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Chapter 224 – Instructions

A/N 3/22/25: Oops. I made not one, not two, but three mistakes in this chapter. I had to take it down and re-upload it. Apologies if you happened on it before the corrected version went up.

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Chapter 223 – Free-Range Parenting?

Benton fretted about his decision for most of the afternoon, going back and forth in his head. One minute, he leaned on letting the twins go to Sixth Flawless Flowing City. The next, he changed his...

Chapter 222 – Spies, Space, and Speed

A/N 3/19/25: Bonus chapter 2 of 2. Thank you all so much for your support!

Fu Qingshan sat in his hiding spot near the road outside the main entrance to Sixth Flawless Flowing City. He’d me...

Chapter 221 – A Third Option

4/13/25 A/N: Uploaded this chapter with a later version. Most of the stuff was clarity/typo related. However, I did retcon a couple of things about the trap to better match future events.

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Chapter 220 – A Dangerous Secret and a Ruinous Cost

A/N 3/17/25: Bonus chapter time. I'm actually way behind on these, so this is the first of two upcoming.

Benton braced from the massive infusion of knowledge he’d just purchased, and the Sy...

Chapter 219 – Towers or Sources?

The twins’ birthday party turned out to be one of the best nights of Benton’s new life. He liked that the sect members and villagers seemed to appreciate the experience of the new dessert he se...

Chapter 218 – Fun and Games

Yang Xiu’s eyes widened at the sight of the beauty before her. She wasn’t sure exactly what device did, but it certainly looked interesting. And considering that Master made it, the treasure su...

Chapter 217 – Interest, Mortification, and Excitement

Benton’s heart broke for Li’er. The girl had been through so much. He couldn’t even imagine the impact that watching spirit beasts kill one’s family would have on a person. It was said that...

Chapter 216 – How Did He Know?

Yang Xiu’s eyes were wide when she walked into the amphitheater. Hundreds of orbs, each a different color, floated above the open-air stadium. She’d never seen anything like it. She’d never e...

Chapter 215 – The Green Goblin, the Nature of Teenagers, and a ’67 Stang

Benton threw all the orbs and the cake into his spatial ring and Quickstepped into the amphitheater, ready to start decorating. Just after he distributed all the colored lights in the air and readi...

Chapter 214 – Party Prep

Yang Xiu waited until her brother stepped heavily forward on his right foot. That was his biggest flaw in using his technique. He always, always triggered it after one certain movement with that fo...

Chapter 213 – A Big Change

After Benton left the Alchemy Pavilion, he spent most of the rest of the day working on designs for his grand formation that would protect the sect from all enemies. Obviously, those plans couldn�...

Chapter 212 – A True Alchemist

Benton’s attention had been drawn to two people running from the residential neighborhood to the Central Business District by the noise their churning legs and hard footfalls made. He flared his ...

Chapter 211 – A Hypothesis

Wan Ai woke with a start.

Of course. The answer was so obvious. How could she have missed it?

She rose from her bed, quickly dressed on a sect robe, rushed to Zou Tian’s door, and kno...

Chapter 210 – Psionic Force

A/N 3/5/25 Missed three points when doing the numbers for this chapter. Added those with the appropriate explanation.

Benton’s impression of Fatty Ren kept getting revised upward. The first...

Chapter 209 – Dominant

A/N 3/3/25: That moment when you're trying to get a chapter posted and you keep adding and changing and deleting and revising...

Fatty Ren balanced awkwardly on the flying sword—his flying ...

Chapter 208 – A Points Sink

As an extrovert, Benton had always liked people, and he’d had a variety of relationships throughout his life on Earth. He’d been married, raised children, spoiled grandchildren, been taught and...

Chapter 207 – Empathy and Commonality

Jin LiJuan swallowed her pride, relying instead of the kindness of a relative stranger. “Senior Brother, will you help me with my spirit beast bond?”

“Of course, Junior Sister,” Pan J...

Chapter 206 – A Lighter Heart

A/N 2/27/25: I added a status screen to Chapter 196. Just an FYI if you've been missing them.

The wolf cub followed Jin LiJuan into the Martial Pavilion. At rank two, it was the size of medi...

Chapter 205 – The Martial Pavilion

Yang Xiu was practically bouncing up and down as Master escorted her, Kang Lin, and Yang Ru into the Martial Pavilion. Kang Lin had been telling stories about the one at the Poison Claw Sect, and i...

Chapter 204 – Move-in Day

Huang Yimun was pretty far down the priority list. He had E- spirit roots even after the upgrade and was only at the fifth minor realm of Qi Gathering. Up until very recently he would never have ev...

Chapter 203 – Selection Day

Zou Tian had no desire to look at houses. He really had no desire to go with Wan Ai to look at houses. All such an activity would do was bring up very uncomfortable subjects.

If she wanted a ...

Chapter 202 – Formality and Nervousness

Sun Hua’s heart rose to her throat as she stood outside the door leading to what the sect leader called his “office.” The mayor’s house was large enough to hold a similar room, but he calle...

Chapter 201 – Plans and Ploys

Teng Wuying was equally parts pleased and anxious. By benefit of his brother’s not so untimely death, he was now the sole inheritor of his family’s resources. And he was still alive, which woul...

Chapter 200 – Information, Risk, and Reward

Emperor Han Shu was not sure if the information contained in the report he just read represented a good thing or a bad thing to his faction. Peace had existed between his empire and the sects for m...

Chapter 199 – Spirit, Body, Soul, and Mind

A/N 2/18/25: This is Monday's post. Now, assuming that I get Wednesday's post up sometime tomorrow, I should be able to get back on track for posting on time starting Friday. Thanks for bearing wit...

Chapter 198 – Guilt and Regret

A/N 2/27/25: This is Sunday's chapter. I'll post Monday's chapter tomorrow, getting us caught up. Again, apologies for the delay.

With the preparations for move-in complete, Benton moved on t...

Chapter 197 – A Road Almost Taken

A/N 2/16/25 - I'm behind. Sorry. This should have been posted yesterday morning. I got stuck on this chapter. On the plus side, I got to reference both Star Trek II and Lost in Space, so there's th...

Chapter 196 – Debt and Payment

A/N 2/26/25 - Status screen added today. Note that I found two small mistakes prior to this chapter. The numbers in this chapter and going forward should be correct.

Benton was happy with the...

Chapter 195 – Gluttonous Sword

Other than sleeping for a couple of hours, Benton worked through the night, making good progress. He felt confident that, with another eight to ten hours of labor, he’d have all the building inte...