She’d done it—she’d taken Ruyi’s hand! She’d been brave and done it and she was so proud of herself.
As she led Ruyi along, princess Song dearly hoped she was doing a good job hidin...
2023-08-06 16:35:40 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Think I will start scheduling uploads at 12:30PM EST
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She looked like any other peasant girl. Tattered tunic, trousers ratty but sewn neatly, with care. Rather p...
2023-08-05 16:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostSoon Gao let her start work on her own research.
Most of it was purely observational. For instance, Alchemists from the western Frostbite Peaks province had isolated an extract of frost drago...
2023-08-04 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAt first Ruyi thought she’d hallucinated it.
Until she turned, and her last coherent thought vanished from her head.
“Who are you?” She croaked.
But in truth she di...
2023-08-03 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostYou knew when you entered the Emperor’s territory when you saw the flowers. Orchids, peonies, plum blossoms and lilies dotted hill after hill. The road to the palace was lined with the Emperor’...
2023-08-02 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“We can’t have you going to the Banquet looking like this,” said Mother. “I won’t allow it.”
“What? Why?” Ruyi did a little turn before the full-length mirror. She had on a bl...
2023-08-01 19:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostRuyi took a written test and a practical test, and she was told she’d be mailed her results in a week.
In that time, a stranger came to visit.
It was Ruyi who answered the door. “Ca...
2023-07-31 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostRuyi knew in a vague way that Jin meant a lot to people. But he was always just Jin to her. They grew up together. It was hard to idolize someone when you’ve seen them wet themselves.
So sh...
2023-07-30 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOstium, Demon Lands
At the heart of the Demon Lord’s Palace there was a garden. Cherry blossom trees lined its pebbled paths. It was late spring and the trees were in full ...
2023-07-29 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFather was true to his word.
A week later he brought the other four volumes of the Principles of Alchemy. By the time he returned, she’d long since finished them. He picked up a vo...
2023-07-28 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostRuyi remembered when she first realized there was something wrong with her.
There were signs, early on. Every weekend the Yang household welcomed a parade of serious-looking people with big i...
2023-07-27 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I know I said two weeks but I'm impatient
This will be a slower burn compared to Speedrun; more serious tone too
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Where the mighty White River met Jade Dra...
2023-07-26 21:02:45 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
you lot have successfully cyberbullied me into adding some more stuff >.>
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2 years later, Dorian’s Estate, Zenith Realm
The ...
2023-07-25 02:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT:
OK I HAVE EXTENDED IT-- POSTED
2023-07-25 00:17:46 +0000 UTC View PostEXTENDED VERSION OF THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN POSTED
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2 years later, Dorian’s Estate, Zenith Realm
The restored Zenith rea...
2023-07-24 23:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostDeciding between a few ideas, but 80% sure this will be the one. More character-focused, slower paced series. Mix of trad fantasy and xianxia—setting will be largely trad fantasy inspired, with a...
2023-07-24 22:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostDorian could not stop smiling as he downed his healing elixirs. Houyi, you sly bastard!
For nearly four hours he sat there, letting his bones set back in place, his muscles bind toge...
2023-07-24 03:26:32 +0000 UTC View PostDorian barely had time to wrap Sun behind his wings when the blast struck.
It rammed him into a wall and sent him sliding to the floor in a smoking heap, huge swathes of skin burnt off.
“Go in the Chamber and stay there,” breathed Dorian.
“Why?” said Sun.
“So you don’t get whiplash or worse. With how fast I’ll be moving, and how much collateral damage thi...
2023-07-22 05:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe fourth floor was corridors leading corridors to corridors leading to corridors. Each corridors had doors upon doors upon doors. The floor, walls, ceiling were all made of this luminescent marbl...
2023-07-21 04:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostWith the Blessing of Hecate, Sun’s cloaking had reached surreal levels; as they weaved between the crowds of soldiers, rushing blindly forth, eyes fixed ahead, not registering them in the slighte...
2023-07-20 05:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I’m both excited and nervous to announce that Speedrunning the Multiverse Book 1 comes out today on Kindle...
2023-07-19 13:54:46 +0000 UTC View PostBefore the Battle…
“Hey, you’re still alive!” beamed Sun as Dorian pattered up beside her. “Good job!”
“Why, thank you.”
“Would you like a carro...
2023-07-19 03:41:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt was wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others. Even that of his enemies.
Jez knew this. And yet right and wrong were concepts which only existed in his new realit...
2023-07-18 05:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe village was abandoned. No smoke left the chimneys. No trails marred the grounds; wild grasses ran free, and ivy had claimed the cobblestone houses for their own. It seemed fitting somehow.
<... 2023-07-17 04:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Rainsong Canopies was a realm smothered in giant trees with leaves the size of lily pads. It rained constantly there, and the raindrops drummed out lively melodies against those great leaves da...
2023-07-16 03:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostOrynthia
Middle Realms
In Orynthia, everything floated. Gravity was not so much a law here as a helpful suggestion, often ignored. Most buildings were ...
2023-07-15 02:43:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Huh. You’re not supposed to be here,” said Dorian. “It’s only been six hours! Last time it took that other mutant, what, a day and a half?”
Unsurprisingly, the chimera was not in...
2023-07-14 03:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis was not a smart idea.
It was the curse of monstrously powerful creatures the Multiverse over—their bodies failed them before their force did. So it was the case here.
Dorian blin...
2023-07-13 04:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostEden — Upper Realms
There was a saying of Eden: a seed planted at midnight flowers at dawn.
In the Multiverse’s early aughts, Eden’s soils were sampled and carted...
2023-07-12 05:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post