Sen stared down at the scroll in front of him. In a bid to undercut Master Feng’s implied assertion that he had too much to do, Sen had sat down and written out a list. It included all of the thi...
2024-05-27 09:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post“How long do you think?” Sen asked, not for the first time.
“Tomorrow. In a month. In a year,” answered Master Feng, not for the first time.
“I thought we’d know more by now...
2024-05-27 06:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post“War?” asked Sua Xing Xing. “What war?”
Sen had been a little surprised that Bahn Huizhong knew, but not entirely shocked. Sen hadn’t spread the news to that particular sect, for so...
2024-05-26 05:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhen darkness closed over Terry, he’d felt a certain malign satisfaction that he had, in some obscure way, won. He hadn’t fought a war. He hadn’t let them turn him into some caricature of a h...
2024-05-26 01:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostSilence hung in the air as the stunned Shattering Earth Sect members stared at Sen in disbelief. Chan Runchu looked like someone had stabbed him. It was one of the core formation cultivators who re...
2024-05-25 13:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe day started out like most days did for Sen. He made breakfast for Ai. He’d discovered through trial and error that, while she liked lots of variety for the evening meal, she didn’t really w...
2024-05-25 10:04:15 +0000 UTC View PostAs Terry looked at the damn foliasaur menacing the chicken-lizard, all he could think about was how bullshit it was in books when heroes just shrugged off being thrown into walls or taking crushing...
2024-05-24 22:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostSen had found the last few weeks very odd. The arrival of Li Yi Nuo, while perhaps foreseeable, had caught him off guard. Bringing along her master had been even more perplexing. Not that either of...
2024-05-24 06:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostSen regretted inviting them in almost the instant that he’d done it. He didn’t have to let them in. He certainly hadn’t wanted to let them in. Well, he’d have let Li Yi Nuo in out of guilt....
2024-05-23 08:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe worst seemed almost inevitable to Bahn Huizhong. Lu Sen might not be a nascent soul cultivator, yet, but that hadn’t stopped him from killing one in a straight fight before. There were persis...
2024-05-23 04:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostBahn Huizhong considered himself a worldly man. True, he had been a member of the Vermillion Blade Sect for most of his life, but he’d always held a dim view of those cultivators who cloistered t...
2024-05-22 06:27:12 +0000 UTC View PostSen had hoped that things would calm down a bit after the semi-disastrous meeting with Winds of Winter. He’d talked it over with Master Feng, Auntie Caihong, and Uncle Kho, and they all seemed to...
2024-05-22 04:09:16 +0000 UTC View PostIf Sen were capable of getting headaches from something other than a horrible injury, he was certain that he would have had one by the time he and Falling Leaf left the ice wolf in his cave. At the...
2024-05-21 06:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs the pair traveled deeper and deeper into the wilds, Sen had a dawning realization. All those times that Falling Leaf had disappeared into the wilds, she hadn’t just been avoiding humans or hun...
2024-05-21 00:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post“We aren’t going to be ready,” said Sen.
He’d felt Falling Leaf approaching, although he wouldn’t have needed any particular skill to know it was her. He could count on one hand the...
2024-05-20 09:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostSen watched Wu Meng Yao conduct the class from the concealment of a shadow. He’d rarely done more than take quick glimpses of her teaching, mostly because he trusted that she didn’t need the su...
2024-05-20 05:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostLong Jia Wei stood in the shadow of a tree. He did his best to suppress a shudder as he watched Lord Lu and Fate’s Razor discussing something. Like many others, he’d believed that Fate’s Razo...
2024-05-19 07:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing that was racing toward him looked like the bastard love-child of a T-rex and velociraptor, or at least the movie versions Terry had seen of them. He’d read somewhere on the always 2024-05-19 05:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so after spending a truly absurd amount of time on the phone with Carvana Customer Disservice, the big takeaway is that I'm car-less until Monday. Why? Because people didn't do ...
2024-05-18 19:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so today was supposed to be a good day. I was supposed to be getting a new-to-me car from Carvana. So, the car shows up, outside of the delivery window they specified, but it's here. So, hurr...
2024-05-17 23:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so it finally happened. Someone left a comment in which they ranted about social justice pandering. That person is no longer a participant in this community. This page is a politics-free zone...
2024-05-17 19:09:42 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s good to know,” said Sen. “I’ll be sure to clue you in if and when the time comes.”
“Future plans aside, what about your preparations here? I know what I see, but that’...
2024-05-17 06:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter that foolishness with Lan Shu, Tong Qianfan, and their students, Sen realized that he simply didn’t have it in him to put up with anything even remotely aggravating. At first, he thought th...
2024-05-17 03:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days followed a similar pattern. Things attacked Terry. He killed them with some gentle and not-so-gentle prodding from other-Terry and the other-knowledge. The chicken-lizard stalked ...
2024-05-16 23:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen stared at the two cultivators who had been sent to him. Young, thought Sen. I’m not that much older than either of them. He noticed that both of them looked petrified. They ...
2024-05-16 06:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostSen sat at the head of a table and stared at the wall. He’d stopped hearing anything that anyone was saying at least an hour earlier. It was supposed to be a meeting to discuss how best to manage...
2024-05-16 05:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostSen gave himself the rest of that day to recover and spend time with Ai and Falling Leaf. While his body’s transformation had seemingly restored him, he felt drained. At the very least, he knew t...
2024-05-15 05:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhenever Sen was forced to leave home, an event that happened far too often for his taste, he almost always raced back as fast as he could. There was a beautiful orchid there waiting to shout p...
2024-05-14 05:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostAlready exhausted by the advancement, Sen had to force himself to stand. He briefly considering putting on fresh robes before the uselessness of that struck him. Why put them on simply to have them...
2024-05-14 02:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post“This is such bullshit!” shouted Terry as he stormed through the woods.
Crystal Snake, said other-Terry in his mind.
Almost without thinking, the jian in Terry’s hand whi...
2024-05-13 18:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post