The barriers to his strength weren’t something he could solve just because he wanted to. Sage spent the rest of the night in the cave, waking up in the morning to find the body of a shadow-tailed civet. The Chameleon Mantis had done its job well and Sage stored the body of the beast before collecting the Mantis and starting on the next leg of the journey.
He’d lost a coupl...
2018-08-08 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprisingly, Ding Bo had avoided the spider silk net, his shorter height leaving him free. The boy rolled underneath the outer edge of it and started running. The flames only catching his heels as he dashed away from the cliff and entered the woods.
At this point, Sage had just finished his slaughter and looked over to see a round object spin into the air, leaving a brilliant...
2018-08-03 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, things did not go the way Sage was expecting in the least. Du Hou started to battle with the remaining five thugs of Ding Bo. After his initial surprise attack, they were wary of his other hand and other places a hidden weapon could be concealed.
“Sister Su Ru, we have to help!” Ren Fen spoke even as he started to rush into the fray. He had been standing protectiv...
2018-08-02 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Individually, the boy didn’t seem like much. All of those gathered were only rank 2, but their stages varied. The arrogant one was level 21, while the opposing party had two level 24s and a 25. It was a shame that all the arrogant boy’s goons were level 24. The older boy of the trio was stronger than anyone here, but he was vastly outnumbered. If the 24s on either side matched up, the...
2018-08-01 22:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
As the Emerald Dragonfly sped away, Sage was finally starting to relax. They were a few hundred feet away from the Solarium and he figured they were safe now. The Dragonfly had darted down below the treeline to try and hide its presence. Sage had rapidly raised and matured the Dragonfly from an egg in just a couple minutes. The Dragonfly was far weaker than its current rank would suggest ...
2018-07-30 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
With all but one of his previously matured insects already dead, Sage was deciding whether he should escape now, or make one last attempt. He’d only exhausted two of his preparations so he still had a few more options available.
While he was contemplating whether or not he should take the plunge, the Demonic Plant locked onto him. That huge vine whip swung directly away from...
2018-07-27 17:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Demonic Plants were not known for their speed or strength, as plants they were all terrifying because of their seemingly endless vitality. Fighting them was always a battle for attrition. If it wasn’t for their slow speed and tendency to stay in one place, nobody would ever choose to take one on. The only reason anyone would ever make such an attempt was because their stationary n...
2018-07-25 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
With a target in mind, Sage pushed the Centipede to higher ground. The vines covered the walls quite deeply, but it was still less to deal with than the heavy bushes and undergrowth by the ground. The Centipede merely had to pave its path instead of building a tunnel. Skittering along the upper rim of the Solarium, they skirted around the perimeter until they were looking straight down at...
2018-07-23 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage stored the Emerald Dragonfly and took out an egg of the Steel Silk Centipede, starting to incubate it rapidly. Inside his beast bag there was three of each of his new creations. A breeding pair of rank 1 adults and a single rank 3, fully matured battler. It was far faster to link with an egg and accelerate the growth of a new insect. At the same time it was a large resource cost in e...
2018-07-22 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage hit the time deadline he’d set. There was still so many things he could still work on, but there was no telling what he might find in that cave. It only took one expedition to make more progress than I did in two decades quietly training. Just like when I was trapped in that mine, I advanced far faster than normal. Life and death situations really do bring out a person’s full...
2018-07-21 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Emerald Dragonfly was not exquisite because of its origins. Sage had mostly taken one of the Dragonflies he’d found at the Saffron Swamp and combined it with one of the Green Spiders he’d found in the Emerald Holly bushes. After finding the Seed of Life at that time, he’d completely forgotten about the Green Spiders and only years later did he appreciate their abilities. They we...
2018-07-20 09:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage’s time seemed to fly by as he trained. In the past he’d always been bitterly trying to fight against fate, but now it seemed like he was changing his life. The vastly different mindset turned the dull chore into an engrossing hobby. It also helped that he was working on many different things at the same time. Training his body, techniques, crafting formations, breeding insects, a...
2018-07-14 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage’s training speed eventually leveled out. A full cycle of opening a Qi Pore was cut down to merely an hour. With this improvement, he finally completed opening the required number of Qi Pores within a couple months. Once the speed leveled out after the first month, Sage started to diversify his training regimen. He had to practice Divine Breath, Ancestral Serpent Techniques, study S...
2018-07-13 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
With his goals laid out, Sage began his training regimen. He hadn’t seriously trained his Qi Cultivation for quite some time spending only an hour every morning to maintain his current level. Once he had hit rank 3 and the Qi Sea formed inside him, Sage had at first tried to keep training hard. When it took him more than three times longer to increase by 1 stage than it had while at ran...
2018-07-12 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The final part of Sage’s training plan fell to his Insect Horde. At least that was how he liked to think of it. When he gained ownership of his home and it stopped being a dormitory for four and his own personal residence, it was full license for him to expand his Insect Shed. What started as a small storage shed had become the size of a bedroom after a few years, and now that he owned ...
