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WIEDERGEBURT 13 Cover Reveal

Here is the next cover for WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior.

This one is a lot more action-packed. Given what happened last volume, I believe this is only natural.

I hope you like the cover.

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STnS: Chapter 121

Everyone settled down as Lin Liang spoke. Even the bald man who Huǒ Shuchang mocked had gone silent. The man before them seemed to invoke the respect of the entire group. Wu Jian didn’t know why, but he also couldn’t feel this man’s cultivation base. That didn’t mean much since Wu Jian had the lowest cultivation here. However, he was certain the man before them was stronger than every person in this room.

“The most important rule of this tournament is that there are no rules....

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STnS: Chapter 120

Wu Jian and Huǒ Shuchang woke up bright and early and made their way to the Colosseum. There were already a lot of people by the time they arrived. Wu Jian glanced at a buff man with arms bigger than his head flexing for several people. Turning his head left, he spotted a young woman with scars running across her face and a pair of swords strapped across her back.

There are so many people…

“Everyone here is at the Asura Realm… except for you,” Huǒ Shuchang said....

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STnS: Chapter 119

Wu Jian and Huǒ Shuchang arrived in White Tiger City with two weeks to spare. They had made decent time crossing the desert despite how much trouble they ran into.

Cities in the Qing Desert all shared common features that were different from anything Wu Jian had seen up to this point.

Deserts were characterized by their harsh environmental conditions. The temperature difference between night and day was high, the summer was hot and winter cold, there were extreme changes in relat...

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STnS: Chapter 118

Wu Jian felt like he was dying. He had severely underestimated how brutal the Qing Desert was.

Vast dunes of sand stretched out for hundreds of lî in all directions, and each dune looked the same as any other, making it impossible for him to tell if they were even heading in the right directions.

The sun beat down on him from overhead. However, he had long since sweated out all the water in his body. He felt like meat that had been left to rot in the sun. Even the long cloak he w...

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STnS: Chapter 117

Soul Crystal Hall. Named such because of the many Soul Crystals within. It was not shaped like a hall, but was instead of massive room that contained many shelves and pedestals. Lined in neat rows were the many Soul Crystals that belonged to the members of the Wind-Lightning Pavilion.

Not every member had their own Soul Crystal. Only the sect master, vice master, elders, personal disciples, and core disciples were granted that honor. Soul Crystals were expensive to make, and so they wer...

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STnS: Chapter 116

Wu Jian was traveling alongside Huǒ Shuchang when his instincts screamed at him that danger was approaching. His companion seemed to notice it at the same time, for the other man’s eyes widened.

“Dodge!” he shouted.

Wu Jian was already moving before Huǒ Shuchang’s scream. Something slammed into the ground just a few chih ahead of them. Lightning exploded in all directions. Wu Jian nearly yelped as he leapt into the air to avoid being hit.

That was a mistake.

...

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September 2022 Newsletter

Dear Patrons,

September is finally here. Summer is technically over, but it still feels like summer - as in, it's heckin hot outside. I hope the heat doesn't last much longer. Living in a desert sucks during the summer.

Man Made God 005 is almost done here on Patreon. I have 1 or 2 more chapters left. I hope you have been enjoying this story. The action, drama, and sexy times are getting a lot more flagrant. So much is happening that I didn't have time to add some of the other stu...

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STnS: Chapter 115

“W… up… hey… up…!”

Wu Jian grimaced when a voice spoke over a vast distance. It sounded far away, so he ignored it, but then someone began shaking his shoulder. He tried to push them away, but the other person was having none of it. The voice also sounded much closer now.

“Hey, Wu! Wu! Wake up!”

“Mrrrgggg?” Wu Jian rolled over and blinked several times as he stared at Huǒ Shuchang with bleary eyes. He then glanced out the window. The sun hadn’t even ri...

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STNS: Chapter 114

Wu Jian and Huǒ Shuchang made their way down to the appraisal room, where they had first met Zhou Mān. They found the man in question waiting for them upon arrival. He was quite happy if the smile on his face was any indication.

