Haah.
I guess that the stitch is up, eh? Oh well. Seeing as they didn't attack us immediately, or even questioned us as we moved onward (only commenting that the carcasses were so damaged th...
2025-12-22 21:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostShuren hadn't really thought much of the strange group of kids since meeting them, save for the little cook that she grew to appreciate quite a bit. Though their talents might be decent for this co...
2025-12-21 22:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post... right.
System, hah. I could weep.
I don't know whether to be flattered that it thinks so highly of me it'd give me a quest whose FIRST leg of the journey is interacting with the mos...
2025-12-21 22:38:02 +0000 UTC View Post... this is it, right? The place Long Tao mentioned when we departed for this place, no? He explicitly mentioned that there was a Spirit Mine here once, but that a fight between cultivators buried ...
2025-12-20 21:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostOne thing that immediately jumped out about this place was that the night... was freakin' loud. Like, seriously, even through the tent's sound-isolating arrays that I could finally power u...
2025-12-20 21:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe path up the mountain started ordinary, but I immediately recognized that it wasn't going to be a quick or an easy one; the mountain itself was layered in how steep it was, going from almost nea...
2025-12-19 21:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostOur days hadn't changed much with the joining of the strange six; besides the kids not being able to train and spar properly, and having to put on little plays every time they did, the days remaine...
2025-12-18 21:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostI'm actually surprised they chose to join us.
Ever since we met them earlier today, I've been sitting on a bed of nails, worried. After all, it cost me 500 points just to glean part...
2025-12-17 21:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post"Three, are you done?"
"Just about, Boss."
"I told you not to call me that! He he."
"Haah. What's wrong with calling Boss a Boss?"
"Just listen to me for once."
"Pipe ...
2025-12-17 21:36:27 +0000 UTC View PostI've rarely seen Light smile, let alone laugh.
For a seven-year-old girl, she was this strange dichotomy; stern, boulder-ish stoicism, sarcastic beyond her years, drably apathetic... yet, any...
2025-12-16 21:37:11 +0000 UTC View PostThere's something I've been curious about ever since I learned the existence of 'Demonic Qi'. As I recall Elder Qin explaining it, it almost sounded like antimatter to matter, anti Qi to Qi. Not
All else aside, I'm a bit worried about achieving the 'perfect path'.
Though the system made it sound simple--prep these few innocent things, go to this totally normally-sounding place, and ...
2025-12-14 21:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post[Congratulations, Host, on creating the 'Heavenly Speed Steps' Movement Art]
... hmm.
Why does it sound kind of weird now that I'm reading it back? Are my naming sensibilities out of wh...
2025-12-13 21:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostMy first focus was on the movement art that Dai Xiu asked for.
I've watched her fight quite a few times now (quite a few times), and I can kind of understand what she means...
2025-12-13 21:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt looked like a stew, smelled like a stew, and tasted like a stew.
It was... beautiful.
Oh my God.
We have a cook! We have a proper, middle-of-the-road, nothing-special-but-very...
2025-12-12 21:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe new day started explosively--literally.
I rushed out of the tent as quickly as I could, thinking we were being attacked, only to be met by a sky-high plume of smoke, a charred fa...
2025-12-11 21:26:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Can, can the queen move like this?" while everyone dispersed to do whatever it is that they wanted to, I chose to teach Xing Feng how to play chess.
"Yes, she can," I said. "But why shouldn...
2025-12-10 21:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao was more flabbergasted at the moment than he had ever been before in his life. He poked and prodded the extra core with all his might, thinking that it was the Heaven's doing, but there wa...
2025-12-09 21:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness swelled around him as he stepped out onto the lake, his feet glancing against the unmoving water as he made his stride away from the shore.
The moon above was crescent, fading in an...
2025-12-09 21:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostLao Shun left the tent and made some distance between himself and it before pouring a touch of Qi into the small, toy-sized thing in his hands.
It abruptly flew out and turned suspended midai...
2025-12-08 21:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey along the lake's shores has been... dull, to say the least. Every day felt the same--so much so that I've been going a bit bad, to be honest.
It wasn't just the days that felt the...
2025-12-07 21:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostFire roared in vermilion colors, raging in sixteen concentric circles on top of a ashen-cast platform. At its highest, it rose up to nearly forty feet, like a towering blanket of death, yet it neve...
2025-12-07 21:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostVolume 5
Flames and Ashes
Water dripped rhythmically, almost like a song.
One by one, like notes of a melody weaving together a symphony--one that never stoppe...
2025-12-06 21:54:48 +0000 UTC View PostShe took the charge and led us to the city's outskirts, its northernmost end and beyond, where plains extended into a distant haze. The lake's water had calmed down, soft glimmer of the rising moon...
2025-12-05 21:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post... I'm a bit stumped. Well, not a bit--a lot stumped. As there was nothing for me to do when I came out, I decided to simply sit and go through the rewards once again, slowly inspecting t...
2025-12-05 21:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostThere were more windows to sort through, but I paused for a moment as I saw a reward that only I can use--a true rarity.
I took out the Blossoming Eternity from one of the spatial r...
2025-12-04 21:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post[--congratulations, Host. Your Disciples have achieved generational feats. Extra rewards have been generated]
[Congratulations, Host, on slaying the Heavenly Chosen. Extra rewards have been g...
2025-12-03 21:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostI stared down at the harshly mangled corpse of Lu Yawen, yet, despite missing both her arms, having both her knees bend in odd directions, and not one facial feature that wasn't utterly destroyed.....
2025-12-03 21:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of a chess piece hitting against the gilded board was quiet, yet the world around it was quieter still, causing it to echo.
It rippled outwards, as though tossing a pebble into a la...
2025-12-02 21:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao watched the light fade from the Sage's eyes, eyes shorn of grudge, hate, or anger. It was someone who accepted their demise, and willingly submitted to the darkness.
A rather rare e...
2025-12-02 21:42:51 +0000 UTC View Post