G. Tolley

Chapter 417 – Life 109, Age 87, Martial Sovereign Peak

At first glance, it looked as if we had been teleported to the desolate foothills of a lonely mountain. There were no roads or buildings in sight. There was only a vast sea of grass that butted up against a forest somewhere off in the distance. Nearby, there were rolling hills surrounding that single, lone mountain, but these hills held nothing more than a few random trees and shrubs.

Eve...

Chapter 416 – Life 109, Age 42, Martial Sovereign 1

After advancing to Martial Sovereign, I wanted to exit seclusion immediately. However, I first needed to reform my toxic meridians and reconstruct my core, as leaving without these structures in place would have announced exactly what I had done to anyone who was watching. Thankfully, though, I had more than enough experience to get this done in a timely manner. And, by using pure Emperor-level...

Chapter 415 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

With the competition over, Yargui returned me and my team to the Palace in the Heroes Domain. However, we weren’t alone. The young noble that Mandakh had become smitten with, as well as all of Jon’s teammates, joined us. I didn’t have any desire to get close to these women, but I would fulfill Jon’s dying request and offer them my protection.

For Mandakh, Lau CoiHung, and my other...

Chapter 414 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

I had two pills. The first was the nine-patterned Rank 6 Ascension Pill that I had concocted with the help of my entire team. The second was the eight-patterned Rank 4 Tendon Strengthening Pill that I had concocted practically on my own. Which pill should I submit to the elders?

There were a lot of factors at play and a lot that I needed to consider, but the crux of the matter was this: W...

Chapter 413 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

Alone in my room, I concentrated on the dozens of vats that filled a cellar on the Plane of Earthfire, worried that all my efforts might prove futile.

During the third preliminary, I had developed that Pain Numbing Tea in only a matter of hours, but I had only been able to accomplish this by relying on the various skills that I had mastered during my time in the Palace. That tea might hav...

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Chapter 412 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

Mandakh had challenged Jon. Was this a blessing or a curse? Did it matter? If it was a blessing, then it wasn’t a curse. If it was a curse, then it couldn’t be avoided. At the very least, Mandakh’s challenge meant that I no longer needed to worry so much about Jon's machinations. From here on out, I could concentrate on doing my best in the upcoming competition.

Elder Yargui had tel...

Chapter 411 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

Bursting into the inn, I darted upstairs and ran to Mandakh’s room as quickly as my feet would carry me.

Just as I reached his door, I pulled to a stop and reached out with my soul, testing the formation that I had laid down the night before.

No one was inside. Not a single person had entered the room since early in the morning.

Where had he gone?

Extending my senses, ...

Chapter 410 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

After having their souls pushed to the limit, all of my fellow competitors were utterly exhausted. So, after being teleported to the entrance of an inn, everyone went directly to their rooms and fell asleep. Seeing this, I was relatively confident that no one would be able to stir up any trouble, so I decided to go out and explore the city.

Before I left, however, I visited my four teamma...

Chapter 409 – Life 109, Age 37, Martial Emperor 4

Walking into the elder’s grand audience hall, I found my four teammates already waiting for me.

“Each of you has made significant progress over the past 10 years,” I said, giving each of them a calm, steady look. “Remember, once we arrive, our only objective is to demonstrate our skills for the Temple’s elders. I must reiterate: do not antagonize the other teams. Do not...

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Chapter 408 – Life 109, Age 32, Martial King 1

My new workshop had its advantages, but it also came with a few drawbacks—other than placing me directly under the thumb of the local Sovereign, of course. Chief among these was the effect that it had on my training schedule. Taking care of all the room’s plants would cut into my practice time, and I wasn’t a fan of needing to navigate an endless maze of corridors every time I wa...

Chapter 407 – Life 109, Age 32, Martial King 1

The day after I secured my position as the leader of the Palace’s young alchemists, an attendant appeared at the entrance of my workshop. Then, after a brief explanation, he led me away, up a series of twisting tunnels, and out onto the plaza that sat atop the mountain’s summit.

I had come here a few times before, when visiting the elders’ audience hall, but this time, our destinati...

Chapter 406 – Life 109, Age 32, Martial King 1

I stood on stage in the middle of the Palace’s Grand Auditorium, feet spread shoulder-width apart, hands clasped behind my back, chin held high. I wasn’t a large man—barely taller than Lau CoiHung, who stood a couple of places to my right—but I needed to give an impression of solidity.

This was a show—both for the hundreds of young alchemists in the stands around us, and for the...

Chapter 405 – Life 109, Age 31, Martial Lord Peak

I had thought that, after Old Yau left, a portal would appear to take us back to the Palace. Instead, Emperor Chan sat down across from me, in the seat that Yau had just vacated.

“Fang, we need to talk.”

I nodded silently at his somber tone.

“In the past, we discussed the ascension to Martial Sovereign. Is it fair to assume, then, that you understand what it means to be ...

