1/3 this week!
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Seventeen cultivators simultaneously unleashing their auras and law projections caused the void to tremble. Spatial tempests picked up, carrying away the dregs of planar dust that were now all but useless to Cha Ming.
The laws of reality were superseded. The various elements fell under the control of their representative cultivators, who enforced a bubble of law control around themselves while sabotaging their neighbors and preventing them from mobilizing t...
2023-02-20 17:53:52 +0000 UTC
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last chapter of last week. Another to follow.
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Cha Ming use Bloodstorm Rush to flee until he was several dozen kilometers away from Oster. It was only once he was certain that his clear runes were out of range that he dared expand his Clear Rune Field and teleport to Huxian’s side.
“What took you so long?” Huxian asked him.
“Is that how you greet the man who just saved your girlfriend?” Cha Ming teased.
“Who’s my girlfriend?” Huxian mumbled. “...
2023-02-20 17:53:12 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week.
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A pulse of power filled the air as the eight largest planar fragments shattered, revealing gaping holes in space that tore apart their surroundings. The Chasewind Plane’s membrane shook and threatened to break apart while the adjacent debris field, having remained stagnant for many decades, began to move.
“This is bad,” White Mirage said, appearing beside Baleful Vision. “We were barely able to defend this gap, and now it’s widening.”
Bale...
2023-02-16 16:28:45 +0000 UTC
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3 chapters again this week.
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Wei Longshen could think of better ways to spend his time than hiding behind large pieces of spatial debris to avoid heavy fire from fiendish artilleries. Ideally, these other things would involve music, and either tea or wine. Better company as well.
Petros wasn’t a terrible fighting companion, but his words were abrasive, clipped, and straight to the point. His combat style was similar, as every arrow he shot took one or move lives...
2023-02-13 21:07:56 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week.
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After three days of fighting, little was left of the defensive fortifications Oster had directed everyone to erect. They now mostly relied on large planar fragments and the natural chokepoints and cover they provided.
A platoon of ten thousand reptilian fiends was currently pushing in on Huxian’s position. Not many of Cha Ming’s paintings remained, and Wei Longshen was fresh out of spirits. Guerilla tactics were currently the only way to go.
The p...
2023-02-12 01:42:36 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week.
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It was no longer possible to hide his breakthrough. And as fortune would have it—or misfortune, in this case—his “allies” still needed him. Because the demiplane was no longer collapsing, but he was. His Divine Shell was marred by a giant crack that threatened to tear it all apart. Worse, the wills and laws of his two competing transcendent planes, Flamewing and Claw Vice, were refusing to cooperate.
They’re like unruly children that ...
2023-02-09 16:20:01 +0000 UTC
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1/3 chapters this week ^^.
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Dao fragments formed the core of every plane. This included mortal, transcendent, and even immortal planes. Not only did they set the rules for each plane, they also set their tone and their nature. It was impossible for two planes to have identical Dao origins.
When Cha Ming had first absorbed the Flamewing Demiplane, he’d felt elation. His life had been in danger, so he’d broken through to save it. He hadn’t noticed that moment where law...
2023-02-07 20:56:46 +0000 UTC
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2/2 this week!
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Cha Ming had grown much stronger since fusing his three energies and consuming the Flamewing Demiplane. This had several consequences, one of them being that he could no longer enter weaker planar fragments without causing them to collapse.
Though he could not enter them, he could still directly refine them using the Star Void Spirit Refining technique.
“Ninesky, it’s your turn,” Cha Ming said.
“You’ve got it, Captain!” the small spi...
2023-02-02 16:55:46 +0000 UTC
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I haven't set the number of chapters this week, but rest assured, the whole book will be posted by the end of February.
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The void adjacent to the Northern Abyss was a veritable maze of spatial fragments. This had a lot to do with the fact that the northern hemisphere hadn’t just been flattened like the southern hemisphere, but completely destroyed, leaving no anchor points for a proper planar membrane to affix itself to.
Not only did the Northern Abyss contain ten times ...
2023-01-31 02:51:36 +0000 UTC
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2/2 this week.
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The fiendish fortress was of peculiar construction, in that it was built downward into the Northern Abyss instead of on a horizontal plane like they were used to. Its only entrance was a circular door built of a strange bronze alloy aligned with earth, gold, space, and destruction.
Their group was not lacking in powerhouses. Oster Fireblight, Cao Wenluan, and Xing Tianlong had broken through to middle law stitching or equivalent, and the rest, all save Cha ...
2023-01-24 22:22:15 +0000 UTC
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1/2. I made a mistake, so posting Chapter 45 right after this.
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After forty-eight years of hard work, the battle for the Chasewind Plane had reached a tipping point. The realm’s Dao Origins had reached a critical point in their healing, and as a result, the plane would be vulnerable for the next three months.
The fiends of the Northern Abyss had one final chance to destroy this world. If they failed, it would be the end of them.
As a result, the fiendish forces wer...
2023-01-24 17:11:14 +0000 UTC
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2/2 this week.
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Huxian’s worries proved to be all for naught, as Oster and Cao Wenluan outright rejected Cha Ming request for a meeting. In their view, this was a competition. Collaboration would only make things needlessly complicated.
They took a day to organize everything they needed before returning to their respective regions. The Bloodstorm Region was a flurry of activity. Every rune-gathering grade ship or better was conscripted for military use, including merchan...
