G. Tolley

Chapter 336 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

With all the immediate crises dealt with, at least for the moment, I could finally take a step back and focus on other projects. So, while ShouLi and the leadership council were busy codifying a new system for selecting their replacements, reestablishing the various guilds, and working to rebuild the nearly destroyed Sovereign Clans, I hid away in my cultivation chamber and turned my attention ...

Chapter 335 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

The Sovereigns had been dealt with, but that didn't mean we were safe. We had less than a week before the Central Continent’s tribute came due, and if anything went wrong, everything that we had gone through would have been meaningless.

I needed to ensure that didn't happen.

We needed to prepare three sets of tribute–one for each of the Sovereign clans with a presence on the Cen...

Chapter 334 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

Li NeiTang was dead, but that didn’t mean we were safe. We were still deep in the Jiu Clan’s territory, and we couldn’t relax until we figured out where their Kings and Emperors had disappeared to.

So, once Liang's condition was stable, I sent both him and ShouLi back into my inner world. Then, I pulled out Shen, my Revered Elders, and a group of NiangBa’s fighters. “We need to ...

Chapter 333 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

Su HongYi opened the temple’s gates to give us our first look at the courtyard beyond. To the left and right, I could see several of the smaller buildings that I had spotted from above, but our primary destination was right in front of us.

At first glance, the main hall of the Summit’s temple didn’t look too different from any other palace-like structure that I had seen in this worl...

Chapter 332 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

While the battle against Zhuge YeDu had been far more tense than I would have liked, Yan’s meticulous planning had been enough to ensure that everything had worked out well in the end. Likewise, while we hadn’t had much, if any, control over what had happened in the Li Clan, Emperor Li’s schemes had laid the groundwork for our inevitable victory.

The Nine Rivers Sect would be differ...

Chapter 331 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

NiangBa led the charge as our army rushed toward Lang’ya City’s ruined walls. At his side were Meng LuYao, Cai XiaoYu, and a collection of our most powerful light, dark, and lightning cultivators. 

While the metal and earth cultivators among us might have been the deadliest, those who cultivated the secondary elements had better techniques for stunning and incapacitating their op...

Chapter 330 – Life 77, Age 74, Martial Sovereign 1

Our final meeting to prepare for the assault was held within my inner world. While this meant that Ning ZeKun couldn’t join us, it allowed Yan to discuss things far more frankly than would have otherwise been possible.

There were three different targets that we wanted to hit: the Zhuge Clan, the Li Clan, and the Nine Rivers Sect. However, because Yan had intimate knowledge of the Zhuge ...

Chapter 329 – Life 77, Age 73, Martial Emperor Peak

With a monumental battle against the Sovereigns on the horizon, I needed to improve my cultivation base as much as possible. But to do that, I first needed to acquire a significant quantity of karmic energy.

After traveling back through time, the population of the Su Clan hadn’t even been enough to form a proper kingdom. However, the leadership council had already experienced the proces...

Chapter 328 – Life 77, Age 73, Martial Emperor Peak

My brow furrowed. “Bloodfire?”

Everyone at the table looked at Ning ZeKun as we waited for an explanation.

“I… can’t share the details…” ZeKun’s face twisted in annoyance.

Recognizing the effects of an Oath at play, I wanted to pull ZeKun into my inner world so that he could explain things more freely. Unfortunately, since he was a Sovereign, that wasn’t poss...

Chapter 327 – Life 77, Age 73, Martial Emperor Peak

ShouLi stood from her throne and calmly approached the Sovereigns while I followed behind. As we moved, the Sovereigns’ faces morphed into looks of suspicion.

Before coming here, they would have known that I was an accomplished Formation Emperor, and they had to have assumed that I would have installed a series of defensive and offensive formations to keep them at bay. As Martial Sovere...

Chapter 326 – Life 77, Age 39, Martial Emperor 5

Even though Shen had been able to build his anti-Soul Lamp formation, he didn’t have much of an understanding of the principles under which it operated. So, before we could look to either expand it or reconfigure it into a grand formation, we first needed to get a better grasp of how it functioned.

After clearing away the former Emissary’s body, we cycled the original formation on and...

Chapter 325 – Life 77, Age 39, Martial Emperor 5

Because of Jian DuJian’s antics, it took me a bit longer to reach Heaven City than I would have liked, but my time in Earth City hadn’t been wasted.

Even with all the free formations that I had handed over, I had still been able to earn enough contribution points to purchase two levels' worth of karmic energy. Additionally, upon ‘finding’ Jian’s storage bag, I was able to recove...

Chapter 324 – Life 77, Age 31, Martial King Peak

Shen took me deeper into his mountain abode, to a perfect replica of Jin’s anti-Sovereign conference room. After tapping the formation in the center of the table to activate the room’s defenses, he turned and looked at me expectantly.

