started to think the man wasn’t as bad as he seemed. He acted like a stingy miser, but his business deals were quite fair. Given their relative levels, Guan Zhenyan could have completely taken advantage of Sage many times already. Instead, the man seemed to make trades as if they were nearly on equal grounds. Or at least, this was what he was thinking when he received two Jade Tablets from him and took a glance at the contents. ...
2020-01-09 21:01:01 +0000 UTC
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A person curled into a fetal position on the ground, while a bored looking man stood over him. The stone tiles on the ground were already soaked with moisture and a puddle had already formed beneath the slowly writhing person. Surprisingly, the puddle was formed completely from sweat pouring out of that unfortunate person. With visible speed, their skin was shriveling up, the perspiration pouring out from them like a sponge being squeezed.
The person standing nearby didn’t seem phased...
2020-01-08 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Not many realized the importance of the sense of touch. For humans, sight was the most important. Without vision it not only made it hard to accomplish everyday tasks, it also removed the ability to read in a standard fashion. The next most important sense for humans was hearing. Combined with sight, they were the only ways for a person to perceive things at a distance with precision. A human’s sense of smell usually wasn’t very developed and while enriching, the loss of this...
2020-01-07 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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After some negotiating, Sage downgraded his quarters to a little shed up against the outer wall of the mega building they inhabited. Little more than a woodshed, Guan Zhenyan was even charging him a Spirit Stone per day to stay in it. He claimed that land on the ‘steps’ as they were known in town was worth an exorbitant fortune. Renting out space here for such a cheap price was a steal! Sage didn’t want to be on the steps, but Guan Zhenyan denied his request to move down to...
2020-01-03 21:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Before the servant arrived, Sage had already created a new Human Seal. During the transformation, just like the last time, he’d altered his soul slightly to give him a new face, features, and aura. Even if he was an extremely long distance away from where he started, there was no harm in being a little cautious. What if he were to by chance run into one of his enemies from the past? Both of his previous two faces had been distributed on wanted posters in the Dou Kingdom and Shi...
2020-01-02 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Despite the ridiculousness of Guan Zhenyan, it was still a fact that the man had brought him back from a life as a servant for the Shou Empire and also provided guidance for his transformation. On the other hand, it seemed there were some ulterior motives, so he was far from trusting the man. It still seemed like he was just a convenient tool to Guan Zhenyan, but at least he had value. As long as he was valuable, then he didn’t need to worry too much.
Guan Zhenyan l...
2020-01-01 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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When the cocoon broke apart, the storeroom looked exactly the same as before. The defensive formation had remained intact for half a year quite seamlessly. As it split apart, the cocoon stopped looking like a huge flower bud and more like a monster punching a hole through a sheet of green metal. A front heavy creature slithered out of the newly formed hole about a foot wide. The disconcerting part was how long it took for it to finish slithering out, the body of the creature coil...
2019-12-31 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The decision on a body shape was jaded by his personal preferences. Giant toads were somewhat fun from an outsider’s standpoint, but he just couldn’t bring himself to actually become one. At the same time, he also refrained from being just another serpentine dragon. Form follows function. In this case, the more complex his biology became, the more Body Power it would require. Even so, there was a limit to the amount of Body Power that could be focused upon any single attribute. The rest o...
2019-12-27 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Sage made a choice on the path he was going to walk down, and that meant he would now have to make some decisions about the shape and configuration of his body. From the different creatures he’d fused with in the past, there was a whole mess of insect, lizard, snake, worm, and even hawk bodies and parts to choose from. Even with the build to guide his choices, there were still many ways to accomplish the same goal.
If he were to pursue the road of extreme defense, he coul...
2019-12-26 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year's, and merry wishes for all the other holidays!
The story's taken a turn, but just bear with me it should hopefully all make sense soon enough.
