Justin Ankar

Chapter 917 - Awards

Sage had returned before this whole plot against the Yi Yang Group was put into motion. He arrived just in time to offer up some rewards for their performance. These rewards were already something he planned on giving out to the whole Lang Clan, so the only actual reward they received was getting priority spots in line. Funny enough, most of the fighting was done by Sage’s children and the Dragoons. For Sage’s kids, the real reward was deciding the order of entry for their own descendants...

Chapter 916 - Absolution

Some of the most righteously angry members of the crowd flared up, confused about if they should push to punish the man who now seemed to be free. Should he die to pay for his sins? Should he be forced to atone? How much did he know about what he did and could they gather more information from him?

None of these questions got asked. The now free guard’s eyes suddenly rolled back and the still free parts of his body convulsed rapidly. Bile and blood spilled from his lips before his bod...

Chapter 915 - The Guard

With a crowd already gathered, the leader of this group of attackers walked up to stand beside the trapped Yi Yang Group guard. Then a suitcase sized Magical Tool appeared in his hand and he set it upon the ground. With everyone watching he placed a memory sphere onto a small pedestal upon it, and a handful of Spirit Stones into a large container to the side of it. Then the Magical Tool created a huge rectangular screen of darkness into the air above it. After a moment colors shot up into the...

Chapter 914 - Spectacle

The true members of the Yi Yang Group seemed to crawl out of the woodwork and put up a much better fight against the vicious group of killers that had already infiltrated their building. Since this location was in the middle of the city, its defensive Formation Arrays had to be somewhat restrained. They had an outer barrier on the outer wall, as well as another that closely hugged the building itself. Lastly, the most powerful one was around their treasury.

These unknown attackers had p...

Chapter 913 - Intelligence

The assault upon the Yi Yang Group’s hidden bases was very much dependent on the Lang Clan having gathered a prodigious amount of intelligence upon them beforehand. For the Yi Yang Group, their bad relationship with the Lang Clan had formed a few decades ago and after being caught they had made sure to stay far away. Unfortunately for them, the Lang Clan didn’t feel the same way. Jiao, one of the two ‘Matriarchs’ of their clan have a deep disdain for them and the time the Yi Yang Grou...

Chapter 912 - Off Guard

The whole base went on full alert, trying to track down the killer that had just struck down two of their highest leaders. Though this distinction was not as stark as other places given that only about a hundred people had free will. Even so, this was still many more than most of the other bases of the Yi Yang Group. While they were a somewhat large organization with many personnel it was quite misleading as the majority of them were just mind controlled drones. Groups of the troops were scou...

Chapter 911 - Emergency

“We need assistance! We’re under attack! Everything is burning!”

“There’s a metal man smashing against the gates and some unknown force is backing him up. Our defensive barrier is going to fall if we don’t stop him somehow! Requesting assistance from the headquarters.”

“Can you hear me? Why aren’t the reinforcements here yet?”

The sounds of many different voices echoed through a spacious stone room. A pair of columns supported the ceiling and between them...

Chapter 910 - Surrounded

Dropped right into the center of the enemy camp, this plan always started with them being completely surrounded. They had to attack with a reasonably small force to start with or there’s no way the enemy wouldn’t see them coming from afar. The other Airships were already moving in to support them, but there was going to be a period of time where they were completely on their own in enemy territory.

The commander of this group, a small woman, smiled brightly and didn’t have to even...

Chapter 909 - Burned

Compared to the Yi Yang Groups other hidden bases, the conditions of the terrain here were really unfortunate. The fiery woman was the perfect counter to their wilderness retreat. She was able to completely dominate them without even requiring any backup. Of course, she still had the same forces backing her up as the others. In the distance twenty Airships were circling the area, carrying the scouting equipment as well as backup ready to rush into action at any time. There was also the fact t...

Chapter 908 - Fire

A woman with a mischievous smile on her face and brilliant black painted fingernails looked at the overgrown forest in front of her. The thirty foot tall trees were like fence posts for an overwhelming amount of thorny brambles. Thorny bushes nearly ten feet high wove between the trees at high tension like they were a wire fence. Traveling through this forest would be like trying to walk through a forest of razor wire, but this woman seemed to think it was all a joke.

“This is the pla...

