‘Are you sad, Big Sister?’ Gui asked, craning his neck to look back at her. Despite his lack of attention to the path ahead, his trundling gait didn’t falter, likely because Zhen’s glowing eyes remained fixed on their path despite resting his head on her shoulder.
Ling Qi just smiled, reaching down from her perch between his shell spikes to pat her little brother on the head. “I’m just thinking about some things. Don’t worry about me.”
‘...
2020-05-21 15:23:10 +0000 UTC
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Ling Qi knew that it was unreasonable of her to be frustrated after a mere two weeks of failing to reach bronze. Many, many people failed to manage it entirely, and most took months at minimum for their own breakthroughs. Yet she could not help but be irritated by her own failures.
At least she had made progress this time. Some of the purified stellar qi had actually settled properly into her bones and tissues, forcing out further impurities, but she had lost control ...
2020-05-21 15:21:34 +0000 UTC
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Starlight and beams of moonlight trickled into her channels like droplets of clear, pure water. The slim crescent moon shone faintly overhead, no less potent than her sisters in the qi that streamed down from the celestial body.
On her rooftop, Ling Qi breathed in and cycled her qi, letting the new energy mix with her own. Once, twice, a score and more, she kneaded the celestial qi until it merged with her own. At this point, the act of taking in the moon’s qi did n...
2020-05-21 15:16:17 +0000 UTC
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With that less than pleasant thought in mind, she returned home.
Thankfully, Ling Qi remembered to take a dose of the pain medication Li Suyin had given her before attempting her breakthrough as it went quite poorly. The qi she had woven into her body splintered under the strain of the attempt rather than merging with her tissues as it should have. Ling Qi was left breathing raggedly, covered in painful, splotchy bruises and filled with a bone deep ache.
It took...
2020-05-18 17:43:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, just letting everyone know from today forward new patrons will be charged on sign up, and then join the normal payment cycle on the first. This is to combat a little issue with some people doing the whole sign up and immediately cancel bait and switch. Thank you again for all of your support!
2020-05-14 20:39:05 +0000 UTC
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Characters: Han Jian, Han Fang, Han Family
RR Friendly.
Find it on Discord in Interlude Spoilers
2020-05-14 20:22:30 +0000 UTC
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The Frozen Soul Serenade was not a happy song. It was not even melancholy, as Forgotten Vale Melody was. Instead, it was a primal song. It was hunger and want and loss, an eternal emptiness that could never be fulfilled. She didn’t think she would ever play it for enjoyment, not the way she sometimes did with the Forgotten Vale.
All the same, she had a talent for it. She felt Zeqing’s fingers of ice on her shoulder as she lowered her voice, the cold of her mentor’s to...
2020-05-14 19:54:49 +0000 UTC
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Ling Qi sighed as she crouched in the shadow of a rooftop display. Cries of alarm were just beginning to rise up from the homes of those she had struck at. Here, in the dead of night, she was nearly invisible, a shadow among shadows.
The favor Fu Xiang had asked of her was done. But although she had slipped into the three workshops with nearly trivial ease and only the last of them having a security array that offered her even the slightest trouble, Ling Qi could not ...
2020-05-11 19:16:56 +0000 UTC
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Characters: Ma Jun, Gan Guangli, other
Not RR friendly.
Available to patrons on Discord.
2020-05-08 16:56:36 +0000 UTC
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Softly, lightly, without the slightest sound, Ling Qi stepped from the cliff and flew. The night wind made her gown and loose hair flutter as she soared over the misty lake toward the welcome of the peak. It was the place where she belonged. She knew it. While she could warm herself at the fireside for a time, hide in the darkness, or soar in the sky, none of those were her place.
None of those were her home.
How long had it been since she had a home?
She closed...
2020-05-07 19:10:27 +0000 UTC
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It was finally time for her to begin attempting to break through to the third realm. She had already reached the peak of the second, and her arts were mastered as far as they could be taken. However, she knew from asking that it would be a lengthy process. So, with the ceremony behind her, Ling Qi set about preparing. She spoke with Zeqing, placing their lesson five days from now. She gathered all the food Zhengui could need and patiently explained to the young spirit that she wo...
2020-05-04 16:58:08 +0000 UTC
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Sorry its late guys! Working on some medical issues at the moment, but things should be normal soon.
2020-05-03 17:11:49 +0000 UTC
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It had been some time since she had actually seen the full Outer Disciple Council together for a proper meeting, Ling Qi thought as she took her seat at the far end of the table. She had attended a few meetings out of politeness and when shadowing Cai Renxiang, but it had become fairly rare for everyone to get together once things had started running smoothly. Hopefully, Cai Renxiang’s announcement wouldn’t be the start of more trouble. Ling Qi wanted to resolve her most pres...
2020-04-30 18:19:07 +0000 UTC
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Type: Worldbuilding
Not RR friendly
2020-04-29 19:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Ling Qi stood uncomfortably behind Cai Renxiang with the rest of the gathered council. She still wasn’t used to this, being the one with authority. However, with Yan Renshu kneeling on the ground, his hands bound and his head down in front of them, she could not deny that there was a certain satisfaction to it.
He had been healed, his wrist no longer twisted and broken, but the manacles on his wrists suppressed his qi, rendering him effectively helpless before his peers.<...