“Young master, congratulations on winning the Three Layered Yed Yin-Yang Pill. Here is the pill in question. Would you like me to deduct some of the cost from your earnings in today’s action?” he asked, gesturing toward the young woman standing by his si...

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Next Month's Reward - Fay

I'm just a few chapters away from finishing Man Made God 005, so I've got some Fay for you.

Art rewards will be delivered to the appropriate patrons once next month's payments have been processed.

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STnS: Chapter 113

The auction continued. Items were brought out, auctioned off, and sold for exorbitant prices. At least, they did to Wu Jian. Huǒ Shuchang didn’t bat an eye at some of the prices these items sold for.

Since the auction had been going on for several hours, the servant girl brought them some food, a smorgasbord of noodle dishes. Wu Jian vaguely recalled Emperor Hou Jun once talking about how noodles were considered a delicacy in the Ming Dynasty. These ones were cold noodles, and their ...

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STnS: Chapter 112

“Welcome, esteemed guests, to the Shēnyuān Auction House. My name is Zhou De, and I am responsible for all matters pertaining to today’s auction,” the portly man said with grand, sweeping gestures. He had a thing for theatrics.

“Oh? Now this is interesting,” Huǒ Shuchang muttered.

“What is?” asked Wu Jian.

“That man is at the Deva Realm.”

Wu Jian furrowed his brow and looked at the portly man again. He had short brown hair, an equally short beard, ...

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STNS Art

This is an illustrated scene from the Severing Time & Space webnovel.

Michiroon drew it. Can you figure out what chapter it's from?

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STnS: Chapter 111

Wu Jian only spent two days touring Shēnyuān. While there was a lot to see, he didn’t much feel like spending it all visiting food stalls, restaurants, and brothels like his companion.

He spent the remaining three days before the auction cultivating inside of the inn. He didn’t have any alchemy pills, so there was a limit to his cultivation, but he did not stop. Even now, he was gathering the world’s yin and yang, which swirled around him like an invisible whirlpool. It entered ...

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STnS: Chapter 110

“Hold on,” Wu Jian suddenly said.

Huǒ Shuchang had been seconds away from marching up to the guarded front door, but he paused and turned to Wu Jian, a single eyebrow lifted.

“What’s up?”

“I need a disguise.”

“A disguise? Why?”

“You don’t need to know that. Just hold on a second while I get a suitable disguise.”

Wu Jian turned around and left the auction house. Huǒ Shuchang sighed as he followed the younger man. He quickly caught u...

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Arcadia's Ignoble Knight Cover Uodate!

Claparo is almost done with the cover, and holiest of holy shits, these two look way too fucking adorable!

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STnS: Chapter 109

It took two weeks to reach Shēnyuān. That was actually two weeks shorter than Wu Jian estimated, but they had been lucky enough to run into a passing caravan in one of the small villages they visited along the way. The caravan had been impressed by Wu Jian’s and Huǒ Shuchang’s cultivation and allowed them to join.

The caravan was fortunate since they had run into bandits not long after Wu Jian and Huǒ Shuchang joined them. The bandits hadn’t been anything special, but one of t...

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STnS: Chapter 108

Luo Dong sat at the head of the table, listening to the reports of his elders as they discussed the upcoming Thirteen Kingdom’s Tournament. It was still more than two years out, but this tournament was of paramount importance to sects like theirs. Every sect affiliated with a kingdom wanted to do well since the rewards they could reap if they won were massive.

“I can’t believe they’re only giving us six slots! We’ve been working our butts off to train our core disciples, and t...

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STnS: Chapter 107

Wu Jian slept for an entire day after returning from the Magical Beast Forest. It was so nice to sleep on a real bed. He had been sleeping on the ground for so long that he’d almost forgotten what a soft mattress underneath his weary body could do. The next morning, Wu Jian woke up feeling rejuvenated. It was as if he had been granted new life.

The sun was still just rising as Wu Jian cleaned himself off with a wet rag, got dressed, and traveled into a large restaurant inside the hote...

