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Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 45 part 2

Note: Part 1 has also been updated and cleaned up a bit.

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“A cultivator, however… Most cultivators, even the most powerful, retain a certain level of humility because of the ol...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 45

Outwardly Huifen was as being as soft and longsuffering as she knew how to be, but her spirit was disquieted, and her trepidation only grew. As they played, Chao came out of himself and even seemed...

Update

The next chapter should be up tomorrow. I've been doing some landscaping/gardening and breathed in too much pollen/dust. I've had the chemicals in store-bought soil do me in before, but I just dug ...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 44 - part B

She rarely slept, and Chao knew she wasn’t sleeping now, but he was just as gentle as if she had been as he lifted her off his chest and laid her down on the matting they’d placed on the ground...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 44 - part A

They returned to the sixth floor of the Divine Spire in their own little quiet corner of the world. They’d both wished to be the ones to catch the murderer, murderers in this case, and now they b...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 43

Even after his Huifen had arrived and he’d given Sage Pangfua his preliminary telling of events, Chao struggled to banish the dark thoughts from his mind. He’d seen death and tragedy. He rememb...

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Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 42

Huifen studied the demoness’s qi as they faced off. She’d called it death qi and there was certainly something corrupt and fading about it. Much like decay. As furious as she might be,...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 41

“Divine Master? This voice called you that?” Sage Pangfua asked.

“Yes,” Chao replied.

The three sages and Mother Sya sat face each other in the middle of the Ice Phoenix Palace�...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 40

Chao made it a habit to meet with Father Tu once a week to go “treasure hunting” with the man. It was within the Divine Spire, so much of their time was spent on the first and seconds floors ex...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 39

Just as they spent some time each day playing for the cultivating disciples on the third floor, they spent time with their chosen group of disciples on the second. As they did, Huifen spent much of...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 38

“Do you think I should consider Fairy Eu-meh my disciple?”

Huifen gave her husband a suspicious look from where she sat in the nature meditation chamber on the second floor. He’d alread...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 37

They next saw Dvora the next day sitting on the bench in the fire cultivation chamber with her face veiled. She didn’t make any movement in the presence, even after Chao began to play. He had to ...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 36

Chao’s symptoms were starting to clear half an hour later. It was a potent drug, but not long lasting. His desires weren’t a good gauge to use since his Huifen often inspired such feelings even...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 35

“Brother Tao. Sister Fen,” Core Disciple Shoi-ming greeted from where he sat.

“Senior Brother,” Chao replied, saluting him. Shoi-ming was the current number one disciple of the Fire P...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 34

Chao played a new song as he descended from the fourth floor. It was a little suspect that an earth realm cultivator and his wife had been spending so much time in the higher floors, but both of th...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 33

Finally, Chao had reached his peak. His Huifen had started circulating his mother’s old medically inspired, qi-gathering technique before he had. They’d both made a practice of it because it cl...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 32

They appeared in the vacuum of space. Quinyuan felt her husband’s perceptions scan her before quickly moving on. He’d trained her in what to do to survive open space. Breathing was impossible, ...

The Heaven's Laws Universe Update

What's up with the delays, man?

For the last six months or so, I've been secretly working on extending the Heaven's Laws universe. I've already mentioned that I was considering doing an Aven...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 31

They set up their arrays on the sixth floor between murals in the most unassuming spot they could find. Very few people came here in the first place other than peak sky realm cultivators and overlo...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 30

They made their way to the third floor without any incident, passing more than ten people at the middle trial station. Chao lowered his sound barrier so that their conversation would carry. He doub...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 29

As they ascended, Chao surrounded them all with a sound barrier. “We should probably keep any discussion about Huifen and my identity to a minimum, but its safe for the moment to ask us any quest...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 28

They were soon given a full telling of what had happened. Huifen caught the detail that all of the disciples attacked had been females. It wasn’t just the four from their joint sect either. There...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 27

Sya continued squeezing them both for a long moment. She stepped back and took them in. Her gaze landed on Chao and he saw what remained of the woman’s icy demeanor melt.

“Son-in-law, thi...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 26

They drew near on foot, and the sheer size of the tower became clear. It was a round building, as wide as all but the Ice Phoenix Palace. It was one of the few remaining structures left from this a...

Chapter Update

We're back from vacation and I got a lot of writing done. What I didn't have is a secure way of uploading, so I'll be doing that over the next few days. There should be a chapter out Monday - Frida...

Update

Happy Friday!

It's that time of the year again where I go on vacation. It's more of a work-cation for me, so you can still expect chapters. I'll be working half days most likely, so I'm guess...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 24

After the recent attack, the town was quick to mobilize at the mayor’s request. It took little more than an hour for everyone including the elderly to come and find a seat. There were only about ...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 23

When his wife looked at him, he knew what she was thinking. This army of ghosts must have been lingering spirits recently killed by cultivators visiting the monoliths. “Why are there so many?” ...

Heaven's Laws - Lifestone - Chapter 22

Chao awoke with the noonday sun glaring down on him. He examined his body with his perceptions and concluded he’d mostly recovered, but he wasn’t feeling as energetic as was typical for him. It...