2020-04-27 18:07:49 +0000 UTC
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“May I ask what your original plan for this was?” Ling Qi asked, glancing over at her friend from her perch among the tree branches. They were at the edge of the lake which Yan Renshu’s central base was in. They had hurried here, knowing that even if their opponent couldn’t see exactly what had happened, he was likely aware that something had happened.
“I had intended to collapse the structure,” Meizhen answered. She stood on a thin branch, which someho...
2020-04-23 16:47:07 +0000 UTC
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Characters: Sima Jiao, Xin, Princess/Empress Xiang
Not RR friendly.
Available in Interlude Spoilers
2020-04-20 19:29:40 +0000 UTC
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The remaining three days passed quickly in training and cultivation. Hunting with Zhengui, as well as helping him get used to his new size and power, ate into much of her time. The puzzle continued to frustrate her, snapping back into its starting configuration long before she could solve it. In the end she decided to set it aside to work on the other project that she had wanted to work on this week.
That vale, where the mystic fruit she had stolen grew, was a very potent s...
2020-04-20 17:05:10 +0000 UTC
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“I appreciate the help,” Ling Qi said sincerely, meeting Bai Meizhen’s eyes from across the table.
“And yet you are going to disagree with my methods,” Meizhen replied coolly.
Ling Qi nodded reluctantly. “I don’t know exactly what you intend, but it’s probably going to skirt the Sect rules, right?” When Meizhen failed to disagree, Ling Qi continued, toying with the cup in her hands. “I don’t want you to be taking a risk like that for me, even if ...
2020-04-16 20:33:23 +0000 UTC
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Bian Ya was certainly not a bad tutor, and she was friendly enough, even if her spirit beast was not. But her insights were clearly focused on the manipulation of wood qi. To Bian Ya, wind was secondary, combining with wood to form the concept of “dispersal.”
While Ling Qi could comprehend the older girl’s understanding of the combined element, it was at odds with her more usual understanding. The exercises in maintaining flows of wood qi disconnected from her channel...
2020-04-13 19:14:09 +0000 UTC
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Available on Discord, Interlude Spoilers Channel.
Worldbuilding.
2020-04-09 20:42:57 +0000 UTC
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Their ambush, combined with several smaller ones targeting the Sun Princess’ remaining followers, proved to be the breaking point. The fortress on the cliffs closed, and raids on the enforcers stopped. Sun Liling’s few remaining followers seemed to enter a fully defensive mindset.
With tensions ramping down, Ling Qi finally had time to complete the lessons she had begun under Cai Renxiang.
Ling Qi grimaced as she set her brush down, peering at the letter she had j...
2020-04-09 20:09:46 +0000 UTC
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“Good of you to join us, Miss Ling!” Gan Guangli boomed cheerfully. He stood flanked by two other male disciples wearing the bands of enforcers and standing at a stiff attention. “With your skills, the raiding scum has no chance of escape!”
Ling Qi eyed their surroundings carefully. They were perched on a narrow ledge halfway up a steep rock face. With the Ma Sisters and her, there was barely any room to move about up here.
“Thank you for the invitatio...
2020-04-06 16:19:08 +0000 UTC
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2020-04-02 18:33:18 +0000 UTC
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“It’s alive!” Li Suyin said excitedly, clapping her hands as the figure laid out on the workbench in front of them shifted, its bony limbs moving mechanically
“... It’s not actually alive, right?” Ling Qi asked warily as the empty sockets of the bear skull they had used turned to face them. Its toothy jaws clacked as they worked open and closed.
“Well, no,” Li Suyin admitted, flushing. “But it sounds more exciting that way, doesn’t it?”<...
2020-04-02 18:29:11 +0000 UTC
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Characters: Bai Meizhen
Royal Road Friendly, Available in the Patron Corner Channel
2020-04-02 18:27:32 +0000 UTC
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Improved senses were a detriment in some cases, Ling Qi thought, trying not to grimace as she walked the dirt path that wound between the fields on the outskirts of the town at the base of the mountain. The scent of the goats grazing in the rocky field to her right wasn't even the worst smell she passed so far. As bad as the city streets could be, Ling Qi had always preferred them to fields and farms.
She could still remember the first time she had stolen a chicken. The vic...
2020-03-30 19:18:05 +0000 UTC
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Yan Renshu was still at large, his location unknown. But they had ruined him.
The puppet they had destroyed was, in Fu Xiang and Cai Renxiang’s assessment, a masterwork, the sort of project that a cultivator of Yan Renshu’s status must have been working on for years. Along with everything else they had destroyed at his workshop and the losses he had already accrued, even years of building up in the Outer Sect could not have given him the resources to recover from ...
2020-03-26 18:02:57 +0000 UTC
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Worldbuilding.
RR Spoilers
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2020-03-24 01:58:05 +0000 UTC
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“ORA!” A keg-sized fist crashed against stone, and the stone lost. The cliff face lit up like a festival lantern, the carved characters of a hideously complex array of formations characters appearing under the evening sun.
“ORRAA!!” A second fist crashed down, and the rock face cratered under the steel spikes which adorned its knuckles. Thunder boomed, flames erupted, and lightning sparked up the hulking figure’s powerful arms. Emerald qi textured like bark barely...
2020-03-23 17:05:46 +0000 UTC
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