Justin Ankar

Chapter 231 - Second Chrysalis

Sage went all in. He could still train human fighting techniques using his sealed body, and while it was a massive loss of efficiency to have to learn two different sets of techniques, there was little need for him to specialize in such advanced combat arts. From what he saw in the Timeless Master’s library, techniques could progress in innumerable ways. Some focused entirely on the body and its mechanics, some altered the body to control energy in special ways, others relied e...

Chapter 230 - Hatching Part Two

Sage ran the little girl through the same process he’d performed a year ago. Drawing upon her essence, using his own body as a converter and then pouring it into the egg. Ruanfu felt a little weakened, but it was nothing like the process of awakening her egg. That egg had been in a barely living form of stasis for who knows how long, while this new egg was brimming with vitality. Once the transfer was complete, Sage ruffled up Ruanfu’s hair, “You did great! King, you have m...

Chapter 229 - Soldiers

A major part of Sage’s combat ability had been his reliance on a swarm of large insects. While this wasn’t a fact known to many people in the Dou Kingdom, it was certainly not a secret. Additionally, the Dou Kingdom was home to the Chong Clan and its many branch families. In order to keep a lower profile, Sage had to stop relying on an army of insects or it would only be a matter of time until he screwed up and his identity was leaked. This led to his current plan. 

Chapter 228 - Tiankong Clan

During the process of slaughtering beasts, King was also luring in powerful females that caught his eye. The vast majority of them were from bird species, but there were a few with very minor spatial attributes, or extremely powerful standouts. Instead of slaughtering them, they would capture them. Beating them up or injuring them enough for Sage to apply a Human Seal and then sending them into the Universe Ring where they’d already built King a palace. It was another chance fo...

Chapter 227 - Hatching

The birdman was confused, and a little scared. Didn’t Tao Ba say that if they guessed wrong it would consume him?

“Don’t worry, I’m confident. I just checked if it was an Artifact, it was not.”

“Even if I believe you, how can I do anything with the egg?”

Tao Ba didn’t join in to the conversation, he just sat back down and pointed at his teacup. Sage walked over and poured tea for him while he spoke to King.

“I have a technique that allows...

Chapter 226 - Monster Rancher

After the base and its arrays established, Sage set about the true purpose for him assaulting the Breach Hawk and taking over this canyon. A few more arrays were set up, this time to modify the environment and create a barriers. Each of these zones were set up for different conditions. Small ecosystems that would be the perfect breeding grounds for different types of creatures. Most of them were actually set up merely to raise food for the other pens. It was very similar to what ...

Chapter 225 - Ruffling Feathers

Sage walked into the room where he’d stored the large cage. From his perspective it was only about ten feet wide, the objects inside seeming only a tenth of their normal size. He looked down into the cage at the small figure within. The Breach Hawk in human form was definitely an unusual sight. Technically, it had no features that were impossible for a human to have. There were no feathers or unusual animal parts present, but he still looked weird nonetheless. 

As a ...

Chapter 224 - Trussed up Chicken

The Twin Soul didn’t let him down. With the support of the venom rapidly eroding Spirit Power, the Breach Hawk’s resistance gradually fell until it was helpless against the attacks. The Twin Soul was battered and weakened, but the Breach Hawk was devastated. It’s soul had previously been huge and powerful, the original difference between the size of souls was the same as in the real world. A man sized Twin Soul versus a thirty foot tall Hawk, its wingspan more than double i...

Chapter 223 - Bird-ened

This elaborate trap was meant only to buy him time. Almost immediately as the Breach Hawk hit the ground, Sage dropped half of the threads, leaving him only with the ones that led to the seeds. He downed a handful of Green Revitalizing Pills and took out some more Spirit Stones. Channeling a huge amount of energy to grow the many dozen Sacred Banyans. The Breach Hawk was struggling against the many cables but they were made of hundreds of woven strands of Steelsilk and were quite...

Chapter 222 - Birdwatching

After another check just to make sure, Sage was ecstatic. The Breach Hawk was exceedingly rare, and not many knew where it came from. Sage had only saw picture of it once before the Timeless Master’s library. There he found a real description, detailing the origin of the Breach Hawk. It was descended from an exceedingly rare creature called the Void Wyrm. The Void Wyrm was a type of half-dragon that lived in the depths of the void. It was the combination of a true dragon and a ...

