Sky Pride Vol. 6 Chapter 4- The Poison Called Doubt
Added 2026-02-19 15:00:18 +0000 UTCComments
Good work Little Doctor, I'm proud of you for finding your way.
LinkRue
2026-03-10 05:05:04 +0000 UTCTFTC
Wrenn
2026-02-20 20:50:04 +0000 UTCThis entire chapter is just Tian thinking to himself, yet it's some of the best action you've written in this story. The doubt spiral was incredibly paced and the descriptions poignant without being overwrought. Also was Tian about to rip his own heart out?
Sol
2026-02-20 17:52:27 +0000 UTCNo, the doubt is the part of the test that affected him.
EvilLittleThing
2026-02-20 05:53:41 +0000 UTCSo…did he fail and get booted, or pass to the next challenge?
SquiddlyWinks
2026-02-20 01:57:30 +0000 UTCTesting Tian is truly difficult and somehow always winds up with him refining his Dao. We really should have compassion for his elders.
Felix Giron
2026-02-20 01:28:52 +0000 UTC“Tian had thought he was done being tested, and just waited patently in the gray mists as Burning Heaven flew endlessly along.” patiently* What a great chapter. I wonder if he’ll be offered a discipleship. I hope Burning Heaven is.
kapo
2026-02-19 20:58:56 +0000 UTCTftc!
James Faulkner
2026-02-19 20:23:00 +0000 UTCThe doubt spiral was powerfully hard to read. Well done.
Chad L.
2026-02-19 20:13:05 +0000 UTCWhoops. Fixing.
Nonnyor Business
2026-02-19 19:36:28 +0000 UTCTian's very brief high school emo phase
Gardor
2026-02-19 19:30:05 +0000 UTCI think this moght be the best chapter so far tbh, it truly felt like the culmination of everything weve seen so far .
NoAriGuy
2026-02-19 19:06:50 +0000 UTCTFTC! This arc is going to be awesome, who would have thought
Noah James
2026-02-19 17:38:32 +0000 UTCI mean, it's hard to imagine what else the heavenly revelations need. He keeps popping them out like they're candy.
Thomas Lawless
2026-02-19 17:09:08 +0000 UTC<3
G&S Gaming
2026-02-19 16:13:24 +0000 UTCLabeled as being Vol.5 not 6?
ArtTheGreat
2026-02-19 16:04:30 +0000 UTCWell not literally we are a ways still from the top /j
Veridescent
2026-02-19 15:58:38 +0000 UTCA crux here is expectation. Humans are horrible at it even optimally and if our models taught by socialization and experience dont align we get cognitive dissonance that may have us avoid updating our models to be closer to the true context of the matter. So we reach for many things that may not in truth get us what we desire. There is nothing special in not having a model flawed in a speicfic, way, such is a hallmark of how one has been taught to proccess life. The thing that encompasses anyone is simply how well they can acknowledge the temporality of what they "know". Because that comforting lie is easily reinforced. So seeking to be better while knowing one may ever be uncertain is a whole thing.
Veridescent
2026-02-19 15:48:58 +0000 UTCI wrote this on a post it, and hung it in my office. "There were things he didn’t know, things he couldn’t know, and that was fine. Not knowing wasn’t the same as being uncertain. He would learn what he didn’t know in time, or not. Either was fine."
charles dupont
2026-02-19 15:34:38 +0000 UTCEmissary:"Check Again." Sect Diviners:"We will check again."
Abhi
2026-02-19 15:28:09 +0000 UTCThe certainty of uncertainty?
Andrew Goebel
2026-02-19 15:23:17 +0000 UTC"We might not agree about why, or in what ways, but we all agree on this- the ancestors cannot be blindly imitated. We must find our own path.” Somewhere on the mountain the elders collectively felt an ominous premonition right there.
William Johnson
2026-02-19 15:19:58 +0000 UTCI think that's the revelation Tian came to in the course of this chapter. "The poison of doubt would be refined into new certainties. Tested, tempered, stronger than before."
William Johnson
2026-02-19 15:18:24 +0000 UTCWhat a chapter.
JTP
2026-02-19 15:14:06 +0000 UTCIts so peak
Cameron Bacon
2026-02-19 15:12:57 +0000 UTCAmazing chapter, looking forward to tomorrow.
DaniYanii
2026-02-19 15:11:59 +0000 UTCTftc! I have no words, other than saying this is a brilliant and inspired story.
G&S Gaming
2026-02-19 15:11:17 +0000 UTCTian is going to upgrade his face slapping of elders to new levels with this revelation.
Red Potato
2026-02-19 15:10:17 +0000 UTC"Failure was habit forming" is not quite accurate. "Accepting failure is habit forming" is more accurate, for true growth occurs when you fail refuse to accept it and do what you failed at a new way and succeed. Also what a great end to the chapter.
Thomas
2026-02-19 15:07:35 +0000 UTC
