After some thought Sage hypothesized that the Jinxi Ancestor must not possess the Brood Master technique. It was then that Sage pieced together the more likely story. The Golden Cicada had one more important detail: upon becoming a Nascent Soul, the egg is absorbed and their soul takes the form of the Golden Cicada. If their body dies the Nascent Soul can still take the form of a Nymph for prot...
2022-01-12 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInside the Universe Ring, Sage used the innate talent of the Twin Ringed Soul Serpent to condense an egg that was essentially a clone of his own body. This egg created through the Soul Spawn technique was not viable on its own, and only if Sage’s soul transferred into it would it incubate and hatch. As long as his soul could escape the technique was akin to having an extra life. It was quite ...
2022-01-11 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSage was unconcerned with the many rumors going around about him. The Holy Flame Sect had exams for their Professions every season which was more than enough time for Sage to copy down the whole library for the tier he was at and then get some practice with each Profession. Where others spent years practicing, Sage seamlessly advanced his professions from one star to three stars, passing every ...
2022-01-07 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostDespite having devised such an efficient method of copying down books in the past, Sage was not ever able to copy down all the books in the Million Skills Library. In fact, they were quite on guard against such things happening. He was forced to read and study just like everyone else as they were not keen on their knowledge getting spread so easily. The more lax they were in giving their discip...
2022-01-06 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, the hail of seeds and shower of orange flame did not let up for an eternity, comparatively at least. Of course, he couldn’t keep up this attack forever and finally the Winter Lotuses ran out of energy. The last of the seed pods were expelled and the last of large flowers shriveled up and fell off. The vines that had sprouted them still remained, but the flames that were shiel...
2022-01-05 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe multi-colored gas sunk into the Peak Master’s body through his skin, but its effects were mild enough that the Peak Master was barely impeded. Surrounded as he was by the multi-colored gas and in the middle of a fierce fight, it took him a few seconds before he noticed that his senses had grown weaker and his body was rapidly bleeding energy. The problem was that at their level, a few sec...
2022-01-04 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostSage strode towards the large group of guards with a somewhat flustered expression on his face. The Core Formation Cultivator was faced with a difficult decision. He had to either bring him to see the Peak Master or directly antagonize this person with such a fearsome aura. Normally, he would not hesitate to activate the powerful arrays of Lian Palace to deal with an intruder that tried to thro...
2021-12-31 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSage moved quickly not wanting the news of his appearance to travel faster than he did. He walked back out of Holy Flame City of the sect and then jumped onto the Red Comet. He shot into the air, crossing over the vast territory of the Holy Flame Province. Unlike others that would keep all the power of their sect centralized, the Holy Flame Sect controlled the whole province and the Peak Master...
2021-12-30 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe gate guard’s arrogant expression twisted into a look of horror. His throat seemed to lock up and he couldn’t even stammer out an apology or drop to his knees like he wanted to. Instead, he felt a hand around his throat and his feet dangling in the air. The man he’d chided had instantly turned into a demon in his eyes and he was helpless to resist.
The lines of people waiting to ...
2021-12-29 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the entire building, its contents, and even the landscape decorations were collected and rebuilt on the Inner World, Sage left. He thought about trying to take away the outer wall, but the arrays were still functional and he didn’t want to risk setting anything off. It was also a shame he couldn’t take away the giant energy cage, but he did make detailed notes of the array symbols that...
2021-12-28 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the maps that Sage had got this location from were considered ‘ancient’, Sage had not thought they were at the same level of ‘ancient’ as the thing taught by Tao Ba. There was quite a world of difference between thousands or tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands or millions of years. The Violent Sun Sect should not be from the time of the Ancient Array Symbols, whic...
2021-12-24 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith the elemental captured, Sage felt he’d found a way to get some value out of this trip into the ruined old sect. From the way the place looked to be looted as well as the amount of time that passed it was already pretty lucky that he could find anything of value. He’d gotten lucky with the solarium in that it turned out to be a good environment to grow a unique creature. Sage was only h...
2021-12-23 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dragoons were being swatted away like a cloud of flies, but at the same time the majority of them only took superficial damage and after a short flight they could recover and make their way back to the formations that still remained. Only a small number of them were stunned too greatly by the elemental’s strikes or had their wings damaged too much to keep them from regaining control in ti...
2021-12-22 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe hazy outline of the unusual creature seemed to sense danger from the evershifting ball of energy that Sage sent towards it. The Wind Elemental was just as fast as its namesake and it quite easily avoided the incoming symbol. Unfortunately for the elemental, the Seal was still under Sage’s control and it made a perfect 90 degree turn, forming a right angle in the air as it changed directio...
2021-12-21 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSomething smashed into the open doorway and caused the formation to flare to life. There was still nothing for him to see. Other than the sensation of terror he felt, only his law power gave him any reaction at all. Only when he extended law power over a large area could he feel the passing of something large.
Whatever was in there was not friendly and after seeing that no disaster befell...
