“I’m sure the God-Emperor would be a master of any discipline he set himself to, in theory. Lady Long Xiaofan surely didn’t mean to suggest anything untoward.”
Yoshika’s words didn...
2024-12-06 17:47:57 +0000 UTC
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Over a century before Lee Jia was born, Seong Heiran left her mark on the world. In Yamato, she was relatively unknown—at the time, there was a great deal of infighting as the Ienaga clan slowly ...
2024-12-04 17:52:55 +0000 UTC
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Yoshika thought she’d be more nervous about the summit gathering, but once she stood before the leaders of the world, its fate hanging in the balance, she had no nerves to hide. A calm washed ove...
2024-12-02 18:47:34 +0000 UTC
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The parties had all gathered—backroom meetings met, deals struck, schemes plotted. Everything was in order, and even if Yoshika were of a mind to procrastinate—and she was not—the assembly of...
2024-11-29 17:48:47 +0000 UTC
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The emissary of the southern isles arrived without announcement or fanfare. She simply appeared one day, as though she had been there all along. Disconcertingly, nobody noticed Long X...
2024-11-27 17:47:27 +0000 UTC
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Chunhua silently held Jia’s gaze throughout the entire retelling of Yoshika’s confrontation with Yan De. Ancestors, she even listened intensely. Once Jia was finished, she sat bac...
2024-11-25 20:25:27 +0000 UTC
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Intense. That was the only word to describe Long Chunhua. She had a weight to her presence and aura that belied her nature as a houtian cultivator. Yoshika wondered if she’d been holding...
2024-11-22 19:12:40 +0000 UTC
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The Awakening Dragon delegation was the last to arrive, despite their territory sharing a border with that of the Flowing Purewater. The Heavenly Empire of Qin was enormous, and the Awakening Drago...
2024-11-20 18:48:07 +0000 UTC
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As much as Jia hated politics, half a decade as the head of two—now three—states meant that she’d gotten used to it. Qin politics, however, were a class of their own, and she was end...
2024-11-18 19:57:51 +0000 UTC
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“You know, Shun, when you told us that you spoke personally to the Empress during your imprisonment, I assumed that meant that you’d exchanged a few words—not that you were a close enough con...
2024-11-15 18:13:56 +0000 UTC
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When the representatives of Qin’s southern sects arrived, it was with an army. A provocative message, but it didn’t escape Yoshika’s notice that it included every single prisoner she’d take...
2024-11-13 18:27:19 +0000 UTC
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The summit was fast approaching, which really meant that it had already begun. As Yue had taught Yoshika, the majority of the negotiation would happen behind closed doors and in private meetings ra...
2024-11-11 18:12:40 +0000 UTC
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Though the conversation with Jung had been enlightening, Yoshika’s next steps were hardly easy. For a start, Jia replaced Kaede in Qin. She was going to start things over with Dae. He was one of ...
2024-11-08 19:28:04 +0000 UTC
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Of every person who Yoshika respected as a teacher or mentor, Lee Jung was by far the youngest, but she’d always had a maturity that belied her actual age. She’d needed to. Growing up, Jia reme...
2024-11-06 19:52:58 +0000 UTC
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Yoshika felt awful. First she’d hurt Dae in a misguided attempt to encourage him, then Yue by fleeing from a moment of genuine vulnerability. The problem, she realized, was that she’d made the ...
2024-11-04 18:22:58 +0000 UTC
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Yue bustled from place to place, making arrangements for the upcoming summit. She was harried, stressed, and very much in her element as she attended meetings with the Grandmasters of the Great Spi...
2024-11-01 16:51:54 +0000 UTC
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The Sovereign’s Tear was a divine relic unlike any other. It was, by the reckoning of the most powerful beings in the divine realm, in fact a demiurge relic—a remnant of the incom...
2024-10-30 18:35:38 +0000 UTC
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It was hard, sometimes, for Hyeong Daesung not to feel like an imposter. Ever since Goryeo joined the Jiaguo empire, he’d been granted the title of Grand Magus, and no matter how much he was assu...
2024-10-28 17:57:58 +0000 UTC
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Yoshika did not take Fang Shi up on his offer to swear fealty to Jiaguo. It wasn’t her intention to awe them into aligning with her, and she reiterated that her gifts were given freely. It didn...
2024-10-25 18:26:33 +0000 UTC
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Elder Fang’s home was a humble little place, set apart from other houses only by the enormous oak tree overshadowing it. The tree was so ancient that only the poor spiritual energy in the valley ...
2024-10-23 15:46:30 +0000 UTC
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She had known it was over the moment she saw the mighty grandmaster. Fang Xiu did not know, precisely, who Yan De was—her husband did not like to speak of his past, and she did not press him. It ...
2024-10-21 18:24:51 +0000 UTC
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Amidst all the excitement following what people were already calling ‘the battle at Kucheon,’ one man sat forgotten. Not that he could really blame them—Jiaguo’s citizenry, especially in it...
2024-10-18 17:02:53 +0000 UTC
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While Yue, Lin Xiulan, and the rest of Yoshika’s more socially and politically minded agents busied themselves to prepare for the upcoming peace talks, Yoshika brought together a gathering of the...
2024-10-16 17:56:05 +0000 UTC
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With the summit arranged, Jiaguo left their captured prisoners in Sun Quan’s care and then the battle was over. Qin was still at war, but they had an uneasy truce, at least until then. Yoshika in...
2024-10-14 16:21:34 +0000 UTC
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When it became clear that it was not going to be a short conversation, Yoshika invited them all to meet in Kucheon. Not the city proper, mind, but still within the shield formation. More specifical...
2024-10-11 18:19:13 +0000 UTC
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So many things were happening at once that it was difficult to keep track. First, Empress Yoshika’s appearance. At first, Gao thought it was an opportunistic attack, trying to take advantage of t...
2024-10-09 17:47:23 +0000 UTC
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Jianmo had once confided in Yoshika that even their indestructible sword form—forged by the fires of Sovereign Chou’s hatred to withstand the element of Destruction, and tempered by souls consu...
2024-10-07 17:35:46 +0000 UTC
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In the war between Yan De’s faith in his allies, and confidence in his own strength there could only ever be one conclusion. The seal around Yoshika shattered like glass, and the surrounding elde...
2024-10-04 18:06:00 +0000 UTC
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Yue had never really known her father. Once her younger brother was born, he left for closed door meditation and didn’t return until sixteen years later—when her brother died. Yet she and Zhiha...
2024-10-02 18:30:43 +0000 UTC
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Yan De, Yan Ren, Bai Renshu, Sun Quan, and Qian Shi—each of them at the level of a sect grandmaster, including Yan Ren who had once survived an encounter with the Demon Lord’s avatar. They surr...
2024-09-30 19:22:47 +0000 UTC
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