2019-12-25 22:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Assassin and Ultimate Speed weren’t really normal roles, but that was just how Sage had thought of them when Guan Zhenyan explained the combinations. The abilities in each of the concepts were actually not anything new, especially since Sage had already packed most of them into his body in the past. It was actually more of a methodology in how to allocate Body Power and also how to shape his physical body. For example, if he wanted to focus on defense, a body shaped like a tort...
2019-12-25 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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“First off. Let’s go through the ancestral memories you’ve collected.”
Guan Zhenyan led him through re-examining each of the techniques that were passed down in Ancestral Memories through each of his merges. When Guan Zhenyan saw the techniques he was actually impressed, “Wow, you were quite lucky weren’t you. I was thinking Spirit Power is your strong point, but I was wrong. It’s only a shame I’m not a Soul Cultivator or you would be the perfec...
2019-12-24 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Sage had just made the declaration to the open air, waiting to see if there was any response. Met with silence, he wondered if he’d overestimated Guan Zhenyan’s capabilities. He made his statement again, and this time he felt a mental reply.
“So you said. I’m waiting for your list of demands. From your history, this is where you ask for conditions, right?”
Even without feeling Guan Zhenyan’s Spirit Sense upon him, he figured it was likely the man ...
2019-12-20 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“You have to start over.”
Guan Zhenyan gave him this answer only after Sage asked a few more times, making him bow his head and display some conviction. Sage was reluctant, feeling that he was only a few steps away from begging. He had no issues scraping his belly on the ground to flatter someone for a business transaction, but in those instances he’d chosen to initiate the exchange. They’d also been quite some time ago, and as he grew stronger, his pride followed s...
2019-12-19 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Come on! How long do I have to be stuck here?”
The yell came from the central courtyard where Sage was still chained up. He hadn’t seen a single person now for three days and he was wondering how spiteful Guan Zhenyan could be. Maybe talking back had garnered him a harsher punishment, but on the third day he was wondering if Guan Zhenyan had just forgotten him, so he just made some noise as a reminder. With his mouth muzzled he couldn’t really eat or drink anything...
2019-12-18 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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They flew over a massive wilderness area, sometimes skirting bodies of water and admiring the view, other times passing by huge mountains that seemed completely untouched by human hands. There were no signs of human civilization after passing the Shihu Kingdom and Sage was curious what remote area they were heading to.
Certainly, this whole trading vessel wasn’t going to drop us off in the middle of nowhere, right?
The days and weeks passed, and he st...
2019-12-17 21:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Sage wasn’t sure what had actually happened. Guan Zhenyan did something to him and it spurred him on to create an island in his Spiritual Sea. The three guests left the room to leave Sage alone in his cage. He immediately started to examine what had happened inside his Spiritual Sea. If Guan Zhenyan left some sort of hidden trap behind, it would better to find it sooner rather than later. He very carefully examined every inch of the small island that had come into being within ...
2019-12-13 21:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Guan Zhenyan had pushed him into an introspective journey. What was the reason he did it all? What continued to drive him? Why hadn’t he just given up and settled down for an easy life? What made him put himself into danger? Couldn’t he have just returned to a pure human body and peacefully adapted the inventions of earth into magical tools? Why did he even bother to attend dangerous auctions and compete over treasures? There were many times he didn’t have a chance, but to ...
2019-12-12 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The woman scrunched up her face, seeming quite annoyed at the mere presence of the man with the pipe. Luchih was much less hostile to hear the other man speak, but it was obvious his smile was now fake, “Nonsense, Mr. Guan. We haven’t forgotten you, but with how wonderful my offer is, there’s little sense for you even being here. You’re only here as a courtesy, so you may as well just relax and enjoy your vacation.”
The other man took a puff from his pipe and then...
2019-12-11 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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After a few weeks of harassment, the routine finally changed.
