Commission: Sparks
Characters: Gu Xiulan and Li Suyin
Not RR Friendly.Found on Discord.
2020-12-11 22:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Threads Patron preview Chapter 30 (Red+)
It was a little unsettling, Ling Qi found, to be looking at herself from multiple angles. To study and analyze her own appearance and aura with supernatural precision. To see the hairs that were out of place, the imperfections in the subtle applications of her cosmetics, and the unsteadiness and minute errors in the flows of her qi.
Yet turning those lines of visions outward, she couldn’t help but feel that it - and the work she had put in to clear some meridians for the art - was wor...
2020-12-10 21:53:14 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron preview Chapter 29(Red+)
That night wouldn’t be the last time she tarried longer at home, Ling Qi promised herself, but for the moment, it would have to do. She would have to change some of her plans and half-formed schedules, but she believed that she could accomplish her goals and spend more time at tasks aside from cultivation. Her liege certainly managed, even if she was starting to strain under the workload.
This reminded Ling Qi that she had never actually asked just what all that paperwork she...
2020-12-07 21:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron preview Chapter 28 (Red+)
Ling Qi was not able to cultivate as much as she would have liked that night, even though with her new rank, she had moved to a new residence with a better argent vent than before with the start of the fourth month. She knew it was her own fault for putting off preparations for this though.
By the time the sun had risen the next day, the proper forms had been filled out, permits paid for, and permissions granted to rent out a carriage that could navigate the rough hilly and wooded terra...
2020-12-05 22:31:19 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 27 (Red+)
For a long moment, silence reigned in the bedroom. Ling Qi could feel the turmoil in her mother’s thoughts. There was fear for Ling Qi, a helpless and directionless anger, and many other conflicting emotions. What emerged from that emotional morass, however, was resolve.
“Was there something in that storm worth risking your life for?” her mother asked, drawing her attention back.
“Absolutely,” Ling Qi answered immediately. “The spirit of the mountain was my teacher. Mo...
2020-12-03 21:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron preview Chapter 26 (Red+)
“Well, you’ve had quite an ordeal, haven’t you?” Xin asked rhetorically with a sigh, withdrawing her faintly glowing hand from Ling Qi’s forehead. “The entropic qi still left in your channels is assimilating nicely.”
Ling Qi wasn’t entirely sure what “entropic” meant, but it seemed to resonate oddly in her ears. Given context, it was some form of toxic qi. She was just glad for the examination to be over. Xin stood over Ling Qi, who sat upon a treatment table in one ...
2020-11-30 23:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostE-Book and Audiobook up for pre-order
Hello there folks, I want to thank everyone who has supported me so far again. As of today I will be publishing the first section of Forge of Destiny in E-book format. In addition, in cooperation with Podium Audio, forge of destiny will be receiving the professional audiobook treatment. Links to the store pages are below.
Threads Patron Preview Chapter 25 (Red+)
“... ter! Big Sister!”
<C’mon, Qi, don’t do this to me. Wake up! Wake up! This isn’t your dreams,> Sixiang begged her.
Ling Qi shook her head violently, and the blizzard resolved itself again before her eyes. She felt so tired and cold. “... Hanyi? Sixiang…?”
“I thought I saw Mama, and she looked scary, and then you stopped moving,” Hanyi babbled, clutching her neck tightly.
<I dunno about Zeqing, but you just froze up. It was like there wa...
2020-11-28 22:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 24(Red+)
Ling Qi swiftly reached the end of the hall, flitting from shadow to shadow as she raced for the door that lay at its end. The handle turned easily under her hand, and the door flew open, leaving her face to face with a confused looking Hanyi.
“Ling Qi? What’s wrong?” the little spirit asked, her face screwed up in concern. “Papa said that Mama needed to talk to him. Mama never talks to Papa!” she babbled, her words coming out in a rush. “And - and - the house is shaking, an...
2020-11-27 00:30:27 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 23 (Red+)
Zeqing’s home had never seemed so dark, Ling Qi thought nervously.
