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Mana 5 Chapter 31

Lanhua hung off my arm as she handed her invitation to a guard, who looked at me strangely. He might have been the same one I met earlier, or maybe he was just confused seeing Lanhua so touchy.

But I wasn’t here to impress him.

Wenxi and her mother were right behind us. Unfortunately, the invitations were limited, and the Su Family didn’t have more than two spots. None of the families did. It was to keep the numbers down and the wedding small, or as small as it could be for th...

Mana 5 Chapter 30

When I finally got up, once again thankful for my life mana, it was already well into the day. The sun was high in the sky.

I kept my eyes closed, patting around me expecting to find a soft body, but only touching sheets. I cracked my eyes open, realizing I was alone.

Throwing on my robe, I felt Phoebe’s ring pulse. I sensed around us to make sure we were safe, and determining we were, I released her.

She stretched distractingly in her red dress. “Ah, fresh air. Yes, thi...

Mana 5 Chapter 29

Rachel was lithe and pretty as ever. Kat had tied her up in a single long red ribbon and put the knot of the bow perfectly placed in her mouth.

Her rich brown hair flowed over the pillow and down the side of the bed. This was the first time I hadn’t seen her hair done up in her normal, extraordinarily long braid.

Wenxi closed the doors to the bedroom behind me, excluding the rest of my wives.

“Hey there.” I sat on the edge of the bed and pulled on the edge of the ribbo...

Mana 5 Chapter 28

“You what?!” Tuomo raged. He charged me again, but Elder Su wrapped him with his domain and held Tuomo still.

“After a fair duel, this is all put to rest. Our family honor is restored. Agreed?” He spoke to Ming.

She reluctantly nodded. I had a feeling if this went in Tuomo’s favor; she wanted to interfere. “Men, seal the area so their duel doesn’t destroy anything.” Ming scowled down at me for some reason.

I felt domains expand and wrap around the buildings i...

Mana 5 Chapter 27

Ming finally finished her absorption of the Phoenix blood essence and opened her eyes, activating her bloodline and releasing a new pressure onto the world.

“This is fantastic.” She jumped to her feet, full of energy.

“I’m glad you were able to merge the blood essence into yourself.” I said with a smile. Her bloodline was so rich and powerful. I thought it was pretty likely she was a direct descendant of a phoenix.

Ming bowed to me, falling to her knees and kowtowi...

Mana 5 Chapter 26

At the top of the stairs, I looked inside and it was a vault full of treasure. Gold, gems, and mana crystals covered the floor, forgotten in return for the real prizes resting on pedestals.

“Quinn.” I drew her from her ring. “Go tell Michelle and the rest of my women that I’m fine. I’ve gotten to the end of the tomb. She needs to fake my death and get herself out safely.”

There was no point in them risking themselves further. I’d take the loot and escape to meet up w...

Mana 5 Chapter 25

After what seemed like far too long, I let out a breath filled with mana and assessed the surrounding space.

It was a long, cold corridor, filled with the same repeating stone pattern. Lit only by a few small mana crystals hanging in the corners.

“Anyone there?” My voice echoed down the hall with no response.

Kicking to my feet, I walked with a renewed pep. It felt great to be filled with mana once again. I followed the corridor until it opened to a small room with a sta...

Mana 5 Chapter 24

We rotated guards while we took turns sleeping, but we remained unbothered through the night. The temperature dropped to freezing cold, and we were glad to huddle next to our fire, with mana so thin it was difficult to maintain our body temperature with mana alone.

Conserving mana was difficult, something that many of us hadn’t done to this extreme in a very long time. We’d taken mana for granted and now the tomb was testing us.

Fires dotted the horizon; others had the same id...

Mana 5 Chapter 23

Ming transported us using her domain for about half an hour before she needed to take a break. In her excitement, she had overtaxed herself. Not to mention the desert wasn’t nearly as rich with mana as we headed towards the monolith. To the point it was even less than out in the ambient world.

Luckily, it was around that point that the red sun hanging over the desert chamber began to sink down beneath the base of the monolith in the distance.

I hadn’t expected the chamber to h...

Mana 5 Chapter 22

“How are you here? There shouldn’t have been another ascension for another seventy years.” Hendrick’s words made Quixi’s eyes light up in understanding.

Now they both recognized me. Quixi’s pretty face pressed into an ugly scowl.

“A lot has changed in our world. A sect’s mountain even fell.” I said.

