Sage had returned before this whole plot against the Yi Yang Group was put into motion. He arrived just in time to offer up some rewards for their performance. These rewards were already something he planned on giving out to the whole Lang Clan, so the only actual reward they received was getting priority spots in line. Funny...
2022-08-16 20:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Some of the most righteously angry members of the crowd flared up, confused about if they should push to punish the man who now seemed to be free. Should he die to pay for his sins? Should he be forced to atone? How much did he know about what he did and could they gather more information from him?
None of these questio...
2022-08-12 20:00:05 +0000 UTC
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With a crowd already gathered, the leader of this group of attackers walked up to stand beside the trapped Yi Yang Group guard. Then a suitcase sized Magical Tool appeared in his hand and he set it upon the ground. With everyone watching he placed a memory sphere onto a small pedestal upon it, and a handful of Spirit Stones i...
2022-08-11 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The true members of the Yi Yang Group seemed to crawl out of the woodwork and put up a much better fight against the vicious group of killers that had already infiltrated their building. Since this location was in the middle of the city, its defensive Formation Arrays had to be somewhat restrained. They had an outer barrier o...
2022-08-10 20:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The assault upon the Yi Yang Group’s hidden bases was very much dependent on the Lang Clan having gathered a prodigious amount of intelligence upon them beforehand. For the Yi Yang Group, their bad relationship with the Lang Clan had formed a few decades ago and after being caught they had made sure to stay far away. Unfort...
2022-08-09 20:01:01 +0000 UTC
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The whole base went on full alert, trying to track down the killer that had just struck down two of their highest leaders. Though this distinction was not as stark as other places given that only about a hundred people had free will. Even so, this was still many more than most of the other bases of the Yi Yang Group. While th...
2022-08-05 21:31:02 +0000 UTC
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“We need assistance! We’re under attack! Everything is burning!”
“There’s a metal man smashing against the gates and some unknown force is backing him up. Our defensive barrier is going to fall if we don’t stop him somehow! Requesting assistance from the headquarters.”
“Can you hear me? Why aren’...
2022-08-04 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Dropped right into the center of the enemy camp, this plan always started with them being completely surrounded. They had to attack with a reasonably small force to start with or there’s no way the enemy wouldn’t see them coming from afar. The other Airships were already moving in to support them, but there was going to b...
2022-08-03 20:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Compared to the Yi Yang Groups other hidden bases, the conditions of the terrain here were really unfortunate. The fiery woman was the perfect counter to their wilderness retreat. She was able to completely dominate them without even requiring any backup. Of course, she still had the same forces backing her up as the others. ...
2022-08-02 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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A woman with a mischievous smile on her face and brilliant black painted fingernails looked at the overgrown forest in front of her. The thirty foot tall trees were like fence posts for an overwhelming amount of thorny brambles. Thorny bushes nearly ten feet high wove between the trees at high tension like they were a wire fe...
2022-07-29 20:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Thousands of miles away from the undersea battle, the mouth of a semi-active volcano glowing with red light had been thrown into chaos. The expected source of that chaos, volcanic activity, was not present. Instead, the rumbling of earth and magma was caused by a single person.
Inside the caldera of the volcano, outside...
2022-07-28 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Elsewhere, a large cave opened up to an ‘L’ shaped lagoon. Ocean waves broke upon the large rocky outcropping before spilling into the lagoon. At the far end of the lagoon a massive cave system expanded over the sea water. The rocks had formed into huge archways allowing the sea water to pass underneath them. Somehow the ...
2022-07-27 20:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Back at the site of the action, everything was shrouded in darkness.
The huge cloud covered an area with a hundred yard radius, completely blocking the view of everything trapped within it. The ‘darkness’ was not an absence of light, but merely an inky black smoke. This became apparent when small sparks of white ele...
2022-07-26 20:00:06 +0000 UTC
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They attacked back and forth for a while once again, and the old woman was quite predictably at a much greater disadvantage than before. When she seemed to gain the upper hand for just an instant, the saber and shield started to glow with the white light, but this time Jiao had a smile on her face. It was just too bad the big...
2022-07-22 20:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Jiao didn’t give them any time to reply, launching herself towards them without delay. The old woman held up her shield and felt her bones rattling from Jiao’s attack. She braced against the hit and then charged forward with her shoulder, pushing Jiao back half a step. Then she stepped to the side and a sword appeared in ...
