The autumn wind has stopped moving, as have the the bodies littering the ground, all still and silent, the stink of death and decay shrouding the plains of Ridar, the holy land of laws.
Not so holy anymore, not after their prime disciple, their future sect master, the only hope of their survival, had colluded with the abyssal nightmares and laid waste to each and every inch of the vast land of prosperity.
Ridar, once a name that shook the giants of the higher realms, was now go...
2021-07-08 17:34:27 +0000 UTC
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As soon as Han Xuhan's shout was finished, another burst of crimson light spread out from the walls and enveloped the entire stadium.
Everyone could only look on with stunned expression on their face as one by one, their bodies vanished into thin air under the influence of the familiar red light.
The first to vanish were Han Xuhan and his skeleton, accompanied by the cyan robed man.
Following that, the whole stadium soon was emptied. Behind them, some pieces of torn up paper ...
2021-07-07 18:24:15 +0000 UTC
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There are some moments in our daily life when we feel like we're at the top of the intelligence based ranking of all humanity.
Or maybe that was just Han Xuhan's thing. He certainly felt like that right now after pulling his latest stunt, which was giving off the impression of a successful 'move'.
The cyan robed man beside him had started wheezing at some point during his self appreciation.
Han Xuhan would laugh alongside him too, if not for the fact that his insides had sudd...
2021-07-06 08:32:32 +0000 UTC
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ANY SOUL AT OR ABOVE THE SOUL REFORMATION REALM SHALL BE STRUCK WITH MENTAL DEMON INDUCING LIGHTNING STRIKE UPON ATTEMPTING TO HARM, ACTIVATE, OPPPOSE OR NULLIFY ANY LAW FRAGMENT IN THE CIRCLE OF LAWS
[ ANY NEWLY ADDED LAW FRAGMENT THAT TRIES TO NULLIFY OR DESTROY OTHER LAW FRAGMENTS OR ACT AGAINST THE PRIMARY INTENTIONS OF THIS LAW CIRCLE SHALL BE NULLIFIED AND THE CREATOR OF SAID FRAGMENT SHALL BE STRUCK WITH MIND OBLITERATING LIGHTNING STRIKE. THE NUMBER OF MIND OBLITERATING L...
2021-07-04 04:41:24 +0000 UTC
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Han Xuhan didn't immediately tell the cyan robed guy how to decipher the texts. The information was currency in their deal after all.
Striding over to Mu Ran's writings, he slowly started running his qi replenishing method.
The qi filled up the grooves on the ground similar to the texts on the walls. After a few minutes passed, Han Xuhan felt the familiar sensation of the info dump exploding inside his brain.
The unfamiliar words on the ground started making sense after a few s...
2021-07-04 04:39:19 +0000 UTC
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"So it seems that managing to fill up the words on the walls is basically like establishing a mental connection with the texts using the qi meant for myself. This, in turn, can transfer the data regarding the meaning of the words directly to my brain.
If that's the case, then all i have to do in order to figure out how to get out of here is to fill up enough texts with my qi."
Han Xuhan felt quite daunted by the taskload he could visualize ahead of him. The walls of this stadium we...
2021-07-02 04:13:04 +0000 UTC
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"The texts on the walls are both like a shackle and a key. As you can see, the spherical stadium is filled with the texts. As long as you can decipher a certain part of it, there is a chance to discover a way to leave this stage and progress further in the foggy area. At least, to my knowledge, that's how it works. I assume that your friend had some rudimentary knowledge regarding how to decipher the texts. I didn't specifically observe him. But as far as I can tell, he immediately focused on...
2021-06-30 18:13:38 +0000 UTC
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The first thing Xuhan noticed after entering the foggy area is that despite keeping his mouth and nose covered with the mask, a foul smell assaulted his olfactory senses as soon as he entered. Somehow, the air inside the foggy area had penetrated his lungs despite holding his breath.
A burning sensation built up inside him the longer he ran inside the fog. He could feel the heat reaching every part of his body through his blood vessels. The orb was further away than he had thought. Xuh...
2021-06-29 18:14:36 +0000 UTC
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After resting and observing the portal for couple of hours, Mu Ran jumped down from the tree and decided to sneak in again. Han Xuhan had ran back to the town all by himself in the meantime and returned with a bag of clothes he had purchased from there. Mu Ran had no idea why Xuhan was suddenly so confident about figuring out an way into the foggy area this time. But he didn't question his underling and followed his lead impatiently.
"Let's change into another pair of clothes first an...
2021-06-29 04:38:47 +0000 UTC
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Shen Kai was in a bad mood. The orders from the higher ups in his sect was to be as low key as possible while exploring the mysterious world fragment. But who could predict that that weird kid called Mu Ran would discover it?