2021-12-17 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe pressure on this floor had moved beyond uncomfortable and caused real pain and subtle damage to his body. He was still able to endure it, especially since he had long ago mastered a method to isolate himself from his own pain. Anything over a certain threshold was routed to that compartmentalized part of his mind. Even so, he didn’t want to stay down here for too long as the damage to his...
2021-12-16 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe staircase was akin to a stone tube, plunging deep into the ground. Only after he’d traveled a few dozen feet downward was there finally a change. The staircase continued deeper, but there was a door frame that led outwards. There was some wreckage blocking the door, but it only took him a few moments using Foresight to determine where to cut in order to clear it all. He tossed it all into...
2021-12-15 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaving the solarium, Sage went to the other site he’d found on that ancient map. The last time he was here, a terrible roar had knocked his dragonfly out of the sky and sent it tumbling to the ground. At that time, he stood no chance against the beast and fled as quickly as possible. This time, the Red Comet circled around the location while he glanced down from above. Sure enough, a p...
2021-12-14 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostA jade colored field of energy sprung up around his body and a blade formed at his wrist. He swept his hand down and the blade slashed clean through the crystal, aiming just far enough to the side to miss the darkened core. The two halves of the crystal fell apart and thudded onto the soft mat the crystal had been placed upon before this ordeal began. The larger of the two halves contained the ...
2021-12-10 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostGifting such a thing to any other type of being would certainly be considered an insult. Even if there weren’t any flies circling the pile of soil and organic matter, it didn’t make him any less aware of what it was. On the plus side, the fertilizer was somewhat processed and not just fresh from a ‘producer’. It had a powerfully earthy smell and not the sort that might evacuate a queasy...
2021-12-09 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been so long since Sage had been out adventuring. He’d always been concerned about running for his life or trying to re-establish the Lang Clan that he hadn’t had much time to sate the wanderlust that he’d developed in his earlier years. That time he had been at the Holy Flame Sect was when he’d finally felt safe and secure enough to go on adventures, but that had unfortunately t...
2021-12-08 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostBefore leaving, Sage met with his wives and children. He had a long conversation with each of them and found his first daughter’s antics to be particularly enjoyable. Yaling had chosen the route of the Insect Tamer, following in the footsteps of both Sage and her grandfather, Ling’s Uncle Yuhan the Beast Tamer. She had used her expertise to explore the Insect Continent on the Inner World an...
2021-12-07 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the point where a young person might waver in the face of great power. Even if they had already made up their mind, when someone held your fate in their hands and was looking sternly down at you it created a sort of mental pressure. A sort of pressure that was best felt by youngsters trying to break out from their parents' shadows, but it was also something that the Ci Clan Head felt at...
2021-12-03 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Yi Matriarch was not as socially adept as the Ci Clan Head and she was mouthing the word ‘outsiders’ a few times, or well that’s what it looked like to Sage. He wasn’t really a lip reader after all. He wanted to chuckle at the exchange, but he felt a little bad for these Branch Clans so he held it in.
“Please don’t tease us like this, Brother Lang. We are all family and we...
2021-12-02 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe public announcements basically came to an end, but that was really only the beginning of this meeting. The non-members of the Chong Clan were busy trying to gather more information and also ingratiate themselves to the Chong Clan leadership. These locals were eager to get on the good side of their new rulers, but they felt somewhat assured as it seemed they were invited here to spread the n...
2021-12-01 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fu Clan’s sprawling set of manors and courtyards was basically knocked to the ground, flattened in the course of the war between the two first rate clans. In the time since the completion of that battle, a new building had been erected in place of the old. Surprisingly, the new compound was very familiar to Sage. An extremely wide tree had sprung up at the center of the former Fu Clan ter...
2021-11-30 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fu Clan had no idea they were facing a master at their own game. In a war of attrition, the Lang Clan wouldn’t lose out to anyone. They hadn’t brought the entirety of their military to this conflict, but they had used a hundred thousand Dragoons to set up the perimeter before the war and now half of them were brought into this conflict. The more than a thousand Fu Clansmen would cause t...
2021-11-26 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe swarm of Dragoons moved through the air in a dense cloud. A swirling mass of metal and chitin that, from afar, looked like a billowing ball of silk. As if to further solidify this illusion, lines of energy sprang up between each of them, linking together to create a glowing shell to enclose them. This giant energy ball swirled and shifted into an oval shape, a flattened sphere that shot tow...
2021-11-25 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Sage found his worries to be for naught. After spending hours on the Inner World trying to come up with ideas, Yating stood at the head of the table in the Lang Clan command tent and fixed a determined gaze upon him.
“Father, you did well in securing this opportunity, but you no longer need to do a thing. You are now the Honored Ancestor of the Lang Clan. It is no longer you...
2021-11-24 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“You think we’ll have the strength to take it back again from a group of other first rate powers after this campaign? We’ll look like fools for handing things to a fool.”
Sage didn’t want to expose the Purple Mist Sect so directly, but he had plenty of time to think of an alternative and he sighed as if revealing a great secret, “Both of my wives have also become Nascent Souls...
2021-11-23 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post