Elder Qin opened his eyes slowly as he stood up, feeling that it was time.
He'd been meditating for almost four days now, waiting in the darkness, but he felt it at last--the twine was broke...
2025-10-24 20:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostThese were days of silence and solace, I must say.
Ever since handing over the cultivation method, we barely spoke--only doing so perhaps once a day during the communal meals. For the remaind...
2025-10-23 21:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt happened yet again, Long Tao mused.
He'd found himself stunned into silence reading his Master's 'aunt's supposed inheritance--Enduring Eternity, the method was called, and, by some miracl...
2025-10-22 20:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post... so, how do I bring it up?
I mean, I've already kind of ousted myself--I'm fairly certain that at least Long Tao, Wan Lan, and even Lao Shun now, know that I'm not exactly just some rando...
2025-10-21 21:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostWe continued navigating the dark scape of the forest without light, all while one of us always had to also navigate the damn alchemist because he would not lift his head off the recipe. He...
2025-10-20 21:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostWe were finally leaving this damned place.
... but little changed, truth be told, as we still had to navigate the exact same situation, just without the threat of being attacked. We were dow...
2025-10-20 21:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostXing Feng's status window certainly changed quite a bit in the span of perhaps fifteen hours or so.
[Target: Xing Feng]
[Age: 10]
[Talent: Peak Heaven]
[Cultivatio...
2025-10-19 20:50:56 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao stared silently at his happily-snoring Master, turning his gaze over to the young boy next to him who was also happily snoring.
... it was impossible.
While changing one's tal...
2025-10-18 20:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe settled down inside the clearing as there was no way in hell we were leaving any time soon. Even if there weren't any more threats, we were tired, the kids were hurt (as was I, to be fair), and ...
2025-10-18 20:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt seemed as soon as the beast drew its last breath, the white haze began to dissipate.
It revealed a scorch little square with only two signs of life anywhere: one being the kid we were exp...
2025-10-17 21:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostThat thing...
It just spoke, right?
Oh my God, it just fucking spoke!
I whipped my head to the side where I saw everyone's faces adorned with the exact same expression: abject s...
2025-10-17 21:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao's gaze was hollow--there was neither anger nor pity contained therein, as though wind had swept all his emotions away.
The beast struggled, roaring and growling and whimpering, all ...
2025-10-16 20:51:16 +0000 UTC View PostHe was... handsome? I think?
Sharp jaw, thin, star-like eyes, with flat and low noise hanging over unhealthily blue lips. The head was resting against comically large paws, its eyes...
2025-10-15 21:03:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was dark.
Like, dark dark.
We were now using five lanterns to just barely light a foot of space around us, while I only had five more left in the spatial ring. Though I'd u...
2025-10-15 21:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostI've noticed more changes as we got deeper into the forest.
The first one was that our lanterns weren't lighting it up nearly as well. Whereas they used to give us a decent enough buffer when...
2025-10-14 20:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post"Aah, fine, we'll go..."
Those were the resolutely resounding words of our chief alchemist as he fell under the spell of peer pressure. Or, well, hardly peer as it was kid p...
2025-10-14 20:52:02 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao stared at me with a rather strange expression for a few movements before chuckling and leaving.
... what the hell?
Are their expressions not important? Am I reading too much i...
2025-10-13 20:57:34 +0000 UTC View Post"I was recruited just shy of six hundred years ago," the man began, squeezing words between his teeth. "At first, I was merely a sweeper. After a few years, I was tasked with collecting tithes of t...
2025-10-12 21:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao shot through the shadows, passing by the unsuspecting dozens as though he were a ghost. Paying them no mind, he focused on the distant flicker of energy, one that was desperately trying to...
2025-10-12 21:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the kids yammered on, I shifted my thoughts back to the reality of things: this is annoying.
Not only do we have to contend against the forest and its (many) mysteries, now the Sages h...
2025-10-11 20:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, so our resident Alchemist and the second most experienced and knowledgeable person here has absolutely no clue what it is.
Long Tao, even if he knows, doesn't seem likely to spill it...
2025-10-11 20:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post"AWWUAAAATTT!!"
Strange 'howls' (groans? growls? a mix of those, probably) echoed out throughout the forest at fairly predictable intervals. Sometimes they were deep and sonorous, sometimes ...
2025-10-10 20:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post"Words are... like desires," Rayce started off rather vaguely. "Practically anything can become a word. Of course, most never materialize into being useful. It's a trifold difficulty--stre...
2025-10-09 21:45:09 +0000 UTC View PostOur picturesque journey didn't last for particularly long--this tiny forest was truly just a tiny buffer between the civilization and just... darkness.
No, seriously.
It was <...
2025-10-09 21:43:32 +0000 UTC View Post"The way I understand it," I said, trying to somehow simplify my already simplistic understanding of how light functions. "How we see the world is a reflection of light. Think about it--how does th...
2025-10-08 20:46:41 +0000 UTC View PostShould I accept the quest?
As with most things in this world, I really don't know. I don't think the system would generate a quest that leads to wind and fairy dust--so, the garden l...
2025-10-08 20:46:15 +0000 UTC View PostWhile everyone was resting inside the tent, I stayed outside.
Partly for the fresh air and partly because I wanted to read the many windows in peace. I didn't immediately focus on them, thou...
2025-10-07 21:41:20 +0000 UTC View Post"Look at her."
Those were the first words he spoke to us before I could even ask him a question. Turning around, I nearly spat my throat out--there, writhing on the floor, wasn't a human...
2025-10-06 20:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostHuh.
We're really screwed, aren't we?
Positive spin on this is that she's just the nicest person ever and decided to save us out of the goodness of her heart. And, as much as t...
2025-10-06 20:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman certainly knew how to make an entrance, I'll give her that.
She also derailed my plans entirely as there was no way I can use the tortoise right now. Its existence is one of my bigg...
2025-10-05 20:22:54 +0000 UTC View Post