Justin Ankar

Chapter 291 - Demonstration

Wu Chang was busy swinging the Halberd around, getting the hang of increasing and decreasing the weight between swings. The concept was easy enough for anyone to understand, but it took a bit of practice to get the timing right. If the weight increases before the swing or thrust is already in motion it will interrupt the strike. There was also a sort of art to increasing the weight for horizontal strikes. The weight increase can drop the attack angle. Changing the weight of strik...

Chapter 290 - Lock and Load

Sage brought out a few targets. They were very simple, just cut down tree trunks about five feet tall, split in half vertically. A bullseye was painted on the flat side and they had two legs on the back to stand it up. He motioned for the two Hoplites he’d brought to set up the targets. They picked them up and carried them out into Wu Chang’s courtyard. While they got to work, Sage started his sales pitch for the gear Wu Chang was looking at.

“This is the standard equ...

Chapter 289 - Lionheart Town

Wu Chang seemed slightly taken aback, but he recovered quickly, “Ahh, is that so? Quite an interesting decision to come to me rather than the property management office. I envy the boldness of youth. Which property are you wanting to purchase?” 

Sage, in the guise of a general of the Jade Horde, donned an overbearing smile. He stared directly at Wu Chang while he spoke, “I want the mountains and the area around them that borders Lionheart Town.”

A bead of...

Chapter 288 - The Next Step

Sage spent a few more weeks pondering about his next step while also stabilizing his cultivation and familiarizing himself with the use of the Heavenly Materials. Nearly two years had passed with Black Saber in charge of the Jade Horde and Sage was pleased to hear the progress reports. It wasn’t because they were rapidly expanding or gathering any special resources. They were in fact doing quite the opposite. Just as Sage had hoped for, the Jade Horde was keeping its head down....

Chapter 287 - Refining

It was time to see if his hypothesis about the Seed of Life was true or not. Sage’s soul moved towards the Heavenly Materials. Inside the Green Core, the Tree of Life looked like a very young sapling, having only three leaves upon it. On the other hand it was quite large, and Sage’s soul, as well as the five Heavenly Materials, were dwelling peacefully in its shade. Sage moved towards the nearest of the Heavenly Materials, Stormbreath, and held out his ‘hand’. Stormbreath...

Chapter 286 - Inner World

Sage focused upon one of the stones inside his inner world, then with a thought similar to the one used to operate a Storage Bag, poof! In his hand, the stone appeared. He sent it back inside, then he picked up a rock from the chamber he was in. He used a simple carving technique and drew a character upon it. Then he sent it in as well. It worked! Upon the surface of the planet, right next to the stone he’d brought out and put back again, was the stone from the outer world, the...

Chapter 285 - Core Formation Cultivator

Somehow, Sage knew he had succeeded. All of the stress, worry, and apprehension in him suddenly disappeared. The cracks on his soul almost instantly were repaired and it drifted over to sit peacefully underneath the tree inside what he would now be calling his Green Core. Even if the term was wrong, it didn’t matter to him. The Seed of Life had created it, so that is what he would call it. 

Waves of energy rippled outwards from the Green Core, nourishing the planet t...

Chapter 284 - Risk

He still remembered many of the earliest lessons of the Lang Clan. They spoke of the qualities of a great Cultivator. Talent, aptitude, luck, and heart. Talent was something Sage had greatly looked into. Aptitude referred to intelligence, natural skills, and of course fighting ability. A person could still have great aptitude at a certain profession or the use of their combat techniques without having a great amount of talent, even if it took them far longer to raise their cultiv...

Chapter 283 - Tiny Tree

That final month seemed to take the longest, and when the third leaf finally reached its full size, there was a change. The three leaves started to glow a soft white light while the small veins upon their surfaces lit up with a gentle golden glow. With the golden light to distinguish them it was now apparent there was a different sort of pattern to them. The glow didn’t fade, but the small veins began to shift. With a subtle shift, they were now a pattern that Sage could recogn...

Chapter 282 - Rank Advancement

Right now, inside his Dantian all the particles of ‘heavy Qi’ were being rapidly drawn towards the center. That starlike glow of light created by the Seed of Life, and filled with other Heavenly Materials, had formed when Sage reached rank 4. That meant it was his foundation, and all the energy being forced into the foundation was the first step of advancing to rank 5. It was very likely it was truly starting. He quickly notified King and passed him some control over the Univ...

Chapter 281 - Six Heavenly Materials

Thankfully, he didn’t say such things out loud. That sort of declaration always led to something bad happening. Even so, the objects within his Dantian continued to interact. The Blue Icesilver joined the other group of objects, shifting energy back and forth between each other. The resonance between them seeming to deeper. Now that he was recovered, the Heavenly Materials took this opportunity to stop holding back. 

Is it finally time?

In the center, ...

