Before we could unlock the second ring under Dragon Gate, we needed a Peak Rank 4 fire body cultivator. Even with a cultivation technique in place and ample karmic energy being generated from the guilds and nearly a dozen cities, this still took time.
But that was fine. There was plenty that needed to get done in the meantime.
Most importantly, we needed to populate the cities aroun...
2025-03-07 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostWith my newfound understanding of karmic energy, I had ShouLi alter our pricing structure for buying the energy needed to advance to Martial Lord.
We lowered the cost of purchasing a stint as a nominal city lord substantially. However, each year, I would visit the current acting lord and harvest all of the energy generated by members of the Su Clan and half of the energy generated by ever...
2025-03-06 13:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter advancing to Martial Lord, I still had a large amount of karmic energy in my dantian that I needed to get rid of. It was enough to raise two people to Martial Lord, and I knew exactly who I wanted to share it with: Mei and Murong NaYun.
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Murong NaYun was nearly 280 years old. As a Grandmaster, he was nearing the end of h...
2025-03-05 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostWith the clan rapidly expanding its influence and fixing many of the chronic issues that had plagued Dragon Gate City, karmic energy was being generated at a rapid pace. It only took four years for the first person assigned to the position of city lord to gain enough karmic energy to break through to Peak Lord. After that, a dozen people rotated into and out of the seat, each gathering enough e...
2025-03-04 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWith the Dragon Gate Festival having concluded, the recruiters gathered their retinues and departed the Wastes. They were all, no doubt, rushing back to report on everything they had seen.
However, as these groups left, a few members from each one stayed behind. These stragglers were all low-level Grandmasters, but dressed in the clothes of common workers, they did their best to blend in ...
2025-03-03 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it should have been clear to everyone that changes had come to the Wastes, we maintained a loose facade that everything was normal.
Yes, GuiAi’s teams were building several new cities. Yes, ShouLi had implemented several policies to encourage people to have more children. Yes, the official lord of Dragon Gate City was changing every few years. But we didn’t announce the fact tha...
2025-02-28 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostOver the course of a few days, the limits of the changes that I had wrought became evident.
Destroying the outer ring of the formation in Dragon Gate City had not completely abolished the restriction on Lords entering the Wastes. As I had hoped, it only allowed Lords to exist within a wide circle surrounding the city. This circle extended roughly two thirds of the way to the other four fo...
2025-02-27 13:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostAfter several years of work, I was able to put together complete training packages for wind, metal, earth, fire, and wood qi. Each package had a series of techniques that would guide a person from Rank 1 Peak-Yellow to Rank 3 Peak-Earth. More would be needed, but that could wait. First, I needed YuLong and the clan’s trainers to see if it was worth all the effort.
While I waited, I turn...
2025-02-26 12:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostOver the past year and a half, while I had been researching and developing my new cultivation technique, Mei had been living a quiet life in my storage space.
During the day, she spent most of her time in the fields, doing mundane farming work. At night, she retreated to her room and studied books on soul cultivation. While it wasn’t possible for her to actively cultivate her soul withi...
2025-02-25 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostCultivation. For multiple centuries, I had been trying to learn to cultivate further and better, but what was cultivation?
In the most basic sense, cultivation was pulling in energy from the environment to strengthen one’s body. Typically, this was pulling in qi to strengthen one’s energy body, but various members of my clan had been experimenting with pulling in wu to strengthen thei...
2025-02-24 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
First, thanks for your continued support.
Recently, things have been piling up around me, and I need to take a bit of time off to get it cleared out. So, I've decided that I need to take next week off. Unfortunately, Patreon doesn't have a way to handle single weeks like this, so I'm sorry about that, and if you feel you need to request a refund for the sub, I understand....
2025-02-15 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAll of TaiZong’s closest supporters had already been subdued, so when TaiZu suggested that he step down as Patriarch, not one person protested. YuanFei, YuanFeng, and a couple of the Grandmasters who supported them had not yet been made to swear Oaths, but since they had ambitions of their own, they were more than happy to see the TaiZong lose his position. This being the case, Su TaiZong, Pa...
2025-02-14 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostUpon our return to the audience hall, I decided to show HongYi a bit of sincerity. While he might be willing to follow me to potentially preserve his life, giving him a few early benefits as well seemed like a good idea.
So, I reached into my storage space, pulled out a blank book, and copied down an instruction manual from my mental library. Then, I pulled out a small jade box and filled...
2025-02-13 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAs the sun rose over the palace complex, HongYi and I finalized our plans for my takeover of the Su Clan. Once we were done, he pulled out a small formation plate and injected a thread of qi into it.
Not ten minutes later, a harried Grand Elder TaiZu ran into the audience hall.
“Father, what’s wr–” When TaiZu noticed me and my team of Grandmasters, he froze. “An… Ancesto...
