Justin Ankar

Chapter 977 - Black Fire

Sage was actually quite excited to see so many rare beasts here in one place and felt that despite being almost turned into a scapegoat by Beast Keeper Deng, it was actually quite fortunate for him. He didn’t care about the Charming Slate Boar, but the Thousand Limbed Lungfish and Black Fire Bullfrog would be quite useful for him.

The Black Fire Bullfrog’s simple name did not capture the strangeness of its existence. When the four fiery horns sprang into existence on top of its head...

Chapter 976 - Fishy

By the time Sage had dealt a deathblow to the boar, Beast Keeper Deng had opened the door and fled from the enclosure. The small door that led from the caged off walkway to the outside had already slammed shut when Sage smashed his Qi blade into the barrier over the bars. Then he heard a click from the door and the barrier on the bars disappeared.

Damn.

This was the second best option. The villain had left them here. That meant the Beast Keeper could be going on the run o...

Chapter 975 - Plot

The green mist swept towards Beast Keeper Feng, but the man showed no fear at all. The muscled old man smirked towards Sage and the bars separating them flickered with energy, creating a solid barrier between them. The old man was pleased inwardly. This Lang Sheng had already shown off an expertise with poisons, not only was he prepared for them, each of these pens already had plenty of safeguards against them.

Unfortunately for the Beast Keeper, what Sage used was not a simple poison. ...

Chapter 974 - Water

Once the lungfish was released, it suddenly made sense why the Gold Scaled Porcelain Crocodile was released. The croc had a very unusual look, but its actual abilities had already proven to not be all that impressive. At least when it was on its own. Now that an aquatic monster was released, the crocodile’s purpose was revealed. It was only here to pave the way for other beasts.

The black scaled lungfish was quite large and imposing, yet it had already lost an eye as soon as it was br...

Chapter 973 - Dangerous

Sage didn’t have time to focus on the rest of the battle as he currently had his hands full. In the most literal sense. He charged in front of the Charming Slate Boar and grabbed hold of its two huge tusks. He was struck by the sound attacks it was emitting, but the Jade Mantle he’d activated in the middle of his run gave him a small measure of protection. The Soundshield created an area of vacuum that greatly weakened sound as it passed through different mediums. That shield was spread o...

Chapter 972 - Sound

Unlike most sound attacks, the soft melodies coming from the gentle ringing of the Charming Slate Boar were not cacophonous or destructive in volume. Most beasts using sound attacks would roar ferociously, release haunting howls, or violently smash the ground. Only the most lovely of birds might be using a similarly sweet set of sounds like this. It was quite the juxtaposition for this huge boar with stone-like skin and such vicious looking tusks to be creating soft charming tones. The huge b...

Chapter 971 - Trap

While looking backwards to see the way behind them being locked, there was motion to the side. The Discipline Keeper was already in motion, but a metal grate slammed closed in front of his face. On the other side of this cade door was a man with a well built and strong looking body, yet with wrinkled yet also vein covered skin. His short white hair was balding on the top, creating the impression of an old man combined with a young warrior. Most shockingly, the man’s hands were covered in sc...

Chapter 970 - Secrets

With a bit of searching he found the discrepancy. On one of the lower shelves, the side wall of the shelf was wider than it should have been. The sides of each of the shelves were slid into a groove cut into each of the shelves thick side walls. For this specific shelf, the groove extended halfway up the wall to the next shelf, gradually sloping back to its proper thickness. The front face of the shelf had finely crafted trim pieces covering up this strangeness so the only way to see it was t...

Chapter 969 - Ghost

“His brain has been destroyed. How did you do it?”

Sage just rolled his eyes at the continued blame cast his way, “I have a technique to glimpse into the recent past. I am using the Phantom Mirror to show you what I’m seeing.”

After saying this, Sage walked over to the set of shelves to get a better look at the culprit. He replayed the events from before but from this different perspective. The ghost rose up out of the ground, looked at its chest like something was wrong...

Chapter 968 - Accused

The Discipline Keeper’s words struck to the bone and the others immediately took a step away from Sage as soon as they landed. Sage looked around at the group and then he suddenly broke into laughter, “That’s it? That’s your evidence? You just listened to some stories and now you’ve decided the truth of the matter? Is this the level of the Clear Sky Academy? You’re utterly incompetent!”

Before the Discipline Keeper could open his mouth, Sage broke into a tirade.

