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Pandora Unchained - B1C1: The Evil Called Hope


The basis of cultivation is that human potential is unlimited. By unlocking that potential at the various cultivation stages, we inferior humans can bridge a portion of the gap sep...

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PtM Hiatus and New Series: Pandora Unchained

Hello Everyone,

I've been dragging my heels on this, but it's time to come clean: I need a break from Painting the Mists. An extended break. I've been burnt out from the series for two years...

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PtM 18 Content Removed

 Hey Everyone,

As usual, the latest book's content has been removed to stay compliant with KU. If you've subscribed as a Patron and weren't able to access the ePub and mobi files on tim...

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PtM 18 - Planesfall ePub/Mobi

Hey Everyone,

As promised, I just uploaded the mobi and epubs for Painting the Mists 18 - Planesfall. Please let me know if either file isn't working, or if you'd like another format.
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PtM 18 - Epilogue


The void was a cold and merciless place, filled with deadly spatial storms and vortexes and predatory creatures. Only saint-level cultivators could travel the void, and even then, it was...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 44: Planesfall


The airspace above the planar core was a broken mess of ink, the five elements, and spatial glass. Giant rifts that were 5,000 kilometers long threatened to punish the six combatants f...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 43: What Lies at the Center


Ink and paint mixed with the blood of demons as they fought and sacrificed and killed. Eventually, even the strongest of them could no longer endure, and joined their brethren as corpses...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 42: The Great Severing


Black and white sand swept across Huxian’s meditating figure at the center of the Ba Desert Sea. It was a tug of war between yin and yang as both sought to devour him and regain the ...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 41: The Fifth Soul


Balancing the will and authority of the Five-Point Monarchs came easily to Cha Ming. With his help, the Five-Point Monarchs were able to speed up their conquest of the planar core. Dao o...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 40: Competing Authorities

So I've decided to release Book 18 around a week from now. I'm going to set up the preorder right away - but only after I speed post the last chapters.

Expect an ePub and mobi file...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 39: Plots and Schemes


The world behind the door was an expanse of shallow water, ankle deep and inky black. It stretched out hundreds of kilometers in every direction and was as calm as a mirror’s surface. ...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 38: Meeting with the Witch

I have my proofread manuscript back. After a bit of back and forth, I'll format the ePub / Mobi and post it. 

Since release is imminent.... I'll post another chapter right after this one...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 37: What is Dao?

So I'm going to go ahead and commit to four chapters this week. Enjoy ^^.

An update on PtM 19 - it's at 45% of draft 1. If all goes well, we'll have a 1 month break on Patreon and re...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 36: Mount Dao Seeker

3/3 this week.

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The painted world contained landscapes that mirrored both the transcendent and immortal dimensions. There were deserts, forests, jungles, and even entire seas. And rig...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 35: The West Sea Sect’s Inheritance

2/3 this week. Posting another chapter just after this one.

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A wave of teleportation energy swept past Cha Ming and friends as they passed through the entrance to the Gallery. Elder Y...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 34: The Gallery

1/3 this week.

And welcome to all new patrons! Don't forget to integrate Patreon with discord to get access to the patreon spoilers channel!

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Unlike Serrendil and Silver Fish,...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 33: Karmic Tampering

Progress is being made. The website is back up at www.paintingthemists.com. There's links to all sorts of social media an...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 32: Returning to Yin and Yang

1/2 long chapters this week. As for this chapter... well... there is as discord server to let out your feelings.

https://disco...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 31: Inside the Realm Ship

2/2 this week!

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A suffocating feeling assaulted Cha Ming the moment he crossed the spatial node and entered the Starry Road’s compressed dimension. What had once been a wondrous rai...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 30: The Importance of Deities

Two chapters again this week! This one is short, but the next one is long.

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Two weeks later, Cha Ming was sitting in a cave at the center of the Dragon Metal Realm, pondering the wond...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 29: Conquest

2/2 this week!

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The Dragon Metal Realm was an extremely stable pocket realm, and its laws were of an extremely high level. Cha Ming was curious about how this could be the case, so he...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 28: The Dragon Metal Realm

Once again, only two longer chapters this week.

1/2

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Adjacent the Inkwell Plane and affixed to the Dragon Vein Mountains existed a wondrous world of wonder and metal. This place...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 27: Kingdom of Rust and Ruin

2/2 this week!

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The entrance to through the Dragon Vein Mountains ran deep underground, through a tunnel that burrowed metal and stone and rivers of magma. It was a veritable labyrint...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 26: Rescue

Two longer chapters this week. Moving went well ^^.

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A week’s time wasn’t enough for Cha Ming to fully recover, but given Serrendil’s situation, he could only rush the process. ...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 25: And Old Friend

3/3 this week!

Cha Ming woke to the ticking of an old clock. Mould was the predominant smell in the tiny bedroom he found himself in. New clock, he thought. But old, peeling pain...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 24: The Ruined Bridge

I'm moving tomorrow, so 2 chapters today! 2/3

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It took three days to paint Carnage, and in that time, Cha Ming’s ship reached a boundary just outside the East Branch of the Inky Sea...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 23: A New Path

Three chapters again this week. 1/3.

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Spatial waves slapped across the hull of Cha Ming’s twenty-three-winged ship as it cut through the void between continents. It stuck to the edg...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 22: Territory Battle

3/3 from last week. Another chapter coming right up!

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Beneath the fiftieth floor of the Santana Dungeon lay a large cavern measuring a thousand kilometers across and half as deep. It ...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 21: The Final Floor

2/3 this week!

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With the assistance of his friends, Huxian was able to greatly accelerate his conquest of the Santana Dungeon. Three floors fell in less than an hour, and by the end o...

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PtM 18 - Chapter 20: Descent

3 shorter chapters this week. Once again, all Huxian. I decided to group them all up together to deepen the immersion. Don't worry, Cha Ming will come back, and with fewer interuptions than ever! View Post