The walk toward the bridge and over was unsettling, to say the least. I could feel the pessimistically apologetic eyes of an old man uncerta
The walk toward the bridge and over was unsettling...
2025-06-28 15:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostLight insisted on holding my hand (well, my finger, really) as we descended the mountain, and I obliged. There truly was something magical
Light insisted on holding my hand (well, my finger, ...
2025-06-28 15:10:42 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao's words... shook me. And no matter how desperately I tried denying them... they were like a cockroach, surviving whatever damn hell
Long Tao's words... shook me. And no matter how de...
2025-06-27 16:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostAbout ten days after he left, Long Tao returned. It was actually a bit faster than I thought. Originally, I anticipated that he'd be gone a
About ten days after he left, Long Tao returned. It...
2025-06-27 16:01:40 +0000 UTC View PostDays fluttered by like leaves in the wind. Okay, my rather poor attempt at poetry aside, they sure do not fly when you've got almost nothing
Days fluttered by like leaves in the wind. Okay, m...
2025-06-27 16:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post"What's your name?" Long Tao asked, taking a bite of a recently cooked rabbit leg. The captured old man was sitting politely on his knees,
"What's your name?" Long Tao asked, taking a bite of...
2025-06-26 14:36:42 +0000 UTC View PostXi Zhao was actually rather skillful, as it turned out, at making tea. In fact, he was even better than Dai Xiu. However, there was still o
Xi Zhao was actually rather skillful, as it turned ...
2025-06-26 14:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostSo, with a lot of sudden free time on my hand, I decided to make something for my very new disciple, Xi Zhao. Namely, I decided to dabble a
So, with a lot of sudden free time on my hand, I de...
2025-06-26 14:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, hope you're having a great day ^^
A quick question: which style of the map do you prefer? The simpler one or a height-map based one?
I'd been playing around in Gaea2 the past...
Desolate Cliffs truly lived up to their name, Long Tao mused ever so briefly. Jagged rock arose in conjoined spires, jutting out against the
Desolate Cliffs truly lived up to their name, Long...
2025-06-25 18:17:02 +0000 UTC View Post"I'll think about it," those were Elder Qin's parting words as he left, rather grim-faced, leaving me wondering whether I'd made the right decision.
It was one thing to fight for my disciples...
2025-06-25 18:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt truly ended with the proclamation that the cauldron exploded.
Look, I may be a bit stupid, and I may not have a working knowledge of this world, but I know for a fact that wasn't a cauldr...
2025-06-24 15:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostElder Zhang carefully unfurled the small parchment that was tied to a Firebird. It was eight familiar symbols that he memorized before burning the paper and killing the bird, swallowing its corpse ...
2025-06-24 15:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post"I lost again," Elder Qin sighed, his eyebrows pressed together in thought as to how he lost so quickly.
I'll give you an answer--he sucks. Oh my God, he sucks so bad. He's worse tha...
2025-06-24 15:06:23 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone slowly emerged from wherever they were hiding, joining me as the audience. Dai Xiu seemed a bit concerned, but others... yeah, they were here just for a good show.
"When you're plun...
2025-06-23 16:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe man who so boldly called me out stood centered at the peak, facing the entrance of my house, escorted by a pair of mean-mugging kids. His face was... vaguely familiar--no, wait, isn't that the ...
2025-06-23 16:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostCalm returned once more to Lonesome Peak.
I'm actually considering the name change as it could hardly be called 'Lonesome' anymore. I mean, yeah, compared to other peaks it still is,...
2025-06-23 16:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post
An in-world rough map of the immediate area surrounding the Spirit Sword Sect. Will expand it as the world opens up & detail it a bit more once I can muster up enough patience to boot up 'Wonde...
2025-06-22 19:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post[Congratulations, Host, on creating 'Tethers of Neverwhere' Special Art]
... wait, that's actually kind of... cool?
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[Tethers of Neverwhere]
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2025-06-22 13:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post--so, that cloaking art.
As soon as Elder Qin left, I retired into my bedroom yet again, setting shot atop the demonstrably uncomfortable bed (I swear, I will have to revolutionize the indust...
2025-06-22 13:26:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind turned oddly cold as I stepped out of the hall and into the open.
The thin branches of the nearby trees bent and swayed, lulled by the invisible force. And I... I felt a bit choked....
2025-06-21 14:43:34 +0000 UTC View PostAlarm bells rang at the crack of around 4 P.M.
It was my first time hearing them but Lu Qi's memories did have a few instances of them ringing. They were remarkably loud, al...
2025-06-21 14:43:03 +0000 UTC View PostHmm.
Allow me a moment to catch you up, and explain why there is currently a boy bending halfway to the ground in front of him, arms like arrows pinned to his sides, wind gently billowing hi...
2025-06-21 14:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostAh, home sweet home!
It still looks like someone sneezed it out of a pus-filled putrid nostril, but it's the only one I've got. It was well past the evening by the time we returned as I actua...
2025-06-20 18:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao left after about six seconds give or take, his tiny frame appearing as I exhaled in relief.
He crossed over the bridge, seeming as apathetic as ever--
Son of a bitch, he broke...
2025-06-20 18:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostWinds whipped against his clothes as soon as he stepped on the insular island. Long Tao craned his neck and looked at the vast majesty of churning Qi, a bit stunned. He'd seen many things in his li...
2025-06-19 13:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostSo, remember how I was envious about the climb? And the richness of the mountain slope?
Yeah. I am apparently quite preemptive about things, as I should have saved all my seething, all my jea...
2025-06-19 13:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostA new dawn came and with it a new visitor--Spirit Sage's servant here to whisk away the pair of my disciples for one of their awards: Antechamber.
Back when I proposed the bet to Elder Qin a...
2025-06-19 13:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post"Uhm," I tried pretending to stutter, but truth be told, I was still proper terrified so I just... stuttered, no pretending needed. "I'm sorry. That was insensitive of me."
"..." she...
2025-06-18 20:06:23 +0000 UTC View PostLight, or whatever her name is, wasn't much of a talker.
She wasn't much of an anything really; for the remainder of the day, she stayed in the corner, whipping books out one after a...
2025-06-18 20:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post