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STnS: Chapter 106

Mao Yuhan’s two weapons could use lightning and wind.

Lightning was fast and had incredible piercing power. It could also be used to paralyze people, and truly skilled users of lightning techniques could bind enemies up. Wind was more of a cutting element, but it could also create incredible gusts of wind, tornadoes, and even affect the weather depending on the technique.

Wu Jian did not think Mao Yuhan was that skilled, nor did he think the man had that many techniques. He reli...

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Wu Meiying WIP

I hired Micho some freebie art. Isn't this an idyllic scene?

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Next Month's Patreon Art - Fayte

Since Man Made God 005 is nearing the final chapters and should be finished by the end of this month or early next month, I've decided to have Liremi draw art of Fayte.

Artwork will be delivered after next month's payments have been processed.

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STnS: Chapter 105

Deng Feng was a seventh subrealm Anima Realm cultivator and the newly made second in command of the Raging Boars. Like the other members of this sect, he had once been a roaming bandit who made a living from those he pillaged. He joined Mao Yuhan after the man displayed his incredible prowess. He had been lured in by the man with promises of power, riches, and women.

And he’d gotten those.

Until recently.

“We’ve been searching this damn forest for a whole day. Where th...

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STnS: Chapter 104

Mao Yuhan sat on his throne, absentmindedly groping the woman he had forced onto his lap. Xing Lingxin bit her lip to keep from crying. A little ways over, Xing Bai had been chained to a wall, forced to watch what was happening. The blood had drained from his face, but hatred remained clear in his eyes.

“I’m impressed you managed to buy enough time to let your daughter escape. That’s very admirable of you. Guess that makes you two real good parents. But you realize it’s just del...

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STnS: CHapter 103

“Haaah! Haaaah! Haaah! Are they… still chasing us?”

“They are. Keep running, Lady Zhenya! Don’t stop!”

Xing Zhenya’s ragged breathing couldn’t mask the pounding of her heart as she and Gao Zhou ran through the Magical Beast Forest. Their footsteps pounded against the ground. They did their best to dodge trees, shrubs, and roots, but she stumbled several times in her haste.

Behind them echoed the sound of stampeding feet.

“Where do you think you’re g...

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STnS: Chapter 102

Wu Jian opened his eyes after hearing Yōuměi’s soft growl. He looked at the panther who was staring without blinking at the Yang Fire Flower. The flower was beginning to bloom, meaning it was almost time to pluck it.

He took a deep breath. The worlds energy seemed to permeate his body, strengthening him, and then he exhaled, releasing a slightly black fog from his mouth. Those were the impurities he had just released. They dissipated into the air.

“My cultivation has gone up...

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STnS: Chapter 101

Two black tendrils wrapped around the Flame Griffin’s beak. This wasn’t enough to force it closed, but then six more suddenly shot from the ground and tightened. The beak snapped shut with barely a second to spare.

A massive explosion went off inside the Flame Griffin’s mouth. The shockwave it produced slammed into Wu Jian, who groaned as he was pushed further into the rock wall. He groaned as the rocks around his shattered, sprinkling his body with fragments. Blood welled up insi...

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STnS: Chapter 100

Wu Jian, Huǒ Shuchang, and Yōuměi spent one week familiarizing themselves with each other’s fighting styles. They sparred with each other and fought as a group against the magical beasts of the forest.

Wu Jian was mostly a close-range fighter. His strength was such that a single good punch from him was powerful enough to defeat most magical beasts they found in a single blow. Even Huǒ Shuchang could not take one of his blows head on and escape unscathed.

He had assumed Huǒ ...

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STnS: Chapter 99

Zhou Lihua’s personal garden was a unique blend of ornate buildings and natural elements. According to her, she had this place built after coming to the Imperial Capital.

The garden was enclosed by a wall and featured numerous rocks, plants, trees, and flowing water. Zhou Lihua led Hou Jingshu down a winding path that was deliberately designed to allow visitors the chance to admire the cornucopia of flora offered.

“This garden never ceases to amaze me,” Hou Jingshu said with...

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