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Chapter 194 – Consumer of All

Fatty Ren had never met anyone who seemed so different between one encounter and the next as the sect leader did. One moment, he was literally the friendliest person ever, seeming like a generous grandfather giving wisdom and candies in equal measures to his offspring. The next he was casually de...

Chapter 193 – Interesting Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be

After dismissing his disciples, Benton spent the next hour hooking up the residences to the main power supply, and once done, he was pretty happy with his accomplishment getting so many places move-in ready. The area could house over three hundred people at full capacity, and he’d randomly test...

Chapter 192 – Lifeline

Jin LiJuan clung to the wolf pup in her arms like she was drowning and it was a lifeline. Which, in a way, it was. All her dreams of being a powerful cultivator were in her reach as long as she kept her bond with the beast.

Golden Core. She had no real idea what that meant, but the way Mast...

Chapter 191 – Another Impossibility Made Expected

As soon as Benton returned to the sect grounds, he decided to send a message to Yang Xiu. First, though, he dithered a bit about using a message instead of just Quickstepping to her. Two thoughts convinced him that sending an origami construct was the correct call.

One, his time was valuabl...

Chapter 190 – Procrastination

Benton soared through the air on his way to Vermilion Incomparable Rain Town, the wind washing through his hair and scouring away his troubles. He wished, anyway.

There was no telling when, not if, the Jade Chameleon Sect would retaliate for his actions or what form that reprisal would take...

Chapter 189 – Three Notifications and a Message

As Benton had been hard at work installing the infrastructure for the sect grounds, he’d ignored his notifications other than granting permission for Zou Tian to start his trial. By mid-morning, Benton’s tasks were finally complete, and he took a few moments to review the popups.

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Chapter 188 – Explosive Growth

Zou Tian smoothly darted from shadow to shadow, moving ever closer to the four-armed bug-eyed creatures slinging ice shards at him. The cavern provided plenty of cover in the form of rocks growing both from the floor and the ceiling, and each blocked the glowing light from above, giving him ample...

Chapter 187 – Fear of Failure

Zou Tian waited outside all night next to the Contribution Points Shop. Yang Xiu and Yang Ru had taken only a few hours each inside the Trials Pagoda. Kang Lin, on the other hand, had entered before sunset and, as of dawn, had not exited.

There was no cause for concern. Probably. Master had...

Chapter 186 – Move-in Ready

Benton was working on the sect grounds when he received a pop up notifying him that Kang Lin requested an attempt to improve her Lightning Shield. He smiled. She, unlike Yang Xiu, didn’t attempt to try his patience by selecting one of the trials he’d forbidden.

After granting his permis...

Chapter 185 – Fly to the Moon

Benton truly loved flying. It was fast and practical and exhilarating. Even though he could do all manner of crazy superhuman things like manipulating gravity and slinging around lightning bolts, zipping through the air on a thin piece of metal made him feel more like he belonged on the pages of ...

Chapter 184 – An Exciting Twenty Years

Benton summoned four copies of the new REDI Soul Cultivation method from his spatial ring and distributed one each to the four former Righteous Rain Sect Qi Gathering cultivators. Each immediately dove their consciousness into the respective jade slip.

Song Yongliang was the first to finish...

Chapter 183 – Soul Man

More than a little frustrated, Benton was just about to open his mouth and admit that he could not diagnose the issue with the four Qi Gathering cultivators when a thought struck him.

What the heck was he doing? He wasn’t a normal cultivator who had to figure things out on his own. He was...

Chapter 182 – A Complete Idiot

Benton offered to induct Fatty Ren into the Rising Tide Sect immediately, but the Town Lord was too concerned about his former and future fellow sect members to focus on his own advancement. He insisted on summoning them to the palace immediately.

Not wanting to waste time, Benton decided t...

Chapter 181 – Condition of Membership

With the recent tragedy a little way in the rearview mirror and the unpleasantness in Sixth Flawless Flowing City dealt with, Benton could actually enjoy flying on a sword. It was as neat as he’d hoped. The wind whipping through his hair. The sheer exhilaration of hurdling over the land at spee...

Chapter 180 – Assuaging Feelings

Zou Tian stood anxiously outside the Trials Pagoda. With a new day dawning, someone needed to make use of the facility, and Yang Xiu had decreed that, barring someone with a specific need, she would choose the order of entry based on cultivation strength. She and Yang Ru, obviously the strongest ...

