Brandon Varnell

STNS: Chapter 358

“Ha ha ha! That was quite the battle. Your son is an amusing man,” Zhe Dāozhe slapped his knee several times in good humor.

“I should have chosen someone else for the tournament,” Huǒ Huangdi said with a sigh, pressing a hand to his face. “Huǒ Nan is a powerful cultivator, which is why I selected him, but he is far too lazy. Dammit. If he just spent more time cultivating and less time lazing around, he would be one of the most powerful members of my clan.”

“It is ...

American Kitsune: Tail 16

2023-08-03 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

STNS: Chapter 357

“Well, now… I had no idea you were hiding such a monster,” said Húndàn Wang as he leaned back in his seat. “An eighteen-year-old cultivator at the Seeker Realm is unheard of. I don’t think there has ever been someone so young to reach this level of cultivation.”

“My daughter is a once-in-a-million-years prodigy. She received more drops of phoenix blood than anyone else in my family ever has and is being personally trained by the phoenix himself,” Huo Huangdi said. Thos...

STNS: Chapter 356

The next battle was between Shā Ying Yue and Mei Xilan. It was a lot closer of a battle than Wu Jian expected it to be. Shā Ying Yue gave as good as she got, but she was unable to overcome Mei Xilan and her Ice Phoenix Domain. Her powers relied on blood manipulation. She infused her chi with blood and used it for her techniques, creating weapons like a spear, a sword, or even blood armor. Mei Xilan had simply frozen all of her techniques. It was a bad matchup.

Once she realized she wa...

Mei Xilan

Because her bio contains spoilers, I won't add it here. But this is Mei Xilan. How does she look?

STNS: Chapter 355

Xaio Shui grinned as he launched his attack. This fool thought he had been getting pushed back. It was true that he had underestimated this man. He never would have expected someone at the Human Limit Realm could be so strong, but he wouldn’t do that anymore. He understood after their last exchange that he could not afford to hold back, galling though it was to admit.

Even though his attack must have come as a shock, Jian Wu still somehow deflected his technique. He used the flat of h...

Hua Xue

Hua Xu is the head elder of the Ice Phoenix Sect. Her origins are wrapped in mystery. That is because she’s actually not from this world. She arrived in this world several hundred years ago, injured, and was nursed back to health by the current Ice Phoenix Sect Master. Her goal is to return home. She is technically at the Divine Nascent Realm, but her injury has caused her cultivation to drop to the peak of the Human Limit Realm.

APPEARANCE:

Despite being well over 500 years old...

STNS: Chapter 354

Several beautiful women dressed in red and gold cheongsams pushed a display cart up to Huo Huangdi. A hushed silence fell over the crowd as the Phoenix Clan leader glanced around. All eyes were drawn to the cart, which was covered in a fine red cloth that shimmered like fire in the light.

With a smile, Huo Huangdi removed the cloth and revealed the items insid: A jar of pills, a beautifully ornate sword, and a set of armor. It was the armor Wu Jian found his eyes drawn to. Crafted from ...

STNS: Chapter 353

The arena was packed. Wu Jian thought it was even more crowded now than it had been during the team battles. The amount of noise coming from the crowd was almost deafening. He could only imagine how Youmei, sitting in the middle of all that alongside Hua Xue and Yu Chenguang, was dealing with this.

He stood amongst the rest of the competitors, of which there were far less than last time. Only five teams of the twelve who competed had gone on to compete in the individual tournament, whic...

American Kitsune: Tail 15

Next Month's Patreon Art

Next month's art will be our princess, Hou Jingshu, in a bikini. The art will be added into the MEGA folder for each specific tier, which you can access using the linked posts. I'll update the passwords around 5-6 days after the new month.

STNS: Chapter 352

The night was just beginning yet the party continued. Stars were starting to appear in the sky, but they were blotted out by the many lights down below. A convergence of night and day seemed to be taking place. The many lights from the city pushed back the darkness of night, as though refusing to be encroached upon.

Sounds from the festival could be heard even from the high vantage point of the city’s most famous inn. Known to everyone as Phoenix Lodgings, the luxurious twenty-story b...

STNS: Chapter 351

The stall game that Huo Schushang stood before was one specifically made for cultivators. Naturally, it was the kind of game where someone tested their strength. A large black stone sat on the ground, connected to a meter that recorded someone’s strength. The goal was to hit the stone with a hammer as hard as you could to get a high score. Several scores were already listed on a board, with the highest being 15,457.

It’s the same stone…

Wu Jian recognized the testin...

STNS: Chapter 350

Heavenly Chengshi was quite unlike most cities--even other cities in the Xia Dynasty. Built upon a massive lake that spenned over one hundred kilometers, the city was made using a special material called Meteorite Iron. It was not the rarest or most expensive ore to be found, but it was pricy thanks to its special property, which was the power of levitation. This city, which sat upon a lake, did so by levitating several dozen chih off the surface. Many people considered Heavenly Chengshi an i...

Aishiteru - A Story About What Would Happen if Ai Hoshino Survived

It happened in a flash. So quick it took Hoshino Aqua a moment to realize what was happening.

He stood just outside the door as Hoshino Ai stumbled back, blood leaking from a wound somewhere on her torso, painting the ground in dark splatters.

“Ai!”

He ran to her and grasped her dress. The white had been stained red. There was so much blood. The human body contained roughly 1.2-...

