Justin Ankar

Chapter 201 - Taking Stock

Rubbing his face, Sage laughed and gave Wan Ling a hug, “Sorry for being gone so long… some unexpected things came up. Thankfully, I survived.”

Wan Ling squeezed him a little too tightly in the hug and once they stepped back Sage gave her a curious look. She noticed and her cheeks reddened. Then she slapped his arm and turned around.

“Obviously I don’t like you that way. You should just realize that if you tell someone you’re leaving for a few months to do...

Chapter 200 - Return to the Sect

Sage spent a full week in the lap of luxury. Haircut, manicure, pedicure, skin treatment, massage, he was curious to see how things had evolved from his initial ideas for the business. Wan Ling and the business managers would take input from customers and their own experience to improve their services so it quite interesting to see how far things had advanced. He was glad to see the concept of a luxury hotel taking hold. Each room had its own large bathtub and shower with running...

Chapter 199 - Cultivation

When he came to, Sage looked around and saw Tao Ba sitting at a table drinking tea. Looking around, he realized they were sitting in his house. Once he passed out, Tao Ba had just dragged him inside and helped himself to food and drink. The little boy even waved at the empty and crumb covered plates, “What a host you are, this mess has been sitting here for hours.”

Isn’t that because you made it?

Sage blinked those strange eyes of his a few times and th...

Chapter 198 - Talent

“Oh. I forgot how backwards the level of learning in your world was. Those damn fools have even lost such basic knowledge. Those devices that measure talent have made people forget what it really is. Cretins.”

Tao Ba had to stop and turn his head to the side, spitting on the ground to show his distaste for those people. Sage was surprised, it seems that this little fellow truly values knowledge.

“I’ll ask you then. What do you think is the most important thing...

Chapter 197 - The Seed of Life

Lastly, of course, the Seed of Life. Long long ago, Sage only knew about the Seed of Life while reading about it in the ‘Treasure Hunters Guidebook’. It listed the Seed of Life as a ‘Legendary Natural Treasure’. Later on, he learned that it was actually a Heavenly Treasure. That Treasure Hunters Guidebook was just for lower ranked people to use so they didn’t miss out on nice things they happened upon. In the Heavenly Treasures Memory Sphere, Sage didn’t really find m...

Chapter 196 - Taking Stock

Tao Ba gave Sage another deep look, his gaze seeming to pierce deep and lay bare all of Sage’s secrets. 

“You should have told me you could do that. You could have saved a lot of time.”

Sage blinked, “What do you mean? You also haven’t told me where we are. How did you come out of…”

Before he could finish, Tao Ba gave him another flick on the nose, “I didn’t. You’re still in the Universe Ring. We’re in an area that you don’t have the...

Chapter 195 - Growing Pains

The limbed serpent kept writhing around within the cage, trying to escape from confinement. The boy, Tao Ba, rattled the cage a few more times. Laughing and then remembering he’d already grown bored of the teasing. His hand shot out lightning fast and snatched the tip of the Serpent’s tail. Grabbing hold a wave of energy passed from his hand and into the Serpent’s body. The energy rippled through the beast’s body before returning back to his hand. 

“Still hav...

Chapter 194 - Dead

The Fu Clan cleaned up the battlefield, collecting every single one of those large insects and wiping out every last ant with wide area weapons. They returned to Plum Lantern City and finished their cleanup work, simultaneously announcing to the remaining crowd just what would happen to those who went against their clan. Many of them were injured, but they hid it well, putting on the appearance of invincible warriors.

Some in the crowd made a show of being impressed, approa...

Chapter 193 - Disappearing

The Fu Clan weren’t strangers to losing pursuers. They were famous for their assassination techniques, so they had many methods of tracking down their quarry. The obvious target was a decoy, the Beetle already melted into a puddle of liquid. Their gazes immediately transferred to the two dozen insects that had been released from the Beetle. Some of them chose to take on more of the Chong Clan elders and adding two more to the search. Five of the Fu Clan quickly killing and isol...

Chapter 192 - Leaving the Zhu Clan

Well, that was tense.

An attendant took led him outside. When he reached the gates there was already a large crowd gathered both inside and outside of it. On the inside, Zhu Jiao was standing there, glaring at him hatefully. Some other young ladies and an older lady were holding her back and most likely telling her to calm down. Sage certainly wasn’t a fan of the prior events himself so he certainly couldn’t blame her. He merely bowed politely in her direction ...

