She had decided to leave the Effervescent Moon-Time Palace for a change of pace. Her apprentice had wanted to come with her, but sh refused to let anyone accompany her right now. It wouldn’t be a change of pace if she was with someone to whom she was familiar.
Several people had tried to stop her. As one who could see all of time, she was often called upon by important figures who wanted her to read their futures. Many people wanted to know what the future had in st...
2022-10-07 14:51:07 +0000 UTC
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After exiting the sealed world, Hou Jingshu’s group continued traveling through the maze.
They did not find anything of value, but they did find evidence of other people having already passed through. Some areas had scorch marks like a battle had taken place. Other areas had corpses strewn across the floor. It looked as though they had fallen into a trap.
Yin Wuhan led them since he was good at recognizing traps and finding sealing arrays and formations. Sometimes they would hav...
2022-10-05 17:03:58 +0000 UTC
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“Look sharp, Wu!”
“Nnggg!”
Wu Jian gritted his teeth as Hou Jingshu attacked him. She wasn’t using her spear but her fists. He recognized the style she used as the one she had learned years ago from the Wu Clan’s Library. Her punches were straightforward and basic, but each strike packed enough power that his entire arm went numb whenever he blocked.
He wasn’t the type to just stand there and take that sort of punishment, sso he quickly countered after blocking...
2022-10-05 15:07:20 +0000 UTC
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This place was strange.
Wu Jian and the others had spent a lot of time trying to find a way out of here, but they had yet to succeed.
The first thing they had done was try walking out. That had ended in failure. They walked for what had felt like several days, only to wind up returning back where they had started.
Yin Wuhan believed there was some kind of space-time sealing array that kept them from leaving this area. When they reached the end of this space, they were transp...
2022-10-03 17:00:36 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu floated in a dark expanse of space. No matter which direction she turned, all she could see was an inky blackness so vast this place seemed both infinite and infinitesimally small.
I see. It’s the dream again.
She already knew she was dreaming. She’d had this dream many times in the past. In fact, she already knew what was going to happen.
“Why…?” a weak voice said behind her.
Hou Jingshu closed her eyes for a brief moment, as if that wou...
2022-10-03 14:51:07 +0000 UTC
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2022-10-02 12:30:33 +0000 UTC
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“What sort of power is that?” Wu Jian wondered as he and the others ceased moving to stare in horror at the scene. He had never seen something so grotesque. All the people who had chains attached to them shriveled up like dried out corpses.
“A dark power that we’d best avoid,” Yin Wuhan said in a grave voice.
Zheng Yawen nodded. “That man is a practitioner of death chi. It’s a more extreme form of yin chi. I don’t know the specifics, but I know that sort of cultiva...
2022-09-30 16:33:05 +0000 UTC
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A wave of swelteringly hot wind blew in Wu Jian’s face seconds before he emerged from the hallway. He blinked several times as sweat formed on his brow. Wiping the sweat, he glanced around.
Heat waves distorted the air everywhere he looked, and the entire space was cast in a reddish glow. That was because of the magma lake in front of him. He couldn’t figure out how big it was, but he could see the other side, though he had no idea how to reach it.
Several people were already ...
2022-09-30 14:28:39 +0000 UTC
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These are some of the more important side characters who show up regularly in the beginning of Severing Time & Space.
2022-09-29 16:48:51 +0000 UTC
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The level below the first floor appeared to be a simple corridor. That was what Wu Jian first assumed, but his thoughts soon proved wrong when they came upon a room with six different passages. In the center of this room was a statue. While it was cracked with age and missing an arm, the plaque being held by the other arm was in good condition.
There was writing on it.
“Travel further to test thine courage. Only one may enter. Thine life shall be forfeit if thou shouldst break t...
2022-09-28 16:33:51 +0000 UTC
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The journey to the ruins in the center of this jungle took about two days. They didn’t run into any cultivators, but they did have to fight against several magical beasts.
