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Sky Pride Vol. 4 Epilogue II

[I hear you. I added some stars between the sections to make it clear where the break is. Thank you, key piece of formatting advice there. - Warby]

They were hard women, face...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Epilogue I

Censor Hanshen pressed his head to the cold tile floor. Each tile was made of Gotsu clay, transported by wagons and boats five hundred miles to the tile makers of Pei. There they were fired in kiln...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 51- The Daoists Return to Simplicity

“What the dog fornicating hell just happened?”

“Language.” 

“No, Sister Liren, I think I used exactly the correct words. I am keeping my composure, my dignity, and using ...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 50- Standing at the Peak, Seeing Only Despair

“We describe the Earth Realm as divided into nine ascending levels, but this is merely colloquial convenience and an intellectual misstep. In truth, it’s nine cycles of destruction and creation...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 49- Clearing The Mountain Gate

Tian and Hong gathered on the road to the Monastery after breakfast. 

“You look better. Less… I don’t know. Despairing. Moody.” Hong nodded approvingly. 

“Since when...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 48- Blowing on a Cooling Ember

West Town was a small place, but a good one. The streets were as clean as he remembered. The buildings were well maintained. The gutters that would soon be guiding away the torrential rains were ke...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 47- Racing Home

The two young immortals ran home. Their feet flowed over the long miles more slowly now. Each struggling with the enormity of what they believed was the truth. How could they face their brothers an...

Upcoming Schedule

Four volumes in, I think most of you know my habits. Yes, we are closing in on the end of Vol. 4, with work on Vol. 5 already well underway on my end.

TL:DR- my next scheduled break from Sk...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 46- How Terrible a Dead Heart

Tian and Hong ran down the road while the crane drifted silently overhead. Tian’s mind twisted around and around, always returning to Heartmend and Cang Sen. The indifferent array master, and the...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 45- Finding What Matters

A mathematician would have wept at the elegance of the curve. Anyone who received an errant blow to a tender place would weep, or at least wince, at where the curve ended. Still, the aesthetic qual...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 44- Debating the Dao

Daoist Heartmend stood straight, his eyes bright, his shoulders relaxed and his arms loose. His robes had once been decent enough, but now looked weathered and rough, a faded and mottled gray. His ...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 43- Racing Home

Tian closed his eyes. Brother Long… he remembered their games of Go fondly, but with increasingly complicated feelings. Brother Long wasn’t suited for cultivation. Not really. He would have bee...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 42- Bleeding Fortune

Tian and Hong shared a long look. Were any of the bandit’s revelations true? He didn’t sound like he was lying, but that just meant that he believed it, not that he was right. 

“Ho...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 41- Storming The Capital

“When the heart becomes serene, much as ice and snow melt without the knowledge or sensation that they are melting, a ray of numinous light will suddenly appear. Not only do others not know when ...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 40- Choosing Your Family

Tian happened, suddenly and violently. He dove into the press of low-level bandits barehanded, ducking a little as though he were trying to evade the eyes of the bow carrying bandit chief. Which wa...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 39- Making a Name for One’s Self

This close to the Green River, farms and tiny farming villages were everywhere. You could say a lot of unkind things about the Broadsky Kingdom’s civil service, but their commitment to having pea...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 38- The Advantages of Being Useless

There was no room at the inn. Tian gave the innkeeper a pregnant look. He knew perfectly damn well there were open rooms.

“Best I can do for you is let you sleep in the old goat shed. Three...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 37- Dragged into the Light

Tian ceased all talking. All attention and energy was poured into a singular focus- healing. And getting taller. But definitely the healing part came first. Or at least at the same time.

The ...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 36- What Was Lost and What Was Found

Silence gathered in the darkness. The sun had shifted across the sky, sending the little puddle of light sliding across the cavern. Tian wasn’t fit to talk, and Hong wasn’t in much better shape...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 35- What Would You Pay?

It turned out that necessity did require an apology, even with entirely valid excuses. At least if the necessity in question involved getting your sister naked and washing her down with a handcloth...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 34- The Ingratitude of a Junior

Tian woke up in darkness and pain. This, he reckoned, was a good thing. It meant he was still alive. The last thing he remembered was pulling off the tourniquets, then whiting out from the pain. He...

Sky Pride Vol. 4 Chapter 33- Fiery Sky Soup

The middle dantian, also known as the heart dantian or the Crimson Palace- associated with fire and yang, sometimes referred to as one of the three elixir fields, and also, important point, mor...