On the stage, Ling Qi smiled and bowed as her first song with Hanyi came to an end. They began the next song, and Ling Qi pondered what she had heard. The short snippet wasn’t much to go on. It a...
2021-05-24 21:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostWith Sixiang’s instruction and her ability to better tap into the flow of the qi at the Silent Stones, her refinements of the Phantasmagoria of Lunar Revelry art came easily to Ling Qi. The ways ...
2021-05-22 21:23:25 +0000 UTC View PostType:Worldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found on Discord in the Interlude Spoilers Channel
2021-05-22 21:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi centered herself as she viewed the world through the lens of spirit. She saw the whorls and eddies of qi that gathered in this place where the world was thin and the streaming curtains of s...
2021-05-20 20:35:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! First I'd like to thank you all very much for your support, continuing or otherwise. It's been great seeing that so many people value my work enough to pay each month or year.
Better Late than never Eh? Only two options and six days to vote this time since we're in a bit of a rush.
2021-05-19 17:58:07 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter: Ling Qingge, not RR friendly
Found on Discord in interlude Spoilers
2021-05-17 21:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi had secured an in. Wang Chao seemed to be in a pretty good mood so she suspected he’d be amenable to more weekly training sessions. But Ling Qi thought maybe she could push for more.
<... 2021-05-17 21:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Many thanks for your invitation,” Alingge said as she strolled with Ling Qi to the empty end of the training field they had decided on.
“It’s no trouble. I was surprised to see you h...
2021-05-15 19:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostThey spent a while longer at the archive, discussing lighter topics of cultivation and music. Ling Qi workshopped the songs she was intending to play at Lady Cai’s next gathering. Ruan Shen share...
2021-05-13 19:32:53 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how are things with your new spirit?” Ling Qi asked as she entered the archive with Yu Nuan.
Yu Nuan had changed since the last time she had seen her. Streaks of blue and white marke...
2021-05-10 21:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostType: Sidestory
Royal Road Friendly, found on Discord in Interlude spoilers.
2021-05-09 19:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi had a feeling that Bao Qian was out of his depth in some ways as well, though not as badly as her.
“I shall explain from the basics,” Bao Qian began. “Please inform me if I am s...
2021-05-09 00:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi almost, almost blurted out a denial and a change of subject. “That sounds fine,” she managed instead. “Did you have a place in mind?”
It happened so fast that she could have i...
2021-05-07 00:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting place they had decided on was out near the quarry site that they had investigated together shortly after Bao Qian’s arrival. When Ling Qi arrived, she found Bao Qian and his wagon par...
2021-05-03 19:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi skipped across the roiling ground, trailing a train of flickering images, ephemeral and dreamlike, in her wake. All around her, phantoms in dark and refined garb circled and danced in the m...
2021-05-02 02:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sect’s war footing was not immediately obvious here at the foot of White Cloud Mountain, at least, not if she wasn’t looking for it. The town guards had been supplemented by soldiers, and t...
2021-04-29 20:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was not a matter of figuring out what exercises her mother could physically handle, Ling Qi thought, but in figuring out what they could do that mother could repeat on her own and not end up get...
2021-04-26 21:48:25 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi watched the house servant who was leading her inside through a silver gleam in the fold of her gown. The young woman was a few years her elder, but nevertheless, her head was low, and the t...
2021-04-24 19:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi’s breath hitched as the first connection came loose. It felt like a needle had jabbed into her flesh and twisted, but she had endured worse. She smoothed out her breathing as she began to...
2021-04-23 00:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe Singing Mist Blade hummed in her grasp, its song quiet as she held it in front of her face, studying the curves of the metal and the uncountable characters finely etched into the curves of the ...
2021-04-19 23:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters: Xiao Fen, Liu Xin
RR Friendly. Found in Discord on Interlude Spoilers
2021-04-17 20:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m surprised to see that you are still here,” Ling Qi said as the door of the workshop closed behind her.
Bao Qian let out a good-natured harrumph, adjusting the glass monocle on his ...
2021-04-17 20:49:08 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi felt lighter in the days that followed her time with Sixiang. She had solved the problem, even if she still wasn’t wholly sure how, and her cultivation for the month was on schedule.
<... 2021-04-15 20:23:05 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi really was beautiful, Sixiang mused.
Their hands materialized from the waters, and their body followed. It might have been the form grandmother had made, but it was theirs now. Strayi...
2021-04-13 00:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostIt was different this time. Perhaps Sixiang had simply grown better at manipulating this place of dreams, or perhaps they were simply holding back less of the experience from her. In any case, Ling...
2021-04-10 23:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostSixiang’s expression grew somber, and despite herself, Ling Qi was aware of the handsome lines of the currently male muse’s face, not so far from her own.
“Is there really nothing else ...
2021-04-08 21:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi’s thoughts whirled, and she began to open her mouth to respond. She felt a sharp pain then, like someone grinding their heel into the top of her foot. She shot Meizhen a sharp look, but t...
2021-04-05 20:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter: Dong Fu (The carriage driver from chapter 1)
RR Friendly, found on Discord in Interlude Spoilers.
2021-04-03 22:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostTo any who might have seen them, Ling Qi was sure they would have seemed like a relaxed and lackadaisical sight. Zhengui’s hill lay shrouded in fog and mist, swirling around the rising columns of...
2021-04-03 22:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post