For once, no one had come to greet her when she arrived on the mountaintop. There was only the wind and the dancing snowflakes. Her mentor’s home huddled darkly on its foundations like an image from an old tale. Its shutters were closed, and shadow lay deeply under its eaves despite the bright noonday sun shining overhead.
And it was so very cold. Ling Qi shivered, rubbing her arms as she approached, footsteps ...
2020-11-23 22:06:17 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 22 (Red+)
“We begin now the challenge between Disciple 812, Ling Qi, and Disciple 790, Liang He.” The presiding elder was a short, rotund man with a wide, friendly face, a faint golden sheen to his skin, and drowsy, half-lidded eyes. He spoke in a cheerful drawl.
“In accordance with Sect rules, Disciple Liang He has chosen a challenge of direct combat. Let both competitors be at ease that this humble elder shall not allow either of you to come to permanent harm,” the elder continued, bari...
2020-11-21 22:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 21(Red+)
Seven days and seven nights.
That was the length of time that Ling Qi spent atop White Cloud Mountain in the Outer Sect, cultivating with Zeqing. She rested in the muse’s home, played with her daughter, and drank sweet chilled wine. She immersed herself in darkness and music. She might have resolved to pay the other parts of her nature more mind, but right now, with the medicines she had taken, it was time to master the element at the core of her combat ability.
Cultivating on a...
2020-11-19 22:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostNovember Bonus Poll
This one is late in coming but its been a bit of a rough month.
2020-11-16 19:07:53 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 20 (Red+)
In Dream, Ling Qi was surrounded by kin. Through the currents of thought and great abyss of consciousness, she swam with countless millions of her kin, forming patterns of color and brightness of incomprehensible beauty and complexity. In and out of Dream did her kin swim, breaching briefly into the alien realm of the Real. Each time, they carried a hint of Dream's Spark and returned, enriched by new droplets of thought to add to Dream.
In Dream, Ling Qi was born and died a...
2020-11-16 19:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 19 (Red+)
As they fled the cavern at Suyin’s top speed, the roar of explosions and collapsing stone at their back, Ling Qi could not help but laugh. No, she really couldn’t let fear control her because this is what being alive felt like. As they reached the top of the dead beetle’s tunnel that they had originally followed and Li Suyin stopped to gasp for breath, she saw a little bit of a grin in the other girl’s expression as well.
If she had followed her knee-jerk instinct and s...
2020-11-14 20:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 18 (Red+)
Ling Qi raised her flute to her lips, looking back at the eyeless visages of the rat things that were finally beginning to orient onto the two of them through the mist. There were more than a dozen of them, and the sand bulged with more burrowers. Ling Qi resumed her song, flowing effortlessly into the echo that had been kept going by her qi. The sound of her flute echoed eerily in the small cavern, turning twitching heads toward her as she strode towards the center.
She began the Starl...
2020-11-12 19:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostNew Commission: Argent Infrastructure
Type Worldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found on Discord in Interlude Spoilers
2020-11-11 22:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 17 (Red+)
Ling Qi stood ready for another few moments after the creature’s last twitch subsided. Only after a swift kick to one of its remaining eyes failed to bring a reaction did she allow herself to turn around.
“Everything alright up there?” she called.
“Y-yes,” Li Suyin called back from the edge of the pit, her voice muffled. Ling Qi looked with bemusement upon her friend’s solution to the issue of being dragged down.
Li Suyin stood in a veritable cage of bone, metal,...
2020-11-09 20:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 16 (Red+)
For three mornings every week, Ling Qi would be devoting her time to learning scoutcraft and tactics under the tutelage of her Senior Brother and later, the core disciple in charge. She was somewhat chagrined to learn, upon asking, that Guan Zhi was actually one of Elder Zhou’s nieces. She really did need to stop assuming things.
That aside, she was already learning much. Seeing that she had some basic skill in tracking from time spent with Su Ling last year, Liao Zhu focused on teach...
