Mister Vii

CC: Chapter 116 – Barriers

“Override,” I muttered as I tapped away on the pad. The massive doorway embedded into the floor groaned and opened up a fraction. Enough to allow people to pass through. Normally this shaft would be used by an elevator to take cultivators to a different ring of the Infinite Ring Complex.

Thankfully there was no gravity in the passageway, which would allow us to quickly transverse the passage. More and more portions of the map were either blinking or going black. Perhaps that didn’...

CC: Chapter 115 – Fault Lines

“We need to leave now. You have five minutes to pack, quickly!” Wei, Hai, and Meng quickly rushed off to get their packs and stuff them with food and other supplies.

“Level Two Alert. All personnel please go to red level duty stations,” the automated system announced once more. It was painful that everyone in the Great Worlds was going to die, but this was akin to a natural disaster like a supernova, only greater. There was nothing that I could do for them. The only thing I coul...

CC: Chapter 114 – The Soaring Star Society

“The Infinite Ring Complex, which you now reside in was built. The idea was both brilliant and simple. The danger of high amounts of energy coming from Chaos is that something can come through and corrupt the energy that is used. That is why anyone poking through layers must be exceedingly careful and the layers act as a natural filter for energy. Also, why idiots who know nothing in the Material, break their fragile bubbles and fall downwards into the Mechanical Layer by drawing in more an...

CC: Chapter 113 – Clockwork Assistant

I looked at block structure, that was made up of a lot of smaller blocks all with incredibly tiny symbols compared to the other structures. The energy inside this one structure was immense. I walked around it several times and felt confident that it was some kind of central control.

I let out a sigh. “Is there a problem, Senior?” Junior Hai asked me.

“Just contemplating what to do here, there aren’t many good options,” I replied. Damaging anything could easily invite a h...

CC: Chapter 112 – The Inferno

NOTE: Releasing multiple chapters at once, so you don't have to wait to have questions answered. I know I would hate having to wait for all these chapters myself.

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It had probably been over four years of traveling. It was hard to keep track with the heat cooking my brain. Day after day of traveling. Checking for any kind of shadow was near impossible with the light reflecting off the white sand. Before it was just bright, now it was almost blinding.

I carefully checked th...

CC: Chapter 111 – A Great Worm

Around a full year of traveling across the Great Desert and I could feel my brain beginning to cook. Each time we came to a stop it was harder and harder to determine the correct way to go in order to head towards the center of the Great World.

The Life Light was mostly constant. There were some very minor variations in its output. While these would normally never be a concern, when trying to figure out the direction using shadows by a few degrees, every little bit mattered.

I did...

CC: Chapter 110 – The Great Desert

The scorching wind blasted my face as I descend the Last Mountains towards the Great Desert. While it was tempting to wear extra protective layers, my best protection would be my cultivation. Only a third of the cultivators who had journeyed with me decided to continue onwards. Most of them had decided to stay in Zama.

One interesting thing I learned before leaving was that the name of the city was carved into one of the older chambers, which was where it had come from. I had looked at ...

CC: Chapter 109 – Zama

We finally hit the far shore under the constant deluge. Streams of water poured down the hard rocks, creating the impression of a never-ending waterfall in the darkness. Only the occasional lighting bolt lit things up.

As everyone disembarked, I pulled out the spirit stones and tossed them back into the blackness where they quickly disappeared. The Cultivator Killer taking them. The thing was probably some eldritch plant monster. While it had been an interesting conversation, it was not...

CC: Chapter 108 – The Third Trap

The water level was much higher in this part of the Great Jungle, but there were still massive trees everywhere. The problem was the number of bugs of all sizes that were constantly buzzing about. It was bad enough that three of the cultivators traveling with me killed themselves and another had been drained of blood completely.

Everyone was wearing all the layers they could and sweating heavily underneath them. It was absolutely miserable. Even Guide Zee was wilting under the oppressiv...

CC: Chapter 107 – The Second Trap

Traveling through the Great Jungle reminded me a lot of the Forever City. There was a constant mist everywhere. Instead of a yellow toxic cloud, it was a damp mist with a salty aftertaste. The trees had quickly grown to massive behemoths. Large enough to be like miniature towers, with the branches acting as tunnels between them.

