Within the inner circle of the capital, there was a large library. This library was owned by the Emperor himself, and within was held the greatest collection of publicly available knowledge. Well, the knowledge was technically publicly available, but the monthly fee for using the library totaled over a million platinum coins.
On the first floor of this library, in a corner dedicated to alchemy, a handsome tall young man was reading books. His pink hair streaked with red locks washed ove...
2023-02-09 12:31:59 +0000 UTC
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Kalen stared incredulously as he watched the man spit on the ground and sit down on the seat in front of him.
He had seen his fair share of eccentric cultivators, but he had never seen someone spit on the floor. Was this man just insane or was he intentionally disrespecting Kalen?
The obese man just stared right back at Kalen. He just kept staring. Kalen again asked him whether he needed anything, but the man kept staring in complete silence, his gaze distant. It was hard to jud...
2023-02-09 12:30:48 +0000 UTC
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Out in the forest not too far from what used to be the Zearthorn sect premises, a man that looked about middle-aged sat cross-legged near a pond. Well, cross-legged was perhaps a little inaccurate, as he didn’t have two legs to cross.
Kaphor was looking a whole load better than he looked after his extreme near-death experience. He was still missing half his jaw, several fingers, and an entire leg, but other than that he was almost fine.
He had even regained a good portion of his...
2023-02-09 12:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Marven walked out into the courtyard only to be faced with a black-robed duo. He didn’t recognize them by looks, but he recognized the spirit of the elderly one. These were likely either elders of the Onyx Scorpion sect or as he assumed, an elder and the sect master.
He assumed it was the sect master purely by the fact that this man was on the third step of the golden path. Such a level of cultivation was exceptional even among rather prominent sects. And he was betting that Neave’s...
2023-02-09 12:28:09 +0000 UTC
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In the headquarters of the Onyx Scorpion sect, a sweaty elder had just finished his report to the sect master.
The sect master was utterly befuddled.
He got up off his chair and violently threw it at the wall, shattering it into countless splinters.
“Why!? Why!? Why!? WHY!?” He repeatedly screamed each new ‘why’ intonated differently. They ranged from angry to scared, anxious, stressed, confused, and joyful. The elder was starting to suspect that the sect master migh...
2023-02-09 12:24:57 +0000 UTC
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Neave wasn’t surprised to see the wall break open. He felt it was merely a matter of time until they found him. Could he have attracted attention to himself by doing his experiments? Perhaps.
Either way, there were a few things he still wanted to try before having to go back. He contemplated just dodging through the hordes of demons and going into hiding somewhere again.
…
Actually, that was a great idea, he should totally do that. The wall finally came crashing down and...
2023-02-09 12:21:32 +0000 UTC
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Neave left his incredibly chaotic spirit realm and stretched. While he had quite a bit of time within the spirit realm, he had to leave every once in a while to let his qi recover. This time, Neave stretched a bit and looked around. He was still safe, at least for now.
Neave wasn’t sure that he was entirely hidden from those creatures while in here. Perhaps they couldn’t reach him, but what if they were still looking? Could they possibly just dig through the wall and get to him?
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2023-02-09 12:19:37 +0000 UTC
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Neave had done quite a bit of experimenting within his spirit realm. Among the first things he did, he tested his spirit realm to see how powerful the time dilation was.
He used the method of throwing a stone into the air, entering the spirit realm, and leaving after some time to see how much the stone had moved.
Neave was bewildered at how much greater the time dilation was than he was expecting. He thought it would be ten times or twenty times at most, but according to his tests...
2023-02-09 12:16:26 +0000 UTC
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Neave held the copy of the sword. Could he create a sword of a different shape instead? Something bigger, sharper, or more powerful.
Just as he was about to repeat his experiment, the abominid he had immobilized bled out, and the spirit trial was over.
…
“Great way to spoil the mood.” Neave mumbled.
He focused on his troll muscle spirit power to see how it had changed.
Ah, fuck.
There was a huge reason why higher-ranked cores were more valuab...
2023-02-09 12:14:55 +0000 UTC
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Marven returned to the sect premises. Harel was watching over Gabrias just as he had told her to.
He decided to leave Neave to his own devices. Neave would be fine. Well, for now at least.
Marven felt completely lost as to what to do with Neave. A big part of him felt pride that Neave had become such a realm-shattering prodigy. But the other part of him felt ashamed.
Ashamed of himself for thinking like that. Ashamed for allowing all of this to happen.
“What do I do ...
2023-02-09 12:13:45 +0000 UTC
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Marven couldn’t see what was happening inside the sect without stepping closer. He settled for relying on his spirit senses. Neave was impossible to track with spirit senses alone.
There were countless people around him. They were in a relatively heavily populated area, so focusing on one’s spirit senses wasn’t the easiest. Marven could vaguely feel that there was some sort of fight happening. He had deduced that it was probably between Neave and a disciple at the silver path.
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2023-02-09 12:10:44 +0000 UTC
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Marven yelled at Gabrias as he tried to calm him down, but it was no use. It was almost too late by the time he spotted Neave preparing to lunge at Gabrias. Marven barely stopped Neave from killing Gabrias by grabbing his arm.
“Neave, what the fuck are you doing!”
Neave paused.
“Huh, good question. He was being kind of loud so I just thought I’d put him out of his misery. Oh well. What’s going on old man?”
Marven was bewildered by Neave’s behavior, but th...
2023-02-09 12:09:23 +0000 UTC
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Out in the far reaches of the capital of the Yixine empire, there was a small house. It looked built haphazardly and the only thing inside the house was a small child wrapped in layers upon layers of restraints.
It had been roughly an hour since they’d arrived at their new plot of land. The debris was already gone. Marven took care of it almost instantly. One shouldn’t underestimate the size of the space within his dimension ring, nor the work speed of a platinum path cultivator. So...
2023-02-09 12:06:50 +0000 UTC
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Through the wilderness of the Yixine empire, there was a convoy of carriages moving at incredible speed. There was an intense thunderstorm outside. The carriages were floating a bit off the ground, and horse-shaped golem constructs were pulling them. This convoy was carrying primarily passengers. Carriages such as these were never used to deliver material products.
After all, the organizations behind such convoys had enough money to send somebody with a relatively spacious dimension rin...
2023-02-09 12:01:47 +0000 UTC
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