Justin Ankar

Chapter 321 - Bosses

Sage had ended the Timeless Eye technique earlier when he sat down, needing all of his energy to support the Sovereign Stone. Instead, he was relying upon his Spiritual Sense to guide him. The few rank 4s outside were distracted and he carefully controlled his Spirit Sense to keep it from being damaged. At least until the three rank 5s rushed in. They immediately assaulted his Spirit Sense to harm him in any way possible, but unfortunately for them it only served to warn him of t...

Chapter 320 - Desperation

The large and magnificent three story building had been the center of the compound. Large and imposing, the building had symbolized the greatness of their group. It was too bad that now, it was covered with crossbow bolts. The collection of so many arrow fletchings made it look like the building was a feathered beast. The rain of crossbow bolts prevented the Slavers inside from exiting the building, trapping them within. 

Inside, the second floor used to be a disturbin...

Chapter 319 - Overwhelmed

Sage didn’t bother to check if the people he’d showered in flames were alive or not. He had better things to do. Running quickly towards the cages that still had people in them and sending them into the Universe Ring. At the same time he yelled out to the others, “Collect the cages and get to the center of the room!”

King was heavily injured, but he mustered up enough strength to push the women away and then waved his least injured arm. Sending out wind blades to sh...

Chapter 318 - Outnumbered

While King was injuring himself showing off, and Ruanfu was triumphing against the odds, Sage was facing off the same number of enemies as the both of them combined. He was already cursing inwardly at how unreliable the bird folk were being. He’d thought having an audience would make them perform better, but it instead distracted them. King had let himself get injured against much weaker enemies by being careless, but Sage didn’t have that luxury. There were still people that...

Chapter 317 - Date Fight

As serious as the battle was, it had suddenly turned into an opportunity to show off. Or at least that’s what Ruanfu and King wanted it to be. Sage wanted to yell at them, but it actually wasn’t the worst idea. They might fight harder with an audience and that audience wasn’t useless. Sage brought out the characters that were named and a teenage boy as well as five women appeared. The boy was the most eye-catching, having blond hair and blue eyes. More amazingly, his facial...

Chapter 316 - Surrounded

There was a series of loud cracking sounds, followed by the twisting of metal and then a tin like pop. The many Formation Plates in the Formation Machine had reached their limits, shattering, warping, and a few even getting launched into the air. Flipping like coins and then clattering to the ground. Only a few moments later, the stifling mist that smothered every sense faded away. At the same time, many of the guards realized they had been fighting with each other. Their bleedin...

Chapter 315 - Commence the Operation

Less than an hour after they entered the empty field, the 600 soldiers of the Jade Horde were ordered into formation. The Legionnaire, Zhang Tu, was there with them and in charge of the unit. They weren’t a full legion, but Zhang Tu was commanding them personally. He seemed to receive orders from somewhere, looking up into the sky for a moment before ordering the troops into six defensive formations. Shortly after he did so, 50 of the men, vanished. The rest of them got a littl...

Chapter 314 - Eradicating the Slavers

They were supposed to take this last distribution point down quickly, but Sage wasn’t in the mood to sacrifice even more soldiers for quick results. Unfortunately, that put them into a conundrum. They were now in something of a hostage situation. The Slavers could use their ‘merchandise’ to threaten them, which puts them into a terrible negotiating position. While their other option is to storm in with force which will likely lead to the deaths of not only the ‘hostages�...

Chapter 313 - Return to the Surface

Sage took some time to climb his way back up the wall of the fissure. It wasn’t a quick ascent, but it was faster than running up the paths that switched back and forth. Eventually, he found the area where the tar pit was. Then he retreated a bit and hid within a small cave, rebuilding and applying his Human Seal before walking out to check up on the situation. Without their leader, the remaining Slavers had been taken care of. Sage activated the Timeless Eyes, peering into the...

Chapter 312 - Final Struggle

Sage twisted his flexible neck and bit down onto the blood ghost’s arm, severing it near the elbow. His jaws snapped shut and he started to fall. At the same time, the blood ghost brought its other arm over and sank its burning claws into Sage’s side. Some of them struck his ribs while others punctured his internal organs. Hei Bai only had time to realize that the blood ghost’s arm was not just severed, but completely gone. She had already started to swing her staff again, ...