They should be called bridges, but that was another fun quirk of the Forever City I couldn’t forget. The light was hazy. The Life Light was rarely seen direct...

CC: Chapter 106 – The First Trap

The Life Light was shining quite bright overhead and the temperature was much warmer. The humidity in the air was annoying, but I expected as much. We had reached the outer edge of the Great Jungle after hundreds of years of traveling.

“Senior, our ship can go no further,” Junior Wei said. She was quite old but had clung to life so far.

“There is no canal to the next body of water?” I asked.

“No. Only the Great Jungle lies ahead and beyond that, the Great Desert,�...

CC: Chapter 105 – Drugged Up

There was a knock on my door and I frowned. I was losing track of time investigating my cultivation in depth. The deeper I looked, the more time I was losing. I had been thinking constantly over the reason, but there was no good explanation with what I knew about cultivation.

“Enter,” I said with a frown. An older man entered my cabin.

“Master,” the old man bowed his head. “I wanted to pay my last respects before I depart.” The voice sounded familiar.

“Come, le...

CC: Chapter 104 – Too Large To Surrender

Enough of the blockage in the canal was cleared for the ship to continue. My progress would not be halted, no matter what. The more time I seemed to have, the more it seemed to so easily slip through my fingers.

Armies marched up both sides of the canal. The army on the Leaf Empire’s side was much smaller, only being used to organize forces on that side of the canal to go to the other, where the army advanced in pace with my ship, securing the fortresses and towns behind them. These s...

CC: Chapter 103 – Great War

“Senior, there is a problem,” former Vice Leader Tan reported. He was one of the cultivators who had decided to travel with me and the unofficial leader of the group. I was in the main cabin of my ship working on my cultivation.

The counter cube and arrays used to keep energy around the ship was about two thirds as effective as a nexus crystal. The movement of the ship itself was a major reason why energy was lost. Still, it was more than enough for cultivation, which made the culti...

CC: Chapter 102 – Where Are My Tribulations?

I watched as another Elder broke through. There was no tribulation. This was the seventh Elder and I was annoyed. Something intangible the Sect Leader had done had triggered a tribulation unlike the rest of these cultivators. That was incredibly annoying. I wanted an unlimited source of energy to call down and empower myself.

Now I was stuck with no tribulations, no source of energy, but what I could draw on myself from the Astral Plane. I turned around and left, since it was clear a tr...

CC: Chapter 90 – Uphill Climb

Note: Apparently the actual chapter 90 was never published. Putting it up now while I fix the links.
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I had put on three layers of martial robes, trying to keep out the biting cold wind. The air was even thinner. Each step up the impossibly tall mountains was a struggle. I had used a fourth robe as a head covering, only leaving a small gap for my eyes to see through.

A couple of times I almost panicked from how hard it was to breathe, but I had to remain calm. If I panicked and...

CC: Chapter 101 – Counter Cube

It was finally done after a lot of hard work. The counter cube as I had taken to calling it was finally done. Several plates had to be redone to make sure everything aligned properly in three dimensions, but that had only slowed me down.

The newly built reinforced nexus chamber held the cube. Thankfully the energy in the area hadn’t dispersed even with the destruction of the chamber. The nexus crystal was still there, countering the effects of the Great World. The various Elders were ...

CC: Chapter 100 – Tribulation

Sect Leader Flame was the first to use the breakthrough box as it was being called. It was a small metal box, that a cultivator could sit in upon a cushion, while surrounded by arrays to keep the energy contained inside the box.

It had built up a large amount of energy over the last year. By keeping it as small as possible, it was possible to exceed the background energy of the Mechanical Layer. After it had built up to about a quarter of what would be background energy on the continent...

CC: Chapter 99 – Cultivation Of The Great World

Strength Training: In the initial stage of Body Tempering Cultivation, practitioners focus on enhancing physical strength through targeted exercises while channeling energy through visualization techniques. Strength training exercises, such as resistance training and bodyweight exercises, are performed to stimulate muscle fibers and promote utilization of energy.

Basically, the purpose of this step was to grind up one’s body. While I had gotten caught up with the nexus crysta...

CC: Chapter 98 – Nexus

We entered through three sets of massive wood gates built into a thick concrete wall that was the Flame Sect. There was also a wood covered pit between two of the gates. This had to be the biggest wall I had seen so far. It was as thick as two houses and at least ten stories tall. It was also built on top of a mountain.

