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Chapter 836.

It almost felt like a dream when Zac stepped out from his teleportation room and stepped into his compound. Six years. It had been over six years since he left Earth with not a single update on the state of things, except for the notification that his followers had somehow accepted an incursion in his name.

Thankfully, there were no smoldering ruins or screams of battle greeting his return, indicating that things should be under control. It was something that had constantly worried him ...

Chapter 835.

Iz looked at the spot where Mr. Bug once stood, her heart filled with unwillingness as space smoothed out following the burst of chaotic turbulence. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. How did he escape? Was she set up? Her eyes thinned as she turned to her surprised-looked uncle who had appeared next to her.

“Lord Valderak, I thought you locked space?” Iz asked with a calm voice.

“Ai, child, why do you use such distant language?” Valderak sighed. “I swear, this was...

Chapter 834.

The air rippled, finally exposing the two cultivators who had been standing at the shores of the small lake, just as the young man entered the twisting sphere of Chaos.

“Amitabha, Amitabha. How marvelous,” Three Virtues smiled, though there was clearly a sense of helplessness on his face as he saw the anomaly drift toward his domain.

“That’s what you get for being too greedy. Virtue through indulgence, the hubris required to attempt something like that,” Kaldor laughed. ...

Chapter 833.

A/N: A bit belated, but thank you for resubbing, and welcome new patrons!

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Zac felt the first whisp of Chaos form when the two streams of energy from his shoulders finally couldn’t resist the mounting pressure, but it was still not stable. Or stable in the sense that chaos was stable, anyway. For better or worse, the remnants had still plenty of energy to spare. They had already ceased fighting in his aperture, now more interested in fleeing than vanquishin...

Chapter 832.

The lightning-scorched tower had finally crumbled, unable to withstand time and the madness of its master. In the rubble, she sat, her heart burning with hatred and her hands covered in ash. Hatred against what, she no longer remembered. The ashes of whom, she could no longer recall. She had given it all up for power.

Yet now, only emptiness remained.

Zac barely had time to digest the miserable scene before he was whisked away to another, witnessing outbursts of madness and despai...

Chapter 831.

A/N: Small notice for February! The release schedule will be mostly as normal, with the exception of no chapters on the 7th and 8th of February.  

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Far different from the descriptions of the Orom World going dark, it had instead been turned into a conflagration of flames that elicited a primal fear in Zac's heart. They reminded Zac of the apocalyptic force he saw when forming his Seeds of Hardness and Sanctu...

Chapter 830.

As the world collapsed and the small mountain village was reduced to nothingness, Zac found himself standing atop a boundless ocean beneath a golden sky. There was not a wave or a ripple, yet Zac couldn’t see what hid below.

However, he could feel it.

There was harmony. Tranquility. A sense of belonging. As long as he sunk into it, he would be part of it. Part of the unity, where all was one. The moment that thought struck him, he felt a tremendous attraction from beneath as dis...

Chapter 829.

After having spoken his piece, Zac felt an odd premonition that he couldn't decipher. It seemed as though something had changed, yet everything was the same. The temple, the monk, and the statue - it was all as before. Yet Zac felt out of phase, for lack of a better term.

“A benevolent heart is important, but indiscriminate compassion can bring more suffering than good. Expunging Mara is a great merit, though this poor monk believes no fate is beyond redemption,” Three Virtues said,...

Chapter 828.

A day later, Zac reached Pavina’s mansion, and he found his teacher sitting with an axe similar to Zac’s own in her hand.

“You won,” Pavina nodded as Zac arrived, placing the axe to her side. “I’m quite the teacher.”

“Yes, you’re quite something,” Zac smiled.

“How did it go?” Pavina asked.

Zac recounted the whole battle, including how Kaldor started cheating the moment he was about to lose. There was a decent chance that the reaver acted with a ...

Chapter 827.