Chapter 907 - Water

Thousands of miles away from the undersea battle, the mouth of a semi-active volcano glowing with red light had been thrown into chaos. The expected source of that chaos, volcanic activity, was not present. Instead, the rumbling of earth and magma was caused by a single person.

Inside the caldera of the volcano, outside the view of anyone that wasn’t flying over top of the volcano, was a sharply rectangular fortress crafted out of a shiny black glass. This obsidian castle was surround...

Chapter 906 - Attacks

Elsewhere, a large cave opened up to an ‘L’ shaped lagoon. Ocean waves broke upon the large rocky outcropping before spilling into the lagoon. At the far end of the lagoon a massive cave system expanded over the sea water. The rocks had formed into huge archways allowing the sea water to pass underneath them. Somehow the plateau of this large island was like a stone version of a stilt house. The passageways beneath it were large and numerous, but they were also something of a labyrinth. M...

Chapter 905 - Question

Back at the site of the action, everything was shrouded in darkness.

The huge cloud covered an area with a hundred yard radius, completely blocking the view of everything trapped within it. The ‘darkness’ was not an absence of light, but merely an inky black smoke. This became apparent when small sparks of white electricity were seen crackling among the dark particles. It was hard to tell if it was closer to lightning building up among dark clouds, or the effects of static electrici...

Chapter 904 - End

They attacked back and forth for a while once again, and the old woman was quite predictably at a much greater disadvantage than before. When she seemed to gain the upper hand for just an instant, the saber and shield started to glow with the white light, but this time Jiao had a smile on her face. It was just too bad the big shield and the tilt of Jiao’s face blocked the old woman from noticing it. Just as the two armaments detonated again, Jiao disappeared.

The explosion of two weap...

Chapter 903 - Last Words

Jiao didn’t give them any time to reply, launching herself towards them without delay. The old woman held up her shield and felt her bones rattling from Jiao’s attack. She braced against the hit and then charged forward with her shoulder, pushing Jiao back half a step. Then she stepped to the side and a sword appeared in her free hand. She used the shield like it was a matador’s cape, pushing it into Jiao’s face as she angled herself to attack Jiao from the side.

The incoming sa...

Chapter 902 - Rocks

These large rocks accelerated for hundreds of feet, falling from the sky and striking with terrible force. Of course, for high level cultivators these rocks weren’t that big of a deal, but most of those in the Yi Yang Group were not that powerful. The majority of Cultivators were actually in the third rank. It was something of a soft plateau that most got stuck in due to the lack of resources or talent. Those with lower potential would eventually reach the third rank after a few decades of ...

Chapter 901 - Little Moon

While the surrounded woman was whining with annoyance, she didn’t seem bothered or scared at all by the array of guards around her that kept increasing. The second row of the semi-circle around her had shields and spears while the third row only carried long spears with smaller shields strapped to their shoulder. Worse yet it didn’t stop there. Upon the top of the wall more soldiers ran out and formed a tight formation. Those on the wall held up large bows and nocked arrows, and a second ...

Chapter 900 - Yi Yang Group

“Order the attacks to commence as soon as Jiao acts.”

Sage was with Yating and a large team of strategists gathered around a large War Table. In the center it showed a large map of the whole Dou Kingdom. There were small squares highlighted upon it and lines were drawn out from those squares to form smaller maps around the edges of the War Table. Each of these smaller maps were zoomed in portions of the large map. The giant War Table itself was based around the ancient technology of...

Chapter 899 - Arranged

Sage was bombarded with questions, of which he had few answers for. He told them the whole story of what had just happened and added his guess about Bingqing taking a fancy to this fellow but being too attached to her image to ever say anything outright.

“If we do nothing then this romance will likely take a few decades to play out. Or, we can take matters into our own hands and I can get her a hefty dowry.”

“Okay, you start a dialogue with the Kang Clan, I’ll meet with Bi...

Chapter 898 - Rivalry

One fire and one ice, they were always at odds with each other. What was more interesting was that it was Bingqing who was there to complain about Yujie and not the other way around. Bingqing was usually the icy one, her calmness and icy features always seem to upset Yujie by not responding as she wanted to. So it was quite interesting to see Bingqing to be the one complaining about Yujie this time.

“Father, she’s been going around telling people that I have a crush on some old musc...