There was a flicker of concern on Hendrick’s brow. “Where is my brother?”

“Your brother? I lost track of him, I’m afraid.” I stalled. Ming was...

Mana 5 Chapter 21

Ming searched my eyes for something. “You used three bloodlines, even two together. I thought the Yutu brat was exaggerating.”

I winced at having my secret exposed. “Surprise?”

“Surprise indeed.” She seemed unsure of whether I was a boon or a threat. In reality, I was probably a bit of both, depending on how her agenda aligned to mine.

She seemed to put off making any rash judgements, continuing to support my body as she said, “Come on, you look like shit.” M...

Mana 5 Chapter 20

The tunnel was made of hard, packed dirt. It had clearly sat idle for some time. The tunnel burrowed straight under a massive tree at the center of the jungle, and there were indicators that the ants had burrowed up the tree as well as it was filled with hollow channels.

Multiple cultivators that practiced fire lit their hands ablaze and held them aloft to shed light in the tunnel and create torches out of branches.

After a few yards, the tunnel wall started dotting with little cl...

Morgana Boxing

Morgana finishing up after a nice hard workout at the gym. I know I'd work a little harder if she was my sparring partner ;)

Mana 5 Chapter 19

Other groups headed off from the tomb in search of the remaining ash beasts, wanting to claim enough to secure a strong position before entering the tomb.

It didn’t take long before cultivators started coming back empty-handed and dumping all the stones in the braziers. The Biji family had waited patiently, not in any sort of rush.

The braziers were both overflowing with the cores from the ash beasts.

“Ming, would you do the honors?” Tian Jin grinned. His people's ston...

Mana 5 Chapter 18

Aurora looked like she wasn’t too sure, but Mei was bouncing all over.

“Yes! Let him play. You already have tokens for him, and we are only a few rounds into the new game.” Mei grabbed a set of wooden miniatures for me.

They were far less impressive than their own miniatures, each formed from their own mana. Green, gold, purple, and blue figures dotted the sandbox, which was divided into four quadrants.

I looked down at the pieces in my hands. They were perfect replica...

Mana 5 Chapter 17

Marking the tomb's direction in my mind with several landmarks, I jumped off the peak and hurried in that direction.

Most of the other cultivators traveling towards the tomb had chosen the safer route through the crevices, but I was more focused on speed.

I wanted to get there sooner rather than later. I had no idea what I was going into, and getting there first would give me time to scout ahead.

So I cruised over the landscape. Jumping along the surface, I cleared each crac...

Mana 5 Chapter 16

I needed to wrap up the battle with the eight-eyed freak in front of me before I was left behind.

“Dance!” The spider-like man in front of me screamed, swinging his chain weapons. They seemed to fill the air, whipping about. Whatever technique he used to control them was masterful. They moved such that my range of motion was incredibly limited, unless I wanted to take a hit.

Frustrated, I decided that between those options, I’d have to take a hit if I wanted to end things qu...

Mana 5 Chapter 15

I was beginning to wonder if there really was a boundary to how much sex a person could have.

My wives had joined us in the shared soul space after I’d already gone a few rounds with my four vibrant mana beasts. Their renewed hope in having children seemed to have awoken their need for copious amounts of sex, despite the fact that we hadn’t figured out the puzzle yet.

We’d had plenty of time leading up to when we would go to the shard, and we’d all made the most of it.

Mana 5 Chapter 14

I woke up laying on top of a sleeping Bai.

“Looks like it wasn’t so hard on you after all.” Xiaobai laughed.

No longer in that strange soul space with Bai. I pulled myself off of her, seeing that we had done the deed in the real world as well.

Suddenly, I was far more embarrassed than when Xiaobai had seen me naked.

“I’ve seen far worse. Get dressed.” She waved away my embarrassment.

Ah, a voyeur mother-in-law who could spy on me without me ever knowi...

Mana 5 Chapter 13

“My name will have little meaning for you, but you can call me Xiaobai.” She gave me a warm smile, despite the fact that she had found me trying to slay a mana beast she clearly was attached to. “Now, can I get your word that you won’t attack me or my friend?” She looked over at the rocky elephant to make it clear who her friends were.

“I… uh… was hunting.”

“I’m well aware of your goals. Even animals hunt to grow stronger. But humanity often goes to the extre...