Chapter 221 - Nursery

Growing and breeding insects was not an activity without its own costs. The Insect Immortal Index techniques required quite a bit of energy and one of the most powerful abilities of the technique was being able to use the energy directly from a Spirit Stone. Instead of having to expend his own energy and then refill it with a stone, he could directly crush the stone and transform it to feed the insects. Expending and recovering one’s Qi over and over again would strain the meri...

Chapter 220 - New Beginning

For the next few years, Sage would be traveling. He had a few options on how to accomplish this task and he chose the slowest. Linking to a Warp Worm, he had it burrow down quite deep and pointed it in the direction of the Dou Kingdom. The number of dangers it might encounter so deep underground were drastically reduced in comparison to traveling through the sky where Demonic Beasts would pick you out from miles away, or on the ground where you could stumble into a creature’s t...

Chapter 219 - Unforeseen Consequences

“Wait, what? What do you mean, I’m not in trouble?”

“Did you turn stupid, boy? Of course you are. You were just exposed as having a Seal on your forehead and leaving an auction with a stone tablet covered in more Seals.”

Sage began to curse inwardly. Peak Master Zhen added a dramatic pause before she continued, “The Holy Flame Sect has denied any knowledge of such claims and there is a standing order to interrogate you as soon as you return to the Sect. Un...

Chapter 218 - Escape

“Hey, runt. What did that guy want?”

The young guard smiled and waved back towards the nearby tavern, “Oh, that guy bought me a drink and asked if we were heading to Red Knife City. He gave me a Flying Sword Message to release.”

The older guard laughed and clapped the younger man on the shoulder, “Really? You asked for payment, right? How much did you get?”

“Twenty Spirit Stones. He said it was real urgent and threw them to me before I could even a...

Chapter 217 - End of the Auction

Sage didn’t make his excitement apparent, but it was obvious he wanted to bid when he moved to the yellow seed. Jin Shih and Cui Shufen had seen him bidding on mystery items before so they weren’t surprised. He’d previously given the excuse that he felt something unusual from the items and wanted to try his luck. Jin Shih had derided him for being a gambler, while Cui Shufen merely looked at him like she was doctor trying to diagnose an illness.

The bidding on the sto...

Chapter 216 - Knowledge

It wasn’t just weapons, the ‘manufactured goods’ portion of the auction had all manners of strange and unusual devices. Most of them didn’t actually have all that unique of capabilities, but just like the weapons they seemed grown rather than built. They solved the same problems as other tools, but with a different method. There was an expensive magical tool named Aura Tracker, it could be calibrated so precisely that it could follow the specific aura of a single cultivat...

Chapter 215 - Magic Tools

After a harrowing hour, the last of those terrifyingly strong beasts were sold and the auction was called to a halt for the night. While cultivators didn’t need to sleep, it was still just as refreshing as it was for mortals. Since it was only a few hours to midnight, the Auction was paused until 8am. Sage wasn’t interested in running into any of the other VIP booth occupants so he didn’t accompany Jin Shih and Cui Shufen as they were heading to a small gathering with their...

Chapter 214 - Opportunities

It stung to watch the Bone Mantis get sold off to someone else, but it was just too expensive for the use Sage could get out of it. He leaned over to refill his grapeflower wine, watching as Jin Shih started bidding on something. As he’d thought it was another little fluffy animal that Cui Shufen thought looked cute. Jin Shih got into a frantic bidding war with an old man in the Leaf seats. 

“My granddaughter HAS to have this Pink Mallow Marmot!” 

Jin ...

Chapter 213 - Punishment

For the next creature, what looked like a very wide flat red pig, Sage started out by bidding thirty thousand, triple the starting value. The other VIP booth immediately broke in and bid sixty thousand. 

Perfect.

Sage didn’t make another bid. The pig was probably only worth thirty to forty and now the rival booth had to pay sixty for it. Sage did exactly the same thing on the next item, sticking the other VIP booth with a bill for a hundred thousand. T...

Chapter 212 - Lu Tavern

After walking inside, Sage asked the host to take him to a private room. The room was just large enough for the one booth inside it and Sage took a seat. A minute later a waiter came into the room and Sage ordered a drink, “A bottle of stonemoss extract, nice and hot.”

The waiter bowed his head, “Forgive me, but stonemoss extract is supposed to be served ice cold.”

