Kelima just stared at him with wide eyes and disbelief written all over her face. That silence went on for five very long seconds. Then, words exploded from the girl.
“What? Do you think I...
2024-11-27 06:42:49 +0000 UTC
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Jing stared out at the land that he used to think of as his. The hubris of that notion was made painfully evident to him as watched that ravening horde of spirit beasts draw closer and clo...
2024-11-27 04:22:26 +0000 UTC
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“That went well,” observed Sig after a few awkward moments of silence.
James shot him a withering look that had zero impact on the other man. Chrosan stared in the direction that Seiran h...
2024-11-26 06:04:03 +0000 UTC
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Save for the occasional rise and fall of Lu Sen’s chest and the beads of sweat on his forehead, the man might have been dead. At least, that was what Lai Dongmei thought as she stared down at him...
2024-11-25 19:08:29 +0000 UTC
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General Mo Kegong stood in the early morning light and scowled into the distance from the top of the city wall. He knew that the spirit beasts were out there. He’d expected them to launch an atta...
2024-11-22 22:37:58 +0000 UTC
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Sen ultimately told Shi Ping to head anywhere at the base of wall, look for someone in charge, and tell them he was a cultivator there to help.
“If they give you a hard time, tell them that...
2024-11-22 05:52:42 +0000 UTC
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Terry woke up early the next morning. It wasn’t quite zero dark thirty, but it was close. He’d accomplished that particular feat by crawling into his tent almost immediately after...
2024-11-22 02:27:07 +0000 UTC
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Sen stared down at the last of the spikes on top of the castle wall. He was waiting to receive word. It had taken most of two hours with Lai Dongmei getting increasingly nervous and trying very har...
2024-11-21 00:03:16 +0000 UTC
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While Kelima went a short distance off into the woods for some privacy as she tried to clean herself up, Terry took the opportunity to dig the core out of the ape thing. He was running about fifty-...
2024-11-19 22:30:20 +0000 UTC
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“Is he here?”
Lo Meifeng just stared at the man standing in front of her for several seconds. She recognized him. At least, his features held some vague resemblance to the man she remembe...
2024-11-19 17:24:42 +0000 UTC
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There was a rapid-fire ting, ting, ting, as James blocked the flurry of dagger strikes from Seiran with his short swords. The problem was that he didn’t know, not for s...
2024-11-18 18:53:25 +0000 UTC
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It seemed like a thousand important matters vied for every second of Sen’s attention, but there came a moment when he had to tell everyone to leave him alone. A few people reacted like he was bei...
2024-11-18 17:52:12 +0000 UTC
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Sen had to work hard to quell his nervousness as he sat at the large table and waited for the last few stragglers to arrive. Some of them were mortals and near the outer edges of the city, so he co...
2024-11-15 15:28:32 +0000 UTC
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Sen spent a little of the time that he didn’t have walking to where Misty Peak had apparently bought a very large house. It was distressingly close to Lu Manor. A fact that he was quite sure she ...
2024-11-15 04:17:44 +0000 UTC
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Terry leaned against a tree and tried to catch his breath. A few feet away, Kelima Silventar was bent over at the waist with her hands on her knees and gasping for air. Terry wasn’t entirely sure...
2024-11-15 01:14:19 +0000 UTC
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Thud.
James found himself staring up at the blue sky, trying to catch his breath, and wishing that his chest would stop hurting. Unfortunately, being kicked in said chest repeatedly by Seiran...
2024-11-14 03:47:09 +0000 UTC
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While Lo Meifeng poured Grandmother Lu a cup of tea, Sen a found a comfortable-looking chair and promptly slumped into it. The price for all the masks he’d been wearing over the last day had caug...
2024-11-14 00:17:41 +0000 UTC
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As Terry stuffed things into his pack, he did his best to ignore Jaban. It wasn’t easy given the amount of complaining, but Terry persevered. He was committed to the task. A fact th...
2024-11-13 21:52:47 +0000 UTC
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Dragging stone to the surface for the earth cultivators to use did take several hours of focused work on Sen’s part. It also did something that he hadn’t experienced in a while. It left him fee...
2024-11-13 21:41:56 +0000 UTC
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Yes, the blessed day has arrived! Volume Four is now available on Amazon in ebook, print, and hardcover editions! Woohoo! If you wanted to grab one of those, you can find it 2024-11-12 17:48:12 +0000 UTC
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While Sen worried constantly that the spirit beasts were going to attack at any minute, he recognized that for overactive paranoia. Yes, there were a lot of them out there. However, he’d also see...
2024-11-12 08:15:56 +0000 UTC
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For a few, fleeting, glorious moments, James imagined himself standing in a… It wasn’t a river, but it was a healthy stream of gold coins. His balled fists were raised to the sky as he laughed ...
2024-11-11 21:47:49 +0000 UTC
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I know most of my non-fiction posts lately have been like a grab-bag of sad pulled directly from a bucket of suck. But, it’s not all awfulness and the tears of children. Here’s a few things tha...
2024-11-10 17:47:58 +0000 UTC
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It took a while for Sen to flatly deny the most obviously self-serving suggestions. He understood it, a little. Most of the cultivators had only ever thought about defense in terms of their own com...
2024-11-09 08:10:32 +0000 UTC
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Sen could hear the shouting from inside the meeting room long before he and Lai Dongmei arrived outside the door. The prospect of wrangling all of that pride did not appeal to him. He’d been forc...
2024-11-08 12:02:58 +0000 UTC
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The walk back into the palace was just as silent as the walk out had been, but the feeling was entirely different. Before, the nobles and even the cultivators had an air of uncertainty about them. ...
2024-11-07 06:53:35 +0000 UTC
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There was an almost deathly silence around Sen as he marched toward the front gates of the palace. No one spoke. Even the breeze had fallen away, as if it too feared to interrupt was what about to ...
2024-11-06 05:35:58 +0000 UTC
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Sen’s command to gather up members and soldiers of that house, something he’d considered relatively straightforward, turned in another round of bickering. He wasn’t sure if it was the tenth o...
2024-11-05 05:04:40 +0000 UTC
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Sen had smoothly bypassed what he expected to be a fraught moment in the throne room by just not going there. Given everything, people would likely expect him to sit on the throne. He...
2024-11-02 05:24:14 +0000 UTC
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Okay. It doesn't happen very often, but, every once in a while, even I have a day where I just can't get my head in the right space to write. I can often get around it by switching to a non-Uninten...
2024-11-01 03:52:27 +0000 UTC
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