The foxy woman didn’t arrive alone this time. Instead she brought two other strangers with her. The first had a small and flat nose like it was barely there. The man was thin and wiry with a bald head. The bare scalp made it easy to see that there was a strange green sheen to his skin. As he moved closer Sage had an idea of what sort of person it was. The man’s eyes were vertical slit pupils, and when h...
2019-12-10 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Before Sage could take the comment as a compliment, the woman opened her mouth again, “At least you haven’t turned into a complete idiot, but still… what a mess!”
The woman’s golden eyes stared at the large serpent, a piercing gaze that seemed like she was looking deep inside. She shook her head, “Just because you can have more than one set of meridians doesn’t make it a good idea. Torn in so many directions, do you think jamming in everything possible w...
2019-12-06 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Sage woke up to the feeling of cold air and even colder stone against his scales. He was in a stone chamber that looked like it was carved out of the side of a mountain with only a few perfect slices of a blade. The rectangular chamber was quite large, easily enough to fit a few school buses inside. To one side there was a set of prison bars with a gap of only a few inches between them. Surprisingly, the bars also seemed to be made of some sort of stone, but of a different and mo...
2019-12-05 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Month 22
After I used the talisman that Zhu Jiao gave me, I lost both groups of pursuers. I was pretty sure they were still on my tail, but that boost sent me over the border of the Righteous Wind Province and out into the wilds. I’ve been traveling at top speed for the last couple weeks in order to reach the ‘Great Wilderness’. It’s marked on common maps as a dangerous zone, and given how many huge expanses of wilderness already exist between each of the counti...
2019-12-04 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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An old man with a bald head, white fu manchu, and a violet robe kneeled on the ground next to a black haired man wearing a black robe. The two of them were nearly prostrating themselves in the center of what could only be described as a throne room. To either side of them were rows of the most powerful and important people they knew. In front of them, were 108 steps leading up to a dais where a pair of golden thrones were placed.
The thrones weren’t much larger than...
2019-12-03 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Month 18
Well, the good news is that my life is no longer grueling monotony. The bad news is that I’m no longer able to get any rest even in the wilderness. Before, I could run for a few days, then hunt and rest for a few days to restore my strength. Things have changed. Those pursuing me now are far more powerful than before. The troops of the Jade Horde only threatened me in large number. I’m much faster than them and they could only hope to stop with their persis...
2019-11-29 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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An old man with a bald head and long white beard and mustache, the classical fu manchu, was sitting cross legged with his eyes closed in a dark stone chamber. There was a sudden thudding sound coming from the stone door and his meditation was disrupted. The man opened his eyes and a hint of irritation crossed his features.
“What is it?”
Outside of the stone chamber a middle aged man wearing an extremely intricate and heavily embroidered robe was bowing to th...
2019-11-28 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Month 10
I had a little more trouble in Five Mountain Province. This place is a war zone, or at least that’s what it feels like. Okay, I’m exaggerating. The cities and villages seem peaceful enough, but I’ve been sticking to the wilderness as usual. The thing is, in Five Mountain Province, the wilderness is just crawling with cultivators. Or at least that’s what it feels like because of all the noise they make. There’s actually not that many of them, but it se...
2019-11-27 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Month 2
I never thought I’d be on the run for this long. With thousands of people on my trail it seemed only a matter of time until they caught me, or I escaped from them. I could have never imagined that no matter what I did, they would always be able to find me again. I tried shedding my scales, burning off the outer layer of my skin, hiding my aura, changing my scent completely, even using Blood Refining to change the scent of my blood. Whatever method they were us...
2019-11-26 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Day 28
I followed the river for a while and battled with a Diamond Eyed Leatherback. I lured it onto the sand and tore a huge chunk out of its side, but then it retreated into the water and I nearly got caught by a friend it had waiting. Or at least that’s how it seemed, the other croc could have just been there to steal some of whatever the first one caught. I just know that as soon as I dove into the water I saw a half dozen of them swimming towards me. One of them ...
2019-11-22 21:00:03 +0000 UTC
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