Twinned Destinies 41. The Ritual
no mantis by popular vote!
leopard was a little too subtle and sneaky, so
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Ruyi woke to a slow bo...
2023-09-05 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Twinned Destinies 40. On Guard (II)
AN: think I will try devoting Sundays to doing 1x a week of a more conventional litRPG cultivation story and try a 6x Twinned, 1x other thing schedule. Or possibly a 5x Twinned 2x ...
2023-09-04 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 39. On Guard (I)
They held a funeral for Mei in the Bakery’s front yard. Jin said it’s where she would’ve liked to be buried.
Mei didn’t have paintings of just herself hanging in the Bakery—she wasn...
2023-09-03 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 38. Neutralize (II)
She didn’t make it ten strides out the door before Jin landed in her path.
“Sis,” he said, voice low. “Slow down.”
“Get out of my way.”
“You have that look on your...
2023-09-02 16:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 37. Neutralize
Weeks later…
The Middle Wall split the round lands of Jade Dragon City in two, curved like the line between dark and light in a yin-yang. It split the Upper and Lower Citie...
2023-09-01 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 36. More Growing (II)
The Villa of Swords, which housed Li Family’s Jade Dragon branch, sat outside the city walls amid an artificial lake which drew its waters from the White River. Fingers of mist spread over the la...
2023-08-31 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 35. More Growing
Ruyi’s usual training clearing had been subject to a hostile takeover by a family of wild ferrets. They’d gnawed through half her ‘KEEP OUT!’ signpost. After a brief skirmish and a screamin...
2023-08-30 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 34. Necessary Evil (II)
Note:
Added this section to chapter 20, just after her demonification, to (hopefully) make her hiding seem a little more plausible—
‘She ordered body dyes from the ...
2023-08-29 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 33. Necessary Evil
Days later, there was still no reply from Sen.
Ruyi told herself not to panic. It’d come she told herself—she’d wrung herself dry worrying over Tingting’s letters, for nothing. She wa...
2023-08-28 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 32. Distance
She woke to a whiff of iron and salt. She cracked an eye. Her hunger was a low-pitched scream; she felt she could swallow an elephant and still be famished.
“Gluh?”
By the bed, pile...
2023-08-27 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 31. Attempt
Added to Ch. 27: “I would say,” he said at last. “The king of poisons. A poison so potent, so possessive, it even consumes other lesser poisons. Moon Serpent venom.”
...
2023-08-26 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies Chapter 30. Dragonspire Mountains (VII)
Sen was heavier than she looked, and she looked quite heavy. As she loaded the girl up on her back, Ruyi nearly fell over. Did she have lead for bones? The training boulders at home were much heavi...
2023-08-25 16:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 29. Dragonspire Mountains (VI)
Ruyi couldn’t move. She couldn’t think to move. She was stuck at the bottom of a vast sea of feeling, drowning, slowly crushed. She couldn’t breathe. She tried and tried but there was no spac...
2023-08-24 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies Chapter 28. Dragonspire Mountains (V)
Zhilei led them to the kind of cave you’d expect silly children to wander into and never come out; the kind of cave where bones crunched beneath your feet with every step. It looked like...
2023-08-23 16:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 27. Dragonspire Mountains (IV)
When they entered, Sen didn’t follow.
“Would you like to come in, Miss Li? I have some wonderful Oolong brewing,” said Zhilei.
“No,” said Sen. “I’ll stand guard. I’m to ...
2023-08-22 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 26. Dragonspire Mountains (III)
The carriage climbed up a winding rocky path. As they went higher the trees got thicker, bigger, their leaves narrower and narrower, until they looked like thousands of needles hanging off branches...
2023-08-21 16:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 25. Dragonspire Mountains (II)
A/N: power levels: (human)
Qi Condensation
Foundation
Core Formation
Nascent Soul
power levels (demon):
- Larval: equivalent to condensation... 2023-08-20 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Twinned Destinies 24. Dragonspire Mountains (I)
After Ruyi became a demon, her research output shot up.
She found she tired much less easily. When her mind was distracted, seized by an urge, she couldn’t think. But when it was quiet she ...
2023-08-19 16:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 23. Growing
When she got home, the first thing she did was pull Jin out of his evening spear practice.
“We need to talk.”
He was drilling the Nine Sun Rises, one of the signature Yang ...
2023-08-18 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 22. Arrangements (II)
Ruyi was right. Behind a grand wood desk sat the footman, smiling as genially as when he helped her off the carriage at the Banquet.
His smile froze on his face.
“It is you!...
2023-08-17 17:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostTwinned Destinies 21. Arrangements (I)
A/N: changing the story's name to either "twin destinies" or "twinned destinies" -- lmk which you think sounds better!
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Mei scrubbed the residue off the rest of her o...
2023-08-16 16:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 20. Testing
The ground ruptured under her feet; vines of stone lashed at her ankles. She yelped, stumbling over herself.
A Foundation aura bloomed behind her—that freckly little twig was at Foundat...
2023-08-15 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 19. ...And Alters Her Nature
Note: removed teeth mutations.
in chapter 10, when talking about the demon cult, Jin says, “I don’t agree with the idea of summoning demons to gain quick power” rather ...
2023-08-14 16:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 18. Second Banquet (II)
By the time dinner finished and the dancing began, she wasn’t shocked anymore.
Just furious.
Tingting wouldn’t meet her eyes. Not once did Tingting acknowledge her. Didn’t she des...
2023-08-13 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 17. Second Banquet (I)
So the trip did not go as planned.
She had fallen flat on her face. Physically, once. Metaphorically, the whole trip.
But she had it! Stored away and triple-locked in her fridge.
...
2023-08-12 16:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 16: The Underground (III)
The Underground was every bit as boorish and disgusting as Ruyi had imagined it.
On one side were tables of huddled gamblers, throwing up cards and coins, smoking so heavily they were shroude...
2023-08-11 16:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 15. The Underground (II)
They arrived in the Lower City late in the darkening evening.
The main street looked like a battlefield. The charming little shops had closed up early and wedged boards over their windows. Th...
2023-08-10 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 14: The Underground (I)
Ruyi led her to the lab. It had started off as this little dungeon in the ground, but over the years Ruyi had tacked centrifuges, smoke vents, and a tiny garden to the top for quick-and-dirty ingre...
2023-08-09 16:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13. The Codex (II)
A/N: edited the start of chapter 1
It's cleaner now I feel :)
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Two months before the Midsummer Banquet, Father gathered them at the dinner table.
“Marcu...
2023-08-08 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unknown Arts 12: The Codex
The Codex felt like a bomb sitting in her satchel. Yet each time she tried to read it the letters slipped through her head. It was clear no work was getting done that night.
She couldn’t se...
2023-08-07 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post