Chapter 191 - Dealing

It hadn’t been a task assigned to him, but he knew that creating a good relationship or direct business dealings for the Sect would reward him with contribution points so he had made an extra effort to get on Song Lu Tian’s good side. The man was also smart enough to recognize his involvement with Chong Xiezi and after then made the exchange their gathering ended. Sage left the room and started on his way out of the party. Thankfully, he got out without anyone noticing him, o...

Chapter 190 - Trading

While Sage didn’t want to go to any of the Celebratory parties, he was worried that Song Lu Tian might be eager to leave town. He didn’t want to upset him by not meeting with him promptly. At the same time, he had no idea whether he was still wanted by the Tang Clan. A huge gathering like this was the perfect place to get lost in the crowd. Once he met up with Song Lu Tian and Chong Xiezi he could stop by the Zhu Clan and then leave Plum Lantern City. 

Thankfully, ...

Chapter 189 - Chong Xiezi

The ants slowly returned to the Beetle, and Chong Xiezi started an awkward conversation with Sage. He could only scratch out characters in the dirt, talking through text. Sage had only smuggled in a single storage ring and besides the resources he’d collected in Thunder Mountain Bridge he’d only packed a few Spirit Stones as emergency food for the Ants or Beetle. 

Maybe I should build a method to communicate through insects.

After a few minutes they ...

Chapter 188 - Back to Thunder Mountain Bridge

When more and more ants began to stream in a certain direction, that meant there was something killing them, or something catching their attention. The Charming Lance Beetle merely had to head towards the direction in which the majority of the ants were moving. In this manner he would run into beasts to kill and more precious resources. Every so often he would have the Beetle send out recall pheromones and get all the ants to return. Then once they were all packed inside the Beet...

Chapter 187 - Hiding

Sage had made sure to check around with his Spiritual Sense before entering the Universe Ring. A night of drinking had spiraled out of control and led him somewhere he’d never expected. While he wasn’t the killer, he still was the one taking the heat. 

The real killer must be somewhere laughing their ass off.

Hiding within the Universe Ring he had a choice in front of him. He could wait till they cleared out of the tavern and then try to determine wh...

Chapter 186 - Escape

A huge black serpent, with small arms and legs like an eastern dragon, let out a long breath. Blood dripped from dozens of small cuts and one large gash that had nearly split it in half. It was laying on a large web, the threads created from his own spider silk, one that was a mutated version of the ones created by the Steel Silk Webspinners. The spinnerets were just beneath his tongue, using Divine Breath to spit them out at high speed like bullets. He’d attached the threads t...

Chapter 185 - Stand

The flood dragon impostor that was Sage drew in a breath before seemingly spitting rapidly towards the corners of the room. As he did, translucent silk threads shot out at high speed and attached to the walls. Then he changed position and repeated his actions, moving quickly it took only a few seconds for the upper portion of the room to be interwoven with many layers of webbing. The blue color of the fog in the room was set as such to blend in with his Cerulean Cloud technique, ...

Chapter 184 - Caught

The waves of deadly sword energy flashed out from the old man with terrifying frequency. The first and most powerful of them was heading directly towards Sage. The old man had decided to solve that problem first and foremost before his follow up attacks were sent through the air towards the giant dragonflies and swarms of hornets. Directly in front of that first sword wave a huge black worm appeared. It’s head expanded, opening like an umbrella had been shoved into its mouth, s...

Chapter 183 - Pursuit

Sage ran frantically, at times using Falling Leaf Steps to keep a lead, but not truly gaining any distance on his pursuers. His right eye continued to shine with the depths of space, glimpsing into the future he could tell exactly how the crowd was moving and slipped through them effortlessly. He could tell when a large carriage or wagon were going to turn a corner and know just where to move in order to duck under or around the load and slip past. Meanwhile, the men chasing him ...

Chapter 182 - Hangover

“Grey Beard, don’t talk so loud.”

Sage waved the old man away and covered up his ears to try and drown out the shouting. The old man started to move towards him and Sage felt power starting to build in the air. It was only at this point did he realize something was going wrong. 

“You killed him! I saw that spirit return to you. You killed Young Master Tang! You will face the wrath of the Tang Clan!”