“W...

Chapter 967 - Interview

With the eyes of all in the room upon her, the old woman’s wrinkled skin suddenly reddened. Her cheeks took on a healthy blush and her neck flushed as beads of sweat broke out upon her brow.

“H-h-he came to ask me where to find a s-se-specific type of material, a-a-and then I told him where to find it.”

“Why didn’t you mention this before?”

The old librarian looked downwards and clutched the sides of her dress, “The material he was looking for should not be men...

Chapter 966 - Investigation

Sage wasn’t concerned with the others who’d been brought along with him. The Discipline Keeper would be paying close attention to them and had the advantage of openly using his Spiritual Sense without any obstruction. Sage was in no position to be trying to put into this investigation so he could only obediently follow instructions.

At least, that was the appearance he was trying to give off. In actuality he was looking down at the body laying upon the ground in front of them and tr...

Chapter 965 - Restricted

With such a wealth of knowledge in front of him, Sage wasted no time in picking up the first of the Jade Tablets and ‘flipping’ through it. His consciousness zoomed through the information as quickly as it could, which was more than enough time for him to copy it all down into a Memory Sphere on the Inner World. While he was working, a few hours passed uneventfully, something which he assumed would continue on for the next few weeks or months it would require for him to copy down the enti...

Chapter 964 - Trapped

The huge iron jar started to roll, pushed by the caretaker and the old man. It seemed quite heavy, but after it started rolling the strength of the two Cultivators appeared to be adequate as they weren’t struggling or asking for Sage’s help. That said, they also didn’t waste time, pushing the huge jar quickly through the gates of the Clear Sky Academy and down the hallway that led to the beast cages. The grates were already lifted and they had a clear route towards a large door that had...

Chapter 963 - Captured

Carrying the Sunset Rain Snake in his hands, it writhed around wildly, but was unable to aim its mouth towards Sage. Since the whole of the snake’s body was devoted to producing such prodigious amounts of venom, even touching its body was enough to expose him to it, but at a much lower potency. The venom that had already rained over him was enough to corrupt all of the Qi in his body, but thankfully his Poison Meridians were able to deal with it fast enough that it couldn’t corrode his Na...

Chapter 962 - Rain

The caretakers of the Clear Sky Academy, specifically the old man, were not fools. The problem with the Sunset Rain Snake is that it was only a mutated variation of the more common Poison Rain Snake. Upon advancing to tier 5 it had the chance to mutate, and so it couldn’t be controlled when such a terrifying creature showed up. It also showed their Beast Taming skills that they could contain the Sunset Rain Snake so successfully.

The huge defensive barrier was large enough for the sna...

Chapter 961 - Work

Sage rode the Spirit Stairs, the name for the Magic Tool elevator or lift, and traveled down to the middle tier. This was the most expansive tier, filled with large wilderness areas separated into different types of terrain, each populated with their own sets of Demonic Beasts. The ‘ground’ level for this tier was actually a few floors higher than wilderness outside so those who arrived had a great view of the wide open areas outside. Sage traveled down a few flights of stairs and walked ...

Chapter 960 - Entry

Having completed a test and paying a hefty registration fee, Sage sent his consciousness into the Jade Tablet and immediately frowned. Then he headed towards the main library, a journey which took him through at least ten large open areas with varying forms of decor. From gothic metal and stonework to finely carved wooden cottages, and even perfectly maintained flower gardens. It seemed there was a special courtyard that could fit anyone’s aesthetics. Past the many large open areas he enter...

Chapter 959 - Academy

Upon entering the twenty thousandth floor, Sage was astounded by the sight in front of him. The level was dominated by a single immense structure that towered over the whole level like a mountainous castle. At the quarter and halfway marks up the huge building there were expansive terrace areas, giving it a three tiered look. The base of the structure spread out to more than a quarter of the space on the level.

Sage marveled at the brilliant light above and the clear ‘sky’. It was i...

Chapter 958 - Peachwood

Sage only learned that there was more to the Ghostwood after Voctem died. At the same time, he was also wary of the strange tree as he now knew there was far more to it than they’d first realized. Since Voctem tried to use it as an escape method, than it could really be used by others to enter or leave the Inner World. This meant that it was imperative that Sage take control of it so others couldn’t use it without his permission. The only problem was that he wasn’t sure how deep the con...

