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Chapter 282 - Advice

Chapter 281 – Worries, Leadership, Rewards, and Gratitude

Chapter 280 – The Problem with Delegating

Benton had a nice vacation watching the kiddos playing with the spirit beasts. He loved that the older ones had really focused on making sure that Jin LiJuan got the most out of the trip and decided that the three of them needed to be rewarded for their kindness and consideration.

He also liked that Yang Ru seemed to have come up with a ne...

Chapter 279 – Depths of Shadow

Zou Tian hesitated before he stepped into the Trial Pagoda, still feeling worried about what would happen. One possibility was greatly positive—he’d be given a trial, and he’d pass it. Two possibilities were as greatly negative. Either he’d be given a trial and fail or the pagoda would determine that his requested modification did not me...

Chapter 278 – Competitive Advantage

Yang Xiu was having a bit of trouble with the rank four beast she was fighting, an armadillo. More like an armor-dillo. The thing was encased in a thick, qi-enhanced bone shell that her arrowheads simply could not penetrate. Even its eyes were armored, and while not fast, it was quick enough to be able to move its head so that her shots hit the ...

Chapter 277 – Creepy Crawlies

Zou Tian sighed. In the five days since the expedition had departed, he’d been hard at work preparing for his eventual mission. Cultivating. Working on his Shadow Perception technique. Getting his knowledge of spycraft to Small Success. Sparring with his dagger.

Everything but entering the Trial Pagoda.

Brother Peng Zhen had given ...

Chapter 276 – Success!

Fresh off a new round of cheating, Benton obviously needed to try out his new technique. He elevated high over the peak so that he could see the entire mountain at once, and triggering an old school memory of the Wonder Twins from the Superfriends, kind of, he said internally, “Detect Treasure activate. Form of a … Ice aspected beas...

Chapter 275 – Love Being a Cultivator

Benton had confidence that one pressing issue had been resolved. Having come to an agreement with the Lord and Protector of the mountain, a rank fourteen thunderbird, he didn’t think he’d have any problems with being attacked by anything more powerful than him.

Which meant he could focus on finding the materials that he required in ord...

Chapter 274 – It’s a Ford. It’s an Acrobatic US Air Force Squadron. It’s a …

Benton felt good about leaving the kids behind. If it were just Yang Xiu or Jin LiJuan, he’d have been a little worried, but Yang Ru and Kang Lin had good heads on their shoulders. Besides, the four Foundation Establishment cultivators plus Ganzou represented a nice little fighting force, definitely head and shoulders above anything they’d b...

Chapter 273 – Refusing an Invitation

Zou Tian had come to a difficult decision. He’d been invited to go on an expedition to the mountain, and he wanted to accept. The opportunity was a great one for many reasons, like being able to practice Hide Presence against beasts of a higher realm and serving the sect by scouting for the other members. Both activities would give him good, p...

Chapter 272 – Punching Up

5/29/25 A/N: With this chapter, I finally, finally, finally caught up. I hate getting behind, and it took me a lot longer to get back on track than I hoped. On the plus side, I got there! My goal is to get a few chapters ahead to give me a little wiggle room. Wish me luck!

Benton re-activated his Time Aura. He didn’t have long before the...

Chapter 271 – Time after Time

As soon as everyone exited Benton’s office, he got right to work. He’d given himself a week to get everything on his list accomplished, which would have been impossible without his ability to manipulate time. With his new Aura, though…

Well, he had no idea. It all depended on how long certain elements took and if he got sidetracked a...

Chapter 270 – Who Stays and Who Goes?

Zou Tian walked into the Alchemy Pavilion and climbed the stairs leading up to Wan Ai’s private lab with all the enthusiasm of a man going to his execution. And for all he knew, he metaphorically was doing just that.

When he arrived at his destination, however, his girlfriend wasn’t there. Which was weird. She spent over ninety percent...

Chapter 269 – The True Cause of Great Trepidation

Zou Tian was curious about why Master had asked him to stay behind, but he wasn’t concerned. As a street rat working as a lookout for gangs back in Sixth Flawless Flowing City, a meeting with the boss was more likely than not a bad thing. It usually meant that he thought Zou Tian had done something wrong, be it missing something he should have...

Chapter 268 – Never Again

Benton was both worried and gladdened by the choice his council had made. They had chosen the path of danger, which came with obvious risks, but he felt like none of them were going into the situation blindly or taking the danger for granted. Instead, they’d given the matter consideration and decided that the gains were worth the potential pri...

Chapter 267 - Determination

As soon as Benton dropped the news about the invitation to the tournament, Yang Xiu’s face lit up like one of his kids back on Earth finding their stack of presents on Christmas morning. The faces of the other council members definitely showed interest, but none held the sheer joy of hers. He couldn’t help but grin at seeing her so excited.<...