Reaching into my inner world, I pulled out a tray containing all of the orbs that Shen had accumulated and placed it in front of him.

Shen, wisely...

Chapter 323 – Life 77, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

After arriving in South Gate, I booked a room at an inn and entered seclusion.

The alteration I purchased for my identity jade would allow me to enter the sect whenever I wanted, but I wanted to wait until I broke through to Grandmaster. While I might be able to blend in with the mortal descendants of current and former sect members that filled most of the cities on Dragon Peak, I saw lit...

(Contains Spoilers) Book 5 Plans and April Schedule

Hello,

Just as a reminder, at the end of book 5, I plan to pause Patreon payments and take a month off. The information below is for those who want it for making subscription decisions.

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77 will be the last major life of book 5. Depending on how things go, there might be a few chapters after that, but I am expecting th...

Chapter 322 – Life 77, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1

When I appeared in the Su Clan’s training compound, I felt like the world was spinning around me. The unbridled emotions created by my faulty ascensions as a Sovereign had completely unbalanced my mind, and even after being reborn, it took me several minutes to regain my bearings.

As I looked back at the final moments of my previous life, I couldn’t help but agree with Emperor Li’s ...

Chapter 321 – Life 76, Age 157, Martial Sovereign 1

Organizing a large-scale exodus of our clan was neither quick nor quiet. However, thankfully, the council had experienced the attack on Mount Jiang in a previous loop, so they had already considered the possibility of such an event happening again. While they didn’t have anything as concrete as ‘plans,’ they did have an idea for how to select the people who would be traveling back in time...

Chapter 320 – Life 76, Age 157, Martial Sovereign 1

Ning ZeKun didn’t seem overly enthused by the idea of me and my clan running away through time. After all, if this timeline continued after we were gone, then both he and his clan would be in trouble. However, if Emperor Li had talked to him as he said, then he had to have already known what he was getting himself into. So, in the end, he chose to remain silent.

After only a slight dela...

Chapter 319 – Life 76, Age 157, Martial Sovereign 1

It appeared that we had been victorious, but I didn’t want to risk anything going wrong at the last moment. So, I pulled NiangBa’s four lieutenants out of my inner world and had them keep an eye out for any rogue portals.

While I did this, Ning ZeKun popped over to where the Emissary’s storage bag had fallen and grabbed it before it could be lost. After opening it and checking its c...

Chapter 318 – Life 76, Age 157, Martial Sovereign 1

I looked at the Emissary of the Nine Rivers Saint coldly. While I had expected this showdown, I had not expected to lose my entire cultivation base before it started. That would make things far more difficult.

“I do not believe I have any reason to swear such loyalty to a person I have never met before.” I looked from one old man to another. “You have all sent armies to att...

Chapter 317 – Life 76, Age 157, Martial Emperor Peak

Six months later, Dragon Gate Kingdom stood empty.

20,000 youths, along with their caretakers, had been moved into my inner world. Everyone else had been sent to live in the territories of the sects. The only people who remained were some of our Emperors, but not even they were in the cities. They were all stationed along the borders of the various sects, waiting.

Dragon Gate City w...

Chapter 316 – Life 76, Age 156, Martial Emperor Peak

While my clan’s leadership got to work preparing everyone in the Wastes for what was about to happen, I headed to Blue Wind Pavilion for a chat with an old friend.

As I entered the Pavilion, an attendant stepped forward to greet me, but I didn’t even look at her. I headed straight to the staircase at the back of the hall.

This caused the attendant to become a bit flustered, but ...

Chapter 315 – Life 76, Age 156, Martial Emperor Peak

ShouLi guided me out of the tent city and north, to a large, open field that had recently been sown with sorghum seeds. 

Seeing the tender young shoots that were just starting to poke up out of the soil, I felt a little bad about what we were planning to do. It was unlikely that any of them would be able to survive. Maybe it would be best to move them somewhere safe to protect them f...

Chapter 314 – Life 76, Age 156, Martial Emperor Peak

As the Rank 4 Drill of Fellowship had not been ‘novel’ enough to trigger an enlightenment, I had to struggle through the process of upgrading ShouLi’s Rank 5 and 6 techniques all on my own. However, the techniques that I was trying to create weren’t too different from the Rank 4 technique that I had already created. I mainly just needed to change where the blend of wu and karmic energy ...

Chapter 313 – Life 76, Age 140, Martial Emperor Peak

Even after decades of research, I was only able to make minor improvements to ShouLi’s Rank 4 body cultivation technique. Everything I tried had only resulted in broken Low-Yellow techniques. Still, even though this rating hadn’t changed, I wasn’t entirely unhappy with my results.

Drill of Fellowship, Low-Yellow Rank 4 Body Cultivation Technique (Broken), Karmic Energy, ...