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Chapter 404 – Life 109, Age 31, Martial Lord Peak

Rejecting Emperor Lau’s offer of a marriage alliance in front of so many people had been a slap in the face to the Emperor, Lau CoiHung, and the Lau Clan as a whole. Had it been wrong for Emperor Lau to make her offer so publicly after I had already indicated that I wasn’t interested? Yes. Would Emperor Lau care about this little detail? I doubted it.

Whether I liked it or not, reject...

Chapter 403 – Life 109, Age 29, Martial Lord 7

Three days after testing everyone’s soul, Emperor Chan called me up to his workshop and handed me a storage bag.

“This has 100 copies of everything needed to make six-patterned Rank 4 Ascension Pills. If you can make 50 four- or five-patterned pills for my clan, the remaining 50 sets are yours to do with as you please.”

A 2-to-1 trade of herbs for pills was far from fair, but ...

Chapter 402 – Life 109, Age 27, Martial Lord 3

While Emperor Chan did agree to seek out an Artifact Spirit, he didn’t take away my sheet of Rank 8 metal. Chan would help me find a refiner who was willing to forge a pill furnace, but I would need to work out the final agreement with said refiner on my own.

This would, of course, take time. There were only a few dozen Spirits in the entire domain, and only a fraction...

Chapter 401 – Life 109, Age 27, Martial Lord 3

When Emperor Chan opened the door of his workshop and found me waiting for him on the other side, his face scrunched up in confusion. “It’s only been a couple of hours. Is something wrong?”

When I handed him a pill bottle and he examined its contents, this look of confusion turned into one of utter bafflement.

“This should be good enough, right?” I asked. “Can you show m...

Chapter 400 – Life 109, Age 27, Martial Lord 3

Emperor Chan looked at me with a pensive expression. “That would be… less than ideal.”

Before I could ask for more information, Chan explained.

 “Zero- and one-patterned Ascension Pills are practically worthless, since they can only help people ascend to the level of False Lord. Two-patterned pills are better, but their effects are barely equivalent to ascending through...

Chapter 399 – Life 109, Age 27, Martial Lord 3

Emperor Chan led me to an alchemy workshop hidden deep beneath the mountain's roots. Unlike most of the Palace’s workshops, this one did not contain a sitting area or any other unnecessary comforts. It held only a single, massive, metal structure that was barely recognizable as a pill furnace.

The base of this structure was a cylinder that was large enough to hold a horse—not a mundan...

Chapter 398 – Life 109, Age 27, Martial Lord 3

After the exhibition match’s results were announced, the Kings and Emperors who had gathered in the Hall of the Elders began to discuss how our team’s performance might be improved for the final competition. As I was only a young Martial Lord and not one of the elders, no one deigned to solicit my input. However, as I listened to everyone debate the merits of either sending Mandakh and the ...

Chapter 397 – Life 109, Age 26, Martial Lord 1

Did I want Mandakh to defeat Jon in the upcoming exhibition match? I wasn’t sure. My mind kept going back and forth, trying to decide which outcome would be best.

I had defeated Jon when we were both Martial Disciples, and my reward has been a Rank 4 skill. At the Intra-Continental Competition, we would both be Emperors. Shouldn’t that mean the reward for defeating him would be a Rank...

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Chapter 396 – Life 109, Age 24, Martial Grandmaster 7

Not everyone was sold on the idea of working with me to create new recipes, but this didn’t stop a couple of people from stepping forward to assist me—including the young woman who had placed second and had a talent for the spear, who I finally learned was named Lau CoiHung. Once our group of three met with its first real success, however, things changed.

After only a few months of wo...

Chapter 395 – Life 109, Age 22, Martial Grandmaster 4

Six months after the first round of the competition to enter the Temple of the Herb Saint, one of the Palace’s attendants came to my workshop and dropped off a summons, ordering me to attend a meeting that had been called by the tentative leader of the Palace’s young alchemists: Mandakh.

When I arrived, the Lords who had placed second, fifth, and sixth in the competition were already ...

Chapter 394 – Life 109, Age 22, Martial Grandmaster 1

Since I didn’t have to worry about participating in another of the Palace’s competitions any time soon, I had all the time I needed to work on a bit of alchemy and push my cultivation base to the next level.

Thanks to my recent top-five finish, the Palace had given me free rein to purchase as many copies of whatever low-level herbs as I wanted—in theory, at least. In reality, howeve...

Chapter 393 – Life 109, Age 21, Martial Grandmaster 1

Three days after the competition ended, Emperor Chan called me to his workshop.

Upon opening the door and seeing Chan for the first time in over a month, I was hit by a wave of nervous oppression. As I entered, the Emperor’s shoulders rose as his body tensed. I could see that he had something he wanted to ask me, but he seemed afraid to do so.

Had I caused this reaction, ...

Chapter 392 – Life 109, Age 21, Martial Grandmaster 1

Upon seeing my pill, the three Emperors who were serving as the competition’s judges barely reacted. From several meters away, all they could see was that the pill was, indeed, adorned with nine white rings, but since they had watched me concoct it, this didn’t exactly come as a surprise. So, I placed the pill into a jade bottle and handed it to the Pill King, who then delivered it to the j...