Chapter 280 - Recovery

Sage recovered slowly, during which time he had to refrain from his usual Ebb and Flow training. He brought out King and Ruanfu to do some guard duty, and also to give more time for Ruanfu to explore the world and gain experience. Even though she was only a few years old, she was filled with potential. She had two extremely powerful abilities, and once she grew older and increased her strength she would be Sage’s strongest backup. King was also constantly bragging about his chi...

Chapter 279 - Drastic Measures

Sage was leaking blood and Icesilver onto the ground. The dagger fell out of his hands, not bothering with his external conditions any longer, he had to focus completely on the changes happening within him. While he’d found a solution for the physical overload, the energy overload was barely at a standstill. He’d reach an equilibrium with the Blue Icesilver, adding just enough energy to counter the dilution of the ever growing mass inside his Dantian. It wasn’t good. He cou...

Chapter 278 - Refining Blue Icesilver

With the exception of the Eye of the World, which he only collected, Sage’s other Heavenly Materials basically refined themselves. That is to say, they weren’t really refined by him, but forcibly taken control of by the Seed of Life. First Light, Stormbreath, and the Sovereign Stone were never actually refined or even collected by him. They were in protective casings of various types and the Seed of Life had freed them all and wrangled them. At the moment, they seemed excited...

Chapter 277 - Blue Icesilver

After his death, Sage had rebuilt his cultivation from the ground up. At that time, the Seed of Life and the other Heavenly Materials took over. With him practicing the method the Seed of Life taught him, his body was made into fertile ground for the Seed of Life. The collection of Heavenly Materials he’d collected had entered into a sort of loop, feeding and nurturing others. At the time Tao Ba had even restricted him from practicing normal cultivation. It had created a restri...

Chapter 276 - Lump of Clay

With the other two standing by to help if anything goes wrong, Sage took a deep breath and stepped forward. He thrust one palm forward, activating Cosmic Traction mid-way through his strike. The world seemed to ripple like it was made of water, washing over the Lump of Clay. With his other hand, he made a chopping motion, activating Cosmic Traction again, but only to the level of thickened air. It was the same sort of trick that King used to ignore wind resistance. It was like ju...

Chapter 275 - Cosmic Traction

Cosmic Traction. The signature ability of the Breach Hawk. It was something like having an extra set of Qi Pores, and when Sage fed his Qi into them, the world around him seemed to thicken. Sort of like the humidity was rapidly rising until he felt like the whole world was covered in water. It felt like walking in a pool of water. If he threw a punch he felt great resistance and not much happened, but if he used a palm strike it was like he was splashing water. Space would ripple...

Chapter 274 - Techniques

Ruanfu had both wings and a long flexible body. She could learn both sets of techniques that King and Sage devised. The ideal goal was for them to come up with something that all three could use as beasts and also in their human forms. They didn’t want to spend their time training and perfecting a move that only had limited usage. Sage wanted to have something he could still use even if he were to undergo metamorphosis again, and King wanted something to pass down to his descen...

Chapter 273 - Training

Thump. Thump. Thump.

It was the sound of something knocking against the side of a tree with a uniform rhythm. Continuing unabated for a few hours, there was suddenly a change. The thump was followed by a crack. Leaves rustled, large tree branches swaying and susurrating. Then came a low creaking and a loud crash and whoomph of air. 

Sage stood next to the fallen tree, breathing hard and covered with sweat. His hands were covered in scrapes and abrasions, dried an...

Chapter 272 - Stone Tablet

Sage took a deep breath and then fixed his attention upon the floating wall of symbols in front of him. His eyes were sharp and his focus intense. 

Then he reached up and scratched a claw against his chin, “This doesn’t make any sense.”

He spoke aloud to himself, then gave it another try. It was just as fruitless as the first attempt. He spun his head around upside down without his arms and legs leaving the ground, then he walked around behind the wall of s...

Chapter 271 - Orange Sky City

Whitestaff was not excited to learn she’d rushed for a few hours straight for no reason, “What kind of bull…”

Many deleted expletives later, Sage explained the situation and she glared at him. He knew the look, “It’s definitely my fault. I didn’t properly investigate their strength and nearly led us to our deaths. It won’t be happening again. In the future, the Seven Stars will be in charge of picking their own missions.”

Whitestaff stared at him a b...

Chapter 270 - Escape

Sage was carrying what looked to be a large tree trunk on his shoulder when he finally caught up to King. Their evacuation point was the spot outside of town where they’d left the Vulture Geckos. Sage did a quick headcount and found they were a few short. He looked over at one of the human’s among the group and learned one of the groups hadn’t returned yet. Fearing the worst, Sage ordered them all to mount up and leave the area. 

He left behind his Twin Soul to s...

Chapter 269 - Setback

Sage didn’t have time to worry about whether or not the Hoplites received his order. He was far too busy running for his life from his own subordinate. While on the move, he couldn’t help but to reflect on his decisions up to this point. In the past he would have never made such an overt assault. All it took was a need for revenge and a timer to make him throw caution to the wind and made an all out attack in the pursuit of riches? 

It seems I was naive to thin...