Chapter 266 – Should I Stay, or Should I Go?

The first thing Benton did upon teleporting back to his office was to send out messages to his entire council calling for a meeting in three hours. As it was shortly after lunch, that would give everyone enough time to settle whatever they were working on, attend the meeting, and finish up in time for dinner.

His second action was to send ...

Chapter 265 – Trouble Brewing and Deal Making

Benton received an interesting message, the shortest one he’d gotten yet. It simply asked him if he would teleport to Kang Ya-Ting’s study at noon the following day for a quick meeting.

That was it. No context. There should have been some explanation as to the purpose of the summons, right?

The paper sent had been one commonly us...

Chapter 264 - Lure

Teng Wuying was on his way to a meeting with the leader of the Swift Blizzard branch sect in Sixth Flawless Flowing City, Mao Biya, when he saw that Poison Claw Sect brat who was discipled to Chao Su fly overhead. The device she rode was actually quite fascinating. Not the construction or function but rather what it represented.

Chao Su ac...

Chapter 263 – Testing

Benton had spent nearly a week in subjective time forging the twenty-five blades. In real time, less than a day had passed, meaning it was early morning of the next day. He had to admit that his Aura definitely saved Time.

Ugh.

Oh well. That one wasn’t even funny to him. Too on the nose. That was the thing about trying to be funny,...

Chapter 262 – Swords!

Benton absolutely loved Kang Lin’s reactions. The twins and the rest of his kids just didn’t have enough knowledge to know how crazy some of the things he provided them were. She, on the other hand, was very aware of the items unusual nature and acted accordingly in the most amusing ways.

The look on her face when she realized just how...

Chapter 261 – Incredible Generosity

Kang Lin reminisced as she flew on her glider, as Master called it. She still enjoyed the experience of flying, but with her Foundation Establishment level body control and reflexes, simply staying over the trees as she made her way to Sixth Flawless Flowing City didn’t require much of her attention. The easy flight was nothing like playing wh...

Chapter 260 – Pedal to the Metal

With all the pills he needed for the immediate future created, Benton turned his attention to creating the qi sources. He wanted to make one for each of six elements—Fire, Ice, Momentum, Nature, Shadow, and Time. And each required three separate types of materials—beast, plant, and mineral.

Eighteen materials total.

He currently ...

Chapter 259 – I Got Pills, They’re Multiplying

Benton enjoyed his encounters with Kang Ya-Ting. The man was a cultivator elder through and through, always working the angles and trying to find advantages for himself, his family, and his sect. Typically, that trait would be one that Benton could understand but not really respect.

The way Kang Ya-Ting went about it was refreshing, though...

Chapter 258 – Taking Advice, Making the Right Choice, and Arranging Trades

Benton enjoyed his time spent with the members of the Formations Pavilion.

Just like with all his other members, they needed to reach Foundation Establishment to truly begin creating useful arrays, so it would be a long time before any of them were of great use to the sect. That fact didn’t mean that leaving them to their own devices was...

Chapter 257 - Changes

Xiang Da’s life had changed a lot over the last four months. Born to farmers in a small village in the middle of nowhere, he’d always been realistic about his chances of achieving greatness, as in he knew he had exactly zero chance. Not that he’d been unhappy. He had a wife and children and the prosect of a grandchild in the near future. 2025-05-10 17:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 256 – Sending a Message

Benton handed Jin LiJuan a jade slip with her new cultivation method.

She cupped her hands. “Gratitude, Master.”

“The next issue is what to do about techniques.” He sighed. “I’d really prefer you got both your current ones to Large Success before giving you any more, but we need more information about how the fact that yo...

Chapter 255 – Preparations for Departure

Since Benton made his decision to reset his morals back to Earth normal, he felt a lot better about things. No more wanton killing. That step would be one he’d take only if there were no other choice. He also felt good about his enhanced ability to defend his sect members no matter what his enemies brought against him.

Without a pressing...

Chapter 254 - Reset

Benton almost laughed at Yuan Yaozu’s expression. The man had probably just pieced together the fact that his newly advanced master somehow had Aura at Mastery already.

That right there was almost worth the cost of making Yuan Yaozu a disciple.

Almost but not really. Benton winced a bit at the cost of supplying that personalized cu...

Chapter 253 – Shoot for the Moon?

Yuan Yaozu was having a hard time thinking straight. He’d lived for almost a thousand years and thought he’d seen it all. Sitting in the sand of an arena, he realized there was much more to the world, including the man in the meditative pose next to him, his new master Chao Su. The fact that the man was so beyond comprehension was not an eas...