Once Sen got Lo Meifeng and Falling Leaf to calm down enough to let him get a word in edgewise, their ire swiftly transferred from him to the Clear Spring sect. As far as they were concerned, it ha...
2023-08-16 06:47:23 +0000 UTC View PostBecause I know everyone has been waiting for this. Also, yes, there will be another chapter tonight. ~Eric
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Lan Zi Rui was frustrated. He had been ...
2023-08-15 23:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostExiting from the odd enclosure that held the spring and the gardens, Sen was relieved that he didn’t find anyone waiting for him. At the same time, though, that lack of a friendly or hostile welc...
2023-08-15 01:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostSen had been through a lot in his time off the mountain. Enough that it was easy for him to forget that he’d seen very little of the world. For all the intensity of his experiences, though, they ...
2023-08-14 07:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostSen considered everything that had just happened, nodded to the patriarch, and turned to walk away.
“Is that it?” asked the patriarch. “No questions? No demands?”
“You don’t...
2023-08-13 23:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostSen tried to make sense of the patriarch’s words. How can they have it, but not have access to it, he wondered. His mind tried to come up with scenarios that might provide sense...
2023-08-13 07:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first minute or so, Sen tried to answer questions. Unfortunately, everyone was so busy yelling at him or each other that his attempts at answering went unheard. For the next minute...
2023-08-12 21:18:52 +0000 UTC View PostSo, the migraine pill I took knocked me out cold, and I woke up in the middle of the night. So, you get a chapter at a ridiculous time. ~Eric
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Their first d...
2023-08-12 08:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long moment, Sen wondered about his own reaction. Why was he nervous about this meeting? As far as he knew, Falling Leaf and Chan Yu Ming had never met, let alone had any bad blood b...
2023-08-11 19:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs they drew ever closer to the Clear Spring sect, Shi Ping grew increasingly nervous. He never said anything directly to anyone. It seemed that the combination of getting stabbed in the leg and wi...
2023-08-11 05:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostSorry that these are coming at such random times. I got a new desktop computer that I planned on switching over to on my days off. What should have been an afternoon of work has turned into a week ...
2023-08-10 18:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostFalling Leaf was closing on them fast, which meant that Sen had a limited amount of time to decide what he wanted to do. Of course, those limits were quite as limiting as they had once been. Much a...
2023-08-10 05:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostSen had thought he’d be happy to leave the valley of the fire cultivators behind, and he was…mostly. The only real downside was that one of the fire cultivators, Shi Ping, had come with them. S...
2023-08-09 17:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostHe did take a moment to study his dantian and the odd ribbon of new qi but left off almost immediately. There was no obvious damage to the dantian. Figuring out that new qi was important. ...
2023-08-09 05:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostZhang Jing sat in the chair by the window and contemplated patience. If it were possible to cultivate patience the way that people cultivated qi, he believed that he would be a nascent soul cultiva...
2023-08-06 16:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostWith the decision about where he was going at least tentatively made, barring new information, things relaxed a bit. They camped out at Sen’s little house for a few more days, while Sen slowly bl...
2023-08-06 06:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostSen ended up making breakfast the next day since he was up first, or at least the first to wander out into the main room. It was always hard to gauge how long any given cultivator would sleep becau...
2023-08-05 18:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m housesitting right now. One of the best parts is that there’s a grill here. So, today, it’s steak, grilled zucchini with garlic pepper, and a pepper/mushroom/onion sauté.
2023-08-05 01:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostSen had suspected that the three nascent soul cultivators would keep him talking for days if he let them. So, he begged off with excuses about being tired after making the house. He was&nb...
2023-08-04 06:24:04 +0000 UTC View Post“We all have stories to tell,” said Master Feng, “But I think we all want to hear yours first, Sen.”
At those words, Sen looked down mournfully at the heaping plate of food in front o...
2023-08-03 16:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostWhen reasoning kicked back, Sen realized that they all clearly had a lot to talk about. More importantly, there were big parts of it that he, at least, didn’t want people listening in on. Falling...
2023-08-03 07:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt took more than a week, and Sen was very nearly to point of simply leaving the fire cultivator’s valley, before something finally changed. Sen was hiding in his assigned room and pretending not...
2023-08-03 00:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostKalan was vaguely amused to note that the Zeren ship was sufficiently larger than the Ankala Rising that he could drag his feet in going somewhere he didn’t especially want to go. It wasn’t any...
2023-08-02 08:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostWith Duan Yuxuan’s certainty that Master Feng wouldshow up there at some point, Sen found himself stuck in one place with no clear picture of when he might leave. It was a strange feelin...
2023-08-02 06:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor all that the pair of them could have probably flown wherever they wanted in the compound, Duan Yuxuan led them through the place on foot. Everywhere they went, there was more kowtowing. The onl...
2023-08-01 21:51:29 +0000 UTC View PostSen was in a bad mood when he left that garden. Nothing had happened that he hadn’t expected, not really, but the whole thing was just a massive frustration for him. He’d thought that he and Lo...
2023-08-01 06:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t much of a conversation at first, as Sen laid out the reasons why he was angry with Lo Meifeng. She tried to justify a few things at first, but Sen just asked her to wait, assuring her t...
2023-07-31 21:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostTaking control of the ship had been an important step in the plan, but it was only the first step. There was an order to all things, and Kalan needed to take the next steps to impose order on this ...
2023-07-31 08:49:33 +0000 UTC View PostWu Meng Yao had never considered herself a coward. She had fought spirit beasts and rogue cultivators without hesitation. She had endured the pains of advancement and tribulations. She had held fir...
2023-07-31 02:50:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe next week was a true test of Sen’s patience. While a few of the most severely injured water and fire cultivators needed a bit of additional attention, Sen spent most of his time trying to avo...
2023-07-30 19:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post