Zac mutely looked on with amazement as deep cracks spread across the Izh’Rak Reaver’s bones. It was definitely the work of the Undead Empire’s commandments, a punishment for divulging the secrets to an outsider. Zac knew just how sturdy the exoskeleton of reavers was, and Kaldor was at the peak of Monarchy. Even then, the restriction that bound all imperials managed to cause such damage for uttering a few sentences. Just how overbearing was the Primo?

Or was it related to the Hear...

Chapter 826.

Not once since stepping into the Integration Sage over half a year ago had Zac felt this in tune with his creation, where he and his Dao were on track for becoming one and the same. The Inexorable Stance was no longer just an extension of his will, it melded with his whole body. He had turned into an immovable fixture in the midst of Kaldor’s madness, an island of death that the warriors born from the reaver’s killing intent couldn’t breach.

At first, Zac wondered if he had someho...

Chapter 825.

A/N: Sorry for the delay, we're back to regular scheduling now! Thank you for all the well wishes, Mr. Chubs is doing fine, except for some kidney stones we're getting removed next week. 

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“Worthy of the Path of Oblivion? What does that mean?” Zac asked, but the only response he got was a deafening scream of danger and an alabaster fist ripping the air apart in its approach toward Zac’s left temple.

Just a fracti...

Today's chapter postponed

Today's (2022-01-21) patreon chapter is postponed until Saturday due to veterinary emergency (doggo will be fine). I'll try to get it out as early as possible. 

Sorry for the inconvenience, have a picture of Mr. Chubs to tide you over!

Chapter 824.

Leyara passed through the barrier shielding the outer hall, and she was immediately greeted by a vast silence. Her steps, her breath, the basic sound of existence was swallowed by the void, leaving only a blanket silence. It wasn’t uncomfortable - rather the opposite. It felt like returning to the womb, and even her thoughts were being muted into a susurrus.

Her master would chide her for giving in to the nothingness, so Leyara soundlessly put her hands together in the Emptiness Mudra...

Chapter 823.

A/N: There was a typo in the previous chapter significant enough to mention here. Zac's new Dao Branch gives +300 Dexterity, not +300 Strength as mentioned in the original version that was sent out with e-mail.

[Branch of the Kalpataru (Early): All attributes +50, Dexterity +300, Endurance +800, Vitality +2250, Intelligence +50, Wisdom +250, Effectiveness of Vitality +25%]

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Zac blankly looked at his new Dao Branch for...

Chapter 822.

As expected, the punishment for evolving a Dao firmly outside the System’s purview came with a harsher challenge. The System wasn’t shouldering any part of the tribulation this time around. Each rumble felt like a primal call of destruction, with each purple flash hidden within the clouds containing condensed wrath for going against the natural order.

This was not a trial - it was a calamity.

The golden tree that had been conjured by his breakthrough shuddered from the pressur...

Chapter 821.

The stone urn was a spatial treasure, and Zac eventually resealed it when the barrel was three-quarter full. For better or worse, there was a lot more of the grey mud stored in the vat, and he had to save it for future endeavors. The stench had spread through the whole cave by now, the environmental arrays utterly incapable of stemming the unceasing emanations.

Zac wasn't any better off after withstanding the initial wave of nausea. His nose, his very being, refused to acclimate to the ...

Chapter 820.

Zac had prepared for this step since he accepted Kaldor's challenge, and with his latest spending spree, he had everything he needed to make the most out of his upcoming tribulations. So he made a beeline for his cultivation cave upon leaving the Contribution Store, and he arrived at the small island in the no-man’s-land between life and death a few days later.

Years had passed since he leveled the local plant life during his second reincarnation, but the vegetation had long since reg...

Chapter 819.

As the dust settled, Zac was greeted by a deafening silence even after the isolating array had been deactivated. Traprandar was arduously getting back to his feet as his right hand hung limply to the side. A new wound, this one almost cutting the arm clean off, had been added to the other ones - the result of [Arcadia’s Judgement] finding its target.

Between Traprandar’s wounds, the pressure from the huge hand, and Zac’s omniscience through [Ancestral Wood...