Chapter 311 - Cockroaches

“You’re still alive? Didn’t I already smash you under that rock like a bug?”

Sage’s voice was distorted in his true form, sounding very different from normal. It had a low and almost metallic quality to it. He’d thought things were coming to an end, only to find out he was very wrong. 

“Silence, Beast. Just because you’ve inadvertently helped me, it doesn’t make up for all the damage you’ve already caused! Now, hurry up and die. Don’t worry,...

Chapter 310 - You’re still alive?

While flipping the beast the bird made him feel better it didn’t solve anything. Sage slid across the thickened air and approached the crimson monster again. While in motion he thought of a new plan and the Blue Icesilver tendrils wrapped around his body, one of them laid against his spine and coated each of his bladed back pieces. Not changing their shape, but adding an additional layer of thickness. The other three tendrils did similar things for his hands and teeth, creating...

Chapter 309 - Claw versus Fang

There was a loud screech, like metal being crunched. The small dragon and the blood colored monster were clashing against each other. They had closed the distance and were locked in hand to hand… err, fang to claw combat. The dragon’s teeth sunk into the bloody monster’s neck while the monster slashed its claws against the dragon’s back. The dragon was wrapped around the monster’s waist, protecting its vitals in the process. The crunching sound stopped and the monster�...

Chapter 308 - Blood Ghost

The pile of black oil had formed into a sort of bubble shape, nearly twenty feet high. Its presence had become more and more ominous as he tried to approach closer to Hei Bai, but now that feeling suddenly disappeared. He knew it wasn’t gone, it was only the calm before the storm. He had just recovered from the scream that attacked his spirit, and it was already too late for him to interrupt whatever process was going on inside the giant black bubble. 

He stuck to hi...

Chapter 307 - Final Form

Sage’s human body disappeared like an illusion and in its place was a green scaled dragon. More than eight feet long and as wide as a man’s thigh, his body was long and curved like a snake with the torso of a crocodile along with human sized arms and legs, though they were quite thin, had five clawed digits, and were covered in scales. The head was distinctly draconic, with a long snout, vicious fangs and terrifying vertical pupils. Oddly, though his body looked eastern, his ...

Chapter 306 - Hei Bai the Necromancer

When she spoke, her aura rapidly multiplied. Sage no longer felt they were in the same league anymore. Her power was far greater than his own, and the tar beneath her began to reshape itself again. It no longer acted like an appendage and instead started to form humanoid shapes just like the big pit had much earlier. Hei Bai released a bone-chilling screech and her hair stood on end. At the same time a multitude of spirits flew out of her back and into the human shaped tar manneq...

Chapter 305 - Conversation

The person reached up and pulled back their cloak. The face that was revealed looked just like the one the powerful tar person had, except it was in a mangled state. Earlier, as it was made entirely of tar, perfectly smooth, and hidden until he lit it on fire, it had been hard to see much. Now, with a better look, that tar person seemed an ideal version of this old woman. She had heavy wrinkles, and a terrifying set of scars, that when combined made her look like she had jowls. O...

Chapter 304 - Tar Master

Seeing the person’s response so many times in advance, Sage had set this trap to take advantage of his foe’s behavior. That gave him the chance to block the avenues of escape and allowed him to close the gap between them. He touched down on the ground only a dozen yards away from the cloaked figure. Just in time for the person to spin around to face him. Almost immediately, the black liquid was flowing across the ground towards him, and at extremely high speed like a tiny wav...

Chapter 303 - Chase

Sage waited there patiently for a few minutes. If that escaping presence was still moving quickly, it was likely they’d be close by already. Sage kept the Twin Soul with him as a backup, but a Warp Worm was moving through the earth and checking for more secret passageways. Just then, the Warp Worm found one, and Sage scooped up the Formation Machine, and left the individual Formation Plates in the interest of saving time. He’d already hidden them carefully, so collecting them...

Chapter 302 - Tar Pit

They were too late. They were too far away to make it in time to save the group of people, so they could only hold their tongues and move closer. A few minutes later they saw the slavers bringing over more captives, but by this time, Sage and his men were only a few dozen feet away. He made a hand signal to the two Centurions who then repeated it to their men. Then Sage activated his Cerulean Cloud and crept closer. He circled around to the back of the dais, keeping back to avoid...