The number of people that would be needed to siege such a location would be insane. This world did have trebuchets, since they were based off of wood and counterweights....

CC: Math Of The Great World

CC: Chapter 97 – Flame Sect

It had taken months of travel, but I was at one of the cities the Flame Sect controlled. Fu Shirong was next to me looking about as well. Thankfully I had been able to charter a carriage to make the trip from a coastal city to this one.

I looked up at the building that represented the Flame Sects control and administration of the city. Ten stories tall, far taller than the other nearby buildings. I didn’t sense anyone with energy. An attendant immediately came over.

“I am Cult...

CC: Chapter 96 – The Capital Of Wu, Or Is It Woe?

“Full army,” Trader Wei laid down his cards winning the hand we were playing. We were only playing for wooden coins on the ship that was carrying us across the Emerald Sea to the Capital of the Kingdom of Wu.

“You are quite good at this,” I joked and complained at the same time.

“A good way to pass the time,” he replied.

After the third battle on the road we reached Port Nearsight without incident. From there it was a simple matter to get a ship to cross the Emer...

CC: Chapter 95 – A Wild Cultivator Appears

There was a horn in the distance as the caravan came to a halt for a third time. I had thought it was over at the first battle, but apparently word didn’t spread fast enough, or the different bandit groups just didn’t believe what had happened.

In the last two battles there were only four deaths and seven serious injuries, where the soldiers had to stay on the carts. Our overall combat strength had not decreased. This was definitely not worth that cultivation scroll. Trader Wei and ...

CC: Chapter 94 – Bandit Army

“You are a cultivator?” The young man assigned to my carriage as my servant asked. I mentally sighed. Was this how all my tutors felt when being asked questions they didn’t want to answer?

“Yes,” I replied. This place had horses, but they weren’t common. The cost to upkeep a horse wasn’t cheap. In the entire caravan, I was the only one who had a carriage. The young man was named Shao. A minor detail I did not need to know.

I was near the front of the caravan looking ...

CC: Chapter 93 – The Governor

“Port Farsight,” Captain Li Meifeng gestured across the bow of his damaged ship at the city. I had developed expectations that the place would be some sort of hovel of dirt and sticks. Instead I was greeted with a city made of concrete that had buildings five stories tall, massive docks, a ten story lighthouse, and around twenty wooden ships in and around the docks themselves.

“I was expecting something a bit less impressive,” I replied while looking at the city and the see thro...

SL: Chapter 706 – Day Unknown – Interior Assault

I made my way into the first part of the structure, in the center of the tunnel. The walls were melted and heavily damaged from the super bomb that had been used. I kept scanning for any kind of traps or monsters.

We came to a ‘Y’ fork in the tunnel where the damage was the worst. This was clearly where the super bomb had been set off. Focusing a bit, I created a small amount of light energy, lighting up both passages.

Clarissa and her minions were right behind me with the sec...

CC: Chapter 92 – People Or Aliens?

I blinked several times while looking out at the wooden ship sailing over the waters. There was a ship in the distance. With no curvature to the horizon, I could see as far as the air allowed me before things became too blurry due to the air itself blocking my vision.

There were figures moving on board. I couldn’t make out if they were human, and I didn’t sense any energy, which meant they were most likely no threat. I wouldn’t rule anything out. It was a wood ship with cloth sail...

CC: Chapter 91 – Marooned

Looking up at the pale white star in the sky, I sat on top of a mountain taking a break, enjoying some reconstituted paste and water. I had lost track of how long I had been traveling on foot, it had been years by now.

The Calm Ocean had been difficult to cross on the raft, but it was something I had managed to accomplish. With my sword and what little energy I had, it was easy to cut and hollow a large chunk of stone. The currents then carried me across and none of the large water beas...

SL: Chapter 705 – Day Unknown – All Out Attack

I felt the energy in the environment change and then everything went white for a brief moment. The sphere had launched an all-out attack at the same time. The frames holding the plates togeather were blown apart. The beam attacks slowing down their advance. The cone in front of us lost several layers, they broke apart, and the cone began to turn slightly. Thankfully it had enough mass, that it kept going the direction I had originally sent it out at.

I adjusted the diamond’s trajector...