Shen kai hadnt believed a single word that came out of his mouth as soon as he explained his discovery of the portal with that retarded "coincidence". It said something about Mu Ran's intelligence, but dumb people were sometimes favoured by the heavens; perhaps t...
2021-06-29 04:37:55 +0000 UTC
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The corpse of the mortal they had just thrown away in a haste had inflated into an intimidating size; almost three to four times the size of a normal human, alongside elongated limbs and a jaw that resembled canine beasts with sharp, long teeth.
At some point during their conversation and staring contest, the corpse had moved on to its four limbs and locked its sight on them like a bloodthirsty beast eyeing weak, delicious prey.
Barely a few meters away from it, Han Xuhan clearl...
2021-06-29 04:36:58 +0000 UTC
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The other side of the portal was unlike anything Xuhan had ever seen. It was daytime on the other side.
It definitely wasn't underground despite their jump down a hole in the ground just now. Han Xuhan could see the sky above, coloured stark blue with fog covering the majority of it from their sight. The fog itself was an oddity.
The fog looked very substantial, almost like floating powder. There was a constant light breeze blowing toward their direction, making the fog close in on...
2021-06-29 04:36:05 +0000 UTC
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"You're telling me that little Kai might be one of the demonic cultivators we've been looking for? Damn..."
Mu Ran stared at the spot where Shen Kai had vanished off and his face looked like he was undergoing some sort of profound 'character-growth'. Zhanxian, wearing a dark cloak, stood idly beside him and observed a shard of one of the knives he had picked up from the ground where it had exploded. The aura emitting crystal on the pocket of his robe was still glowing faintly in the ni...
2021-06-29 04:35:13 +0000 UTC
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Xuhan knew very well that despite his current advantage over Shen Kai, he had zero chance of killing him successfully.
Just by analyzing Shen Kai's skilful movement while staggering from the gravitational blast of his shoes, Xuhan gathered a rough idea of how much more agile Shen Kai was compared to himself.
During their exchange of moves just now, Xuhan had attacked indiscriminately, his actions smoothly flowing one after one. But this was the credit of his planning while he ha...
2021-06-29 04:34:06 +0000 UTC
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*Clink**screech*
The tip of the dagger, instead of sinking into Xuhan's back, encountered a solid block of metallic components and part of Xuhan's body tilted forward as if staggering from the force behind the dagger, thus making it slide forward and entirely fail to penetrate his flesh.
But Shen Kai's surprise lasted for only half a second. His body was tilted in an awkward angle. On mid air, it's extremely difficult for one to change their posture without preparation. But She...
2021-06-29 04:33:01 +0000 UTC
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The contents of the shout made Xuhan pause.
That was a very suspicious shout. Mu Ran's original intention was not to pee but bait the enemy stalking them into thinking he was busy peeing. Feeling iffy about the whole thing, Xuhan decided to move carefully.
Instead of running toward the source of the shout like he wanted to initially, Xuhan ran in a moderate pace. Shen Kai didn't seem to have understood the problematic situation and ran like the wind, only to realize that despite...
2021-06-29 04:22:29 +0000 UTC
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Pine town was a small locality, barely qualified to be labelled as a town. Everybody knew everybody and their ancestors. So the few frequent disappearances had raised quite the storm.
Some people even wanted to leave the town and come back only after the problem has been solved. The town chief was definitely not in his best mood, which was apparent from the conversation Xuhan had with him. Mu Ran apparently didn't think he needed the help of mortals to catch the demonic cultivators. So...
2021-06-29 04:22:20 +0000 UTC
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Two little yellow birds sitting on a deck
One named Mu Ran whose bones shall crack
Fly away Han Xuhan, save your neck
Goodbye Mu Ran, don't call him back
Xuhan always knew he was a talented poet, but damn...He felt like he had just created his magnum opus. The emotions it invoked was so fierce!
He sat ramrod straight on his seat holding his cards while keeping his eyes on Mu Ran and the old man. The two were locked in a staring contest where Mu Ran was slowly losing hi...
2021-06-29 04:22:13 +0000 UTC
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"Boss, do you think these demonic cultivators might have any spies inside other sects? Because I don't really get how they're so good at avoiding every sect's powerful masters so well."
Xuhan wondered aloud while looking at the town's location on a map.
It wasn't very far from the sect. A day's journey on one of the large ferry boats that roamed the numerous rivers crisscrossing through the seven high-mountains was all it took. Both young men were feeling quite refreshed from the jo...
2021-06-29 04:22:05 +0000 UTC
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[ For the last two months, strange disappearances keep happening in the Pine town, an area under the direct jurisdiction of the Crimson Snow sect. The local authorities has failed again and again to find any trails regarding these incidents and the townsfolk are restless. Certain clues suggest that the disappearances may be influenced by demonic cultivators or at least some organisations with dangerous individuals who cannot be caught by mere mortals. The local authorities request the help of...
