There was chaos in the throne room after the prince’s rather decisive to, in effect, claim the throne. Guards and servants were summoned. The guards took the queen away in chains, cursing her unf...
2023-09-19 08:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostSen lounged on the throne, feeling both bored and uncomfortable. While security around the royal palace was probably very tight for any malicious mortal trying to find a way in, it had been stupidl...
2023-09-18 18:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostSen stood outside in the small courtyard of the house that was theoretically his. He mostly thought of it as Lo Meifeng’s house. It wasn’t a home he’d have chosen. It was just a place to slee...
2023-09-17 21:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostA murderous headache was pounding in time with the increasing pace of Choi Zhi Peng’s heart rate. He did his best to maintain a calm façade, but the headache had been a constant companion ever s...
2023-09-17 04:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post“You should be able to move freely in the city again,” said Sen, “Although, I recommend being a little cautious. There are a few Shadow Eagle Talon Syndicate members floating around. If they...
2023-09-16 05:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter wasn't part of the original game plan. I'd intended to leave a lot of this in the background, but I get the impression that people think I came out of left field in the last chapte...
2023-09-15 03:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe first few moments of screaming were so loud that Sen suspected that anything made of glass or fine pottery in the immediate area probably broke. Even at a bit of distance, the sound hurt Sen’...
2023-09-14 05:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor all that Tong Guanting was doing to keep that one building out of mind for everyone, Sen didn’t believe for a moment that it wouldn’t be defended. In fact, he expected heavy resistance. Tha...
2023-09-14 01:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m just saying that you could have sent a message,” said Lo Meifeng.
Sen held his tongue for three seconds, making sure he wasn’t about to make things worse, before he answered. “...
2023-09-13 06:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostSen made sure that he kept a neutral expression as he walked through the Golden Phoenix sect compound. He didn’t imagine for one minute that anyone in the place was ignorant of how he’...
2023-09-13 01:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt took every last bit of Sen’s considerable self-control not to burst into laughter at what followed those words. Every last one of the cultivators who had originally approached Sen were staring...
2023-09-12 07:32:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you do something?” demanded the prince.
Sen squinted at the man. The prince was agitated, frightened, and gesturing wildly. Sen had never the man like that before. What he couldn’t...
2023-09-12 00:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostTong Guanting hadn’t felt this kind of rage of centuries. It was one thing to, however unwillingly, accept that demands put on him by other nascent soul cultivators. That was a matter of mutual s...
2023-09-11 04:03:30 +0000 UTC View PostSen considered the wreckage of what had once been a gambling den run by the Shadow Eagle Talon Syndicate. In the wake of his interrogation of, Sen thought back, he hadn’t bothered to get her name...
2023-09-10 19:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days, several healing elixirs, and a lot of sleep later, Sen felt more like himself again. Shi Ping seemed horrified at even the possibility that a nascent soul cultivator might attack them, wh...
2023-09-09 19:59:54 +0000 UTC View Post“You not going to pass out again, are you?” asked Lo Meifeng in an extra-dry tone.
Sen gave her a death glare from where he lay sprawled out on the floor. “Just give me a minute. That w...
2023-09-09 03:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostSen was vaguely aware that this situation would have sent him into a panic not so long ago. Before Emperor’s Bay and before the beast tide he’d faced in that abandoned town, the idea of careeni...
2023-09-08 17:51:58 +0000 UTC View Post“You don’t have to do this,” said Sen.
Lo Meifeng shook her head. “I realize that, by and large, you’ve done most of your fighting alone. That’s probably skewed your perspective a...
2023-09-07 23:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe instructions that Monsell had given them to find the forger took them deep into the bowels of the station and well away from the publicly accessible areas. Not that it proved much of a challeng...
2023-09-07 12:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostFor all that Sen was braced for near-immediate retaliation from the Shadow Eagle Talon Syndicate, it didn’t happen. In fact, as near as he could tell, every cultivator in the city that he didn’...
2023-09-06 19:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post“So,” said Sen, “how do you feel about helping me burn a criminal organization to the ground?”
Lo Meifeng gave him a narrow-eyed look. “What did you do?”
“I told the Foggy...
2023-09-05 22:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostSen resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and darted into a narrow space between buildings. It wasn’t even really wide enough to qualify as an alley, but it was big enough for him to fit and wrap h...
2023-09-05 18:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post“So, let me get this straight. He just went to the park, sat on a rock, and, since he wasn’t busy or anything, decided to advance his cultivation. Just like that. Oh, and, incidentally, he also...
2023-09-05 14:54:27 +0000 UTC View PostKalan made his way back to the cutter and did his best to put his many frustrations under wraps. For all his suspicions about Cera’s possible status as some kind of spy or agent, she had actually...
2023-09-04 19:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostSen made an unhappy noise as he jumped down off the rock. It seemed like he was always surrounded by corpses of one kind or another. He knew that cultivators lived violent lives, but he couldn’t ...
2023-09-04 16:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe other thing that Sen spent his time on was something that he’d been neglecting at least partially on purpose. He’d return to the park each afternoon and sit on large rock by small pond. Sen...
2023-09-03 18:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next few weeks, Sen found that his life took on a disquietingly calm quality. He wasn’t attacked or even accosted by anyone. However, the pile of scrolls and letters he’d been ignoring ...
2023-09-03 04:47:59 +0000 UTC View Post“You did what?” asked the horrified prince.
Sen didn’t think that the prince was actually asking him, since Lo Meifeng had reacted in exactly the same way the evening before. O...
2023-09-02 06:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostSen and Falling Leaf descended the stairs into the common area. While it wasn’t quite as empty as it had been when the prince had been there and the employees weren’t kowtowing, the common area...
2023-09-01 13:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe prince summoned a servant to lead back out to the gate. Sen was pretty sure he could have found his own way, but he supposed that the prince and his guards weren’t comfortable having a strang...
2023-08-31 19:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post