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Chapter 137 – First Blood

Ye Zan stared over the village wall at the forest surrounding it. There was no sign of any beasts yet. Not that he expected to see any. Master had said it would be at least two hours before the first ones arrived and that was almost an hour ago.

Villagers and sect members were still slowly making their way to their assi...

Chapter 136 – The Nuclear Option

After Benton finished giving instructions about the FEDs, he pulled Kang Lin away from the others. “I need some advice, and I think you and Zhong Wen might be my best sources.”

“Of course, Master. Anything you need.”

The two of them walked to the orphanage, and Zhong Wen invited them inside. Once they were...

Chapter 135 – FED Up

Since the spirit beasts were currently located far enough from the village to not even register with Benton’s spiritual sense, his sect members were no longer in imminent danger, meaning he no longer needed to keep a close watch on them. Instead of spending his time at the village plaza or in the Wood, he decided he much pr...

Chapter 134 – Calming and Exhilarating

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With the spirit beasts having retreated from the area, Wan Ai had found a nice, isolated part of the Wood to cultivate that only Zou Tian knew about. It was perfect, really. Several trees grew tight together, forming almost a wall that hid any other sect members ...

Chapter 133 – Tempting Fate

After Benton debriefed his sect members on the operation of the defensive formation, he turned his mind toward what he should accomplish next.

A council meeting seemed superfluous. The team had set goals and tasks a week prior and nothing substantial had changed. As far as he could tell, everyone was on the right track....

Chapter 132 – A Dangerous Position

Despite all the knowledge of formations that had been crammed into Benton’s head, he’d never actually created one. From experience, he knew that converting the System’s downloaded skills into actual concrete abilities meant practicing. To that end, he acquired some scrap Orange Vigor Spirit Wood left over from building ...

Chapter 131 – Picking Up a Thing or Two

Benton sat, recovering from his powerup. Well, he wasn’t sure if learning how to craft formations could rightfully be called much of a powerup, but he did spend lots of points? Anyway, once his head had stopped pounding quite so hard, he called for a council meeting.

Since there were no more beasts to worry about, he ...

Chapter 130 – Time and Tide Wait for No Man

Beast tides had a number of distinct phases. Following the quick escalation in quantity and quality of beasts in an area, the next one was a complete withdrawal. The number of beasts would keep increasing until suddenly all vanishing.

Benton suspected that time was getting close.

Four days later, he was guarding t...

Chapter 129 – Vow of Eternal Love

Talking was not Yang Ru’s strong point, and in his quest to get to know Kang Lin, grunting just wouldn’t be enough. So, he resolved to talk to her.

There was one big problem, though. He had no idea what to say. Literally. Not a thing came to mind.

They walked for a while, silently, through an area outside the ...

Chapter 128 – Strong Enough?

It took the entirety of Benton’s self-control not to burst out laughing at Yang Xiu’s expression when he told her that Yang Ru had passed her. Nothing like good old sibling rivalry to spur his disciples to greater heights.

The boy had really impressed him, though. It took a lot of effort to advance two techniques at...

Chapter 127 – One Has to Run before One Can Walk

Yang Ru sprinted across the clearing and slammed his spear into the tree, using qi to increase his momentum with each step. At the moment of impact, qi erupted from the tip, transferring that momentum into the wood.

He stopped. Or more accurately, he was stopped.

As his momentum shifted from him to the tree, all h...

Chapter 126 – Uninvolved

Kang Lin’s next couple of days were busy. Master had given her four pills. One reset her cultivation back to the beginning of Foundation Establishment, wiping out both the work she’d done on the profound grade scripture her grandfather had given her and the similarly graded technique.

When she’d questioned why res...

Chapter 125 – Lightning, Heed my Call!

Kang Lin knew that Sect Leader Chao Su—the man who’d somehow just become her master—was having a bit of fun at her expense in the way he so cavalierly told her that the cultivation method had been specifically tuned to her qi aspect, but she couldn’t help her reaction. For that claim to be true was not possible. Liter...

Chapter 124 – It’s What?

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Yang Ru stood across the clearing from his nemesis, a wide tree that had not a mark on it. Two dozen times, he’d slammed into it, trying to transfer the momentum built up from his run onto the tip of his spear. Two dozen times, he’d failed. Two dozen times, h...

Chapter 123 – A Brat, a Bounce, and a Butt

Yang Ru had cultivated for two straight days as if his life depended on it because, in at least a couple of ways, it did.

For one, he was the sect’s protector. Everyone was depending on him to take out the threats Master didn’t have time to kill during the beast tide. Yang Ru was determined to fulfill that role whet...