Sage nodded, “I’d like it hot.”

Nodding to him, the waiter left the room and a few m...

Chapter 211 - The Auction Continues

Raising the price by a whole third caused the other bidders to stop and take a breath. They had got into the heat of the moment and were just throwing up their hands to call bigger and bigger amounts. With such a huge increase they had to think about what they were doing. Most of them took their seats again… it was just a mystery item and there was three more of them on the stage with covers hiding them. Sage started to think he had won it, when the other VIP booth from earlier...

Chapter 210 - Bidding

With the initial high bid not working, Sage held off. If he started bidding too furiously, it might draw attention. From the previous rounds of bidding he knew he didn’t have many funds in comparison. The worst thing he could do right now was to get some rich guy interested. They’d probably buy it just on the off chance it was something good.

Thankfully, nobody else seemed interested and the auctioneer started asking for any other bidders. Just before she called for a t...

Chapter 209 - Auction

Jin Shih leaned back in his chair and sipped from a goblet that looked like a fist sized hollowed out grape. It was upside down and the stem was rigid and spiraled at the bottom to form the base. He swirled a dark red juice in his goblet and smiled at Cui Shufen, “This grapeflower wine is even better than the last one I had. Unfortunately, the raw materials are up first so we’ll have to wait for the good stuff.”

Cui Shufen was polite and Sage joined in a little bit as...

Chapter 208 - The Beast Den

It wasn’t just the name of the establishment, it was also the decor that drew Sage inside. There was more than a few places in town that seemed to deal with beast and animals, but in the window of the Beast Den, he noticed a species of wolf that he’d never seen before. Wolves were some of the most common types of beasts that were tamed and raised by Cultivators, but for the most part they were all quite similar. Essentially, there were a few major species that were used and f...

Chapter 207 - Daggerguard City

After giving them the quick tour, he led them out and back towards the Airship that was prepared for them outside. Taking them inside he pointed out the differences from the basic model. It had eight engines instead of two, twice the size of the cabin inside, and up to four times the payload. Inside it was filled with luxury furnishings and larger windows. The extras and addons used up half of the weight capacity, but it still had a payload of five tons. It also had beast hides o...

Chapter 206 - Departure

Sage was initially quite interested until he learned that Jin Shih was inviting him to attend the auction along with the two of them. That immediately made him leery. So far Jin Shih hadn’t shown him any goodwill, so this invitation coming out of the blue could only mean one of two things. It was possible he wanted to improve their relations, maybe he saw the value in Sage or the Peak Master had encouraged him to. On the other hand, it could mean the complete opposite. It could...

Chapter 205 - Information

Peak Master Zhen was holding back a laugh. Her current clothing, hairstyle, and makeup made her all look like a stately diplomat. Refined and eminently reasonable. On the other hand, her current laughter completely dispelled that notion. She held back a snicker long enough to speak, “I didn’t hear you, say that again.”

Sage kept his annoyance from showing on his face. She just wanted to tease him, since it was already obvious she wasn’t going to help. Even so, he ke...

Chapter 204 - Manufacture

The group wasn’t completely convinced, but they soon left after viewing the strange contraption and the group went to visit the Palace of Prosperity. Sage cleaned himself up and Wan Ling recovered her face when she greeted the group at their business. She made a good show of showing off all the luxuries and impressed the Peak Masters. 

On the other hand, Sage returned to his research and finally convinced the Sect to sell him rights for a large piece of land. While h...

Chapter 203 - Tea

The teen girl jumped into the air like she’d seen a ghost and ran off to fetch the tea set. Wan Ling apologized a few more times while the tea set was brought out. She started to prepare tea for their guests, a very common apologetic offering. Peak Master Lupeng and the two disciples had twisted looks on their faces. Sage noticed the issue, but he could already tell Wan Ling was embarrassed so he didn’t want to break it to her. Peak Master Zhen was the first one to break, “...

Chapter 202 - Research

After returning home, the first thing Sage did was to store all the materials from the Hidden Domain inside the Universe Ring. The strange soil, unknown watery liquid, crystal plants, bushes and grasses, as well as the ‘lumber’, acid, and lastly that huge brown crystal. He linked with a Centipede and used it for its original purpose, construction. Altering some of the landscape he dug out a sort of small valley, piling up the excavated dirt as a hill. He also used a Warp Worm...