STNS: Chapter 349

Mei Xilan Sui, daughter of Emperor Chang Xilan Sui, was the dethroned princess of the Sui Kingdom. Up until about 10 years ago, she had been living with her family in blissful happiness. She had a mother, two brothers, and a father who loved her, but her life was turned upside down when the Undying Sun Sect appeared one day to depose their kingdom.

Mei Xilan had managed to escape through a secret passageway with one of their servants, but the young woman who had tried to protect her die...

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2023-07-12 20:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post

STNS: Chapter 348

“This match has come to an end! Victory goes to Team Shang!”

Wu Jian raised his hand to wave at the crowd as they cheered. He had gotten used to the crowd going wild and had even learned to enjoy it a bit. This was his reward for defeating his opponents. The strong were celebrated and revered, while the weak were left to slink away with their tails tucked between their legs. He didn’t particularly care for this philosophy. However, that didn’t mean he couldn’t bask in the feel...

STNS: Chapter 347

“Uugh… haaaah… urk…”

Hou Jingshu wasn’t sure what she should have expected after arriving at Loong Chen’s home. Se knew that grueling training awaited her, but that had been the extent of her knowledge, and as she lay there lamenting her misfortune, she thought about just how badly she had underestimated how tortuous the training would really be. Loong Chen spent every waking moment beating the snot out of her. She knew he was holding back. She knew that logically. However...

STNS: Chapter 346

Morning came and Wu Jian went downstairs to meet with the others. The crowded cafeteria was filled with noisy people making conversation, and the scent of hot food hung in the air. Everyone stopped talking when he entered the room with Youmei. At first, he thought they were quiet because of the panther, but then he overheard their conversations and realized his initial assumptions were wrong.

“Hey, hey. Isn’t that Jian Wu?”

“It is. I didn’t know he was staying at this ho...

STNS: Chapter 345

Youmei had finally stopped crying and eventually fell asleep with her head on Wu Meiying’s lap. They were sitting on the bed now, and Wu Meiying was stroking the black panther’s hair, gently running her hands through the young magical beast’s fur. Wu Jian sat beside her, looking at the pair.

“I’ve never seen her get quite that emotional before, not even when we met with Jingshu and Lili,” he observed casually.

Wu Meiying’s smile was gentle as she looked at Youmei, li...

STNS: Chapter 344

While most of the crowd was silent, those in the VIP booth were not.

“Didst thou seeth that?! What a magnificent performance! I hath not realized Jian Wu was so strong! He truly stunned me with his superlative strength! I am bedazzled. Nay! I am in awe!”

Huo Yulie seemed the most excited, though if someone asked Wu Meiying, she would have said she was the most excited. She couldn’t let her feelings show, however. She needed to look calm if nothing else. Jeeze this sucked. Al...

MMG006 Cover

Lonwa has been cooking this cover for me, and I finally got around to adding all the text. This one has a really cyberpunk feel to it. Hope y'all approve.

STNS: Chapter 343

Xaio Shui’s body froze in an instant as the ice touched him. It happened so quickly anybody who blinked would have missed it. Now a blue layer of crystalline ice covered his entire body, turning him into a frozen statue. Mei Xilan breathed a sigh of relief as she saw this. She had placed every ounce of power she had into her domain, so she had nothing left to fight back with.

“I believe this battle is over,” Mei Xilan said to Huo Yan.

But the old man just smiled. “I hate t...

STNS: Chapter 342

The first team to arrive on the platform was not them.

Xaio Shui and his four followers each stepped off the platform and walked down, though it was perhaps disingenuous to say they “walked.” What did they was walk on air. Golden platforms like small halos appeared underneath their feet as they slowly walked down as though they were descending a flight of stairs. They moved in perfect sync, making it clear they had rehearsed this.

Their act also had an effect on the crowd. Eve...

STNS: Chapter 341

Wu Jian was unable to give Wu Meiying an answer right away. He stayed up all night after she visited him and was still no close to knowing what he wanted. He was so distracted, letting the conversation replay over and over again in his head, that he couldn’t even properly medidate. The sun came up at some point during his time thinking. After glancing out the window to see that another day was here, Wu Jian sighed.

“Muuuuuaaaaaaa…”

A loud yawn echoed from his shad...

Next Month on Patreon

Getting back to my roots with some gorgeous Lilian art.

Art will be delivered into appropriate Mega folders on July 6-7. I'll be attending Anime Expo from July 1-4, then visiting my grandma for a day because she has cancer, so please give me some time.

STNS: Chapter 340

In hindsight, it hadn’t been that long since he and Wu Meiying had seen each other. Almost one year had passed, which wasn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, but so much had happened that, to Wu Jian, it felt like decades had gone by. And yet Wu Meiying looked no different now than she had when they last saw each other.

Her pale skin, shimmering in the light.

Her black hair like midnight.

Even her hesitant demeanor was the same as that night.

W...

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2023-06-20 18:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post

STNS: Chapter 339

Wu Jian breathed in sharply as he dodged the swinging scythe that came scant centimeters from carving a bloody furrow through his face. He thought that would be the end of it, but several droplets of blood flew from the scythe as it passed, each one changing into the shape of a needle.

[Spatial Folding]

Wu Jian created a tear in space. The blood needles flew through it, then appeared out of another tear behind Shā Ying Yue. If this was another type of attack, they would have stru...