Chapter 957 - Coincidence

After purchasing a collection of semi-mindless spirits to replace the tortured souls fueling the Ghostwood, the origin of those tormented beings became the sudden center of attention. After being captured Count Voctem was submitted to psychological manipulation and forced to give up information about his home and all his hidden resources. He cracked a bit quicker than might be expected from a Nascent Soul, but it wasn’t like there was a specific time where everyone would cave under interrog...

Chapter 956 - Souls

Other than refining the remnant souls into his physical body on the outside world, there was plenty to learn from Count Voctem’s techniques. Most of them reminded him of the techniques he’d recovered from Hei Bai, but used the Ghostwood rather than Yin Bones. Hei Bai’s techniques required very fine control and were extremely difficult to perform. Sage had always guessed she could only use them because of her strange eye, the same eye which he still had locked into a jade case. The probl...

Chapter 955 - Returns

When standing at the divide to heaven and hell, there were few that would choose to stick to their principles. Especially not this self-aggrandizing monk. Sage collected the monk’s possession and then fled from the pagoda before the other monks moved to stop him. Sage didn’t stay on this level of the capital any longer than he needed to and quickly left to climb higher. Venerable Surari was not part of a Sect or a Clan, the Pagoda was more akin to a temple. A group of people with similar ...

Chapter 954 - Dangerous

Again? How many body parts is this weirdo gonna grow?

Since the condition was dire enough for Venerable Surari to use another of his hidden cards, then that meant Sage was already pushing him too far. The point of the monk’s move would be to free him from the current situation. As such, Sage would be foolish to give the monk what he wanted. Instead of changing his tactics, he kept doing the same thing without interruption to keep the pressure up. If this new move was going to...

Chapter 953 - Armed

The golden fists fell like rain upon him.

Sage used the Path of Fate’s Direction to disperse all the strength from Venerable Surari’s waist and lower body. Surari’s sixteen arms were just too many for Sage to neutralize at the same time. It wasn’t a matter of his predictive, perceptive ability, or even processing ability, but a limitation of his control over the array. While the Plate Cannons let him place the nodes rapidly to form the array, and they were custom carved to fit t...

Chapter 952 - Trapped

Sage set up a Formation Array and used himself as the core. Surari would have to exhaust all of its energy, or knock Sage out in order to defeat it. The Formation Plates could still be targeted to damage it, but now that the formation was activated it could defend ‘itself’. Surari didn’t realize what was going on until the array was activated and the look on his face was one Sage hadn’t seen yet: confusion.

The monk didn’t believe it and started to attack again, Qi shaped like...

Chapter 951 - Blasted

The two of them threw attacks recklessly at each other, causing such an intense storm of energy that the metallized walls and floors were bent out of their previously square shape. The cube-like area had now become more of a flower shape, the walls had split into multiple pieces and their ends were now curled open to allow the excessive forces an easier time in escaping the area. The places where the two of them had been standing were now stretched out and downwards until they were both stand...

Chapter 950 - Serious

Sage laughed, “That’s quite funny coming from you, with your ridiculous reasoning for why you won’t pay your debts. Once you see how helpless you are against me, then it’s only natural you’ll pay. If I make a fool out of you in front of your temple, you might be too embarrassed to keep living. If you were to destroy yourself and take along all your belongings, wouldn’t I lose out?”

The Venerable Surari did not enjoy Sage’s words. Sage spoke at a very low volume, where th...

Chapter 949 - Monks

Sage didn’t want to waste any time, or establish some false rapport between the two of them. He brought out the token he’d got from Guan Zhenyan, “Venerable Surari. I am here as a representative of the Dream Dealer. I’m afraid I’m here to collect some things for him.”

The large man’s eyes snapped open wide and stared at the token in Sage’s hands. Then the man’s eyes closed again and the sudden dangerous feel to his aura disappeared. With just the flash of his eyes, Sag...

Chapter 948 - Ascent

Only a few days later, Sage was surprised by Guan Zhenyan’s voice telling him to leave the Quick Ramp. He turned the large wheeled All-Terrain Steam Coach, the ASC, off the Quick Ramp and towards a cliff face with a switchback road carved into it. He was a bit annoyed that he couldn't climb up the other ramp first to get a better view of this level from above, but then he’d have to waste time coming back down again. While the aesthetics of this vehicle were far from what he preferred, it ...