Chapter 897 - Sharing

Sage smiled at all these familiar faces in the room taking a moment to appreciate their achievements both internally and then verbally, “I am so very proud of how much you’ve all accomplished. I visited Golden Cricket Cove before returning and I’m quite happy to see that you not only implemented the plans we discussed but also made further improvements. You’ve all done a great job. I’ve also come bearing many gifts, but rather than explain them all one by one it will be far easier t...

Chapter 896 - Planning

The Clan Head turned his head to another person across the room who was also standing. As soon as he did, this grandchild of his spoke up, “The Yue Clan’s forces are spread thin dealing with many bandit attacks upon their properties and also disgruntled mercenaries that are claiming mistreatment on their previous jobs.”

Without the Inner World it might have taken Sage some time to realize what was going on, but with so much time on his hands he could go through all his detailed jo...

Chapter 895 - Meeting

Before he could walk the rest of the distance the group of adults in elaborate and refined robes ran over to him and crowded around, forming a giant group hug. They jostled around with each other trying to get closer to the center of the big pile. These were of course eight of his ten children along with a dozen of their own children and grandchildren. The twenty of them crowded him from every direction and kept at this competitive group hug for a few minutes before Sage finally cried out, �...

Chapter 894 - Home

Sage walked up to the side of town that used to be a normal road but had now become a wide no-man’s zone. The city had its own wall around its perimeter that met up with the huge wooden wall of the Lang Clan’s home. For a dozen yards in front of the giant wall there was a cleared space. This area was kept clear to prevent any sabotage to the base of the wall, especially inside the city where others might let other buildings be built in close proximity. With buildings up against the wall t...

Chapter 893 - Lionheart

Arriving in a cave hidden in the middle of the woods, Sage went outside and shifted into the immaterial form of the Cloud Swallowing Thunder Eel. He’d already changed his Master Seal after arriving back on land, but this choice of body was just too useful to give up. While it was a bit large, having an intangible flying form was just such a powerful option. After changing forms he flew up into the air, gaining altitude as he traveled in the direction of Lionheart Town. He got a nice bird’...

Chapter 892 - Return

Sage entered the branch of the Merciful Mollusk situated within Golden Cricket Cove. The city was the former headquarters of the Chong Clan, but now it was a branch of the Lang Clan. Since he was here already he didn’t head directly to Lionheart Town and instead traveled over to the Chong Clan’s former home. As the capital of the province, there was a reason for the Chong Clan to be headquartered here. There was a very valuable resource known as the Breeze Shell that was collected from th...

Chapter 891 - Schools

Even on the Inner World, Sage’s time was limited. Especially considering his personal lack of talent. As he’d discovered many years ago, the Spiritual Root was the source of ‘talent’ and it was essentially the level of perception related to Qi and somehow related to the connection between the body and soul. In a way, Sage’s lack of talent was like trying to perform precision tasks with bad vision. With enough practice he could assemble a watch full of tiny interconnecting gears and ...

Chapter 890 - Thermal Vent

Sage’s gains from studying the undersea thermal vent were not small. On the outside world he seemed to go into a sort of trance, staring at depths of the vent with intense concentration. This trance spanned several years and allowed a layer of silt to build up upon his body. In fact, to maximize the power of his eyes, Sage had used a Master Seal to create a body that was as close to the original Sea Locust as he possibly could. This demonic Mantis Shrimp had sat motionless for years and man...

Chapter 889 - Black Smoke

Sage found himself staring at a battlefield.

With the close up view of the thermal vent, he felt like he was standing at the edge of a war, a war without end. Heat spewed out endlessly from the vent, smashing up against the collective coolness of the entirety of the ocean. What was most stunning was the difference of expectation to reality. His understanding of heat at its most basic level was from Earth, and in his memory it had to do with the motion of atoms. When something was hotter...

Chapter 888 - Trade

With a need to move more merchandise and his business in Oyster Quay complete, Sage used his dolphin form to quickly travel to the neighboring city. In comparison to the previous city, Kelp Reef was far from awe inspiring. The huge beach and millions of oyster buildings were a sight to be remembered. Kelp Reef on the other hand was located among a forest of kelp that stretched from the surface down to the seabed a few thousand feet below. These bundles of kelp were each a yard or so wide like...