Tian and Hong exchanged looks. There was no breath of immortality coming from the lake, so it wasn’t a cultivator or cultivating animal. Though, the whole area was saturated with wood and water q...
2025-10-16 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe immortals immediately vanished from mortal sight. They had a lot of practice moving very quickly between the gaps in a mortal’s perception. Hong and Tian weren’t doing anything too creative...
2025-10-15 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostLiren found Tian with his feet in the river, sitting on a tan and purple striped rock in the shade of a willow tree. The scent of lotuses seemed at home, drifting over the water. She sat down next ...
2025-10-14 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s less of a choice than it looks. I’m not going to be fit to fight for weeks.” Tian smiled awkwardly. “Although, I do have some medicine you could use. It’s water qi aligned, and I ...
2025-10-13 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“If you are angry, blame yourselves for being too high profile. We are merely solving the problems of others for money.” Tian’s eyes narrowed. Five Poisons Cult sounded like assassins, not th...
2025-10-10 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a deathtrap!”
“It’s a pond, Brother Tian. A shallow one. Look, the crane is only up to her knees.”
“You wouldn’t believe the danger that lurks under the surface o...
2025-10-09 14:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post“The two seniors are benevolent in the extreme to be considering such a humane course as conferring an honorable post upon a ghost! But surely this is a matter for the Ministry of Rites?” Censo...
2025-10-08 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a death trap!”
“It’s a hot spring complex, Brother Zihao. One with an attached hotel, restaurant, gardens and recreation pavilions. You know the mortals are getting whi...
2025-10-07 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostTian knew Grandpa Jun loved him. Sometimes, he would feel grandpa embracing him for no reason, or caressing the back of his head, or simply resting his hand against Tian’s back as encouragement o...
2025-10-06 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe kids weren’t okay, but they weren’t dead either. Tian could feel the recoil of the spell flushing away whatever foulness was done to them. Something broke inside the tall wine jugs. It was ...
2025-10-03 14:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostTian and Hong didn’t wait around for a demonstration of what the waiters were going to do with their pig butchering knives. Hong slapped the blades out of their hands, unfortunately breaking quit...
2025-10-02 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSabers and wide knives dashed in and out. Shadowless kicks struck from odd angles, breaking knees and ribs with equal contempt. Hands flashed out, blocked by iron bar arms or dodged with footwork p...
2025-10-01 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Senior Tian, why does it seem like everyone is talking, but I can’t really hear anyone? Or, I can, but I can’t hear the words. Everyone is talking too quietly.” Little Treasure complained....
2025-09-30 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHong stood on the stern of the weathered wooden rowboat, working the oar as she drove the boat up the river. Her motions were casual, almost effortless, but the boat was going fast enough to make p...
2025-09-29 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post[SORRY! Somehow I goofed on the scheduling.- Warby]
Their party gathered down by the docks. The nobles were alternately looking at the old fishing boat and the Censor. Censor Hanshen didn’t...
2025-09-26 14:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post“You are an easy man to find, Censor Henshen.” Liren loomed over the pale man. The Censor was slim, and dressed in a floor length dark blue silk robe. The hems were white, with green circles an...
2025-09-25 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still not sure what I'm calling this volume, so no title on it, just the picture. Also... Tian is not that short. In the reference picture I sent the artist, the martial artist had the...
2025-09-24 15:08:41 +0000 UTC View PostTian collapsed backwards, gasping in air. Advent of Spring howled into action, dragging in great gulps of qi with every breath and desperately trying to replace the overdrawn vital energy. 2025-09-24 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The two daoists rushed up the cobblestone road like a flash flood. The monsters attacking the city were hideous things, slobbering venom, their spines coated in yet more venom, their claws carrying...
2025-09-23 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostTian and Hong went down to the riverbank. The crane was sleeping the reeds, happily full from a productive day of hunting. She didn’t like whatever was going on in the Water Fortress, but it was ...
2025-09-22 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTian’s hand flew out, three invisible darts twisting through the air. The yin dart hadn’t taken too long to cultivate, and it made controlling the formation easy. Two yang darts pierced through...
2025-09-19 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLiren was back in forty five minutes. The doctor was wearing a blindfold and curled up on the bottom of the cart. Liren had picked up the cart and carried it over her head to make travel quicker, b...
2025-09-18 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe little village didn’t have a name on their map. It was just another little farming village off the Pebble River, a safer tributary of the Agate. They grew rice, kept ducks and chickens, had v...
2025-09-17 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Agate River got its name from the layers of multicolored rock that lined the many canyons and deep riverbanks along its length. It was an exciting river to live next to. You could either live n...
2025-09-16 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Where does the self reside? In your body? But you grow and change all the time. Are you a different person every time you trim your nails? Not in a meaningful sense. Your thoughts, then. Mind sh...
2025-09-15 14:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostIn just a few hours, Sister Su and Daoist Mei had gone from desperate rivals to firmest allies. At least as far as Sister Su was concerned. She would no longer hear a single bad, or even cautionary...
2025-09-06 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTian picked a nice tree near a river for his tea service. The tree chimed every time the wind blew the leaves, making gentle and flowing harmonies. Whoever had...
2025-09-05 14:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe return to the Courtyard went smoothly. They stopped for the night again, but this time, they were undisturbed. Something had changed in the relationship between Brother Wang and Daoist Mei. It ...
2025-09-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThey took an hour to collect themselves. There was nothing worth looting from the battlefield. The reason there were so many horrors, according to daoist Mei, was that they were bred by the Five El...
2025-09-03 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe disciples of the courtyard didn’t seem to appreciate Tian’s motivation. Which was a shame. They looked stressed. Doughy took charge again.
“Inverse Falcon Peregrination, then ...
2025-09-02 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post