Wu Jian and Hou Jingshu had taken care of them. They fought side-by-side. Wu Jian used his spatial manipulation to pummel them from a distance. When they were outnumbered, he distracted the other magical beasts with his unique abilities. Hou Jingshu fought up close and personal. She used the incredible strength deri...
2022-09-28 15:00:48 +0000 UTC
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2022-09-27 18:42:10 +0000 UTC
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Here's some artwork of Wu Meiying that I hired Michio to do for me. I think they did a really good job!
2022-09-26 22:02:53 +0000 UTC
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Wu Jian was more than aware of the distrustful stares he was getting from Hou Jingshu’s three bodyguards. After saving the woman in question, he had gone on to help the three defeat their opponents. They had expressed gratitude but still cast him obvious suspicious glances.
He… well, he couldn’t blame them. A strange man wearing a mask had appeared out of nowhere. Yeah, he might have saved Hou Jingshu, but they didn’t know a thing about him. What if he had saved her to ingratiat...
2022-09-26 17:06:58 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu could do little more than glare at the man looming over her. Her three companions were unable to aid her. They were trying, but their opponents used their superior numbers and teamwork to prevent them from reaching her.
Retou Meng grinned as his eyes trailed from her feet to her chest. She gritted her teeth as he leaned over.
“You don’t know how long I’ve waited for this,” he said with a chuckle. “Ever since the moment you first spurned me, I’ve wanted to o...
2022-09-26 14:50:02 +0000 UTC
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They were in a bad situation. Retou Meng was at the seventh subrealm of the Asura Realm. If you compared his cultivation to someone the same age from a larger sect or nation, he would come up lacking, but it was very good for a small nation like the Shang Kingdom. Wu Jian’s father had been at the ninth subrealm of the Asura Realm and he was well into his forties.
Not only did they have Retou Meng to contend with, but they had several others as well. None of them wore the robes of the ...
2022-09-23 15:42:46 +0000 UTC
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“Is this… really a sect? Are we even still in the Endless Desert?”
Wu Jian didn’t realize he had spoken those words out loud until Huǒ Shuchang turned to him with a grin.
“I guess I didn’t tell you, did I? The White Tiger Sect is located inside of its own dimension. Large sects often create their own dimensions to avoid dealing with issues like not having enough space or getting into conflicts with other sects. Of course, only the most powerful sects can do something ...
2022-09-23 14:58:09 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu had met Retou Meng when she was just nine years old. This was several years before her father had sent her to live with the Wu Clan. Both Retou Meng and Húndàn Wang had become smitten with her during the party where she made her first appearance.
She had no interest in either of them. Neither of them saw Hou Jingshu as a person. Húndàn Wang, for all his politeness, was only interested in her appearance. Retou Meng was even worse. All he saw when he looked at her was an o...
2022-09-21 16:58:29 +0000 UTC
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Wu Jian looked at Huǒ Shuchang, then at the person who had spoken. It was a young man maybe a few years older than his companion. He had similar red hair, but his was several shades darker, and even his eyes were a deep crimson. The structure of his face was similar enough that Wu Jian thought they might be related.
He wore an elaborate robe unlike anything Wu Jian had ever seen. The designs embedded into the robe were those of a phoenix ascending into the sky. The garment’s crimson ...
2022-09-21 14:34:49 +0000 UTC
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Michiroon is working on more character art for me! It's the Wu Clan!
2022-09-21 02:13:13 +0000 UTC
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The journey from Shāméiguī to White Tiger City was long and full of danger. Not only were there many powerful magical beasts who made the desert there home, there were also many more bandits here than in the Shang Kingdom. This was all due to the scarcity of resources. The Qing Province lacked many of the natural resources Hou Jingshu took for granted. Due to lack of water, food, and other daily necessities, a lot of people who lived here turned to banditry.
Their group had come unde...
2022-09-19 16:45:53 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu spent most of her time at sea cultivating. She still hadn’t reached the Asura Realm, but she felt like she was getting close. Her bottleneck had weakened several times throughout the passing days. She was sure she could break through soon. All she needed was an appropriate catalyst, a push that forced her to exceed her limits.
