"How'd you do that?!" there it was, the question that had no answer.
Well, it had an answer, just not a good one.
The young woman's eyes shone like stars as she crouched down to meet Li...
2025-07-26 21:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post"Pfft," somebody snorted almost as soon as I stopped talking.
I glanced over and saw a young, inconspicuous-looking woman shift her head sideways, though the jumping shoulders still betrayed ...
2025-07-25 20:54:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe forest is rather beautiful, I must say.
But also rather daunting.
Without Wan Lan to guide us, I was beyond certain I'd have gotten us lost. Whenever she pointed out a 'landmark', i...
2025-07-25 20:54:26 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't gone hiking much back on Earth, and never into the actual wilderness. It was usually well-trodden hike trails with clear signs of human touch. One thing above all, however, that ...
2025-07-24 20:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostI found myself... drifting. Kind of half-asleep and half-lucid state.
I know I've passed out, and that I'm lying somewhere in the forest, possibly snoring, and yet, I can't pull myse...
2025-07-24 20:35:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Duan Luoyang stepped out of the void rather gracefully and invisibly, his sharp, azure-blue eyes immediately focusing on ashes and dust where there used to be trees.
He'd felt it, just ...
Long Tao stared at the happily snoring face of his Master.
Every time he exhaled, the mustache would flutter like leaves in the wind, making for a rather comic appearance. Furthermore, it see...
2025-07-23 20:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt is rather difficult to describe the sensation of feeling my hands catch fire. They weren't literally ablaze, no, as the man's attack never reached quite that far, but my brain, blinded ...
2025-07-22 20:15:28 +0000 UTC View PostSo, thirteen or so men (and one woman) had encircled the exit of the tunnel. Their backs were facing a forest of trees, behind us was a slight hillside that then fell back down into a town wall, an...
2025-07-22 20:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe remaining day passed by rather quickly and uneventfully.
The town calmed down for the most part and the rumors returned to being largely about the two fallen sects and the rising number o...
2025-07-21 21:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe atmosphere was... well, it was freakin' awkward.
It made sense, though, if you think about it. While Madame Lu may see Light as some herald and such, to Wan Lan she's just some r...
2025-07-21 21:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in a few days, I sat drinking my beal in quiet calm. Every previous time was addled with a level of anxiety toward learning something new or discovering a potential guide. Howeve...
2025-07-20 20:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe old woman's expression was rather comedic--eyes widened, lips opened into a circle, jaw hanging, the usual. Light, on the other hand, remained expressionless, taking a sip of water--same as me....
2025-07-19 20:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostRumors abound as soon as the gash in the sky closed up, and I learned within seconds who the likely 'culprit' behind it is: the town's chief, titular Raging Bull.
Huh.
I guess I finally...
2025-07-19 20:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post"Hm," I mulled over the assortment of things the kids have picked up in the past six days.
There were mostly colored textiles--silk, wool, linen, some cotton, and something that looked 2025-07-18 20:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Long night fell, the shadows curving as though light phased thorough a membrane on its way down.
Long Tao recognized it as it was one of the 'features' that a lot of low-level large-scale for...
2025-07-18 20:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostHow do you recruit a former Demonic Cultivator that holds half the town 'hostage'?
Slowly, I imagine.
It's not like I can just walk up to her and go 'Hey, wanna join the Crusade of Mons...
2025-07-17 18:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostYou know, it only dawned on me when I found myself adrift the masses, crowding the seeming central square of the town, that this was my first time being alone. Like, alone alone. ...
2025-07-17 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostI already missed just having a certainty of a house on a peak where nobody asked me for any money to stay there, to be honest. But what was I to do? Reject her? No. We needed a place, even if for j...
2025-07-16 20:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't change our direction even after getting the news of the Spiritwood Grove; rather than aimlessly heading northeast, where the region's largest forest was located, we continued north and ca...
2025-07-16 20:50:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe bandit's story was... well, lengthy would be one word to use. In part because there truly was a lot that happened, but also in part beca
The bandit's story was... well, lengthy w...
2025-07-15 21:17:55 +0000 UTC View PostEver since Long Tao's not-so-subtle 'foreshadowing', as it were, I've grown a bit... paranoid. I jumped at every shadow--not that there were
Ever since Long Tao's not-so-subtle 'foreshadowing...
2025-07-15 21:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe actually stayed in the shade of the tree for three days total while Long Tao, essentially, beat the basics into them. I had to admit...
We actually stayed in the shade of the tree for thre...
2025-07-14 19:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostLooking at my Creation Points, I've got 360. No scope! Ugh. I'm still limited to just 100 points per art, which means that the limit is incr
Looking at my Creation Points, I've got 360. No sc...
2025-07-14 19:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostTo catch you up really quickly, the appearances they chose to take up on are rather... well, I don't want to say predictable, but they're pr
To catch you up really quickly, the appearances th...
2025-07-13 18:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostWe ran until my lungs were numb and my legs felt chained by weights. The sloped, rugged terrain of the mountain slowly shifted to the fores
We ran until my lungs were numb and my legs felt ch...
2025-07-13 18:15:57 +0000 UTC View PostHua appeared within the deep underground, enduring the sonorous songs of death coming from far above as he sped through the tunnel. He had
Hua appeared within the deep underground, enduring t...
2025-07-12 17:25:31 +0000 UTC View PostHis soul was shaking, he realized. Under the weight of something ethereal, something that could not be grasped, he found himself small. An a
His soul was shaking, he realized.
Under the...
2025-07-12 17:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe tunnel I found myself in was rather long, dark, and cold. No, not cold. Not it. It rather seems that... I am cold. You know that tinglin
The tunnel I found myself in was rather long, dark...
2025-07-12 17:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Sorry for a late (and only) chapter.
Power went out in the middle of writing/editing and corrupted the 99th (and it's like just past midnight here for me) chapter.
Rat...
2025-07-11 22:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post