Chapter 301 - Tar People

Sage pulled out a map and spread it onto the ground in front of the two Centurions and their twenty Squad Commanders. He quickly pointed to area in the center, “This is the compound.” 

Then he pointed out a few landmarks to make sure they could orient themselves, then he marked out two spots on the map, “9th Century, I need you to send four squads to each of these two locations. There will be a tunnel hidden underneath a rock marked with this symbol,” at which ...

Chapter 300 - Attack

The attack was sudden and fierce. The first few minutes went flawlessly, and many slavers were cut down before they knew what was going on. Then, Sage suddenly called for a rapid retreat. The Jade Horde reacted quickly, but they weren’t fast enough to avoid the calamity that came next. The starfield in Sage’s eyes seemed to twinkle, but there was little else he could do to prevent a landslide. The buildings the compound were all constructed of wooden planks, quite a luxury in...

Chapter 299 - To War!

Chapter 299 - To War!

The Refinery Worm had slowly uncovered the full extent of the underground passageways underneath that warehouse. There was a large room, presumably for longer term storage of slaves, and also a half dozen secret passages of different sizes. The Falcons tasked Little Birds with tracking every person who frequented the areas where the passages ended, while War Falcons were set to trail each person that was seen entering or leaving the close vicinity of...

Chapter 298 - Searching

Sage let the servants in and endured the strange pampering that was so common here. He had his clothing changed by others and his back washed in the bath, it was not something he was used to. It was somehow more intimate than the Spa treatment at the Palace of Prosperity, but also far less relaxing. He felt more like a dog being groomed than a person being pampered. There was some time to kill before the Refinery Worm explored where he needed it to do. In the meantime, Sage spent...

Chapter 297 - Entrance

While the last remaining Falcon stayed on watch, Sage brought out a tiny egg and took a minute to link with and hatch it. Since it was so small, the creature was matured almost immediately, and a tiny ant with a pair of wings on its back sat on the palm of his hand. Sage had been refraining from using the Insect Immortal Index in his new identity. He’d been seen killed and if ‘Ling Sheng’ was seen using bugs, it would be a clue others could use against him. Even having the ...

Chapter 296 - Hunting

Slavery. Sage was not originally from this world and so he of course had a hate for it. Many who lived in the world also abhorred the practice, but like most things the strong made the rules. Powerful cultivators had little need for slaves, people would serve them willingly for the chance to have a strong backer. Even weaker cultivators could easily earn money and they would be treated like rich men by normal mortals. The problem was actually with rich mortals. 

Mercha...

Chapter 295 - Hatchet Gang

If that was all there was to them, the Hatchet Gang would have been annihilated long ago. Unfortunately, mortals weren’t the only ones to join. Many cultivators would reach a plateau in their training, finding themselves unable to progress any further. They could keep on struggling for the rest of their lives, or turn to other pursuits like professions, building clans, or training disciples. Everyone is not so pure hearted. There are many who would grow frustrated and turn to s...

Chapter 294 - Request

Sage was pleased to find out that Wu Chang chose not to choose the shameless angle. After Sage made his humble brag, the man just stared at him for a moment. Then the battle continued for a quarter hour just so he could be sure that Sage wasn’t bluffing. Of course, Sage had no idea how long the Jade Horde could actually last while fighting at that intensity, but he knew they could go at least a few hours. So, he just added a little exaggeration to decrease Wu Chang’s morale.&...

Chapter 293 - Dusted

The commanders of the different companies looked over towards where Wu Chang was. It looked like they were waiting for new orders, and Sage was curious what else Wu Chang was going to try.

“The bet is about withstanding attacks, not being fair.”

Wu Chang let out a little growl and then whispered to one of his attendants. The situation in the battlefield shifted. The First, Second, and Third company no longer bothered to hide behind the Fourth. Instead, all four co...

Chapter 292 - A Wager

Wu Chang let out a sigh. Of course he should have expected Lang Sheng to offer such drastic stakes. He thought for a while before smiling, “Alright, but if I win the Jade Horde will complete a job for me.”

Sage thought about it for a minute before offering terms, “Okay, but you have to register the job through the Black Dog Company and it has to be a mission the Jade Horde can actually accomplish.”

“Of course. I’m not asking you to sacrifice your men.” 2019-08-09 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post