2018-07-11 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking advantage of your strong points and covering up for your weaknesses is a pretty basic concept when it comes to most forms of competition. The new Sage now found it ridiculous how lacking his combat abilities were. Before joining the Holy Flame Sect he’d been forced to fight for his life dozens if not hundreds of times. He had strove to purchase techniques, weapons, and anything e...
2018-07-07 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Divine Breath. It was only a supplementary technique as an Alchemist, but it can also be used in battle. Given that it was taught only to those practicing the Instruction of Divine Paradise, outsiders considered it to be their signature technique. Divine Breath is an interesting technique as it’s a combination of Body Training and a Qi Technique that can be used in battle or to help wit...
2018-07-06 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When Sage placed his Sect Token into the pedestal, a golden light seemed to shine from beneath it. A few moments later the door in front of him opened up. He collected his token and stepped inside, watching as the door closed behind him. This would be the perfect opportunity for them to get rid of me.
It was only a mild flash of paranoia which quickly passed. Since the door...
2018-07-05 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, the Golden Egg was a rarity. Sage even went to the trouble of checking out the special store room. He had Xuan Bai bring out the contents of at least a dozen storage chests before he gave up. It was in fact merely an Antique shop and the vast majority of its contents were mundane objects of exceptional age and quality. Only a small percentage of them would qualify as Top-gr...
2018-07-04 09:27:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Something about the giant egg, caught his eye and Sage immediately asked about it.
“Ahh, what a discerning eye you have, Sir Lang. That is one of my most treasured objects! Legend says that it’s the egg of a Dragon, but as you can see there is no lifeforce coming from it. It’s nothing more than an unfertilized egg, probably from a Demonic Beast. It’s only use now is as an in...
2018-07-02 07:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The antique shop was styled like a perfectly preserved ancient chinese palace on the outside, yet the first room he entered was warm and inviting. A somewhat small and cozy room that looked perfect to entertain perhaps a dozen people. The inner and outer appearances were quite different. From the outside it looked like a blatant advertisement, a grand and imposing building worn down to sh...
2018-07-01 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage had earned quite a lot from the Soul Taming Abode. There was so much he wasn’t even sure how to go about sorting through them. Sending his consciousness into his Storage Ring he looked at the pile of beds, cabinets, dressers, desks and chairs. It looked like he’d tried to pack a moving van with how haphazardly it was all placed. When he compared the ring now to what it had been w...
2018-06-30 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The four men, all in their fifties, would be hard to mistake as a group of middle aged men. Every rank a Cultivator increased would more than double their lifespan. A Core Formation Cultivator would usually live nearly five thousand years, give or take a few centuries. How early a Cultivator reached a high rank played a part, but for the most part most Cultivators didn’t die of old age....
2018-06-29 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the decades since he’d arrived at the Holy Flame Sect he’d been adamant about living in the same home. His three friends, Yuan Hu, Geng He, and Qui Hou, had long since been separated. Five years after he arrived at the Sect Yuan Hu stood out and got promoted to an Inner Court Disciple. In the following years Geng He, and Qui Hou joined him. The four still met to drink and reminisce...
2018-06-28 07:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Things went as Sage had assumed. They were all given a substantial amount of contribution points, ten thousand to be exact, based upon their work for the six months and also the bonus based on discovering the Soul Taming Abode. Each of them were also cleared to learn one technique without cost, which was to be chosen from a supplied list. Sage knew the list wasn’t complete, but merely t...
2018-06-22 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Remembering that Sage wasn’t privy to their findings, Peak Master Zhen was actually kind enough to explain, “We’ve already reviewed the core techniques of the Soul Taming Abode. If that really is the Soul Training Grounds you’ve found, we might have some of the Disciples start training in them. You see, the Soul Taming Abode’s core techniques were based upon taming a beast spiri...
2018-06-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes later, Sage was settling a third Dragonfly into one of his Insect Cages. After chasing down the first one, it had been a simple task to find a couple more. All he had to do was linger nearby a swarm of Mosquitoes, which thankfully found his scaly body unappetizing, and once a Dragonfly came into range he released a paralyzing cloud. ‘Subduing Spores’ was a wood based Qi Technique...
2018-06-20 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage had already picked out a few locations for his first treasure hunting foray. Technically he was still part of the exploration expedition so he wasn’t permitted to just wander off whenever he wished. He could wait for the expedition to end before heading out to treasure hunt, but they were scheduled to be out here another couple more months. The other problem was that they were quit...
2018-06-17 01:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage spoke truthfully. He’d mentioned Seals to Elder Qing. He shook his head to her second question. The other four still using the Library seemed to have their own unique hobbies and he’d bumped into one of them, a Doctor, in the Anatomy section.
“You will quickly retrieve them all and bring them directly to me. Make sure to take down the nameplate as well.”
Ama...
2018-06-16 01:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Sage dove wholeheartedly into the huge library of knowledge about the Soul and its properties. From what he knew, this sort of knowledge was very rare. The majority of Cultivators focused on techniques using Qi Power or those related to the body, what many called Physical Power. Those who used Spirit Power, which Sage thought of as Psychic abilities, were comparably very small. For the mo...
2018-06-14 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post