Chapter 179 – Salt the Ground

Benton spent the night as a guest of the Poison Claw Sect, though he didn’t get much sleep. He had committed, after all, to create one thousand spirit coins to pay as a fine.

With his coin creation technique at Mastery, it cost him eleven thousand qi to create a ten thousand qi coin, so h...

Chapter 178 – That Could’ve Gone Better

Between the time Benton arrived in the cultivation world and a short while ago, he had killed a limited number of people. The young master and his men who had accosted Yang Xiu and Yang Ru in the forest. The cultivator gang who’d invaded the warehouse. The Foundation Establishment cultivator wh...

Chapter 177 – Heaven Blessed

Kang Ya-Ting and Dai Shuren followed Chao Su on their flying swords. Just as they were all about to reach the territory claimed by the Jade Chameleon Sect, the mysterious sect leader paused in the air.

Confused, Kang Ya-Ting shared a glance with his friend, Elder Dai.

After moving his...

Chapter 176 – Power of the Heavens

The fact that destroying the Jade Chameleon Sect branch in Sixth Flawless Flowing City might result in the Rising Tide Sect gaining the enmity of not only that sect but the Swift Blizzard Sect and the Emperor as well gave Benton pause. On one hand, following through with his threat risked his sec...

Chapter 175 – Rise

Kang Ya-Ting slowly sipped his tea as he sat across from Chao Su.

The man was as inscrutable as ever. Though he would not admit to his cultivation level, his access to high level treasures, demonstrated combat prowess, and the inability of anyone in the Golden Core realm to sense him proved...

Chapter 174 – Real Trouble Brewing

1/12/24 A/N I hated taking a full week off, but it is what it is. The hand is doing a lot better. Stitches come out Wednesday, and I still have a big bandage that makes me mistype with a little bit higher frequency than usual. All in all, though, I can type again, so I'm back. It doesn't actually...

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Apologies. I will make this up to you, but I sliced my hand open today, requiring stitches. My typing sucks right now, and I'm not good enough with dictating to make that work. Will return to posting soon.

Chapter 173 – Terms of Punishment

Kang Ya-Ting was not expecting a message from his granddaughter, Kang Lin, but reports were not wholly unexpected. A lot was going on at the new Rising Tide Sect, including the recent revelation of a Trials Pagoda.

He eagerly dove his consciousness into the messaging device.

...

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Chapter 172 – Strike First and Strike Hard

Kang Lin and her team had barely completed their mission to round up the corpses of the rank seven spirit beasts when she heard two immense lightning strikes in the general direction of the village.

“That’s not good,” she told Hou Yazhu, the Rising Tide Sect guard who had been assigne...

Chapter 171 – Eve of Destruction

1/2/25 A/N: Apologies for not being very responsive lately. I went on a two week road trip to visit family and friends, but I'm back now. Regarding this chapter, the next little mini-arc is a lot darker than the rest of the story. I'm not a big fan of dark, but I think this part of the story warr...

Chapter 170 – True Danger

Benton’s first attack didn’t kill either of the two Golden Core cultivators from the Jade Chameleon Sect, but that was to be expected. Even Nascent Soul cultivators rare one shot Golden Cores.

There was a reason cultivators of that realm were respected and feared. It took a lot of effor...

Chapter 169 – Hatched Chickens Come Home to Roost

Benton knew of only one reason why Golden Core cultivators would be headed toward the sect—to make him answer for the death of that thuggish Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Jade Chameleon Sect.

Of course, it could be something much more innocuous, like Kang Ya-Ting coming for...

Chapter 168 – Distant Explosions

As soon as Benton left Jin LiJuan, he realized his mistake. He had told her to feed rank one cores to the wolf cub, but she didn’t have any rank one cores. Further, she and her group were days away from the village. Either she’d have to wait to begin following the regime he desired, or he nee...

Chapter 167 – The Care and Feeding of Beasts

Benton had a busy couple of days after the council meeting. For one thing, he had to make sure that the important tasks were moving in the right direction. Like the wood harvesting and wall creation.

Honestly, though, the villagers, now sect members, in charge of those operations were pure ...

Chapter 166 – Mercy

Even Jin LiJuan’s small hands were able to completely encircle the wolf cub’s neck. It struggled pitifully, trying to breathe, as she crushed the life out of it.

She ignored the desperation on its face as the brightness in its eyes dimmed just as easily as she paid no attention to the d...