Shadowwwing

7. What Even Is Cultivation?

Elder Lu paused, placing his cup of tea down on the table before giving Jiang his full attention.

“I suppose we should begin by establishing what you already know about cultivation,” he m...

6. A Path Offered

Elder Yan had continued to speak.

Jiang barely noticed.

There was a ringing in his ears that wouldn’t stop, muffling the voices around him, the flickering candlelight smearing at the ...

5. Rude Awakenings

Jiang woke to the sound of knuckles rapping sharply against wood. His eyes snapped open, body tense before his mind caught up. A door. Not his door—he wasn’t home. The past two days crashed bac...

4. Veiled Intentions

The Azure Sky Sect’s mountain loomed ahead, shrouded in clouds. Lu Heng landed at the outer gates in a controlled descent, his robes settling around him as he strode past the disciples manning th...

3. Hollow Promises

It was almost dawn by the time Jiang finally admitted to himself that the chance he was looking for wasn’t coming.

If he was being totally honest with himself, he had come to the conclusion...

2. Bitter Harvest

There wasn’t time to waste, but all the same, Jiang couldn’t afford to be hasty. 

He forced himself to take a deep breath, closing his eyes and ignoring the shattered bowl and overtu...

1. Ash and Silence

Jiang Tian knelt in the light dusting of snow, ignoring the damp chill seeping through his trousers with practised ease. He’d been tracking this deer for the last six hours and wasn’t going to ...