Mana 5 Chapter 12

I speared through the water dragon’s heart as we both crashed back down into the lake below the waterfall. Waves washed out the bank and I stood atop it and wiped my hair out of my face.

It had taken some effort to bait the wary creature from its lair, but it had been worth it. I stood atop the peak fifth rank beast’s corpse in the lake. The strongest beast I’d killed to date, and that was without my bloodlines.

It had been three weeks since I had been hunting in the Ying fa...

Mana 5 Chapter 11

“Master.” Aurora’s voice woke me, and I lifted my head. I found myself in my inner world. “You’re awake.”

Her hands were on my chest, pumping as much life mana as she could into me.

I helped her, cycling my own mana and letting the life mana flood and restore me. I was glad that Tuomo had chosen to strangle me. If he’d run a sword through me, I would have had a much tougher time staying alive.

Suffocation only quired a spark of life and enough mana to heal myse...

Mana 5 Chapter 10

Wenxi convinced me that the baby pangolins would sell extremely well and would be taken care of by their owners. So we decided to bring them back to her mother to sell. Her initial estimates were that the baby pangolins would sell for several times more than the reward from the quest.

Unfortunately, when I agreed, I hadn’t considered how we would transport the four little buggers back to the city. It wasn’t as if I kept a cage in my spatial ring.

I carried a large crate on my ...

Mana 5 Chapter 9

Apparently, while my mana beasts had been talking, Wenxi had been preparing something else. She stood before me in a white silk chemise with a bed behind her.

She stepped up and wrapped her arms around me as she kissed me boldly, her tongue pushing straight past my teeth like a surprise attack.

I was more shocked than anything, but after a moment, I threw that aside and kissed her back.

Her warm lips suckled on my own as our mouths made wet smacking noises. She moaned into m...

Mana 5 Chapter 8

After my conversation with Ming Feng, I was starting to reflect on Wenxi and my relationship. A good bit of it had been transactional, but we’d also spent a good bit of time together. So far, she seemed to accept me for who I was.

As Ming’s guards dropped me back off at the Su Family manor, our arrival caused yet another stir. Wenxi came running.

“Is everything alright?” She asked, worry and hope warring in her eyes.

“Ming took me hunting in her family reserve.” ...

Mana 5 Chapter 7

I cursed, surprised that I hadn’t sensed the powerful beast.

But as it approached, its draconic aura washed over me, a pale imitation of my own dragon bloodline.

It radiated power. I could tell it was at the peak of the fifth rank.

The dragon splashed out of the waterfall, landing in the pond and sending a wave of water at both of us. We both used our auras to part the wave of water, keeping it from actually reaching us.

I took in the beast. The dragon had to be even...

Mana 5 Chapter 6

After dinner, there was a flurry of activity as we sent Diana, Nikki, and Rachel off to the Orchid Pavilion.

I knew Madam Orchid had plans to train the Hua sisters. Something about their bloodline had excited the woman.

Then again, I knew that my mother had played with bloodlines in the mortal world. There where she was, akin to a god with her cultivation, she had set things in motion. My own bloodline included.

As they headed out, Tianxi returned with a list of jobs from th...

Mana 5 Chapter 5

By the time we untangled ourselves from the drama in the street, the Su family was aware of our entrance. What seemed like the entire compound was out front waiting for us.

“A little much, don’t you think?” I asked Wenxi.

She squinted at me, trying to figure something out. “You aren’t really from the Jin Family, are you?”

“No.” I answered. “I’m from a family that’s even more powerful.” At least judging by the power of each bloodline inside of me. The ...

Mana 5 Chapter 4

True to Wenxi’s prediction, our group encountered no other trouble on our way to Blueheavens. They’d truly thought that one contingent of immortals could take us down.

Though, I was straining even my own ability to restore myself with cultivation rather than sleep.

Traveling with six wives wanting to cultivate and four horny mana beasts was exhausting.

One morning on our trip, I found myself laying under a sticky, sweaty pile of bodies when Wenxi knocked on the door poli...

Mana 5 Chapter 3

Withdrawing my mana beasts back inside their rings, I stepped out of the carriage to find a dozen men wrapped in black robes with demon masks covering their faces. “Hello gentlemen, what can I do for you?”

I reached out to get a sense of their power. They were definitely no ordinary bandits. All of them were at least fourth rank immortals, and two of them were fifth rank.

They clearly understood our own group's power level before approaching.

“Silence. Hand over Wenxi ...