2020-11-07 21:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostCommission: Somnolent Seas Sect Promotional
Type: Worldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found on Discord in the Interlude Spoilers channel
2020-11-06 01:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 15(Red+)
“Each art is composed of a number of forms, patterns of qi which are woven into the cycling of your qi to empower spirit and flesh. Techniques then, are the active use of those patterns, projected through carefully attuned channels,” Elder Heng’s reedy but steady voice traveled well, perfectly audible even in the far back corner of the lecture hall Ling Qi had seated herself in.
“However truly mastering arts of the third realm is not merely a matter of techniques and attacks,”...
2020-11-05 18:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron preview Chapter 14(Red+)
Ling Qi eyed the elder as Yu Nuan took her seat, The heavy lute that Ling Qi had glimpsed before appeared in Yu Nuan’s hands. “My piece is titled ‘War of Beasts,’” she said evenly, her eyes drifting half-shut as she strummed the first deep, bass note.
There were no more words, nor any need for them. Ling Qi relaxed and immersed herself in the heavy notes as the sound expanded beyond the range of a mortal musician’s skill. She felt the drumbeats in her bones, and the woven ch...
2020-11-02 21:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 13 (Red+)
Ling Qi let out a slow breath as she ended her meditation in front of the argent vent. Seated cross-legged on the smooth stone floor, Ling Qi could feel, without looking outside, that several hours had passed and night had fallen. Stellar qi tingled at the edges of her senses, even through the width of earth and stone between her and the dim moonlight.
Normally, she would go out to soak in the lunar energies, but tonight, she had other intentions. She had thought long and hard on where ...
2020-10-31 18:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostNew Commission: Summer's End
Characters: Shen Hu
Not RR Friendly. Found on Discord in Interlude Spoilers
2020-10-29 22:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 12 (Red+)
The weeks that followed blurred by. She began to take more difficult Sect jobs, pushing the limits of her sneaking abilities with harder and harder targets. She mastered the seventh step of the Sable Crescent Step under Zeqing’s eyes.
Despite the sluggishness of her qi, she continued to push herself every day, building her foundations through sheer bloody-minded effort until at last she broke through despite the difficulty. It was exhausting, and Ling Qi knew that she could not rely o...
2020-10-29 22:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Chapter 11 Patron Preview (Red+)
Seeking a break from her churning thoughts, Ling Qi turned her attention to the young looking elder below. The elder was a squat, dour looking man with thinning hair and a wide face. He exuded a pressure that seemed to drain the very color from his surroundings. He wore plain silver robes, a minister’s cap, and a pair of tiny spectacles, all in perfect symmetry.
“We now begin the challenge given by Disciple 810, Cai Renxiang, to Disciple 795, Liu Su.” The elder’s voice was drier...
2020-10-26 19:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 10 (Red+)
She scurried through the grass and brush, racing alongside a million of her brethren. Her sleek black fur gleamed under the ruddy moonlight.
In her thoughts, there was only fury. Fury at the Oathbreakers. Fury at the burrow destroyers. Fury at the diggers and the choppers and the despoilers.
They would pay.
They would all pay for the King was hunting this night and all the forest raged at his side. She and her brethren were the vanguar...
2020-10-24 18:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 9 (Red+)
Ling Qi steadied herself and turned back to Vengeance-for-Burning-Grove, doing her best to project confidence as she strode back to him. “Sir Vengeance, if you do not mind, I will wait with you. It will benefit me to speak with the King, I think.”
The burning tree made a crackling groan as he gave her a sidelong look from his deep-set, knothole eyes. “You flirt with danger, little wraith, but I will not gainsay you for the aid you have given. Wait then, and prepare to receive ...
2020-10-22 18:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostThreads Patron Preview Chapter 8 (Red+)
Ling Qi’s thoughts raced. Neither of these people were real; that much was obvious. So what mattered more here was what she wanted from the dream. She couldn’t be sure, but the brooding moon overhead made this seem like some kind of test. What would the Bloody Moon be looking for?
It was frustrating, so frustrating that she had so little information to base her decision on. Her first instinct was just to retreat and seek some context, but that didn’t feel right. Hadn’t she learn...
2020-10-19 20:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post