“Wu Tang Clan? Where?”

His mouth ran o...

Chapter 181 - Drinking

After purchasing another three more rounds for all the mortals on the first floor, many of them were absolutely sloshed. Sage, on the other hand, was jealous and immediately marched up to the second floor. Cultivators had stronger bodies than normal folks, which also meant their tolerance for alcohol was much higher. To that end, special wines were made for them. By mortal standards they’d need to drink neutral spirits, the ones with 90% alcohol, in large quantities. Since that...

Chapter 180 - Mountain Defense

As the Twin Soul moved deeper into the fog around the base of Thunder Mountain, Sage suddenly felt a deep sense of unease. Something was wrong. He’d had these sorts of feelings when his life was at risk in the past. Now, just like then, they came too suddenly to allow any room for thought. It was purely instinct, one that said escape now or it would be too late. Those who’d never felt such a thing would have trouble recognizing it and freeze up, usually leading to an unfavora...

Chapter 179 - Destructive Search

After some time battling the crab robots, Song Lu Tian finally gave up on the frontal approach. He’d very slowly smashed up three of the bots, damaging some of their pincers, some of their sensor eyes, and bending the barrels of their cannons. Each of the three was in a slightly different state of damage, but even so they were still quite functional. Seeing how well they still worked even after it took him so much energy and effort to damage them meant destroying them would be ...

Chapter 178 - Metal Jungle

Even though he was thinking about treasures, the truth was, he had little way to bring them out. The only way he was going to get any loot out of this place was if he approached Song Lu Tian or one of the other geniuses and either hitched a ride or convinced them to take his insect along. There was a single storage ring around the Charming Lance Beetle’s leg, but the chances of him smuggling it out were quite small. 

Leaving the problem for later, the ant colony was ...

Chapter 177 - Double Flowered Ice Camellia

Killing his way through the metal jungle, Song Lu Tian followed the directions on the map and traveled for quite some distance before the atmosphere seemed to change. He felt the temperature in the area drop, and he started to see dozens of large pillar shapes covered in metallic coils. The pillars were softly humming and had tiny blinking lights upon them. Each of the pillars was blowing out icy cold air from the top, which contrasted with the warmer air from the area he was jus...

Chapter 176 - The Mountain

The rocky floor had a slight upward slope, creating a small ramp up towards the center of the giant metallic ring. The Trial Master directed them to it, “Go on. Don’t hold your breath or close your eyes, that will just make it more disorienting and stressful. Hold your hands up.” 

The Trial Master demonstrated, putting his hands up in front of his chest like he was demonstrating how to perform a pushup. Some of the geniuses gave him a look like he was an idiot. S...

Chapter 175 - Thunder Mountain Bridge

Firstly, he tested the added feature. The swords suddenly seeming to disappear. Of course, they weren’t gone, but the sudden change in size was abrupt. Each of the swords was suddenly the size of a toothpick, and given their shape they looked quite like a tiny trowel, or a stylized silver spade off a playing card. 

From their shape, Sage figured they would be sub-optimal if used in the normal manner of a sword. The shorter length and thick body would reduce their rea...

Chapter 174 - Payment

Sage took some time to rest and reflect upon the resounding success of his fifth practice run. Returning once again to his peak condition, he set about creating a sword set using the higher quality materials. Spirit Steel on its own is a rank two material without any arrays or extra features, more than enough to use in the crafting of a rank three treasure. On the other hand, to create a rank four treasure with Spirit Steel as the main material would require it to be a true maste...

Chapter 173 - Home

When building that large hill, or small mountain, he’d dug up a huge pit. That was in preparation for his new storage plan. A stone room as large as an aircraft hangar was constructed below ground level with the help of an army of insects. This area was the replacement for his old storage ring, and just as Tao Ba had told him, he could put portions of the Universe Ring’s space into stasis just like his old ring. This storage room was the place he’d designated to be locked i...

Chapter 172 - Formation Swords

Sage wanted to laugh in their faces at his deliberate act of confusion. Instead he didn’t let a single bit of his mirth show on his face and instead spoke solemnly, “I got advice from a highly skilled master, specifically on the best practices for formation sword sets. Instead of enchanting the swords with individual effects, in addition to a flying array they contain only a few array symbols. Sword. Destruction. Heaven. Power. Speed.”

He paused a bit to let his words...