2025-02-12 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostEarly the next morning, I went to the Su Clan’s palace complex to meet up with TaiZu. When I arrived, the sun had yet to rise, but several well-dressed youths and palace officials were already lined up in front of the gates, waiting for them to open.
Seeing this, I had the urge to force my way inside as I had done previously, but before I could act on this impulse a middle-aged servant ...
2025-02-11 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs I guided Mei out of the Pavilion and back to our inn, no one tried to stop us, which I was thankful for. While I had the means to deal with anyone who might want to get in our way, if I deployed them, my plans for this timeline could be ruined.
Still, while I understood that all actions had consequences, ShouDu and Manager Liu had yet to learn this lesson. As their elder by se...
2025-02-10 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting between the elites and the elders was early in the morning, and after it was over, the elites were all provided carriages to take them down to Dragon Gate City. While I noticed a group of Martial Masters shadowing us, likely to both protect us and ensure that no one tried to run off, openly, we were being given a bit of free time to explore the city. I wouldn’t need to report to T...
2025-02-07 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, before the final competition, I was sitting in my cultivation chamber when the door opened without warning.
I looked up at the man standing over me. “Hello, father.”
He frowned at me with feigned sympathy. “Fang, I regret to inform you that one of the Disciples who has been training with you passed away last night.”
My brow wrinkled and I dropped my jaw s...
2025-02-06 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSu ShouDu. Su ShouLi.
Sharing the ‘Su’ character meant that they were from the same clan.
Sharing the ‘Shou’ character meant that they were from both the same lineage and the same generation. They were either siblings or close cousins.
As I watched ShouLi stare at my question, tears welled up in her eyes, and she spoke a single name.
“Mei.”
I couldn't s...
2025-02-05 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
Sorry to but writing this, but I just want to let you know that I might have trouble making the regular uploads in the near future.
My mother had a heart attack, and things aren't looking too good right now. I've been writing new chapters to stay busy, but editing them has been a bit more difficult, and depending on how things go, I might need to take a couple of days of...
2025-02-04 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith TaiZu’s departure, I was left alone in the arena’s courtyard, so I entered a state of meditation and began flipping through a few cultivation techniques to pass the time.
After what seemed like only moments, I heard the sound of footsteps in the distance, so I returned my mind to the outside world.
To my left, a young man was led into the courtyard. When he saw me sit...
2025-02-04 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostMost of my time over the next couple of weeks was spent studying cultivation techniques, but I spent a few hours each day observing the situation in my inner world.
At several points, I considered removing the seed of the Solid Mountain Fire from my soul and replacing it with something else. As a Martial Disciple, this would have been dangerous, but as long as I first drained the seed of ...
2025-02-03 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe cultivation technique that YuanKong had given me was, as he had said, Mid-Profound. However, when compared to even just the other Mid-Profound techniques in my mental library, it seemed rather lackluster.
It was a basic technique for cultivating metal qi that was supposed to increase the ‘sharpness’ of one’s energy. This might be a decent choice for a soldier since it would impr...
2025-01-31 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAfter returning to my small house, I sat down to wait. I wasn’t sure exactly how long my conversations with the Earthly Dao, my leadership council, and my Revered Elders had taken, but I knew I wouldn’t have to wait long.
So, I just sat and thought through my plans.
The grand formation under Rosehill had been formed from four concentric rings. The outermost ring was a Rank 4 for...
2025-01-30 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFocusing on my storage space… Was it even right to call it a storage space anymore? I had a few bunkers for storing items, but most of the space was no longer simply for storage.
Focusing on my… ‘inner world?’ I couldn’t help but notice that its boundary was now covered in a faint opalescent glimmer. Was that a sign of the Laws of Heaven and Earth that now pervaded the world? 2025-01-29 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
My eyes shot open, and I looked around in a mix of intense panic and confusion.
I was… safe…
I was in my tiny house in the Su Clan. Everything was…
I jumped to my feet, flung open the door of my house, and stared up at the sky.
It was… fine… The sky was a brilliant blue with not a cloud in sight.
After taking a few deep breaths, I reentered my house and s...
2025-01-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWithin the sect, acquiring enough karmic energy to ascend to Peak Emperor was a rather daunting task.
Lower down the mountain, there were dozens of merchant associations that were willing to pay premium prices for high-quality pills, formations, and weapons. Having existed for centuries, these associations had built up large reserves of contribution points for whenever ‘geniuses’ pass...
2025-01-27 14:12:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry, but today's chapter is going to be an hour or two late.
There's a lot of pieces to it, and I need to make sure it all fits together correctly.
2025-01-27 12:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen GuiMing and GuiAi first floated the idea of people returning to the world orb, there was quite a bit more pushback than I had been expecting.
Originally, people had been happy to enter the orb since it was the only way to survive the assault on Mount Jiang. Then, after living there for a few years, most of the mortals were happy with the peace and safety that it offered. Even though ...
2025-01-24 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post