2021-06-29 04:21:58 +0000 UTC
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The weaponry pavilion was a large and intimidating palace built halfway on the Steel Searing Heaven mountain peak. It was as heavily guarded as the sect's treasury, and the guards looked much scarier than the senior disciples who usually take up such duties.
Han Xuhan and Mu Ran were not the only ones who were planning to buy weapons from there. This particular pavilion wasn't always open to public, and now that most of the disciples had settled in comfortably after a month in the sect...
2021-06-29 04:21:50 +0000 UTC
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"Would you prefer the fish cooked or fried today, boss?"
An odd looking skeleton with crimson coloured bones spiked with a purple tint held a large fish on its bony hands and asked Xuhan, who was busy going through his notes regarding qi cycle integration between different techniques.
Elder Kong was a really capable teacher. Xuhan had managed to learn a lot from him; in fact, he suspected that the elder's abundant help was a sympathetic favour. Not to mention, as a student who was ...
2021-06-29 04:21:42 +0000 UTC
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It was the first time in his life to have expended one thousand spirit stones in one go. Xuhan was naturally feeling rather overwhelmed.
Following the exchange rate between mortal world's currency and spirit stones, he could've used that amount of money to build a castle and live like a lascivious young master for a couple dozen years.
Right now, he was holding a block of crystallized spirit qi with body nurturing properties. It had cost 250 spirit stones per block, each of which w...
2021-06-29 04:21:34 +0000 UTC
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Elder Shen was tired. Arguably, the little prank he had played on that young disciple should've been enough to achieve the intended result. But who could guess that the boy was an equally sinister person with paranoia?
To think that he even blackmailed me into solving his problems with that troublesome inner sect disciple...
Even though it seemed quite logical when one thought about it superficially, but a person who was hard pressed for money wouldn't care about so many details...
2021-06-29 04:21:25 +0000 UTC
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"You there, yes, you! The guy hiding behind that occupied latrine, come out!"
Xuhan yelled while pointing a finger at his target.
A few moments later, a teen wearing the clothes of outer court disciples awkwardly came out from the bush behind the public latrine on the road that led to the black sheep mountain peak from thr treasury.
"Why are you following me, huh? Explain yourself!"
Feeling relieved that he had discovered this suspicious guy before he could do anything, Xuhan...
2021-06-29 04:21:16 +0000 UTC
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Elder Shen was fiddling with a pile of spirit stones, his eyes filled with pure, unadulterated happiness. Upon seeing Xuhan, he calmly pushed the pile aside and cleared his throat loudly.
"Elder, I'm here for my share of the profit. It should be around four hundred spirit stone judging by today's sales," Xuhan said as he took out an empty pouch from his pocket and started waving it in the air like a flag.
"I'm sorry, what?"
Elder Shen looked dumbstruck.
Xuhan's smile ...
2021-06-29 04:21:08 +0000 UTC
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"Now, for the second item of this auction, we have here a sword forged by the master of the Steel Searing Heaven peak, elder Lu Yue himself.
"This sword was made with steel produced from..."
As the elder in charge of the auction conducted his business smoothly, Xuhan finally understood how this auction event worked.
Each item displayed in the auction had at least one speciality and after the auction was officially over, many similar products would be sold outside the auc...
2021-06-29 04:20:59 +0000 UTC
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"The most important part of cultivation is building your dao base.
Think of a building under construction.
First and foremost, the base or in other words, foundation must be built properly, while keeping in mind that the rest of the building's weight would be on it always.
If you build a narrow, shallow foundation within a forty square meters area, at best you can get two small rooms which will be cramped and uncomfortable to live in, shabby to look at, not to mention a sha...
2021-06-29 04:20:51 +0000 UTC
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Other than the sound of a pen scratching against paper, Xuhan's hut was as silent as it could be. He sat on the bedside, hovering over the small table where a pile of organized sheets lay in front of him. For the last ten days, he had been busy filling up these sheets.
At the moment, he had just finished writing a passable manuscript for his book and was currently busy editing it thoroughly.
In his previous life, he had read a huge number of novels with the harem tag involved, n...
2021-06-29 04:20:42 +0000 UTC
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Xuhan put down the pen from his hand and stared at the recently done calculation on the sheets before him.
He had just tried to calculate his monthly optimum expense after gathering some information from his seniors.
Altogether, he'd need nearly a thousand spirit stones per month to cultivate at a decent speed. This expense was not a constant, of course, the higher his cultivation got, the more spirit stones he would require. And the increase wasn't small either. Every two or thre...
2021-06-29 04:20:34 +0000 UTC
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