Chapter 122 – Benefits

Kang Lin once again experienced the thrill of the Esteemed Master Cultivator’s Quickstep as he grabbed both her and Yang Xui’s hands and whisked them to a different section of the forest. Immediately, Kang Lin reached out with her spiritual sense and found that there was a powerful spirit beast less than a hundred yards a...

Chapter 121 – Fashion Choices and a Slinking Dog

Yang Ru’s heart pounded as he topped the hill, and his possible fiancé came into view. She was … pretty. Her face and form were pleasing. And he guessed he liked her well enough. Besides the one spar, they hadn’t interacted all that much.

With the girls back home, he’d at least grown up with them. Kang Lin was ...

Chapter 120 – Nervous

Yang Xiu was a little concerned. Master had said that consolidating her gains could take an hour or a week. She took that to mean that it was likely to take an extended period of time.

After an hour, though, she felt … good.

She’d advanced through nine minor realms and Mastery of two different techniques. She ...

Chapter 119 – No-Brainer

Benton accessed the System menu for cultivation method creation, and for the first time, chose Foundation Establishment. The Sect Point Factor being set to two was a bit of a bummer, but his elation at having a disciple finally breakthrough to the next major realm easily countered any negative feelings. Besides, he was quite ...

Chapter 118 – Your View of Who You Are

The first time Benton had a woman tell him, “It’s time,” had been when Evelyn was about to give birth to their firstborn. Yang Xiu’s news wasn’t quite so urgent, but it was pretty darn important.

She was ready to breakthrough into Foundation Establishment.

That step was a major one for the Rising Tide Se...

Chapter 117 – It’s Time

As Benton watched over his sect members cultivating in the Wood, his thoughts turned to the progress everyone had made. They’d all worked really hard over the last four weeks.

All his recruits from Vermillion Incomparable Rain Town had advanced from minor realm four to minor realm five, and Xun Wu, Shi Long, Zou Tian,...

Chapter 116 – There’s No Aspect Like No Aspect

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Benton went to the orphanage to check on little Jin LiJuan and found the girl up on her feet, a good sign. He scanned her.

There was only one small change to her ...

Chapter 115 – Letters and Numbers

As soon as the beast was dead, Yang Ru sunk into meditation, going over the fight in his head over and over again. Specifically, he concentrated on his use of Stone Skin to toughen two opposite ends of his body, the part facing the raven and his feet that he dug into the dirt.

He repeated the actions in his mind, feelin...

Chapter 114 – Nevermore

Yang Ru placed his spear tip between his body and the raven’s beak. He knew he couldn’t harm it, but the bird was also unlikely to be strong enough to fight through the weapon.

Atop the wall, Xiang Qiao rang the gong.

Good, the village guard was of too low a realm in both Spiritual and Body Cultivation to atta...

Chapter 113 – Be Careful What You Wish For

The raven kept getting drawn back to the gathering as it imagined snacking on the tasty tasty morsels down below.

When he passed over again, he noticed something strange. The humans seemed agitated. Two of the tastiest were gathered inside the gate like they were on watch, and many, many other tastees were at the top of...

Chapter 112 – Old Friends Well Met

The raven flew over the gathering of humans far below. It used its aspect, death, to cloak its presence, utilizing the natural aversion the living felt toward anything not alive.

So many tasty morsels were below, and the number had grown recently. Grown by a lot. And all were so weak.

Too many of its fellows had f...

Chapter 111 – Preparations

As the mayor left to round up fifty more villagers for induction and the rest of the council adjourned to do whatever it was that would most advance the sect’s goals, Benton took a moment to think about where he was and where he was going. He had one hundred eleven sect members, not counting himself, and he felt like he bar...

Chapter 110 – Changes

The appearance of a rank five was a major change, but it was too soon to draw any conclusions about the impending beast tide from it. Benton decided to wait a few days and observe if more of the higher-level beasts appeared before calling a council meeting to discuss.

He did, however, make it a point to scan to the exte...

Chapter 109 – Turning Green

Benton’s spiritual sense was unrivaled in detecting spirit beast intrusions, even to the extent of being able to determine rank at a great distance. It did not, however, operate independently. For it to be active, he had to concentrate on doing a sweep.

It was not possible for him to constantly monitor for beasts. For...

Chapter 108 – You Gotta Fight…

Ye Zan’s ears perked up. Something was moving in the foliage coming his way.

“You got it?” Huang Yimun said.

“Yeah.” Ye Zan propped his spear against a nearby tree and strung his bow.

A few weeks ago, he might have been nervous about facing a spirit beast without backup from either Senior Brother o...