Since he went to bed so very early, Terry was up before the sun had even peeked over the horizon. He built a small fire, cooked himself breakfast, and ate all before Kelima showed any signs of life...
2025-01-03 07:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Lord Lu.”
Sen turned to find Wu Da standing a respectful distance away and observing him with dark, intelligent. The heavyset bureaucrat was one of Jing’s most trusted advisors. He mig...
2025-01-03 02:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostAfter allowing people to see him at the gate if only briefly, Sen went to one of his least favorite places in the city. He knew his dislike for the palace had less to do with the place than it did ...
2025-01-02 06:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re going where?” demanded Kelima.
“Wyvern Peak,” said Terry as he continued putting up his tent in Nari’s yard.
“I heard you. I just assumed it was some kind of misgui...
2025-01-01 06:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You go ahead,” Sen told the cultivators.
Sen knew that it still made them a little uncomfortable to enter the capital ahead of him. All of their sect training told them that he should go...
2025-01-01 02:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostRed, orange, and yellow spread out like a small sea below Sen as yet another part of the wilds disappeared inside an inferno. The grisly work was largely over at this point. He had been at a loss a...
2024-12-31 03:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I always wanted to write something that had the stink of Lovecraft on it, minus some of his more objectionable and odious personal beliefs. And I think i finally did it. Sound off in t...
2024-12-28 04:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostBoulder’s Shadow stood beneath an enormous pine tree, its great boughs reaching outward and sheltering him from the bright sun. His eyes were fixed on the building far below. It was nestled in th...
2024-12-26 16:45:33 +0000 UTC View Post“What is that?” Sen asked as he peered skyward.
“That’s my big bird, Papa!” exclaimed Ai from her perch on his arm.
“Well,” said Sen thoughtfully, “it certainly is big....
2024-12-21 07:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe blacksmith stared at him for a moment before she huffed out a laugh.
“You’re an odd one, even for an adventurer.”
“I’m not an adventurer,” said Terry. “I mean, I am, b...
2024-12-20 06:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostSen watched the newly arrived members of his sect from atop the new wall he’d personally constructed. Food was going to be such a crucial matter for the capital over the following months that he ...
2024-12-20 01:49:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe dark clouds overhead seemed to threaten another storm. However, Sen’s senses told him that it would just be a normal autumn storm, rather than some divinely-augmented, nature-defying act. Not...
2024-12-19 06:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostSen rose into the air and let his spiritual sense expand around him lightly. Misty Peak was close enough that it only took a second or two to find her. He flew in her direction and then descended i...
2024-12-18 05:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe blacksmith smirked and said, “Well, you better come inside then.”
“Alright,” said Terry, happy to be making progress.
Terry and Kelima both started walking, but the blacksmi...
2024-12-17 06:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so you've probably all realized by now that Vol 10 is coming to a close. I expect that the last chapter will probably post on Thursday or Friday. It wasn't planned, but it is su...
2024-12-17 06:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Sen landed by the area where the foxes had been maintaining their illusions, it seemed that Lo Meifeng no longer required immediate assistance. He found her sitting against a wall. She ...
2024-12-17 05:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe general was back within thirty minutes, which surprised Sen more than a little. It turned out that the phrase for Lord Lu carried a lot of weight in the city at the moment. In oth...
2024-12-14 08:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostSen stayed to observe until Boulder’s Shadow disappeared back into the forest, miles away at the edge of the destruction. He didn’t believe the ghost panther would actually try to do anything. ...
2024-12-13 04:07:09 +0000 UTC View PostJing was slumped against the wall, staring down at the impaled spirit beasts with the one eye he had left. He assumed that to have been the work of a cultivator, but he couldn’t even summon the e...
2024-12-12 05:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that struck him after entering the clouds was the wetness of it all. While Sen had spent substantial time flying, first on qi platforms and later with his modified technique, it had...
2024-12-11 08:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostSen was vaguely aware of Lai Dongmei and Bey Peizhi’s approach, but it was just one tiny thing in an almost overwhelming sea of information. He’d thought that the reach and depth of his spiritu...
2024-12-10 04:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostXie Moli walked down the hallway toward the room. She was careful to mimic the strong but measured steps of Lu Jia. She kept her expression stern, the same way the mistress of the manor always did....
2024-12-06 16:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post“But they’re evil!” shouted the youngest Sen, fists clenched, jaw thrust out.
Sen closed his eyes and forced himself to breath slowly. This entire thing was beyond infuriating. He could...
2024-12-06 04:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostMisty Peak stared with naked horror up into the sky that was abruptly, maddeningly empty of nascent soul cultivators to protect all of the fragile mortals Sen had left in her care.
“Oh, no,...
2024-12-05 08:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t know what to do,” said Lo Meifeng.
Lu Sen remained as still and as silent as he had since he’d been brought back to the manor. At first, she had seen it as her first duty to ...
2024-12-05 08:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostBey Peizhi didn’t glance at Lai Dongmei after that last statement of murderous intent, but mostly because it seemed wildly stupid to turn his attention from the two spirit beasts in front of them...
2024-12-03 03:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t suppose the honorable Lord Lu will be joining us today, will he?” asked Bey Peizhi.
Lai Dongmei had to suppress a sigh and avoid looking at man from the Lunar Tiger Se...
2024-11-30 05:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you always talk this much?” demanded Terry.
Kelima had been an “official” part of his journey for less than an hour, and it was already everything he could do to keep from strangl...
2024-11-29 07:39:40 +0000 UTC View PostSen was sprawled on the ground with his arms outstretched to either side as he stared up into the infinite nothingness above. He found that less exasperating than looking at the three younger versi...
2024-11-29 04:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostShi Ping ignored the screams around him as he focused his attention on the giant insect that was hurtling toward him. It looked like a mantis, although he couldn’t recall ever seeing one with win...
2024-11-27 23:20:48 +0000 UTC View Post