“What was it you were saying about convergent development?” Ling Qi redirected the conversation. “I’m not very familiar with the more advanced fields of formations.”
“Fortress for...
2022-03-26 18:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi sat quietly on the far left side of the slowly filling seats in the testing hall, the picture of a proper young lady getting some soft meditation in while waiting for the qualifying tests o...
2022-03-24 23:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I would like to know more of the Meng,” Ling Qi decided. “I have made my contacts, and maybe even an ally, but they are just too opaque to me.”
“Unsurprising. They are an old clan ...
2022-03-21 23:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi looked down at the rings filling up for the second round of the preliminaries with mild interest. In this set, there were even fewer people who she knew by name.
Han Fang and Ma Jun w...
2022-03-19 22:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt felt strange to be among the audience rather than down on the field, Ling Qi thought, moving to take her seat in the Duchess’ observation box. It was set high in the stands, overhanging the lo...
2022-03-17 22:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi listened as Cai Renxiang and the ambassador continued to trade pleasantries and small talk with Xia Lushen and Meizhen sometimes cutting in. She did wish she could just chat with her friend...
2022-03-14 23:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post
What it says in the title folks, the first edited and novelized section of Threads of Destiny is now available!
2022-03-12 20:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bai delegation’s arrival point was less attention catching than the grand pavilion being set up by the Cai but no less ostentatious. A coach house worth of carriages and black furred horses t...
2022-03-12 20:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Our itinerary is set then,” Cai Renxiang said. Ling Qi was familiar enough with her liege to detect the satisfaction in her cool voice.
“Well and truly organized, my lady,” Ling Qi s...
2022-03-11 00:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe first strike would be with the blade of the ninth sword law, striking at the intersection of Discipline and Pride where untempered ego rotted the roots of the General’s Sovereignty. Piercing ...
2022-03-08 01:17:15 +0000 UTC View PostHer conception of power was too small. Flashing light and shattering cold were obvious, but in the end, power was the ability to change the world around her. And while violence was the easiest and ...
2022-03-05 23:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostAs she left in the afternoon, she found herself standing outside the gates, looking up at the sky. They’d positioned and inscribed the sculptures Zhengui had already made and twisted the flows of...
2022-03-04 01:38:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe garden had turned out well, Ling Qi thought. Thankfully, the rest of Hanyi’s tour had been much less stressful. Traveling a circuit of the valley viscounty, she had the opportunity to speak w...
2022-03-01 02:41:17 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi and the spirit stood there for a moment as the faint strains of music echoed through the dream. She gave a terse nod. The spirit’s liquid avatar spasmed in a way resembling a bow. With a ...
2022-02-27 02:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostChao Yanlin stared at her, and Ling Qi squared her shoulders, meeting the older woman’s gaze. Finally, the priestess said, “You cannot be serious. I have heard of your expertise. Surely, you co...
2022-02-24 23:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1
The Argent Pea
2022-02-23 21:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostPhoenix Home stretched out before Gu Xiulan.
Once, before the cataclysm, it had been the summer palace of the Lu. A great sprawling complex built upon an artificial hill, overlooking some of ...
2022-02-23 21:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Baroness Ling.” Her target, Baron Suo, turned to her as she approached. Her initial impression held; he had a genial sort of air. His robes were well embroidered but not gaudy, an...
2022-02-21 21:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostShe continued her descent, keeping her eye on the flicker of green that she had spotted. It helped to focus on a goal, rather than descending without purpose. It kept her thoughts running in the co...
2022-02-20 01:14:47 +0000 UTC View PostIn her hands, the compass was aglow, casting light on her face, but Ling Qi didn’t notice at first because there, at the end of an long open hall that descended into the face of the debris mounta...
2022-02-14 22:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostThey landed without a sound on the crumbling courtyard in front of it, and Ling Qi found her eyes wandering to the withered trees and gardens. There was a deep melancholy here beyond the associatio...
2022-02-12 20:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be no update this Thursday or Friday due to a medical appointment updates will resume Saturday.
2022-02-11 02:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi looked out over crumbling foundations and a single standing cherry tree. Here was the place where the three moons, or their avatars at least, had come to her nearly a year ago now to take h...
2022-02-11 02:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post“What were the dream cults anyway?” Ling Qi asked, considering the idol. “I keep hearing about them in passing but never any mention of what they actually did.”
“My own...
2022-02-08 03:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostIts been some time so as a reminder, new writing comissios go up on Discord in the Interlude Spoilers channel almost every weekend. You can check out the newest, the latest in the romance Sidestory...
2022-02-07 01:23:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe hidden doorway led into a crumbling escape tunnel supported by wooden beams. Formation arrays designed to hide the space from outside search marked the tunnel’s arches. Sending her wisps flit...
2022-02-06 05:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe old manor lay deeper in the forested hills, whatever ground which may have once surrounded it long reclaimed by nature. Her first glimpse of the building itself had come through one of the wink...
2022-02-04 01:24:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Little enough, he has a message for my father from his clan’s…leadership. Other than that I only know what all know,” Gu Xiulan replied carefully. Of course that was the trouble with the Z...
2022-02-02 22:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostCultivation consumed Ling Qi’s days in the wake of her work with Zhengui. After the expedition and the flurry of activity that followed, it felt good to take some time to herself and simply grow ...
2022-01-31 22:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostLeaning back against Zhengui’s side, Ling Qi listened to the beat of his hearts. It was a strange sound, a subaudible rumble that belied his shrunken mass. If Ling Qi closed her physical senses a...
2022-01-29 19:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post