The days passed. Wu Yong never overcame his motion sickness and spent most of his time either sleeping or vomiting over the edge of the ship. Zheng ...
2022-09-19 14:34:14 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu did not feel like she had gotten nearly enough sleep. It felt like she had been forced to wake up seconds after her head hit the pillow.
With a heavy sigh, she climbed off the bed and stretched her arms as the morning light filtered in through the cracks in the window’s shutters. She tightened the sash on her nightgown and opened the shutters to look outside.
The sun was up but still rising. Most people were still asleep. Only people who needed to wake up early were ...
2022-09-16 17:02:21 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu threw her hair pin the moment Wu Yong and Zheng Yawen dropped from their perches. She expected her hair pin to pierce her target’s neck, but the man she aimed for must have had an incredible sense for danger. He swung his cutlass and knocked her projectile out of the sky.
Wu Yong and Zheng Yawen were both similarly blocked.
Wu Yong had swung his sash and tried to wrap it around his opponent’s throat. His sash was a low-grade profound spirit weapon. By channeling ch...
2022-09-16 14:57:23 +0000 UTC
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Hǎiyáng City was a bustling port city located western coast of the Shang Kingdom. Perhaps the reason it had so much traffic was because it was the only coastal city they possessed. That made it the only trade route available for ships looking to trade goods in their kingdom, and while the Shang Kingdom did not have as much to offer as author nations, they did have several specialties that were highly sought after.
Because they didn’t want people to know who she was, their airship ha...
2022-09-14 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Hou Jingshu had left the capital not long after her meeting with Zhou Lihua. It had taken several days to prepare the Imperial Family’s airship, gather the necessary supplies to make the trip, and handpick her bodyguards, but she was able to leave in five days.
Because the Shang Kingdom was small and lacked the resources to build airships on their own, they only had a handful themselves. Airships relied on materials their kingdom lacked. All of the materials they had used to construct...
2022-09-14 14:38:46 +0000 UTC
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The battle had begun, but Wu Jian made no move to attack yet. He studied Shā Ying Yue through the slits in his mask.
“I have a question,” he said at last.
“Oh?” Shā Ying Yue raised an eyebrow. “You would ask a question in the middle of battle? Either you are very confident in your victory, or you are a fool.”
“You shouldn’t say that considering you’ve done the same thing before,” he countered. Shā Ying Yue furrowed her brow. Wu Jian pressed on. “Have...
2022-09-12 17:04:57 +0000 UTC
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Wu Jian leaned against the wall, arms crossed, brow furrowed, thinking about his current dilemma.
Several days had passed since the tournament began. He and Huǒ Shuchang had won all of their matches so far. Not all of them had been easy, but none of them had pushed Wu Jian to the point where his bottleneck loosened.
Pills also wouldn’t help. They might be able to gather a lot of chi, but using them while trying to break through a minor subrealm could be detrimental to his culti...
2022-09-12 14:47:49 +0000 UTC
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It took five days for the preliminary rounds to end. More than half of those who had signed up to participate had been eliminated. A handful of people had died during the preliminary rounds, but there had been less than Wu Jian was expecting. Given how dangerous everyone seemed, he had anticipated several dozen people dying rather than a mere handful.
Wu Jian and Huǒ Shuchang were among those who passed the preliminary rounds, and while no one was surprised about Huǒ Shuchang’s adva...
2022-09-09 16:09:22 +0000 UTC
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The evening air was becoming brisk as Shā Ying Yue walked toward the inn she was staying at. The Qing Province was a land of extremes. The days were scorching and the nights freezing. Many travelers found themselves succumbing to either one or the other, and not even cultivators were immune to such drastic variations in temperature.
Having grown up in this harsh environment, Shā Ying Yue was quite used to it, but even she would have preferred a more mild climate like the Shang Kingdom...
2022-09-09 14:46:09 +0000 UTC
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