2022-07-21 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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These large rocks accelerated for hundreds of feet, falling from the sky and striking with terrible force. Of course, for high level cultivators these rocks weren’t that big of a deal, but most of those in the Yi Yang Group were not that powerful. The majority of Cultivators were actually in the third rank. It was something...
2022-07-20 20:00:04 +0000 UTC
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While the surrounded woman was whining with annoyance, she didn’t seem bothered or scared at all by the array of guards around her that kept increasing. The second row of the semi-circle around her had shields and spears while the third row only carried long spears with smaller shields strapped to their shoulder. Worse yet ...
2022-07-19 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Order the attacks to commence as soon as Jiao acts.”
Sage was with Yating and a large team of strategists gathered around a large War Table. In the center it showed a large map of the whole Dou Kingdom. There were small squares highlighted upon it and lines were drawn out from those squares to form smaller maps aro...
2022-07-15 20:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Sage was bombarded with questions, of which he had few answers for. He told them the whole story of what had just happened and added his guess about Bingqing taking a fancy to this fellow but being too attached to her image to ever say anything outright.
“If we do nothing then this romance will likely take a few decad...
2022-07-14 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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One fire and one ice, they were always at odds with each other. What was more interesting was that it was Bingqing who was there to complain about Yujie and not the other way around. Bingqing was usually the icy one, her calmness and icy features always seem to upset Yujie by not responding as she wanted to. So it was quite i...
2022-07-13 20:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sage smiled at all these familiar faces in the room taking a moment to appreciate their achievements both internally and then verbally, “I am so very proud of how much you’ve all accomplished. I visited Golden Cricket Cove before returning and I’m quite happy to see that you not only implemented the plans we discussed b...
2022-07-12 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The Clan Head turned his head to another person across the room who was also standing. As soon as he did, this grandchild of his spoke up, “The Yue Clan’s forces are spread thin dealing with many bandit attacks upon their properties and also disgruntled mercenaries that are claiming mistreatment on their previous jobs.”...
2022-07-08 20:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Before he could walk the rest of the distance the group of adults in elaborate and refined robes ran over to him and crowded around, forming a giant group hug. They jostled around with each other trying to get closer to the center of the big pile. These were of course eight of his ten children along with a dozen of their own ...
2022-07-07 20:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Sage walked up to the side of town that used to be a normal road but had now become a wide no-man’s zone. The city had its own wall around its perimeter that met up with the huge wooden wall of the Lang Clan’s home. For a dozen yards in front of the giant wall there was a cleared space. This area was kept clear to prevent...
2022-07-06 20:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Arriving in a cave hidden in the middle of the woods, Sage went outside and shifted into the immaterial form of the Cloud Swallowing Thunder Eel. He’d already changed his Master Seal after arriving back on land, but this choice of body was just too useful to give up. While it was a bit large, having an intangible flying for...
2022-07-05 20:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Sage entered the branch of the Merciful Mollusk situated within Golden Cricket Cove. The city was the former headquarters of the Chong Clan, but now it was a branch of the Lang Clan. Since he was here already he didn’t head directly to Lionheart Town and instead traveled over to the Chong Clan’s former home. As the capita...
2022-07-01 20:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Even on the Inner World, Sage’s time was limited. Especially considering his personal lack of talent. As he’d discovered many years ago, the Spiritual Root was the source of ‘talent’ and it was essentially the level of perception related to Qi and somehow related to the connection between the body and soul. In a way, ...
2022-06-30 20:19:16 +0000 UTC
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Sage’s gains from studying the undersea thermal vent were not small. On the outside world he seemed to go into a sort of trance, staring at depths of the vent with intense concentration. This trance spanned several years and allowed a layer of silt to build up upon his body. In fact, to maximize the power of his eyes, Sage ...
2022-06-29 22:26:35 +0000 UTC
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Sage found himself staring at a battlefield.
With the close up view of the thermal vent, he felt like he was standing at the edge of a war, a war without end. Heat spewed out endlessly from the vent, smashing up against the collective coolness of the entirety of the ocean. What was most stunning was the difference of ex...
2022-06-28 20:00:05 +0000 UTC
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With a need to move more merchandise and his business in Oyster Quay complete, Sage used his dolphin form to quickly travel to the neighboring city. In comparison to the previous city, Kelp Reef was far from awe inspiring. The huge beach and millions of oyster buildings were a sight to be remembered. Kelp Reef on the other ha...
2022-06-24 20:00:48 +0000 UTC
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