2023-01-20 17:04:45 +0000 UTC
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1/2 this week. Enjoy ^^
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Now that the general situation on the Chasewind Plane was decided, Cha Ming and the others returned to the Heartforge Realm to complete the last leg of their training. Cha Ming sought out Dao God Heavenbind and Immortal White for an intensive consultation. His fighting style had already solidified, so they were much more liberal in their criticisms.
Cha Ming’s brush arts hadn’t changed much over the past few decades. River Lake Style still serv...
2023-01-18 15:29:16 +0000 UTC
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3/3 of this week. Enjoy ^^.
Material planes were a lot like living beings in that they required a constant influx of energy to survive. The planar membrane was where most of that energy came from, and it came in the form of primal chaos energy, which was trapped and refined through various life forms and mechanisms.
Planar membranes were not solid barriers, but porous ecosystems. They sheltered creatures that could neither survive on materials planes or in the void and occupied a ...
2023-01-15 17:39:09 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week ^^
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Wei Longshen flickered through the forest like a phantom, stepping on unbroken branches and lightly packed leaves, leaving no trace of his passage. Tree trunks and boulders did not hinder him, for his body had no flesh to speak of.
His destination was beneath a barren cliff that leaned precariously over a tranquil lake, where a ‘solid’ patch of stone blocked a narrow cave entrance. A burning arrow shot towards his face the moment he entered. But Wei L...
2023-01-11 17:40:52 +0000 UTC
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Three chapters this week, but the word count is long, so less chapters next week. I think it's worth the tradeoff though in terms of where things cut off.
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Clouds accumulated once more, filling them to the brim with Heaven and Earth Energies. The tribulation’s will was determined to enforce its verdict: death, for all many-tailed foxes.
A sun of black fire appeared, sending destructive rays washing over them. Opposite the sun appeared a frosty white moon that nourished a...
2023-01-09 17:51:57 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week!
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Exhausted from his spiritual journey, Cha Ming left his spiritual sea and returned to his body. His inner world had reached an absolute bottleneck. It was heavy and bursting at the seams, with no room for further expansion.
The same was also true for his law runes. A single creation and destruction pair had already formed an embryonic law. His soul was now so dense that it couldn’t move even within his spiritual sea.
A sliver separated Cha ...
2023-01-04 16:43:05 +0000 UTC
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Big chapter today. I waited like a year to write it (or some version of it) and the next one. So I'll post chapter 38 right away, as I think the read better continuously.
Enjoy!
2/3 this week.
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Ninesky flew a circle around Cha Ming before entering a thinking pose. “It’s like I said, helping him is difficult. Far more difficult than you might think. His body, his law core, and his soul are currently in a state of flux. External contamination could well kill him....
2023-01-04 16:42:07 +0000 UTC
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Happy New Year Everyone!!! I'm back and rested and ready to write. Three chapters this week. Time to power up!
1/3 this week.
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The discovery of South Blight Fortress and the impending detonation Flamewing Demiplane sent shockwaves throughout the entire Chasewind Plane. Sects, clans, and enclaves were forced to set aside their differences and dust off evacuation plans that were decades, sometimes centuries old.
If it were only an evacuation, things wouldn’t have be...
2023-01-02 16:51:03 +0000 UTC
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Merry Christmas! As promised, 3 chapters today!
2022-12-25 07:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The mountains of South Blight Sanctuary were treacherous and unstable, prone to collapsing mid-battle. What water they found was poisonous, and plants that at first seemed edible reduced their energy reserves instead of replenishing them.
The very air they breathed wore them down, and only by consuming high grade spirit stones could they stave off this effect. Nothing short of top-grade spirit stones were required to replenish energy they spent, which happened frequently as w...
2022-12-23 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Years came and went, and soon, it was autumn again. Bronze and gold leaves fell like rain upon the twin mountains, covering it in a beautiful but temporary layer of decay that marked the end of the first half of their stay in the Heartforge Realm.
Thirty years had come and gone. Thirty hard but fruitful years for those who’d survived this long.
Cha Ming and Huxian were enjoying a relaxing afternoon, drinking chilled wine as they watched the leaves fall. A fiend outbre...
2022-12-22 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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5 more chapters (After this one) before the end of the year. I'm going to go ahead and schedule two more in the coming days, then 3 on Christmas day. ^^ It's also a good breaking point in the story thus far.
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The Heartforge Realm was a paradise for cultivators, and as such, it was easy to lose track of time. Cha Ming and Huxian trained for months at a time, only occasionally returning to the Chasewind Plane to fight major fiend outbreaks and make progress on their respecti...
2022-12-21 16:21:44 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week!
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After a bitter year of fighting with blood cultivators, evading corpse puppeteers, and nearly being turned into a corpse puppet himself, Cha Ming returned to the Heartforge Realm for an extended recovery. And unlike the Chasewind Plane, which was in a constant state of flux, the Heartforge Realm remained relatively unchanged.
Cha Ming and Huxian spent an entire week relaxing, cooking, drinking tea, and otherwise decompressing. They ignored the flood of craf...
2022-12-17 22:41:40 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week. More to follow ^^.
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Patriarch Blighted Heaven was an early law stitching cultivator, but unlike most cultivators in his sect, he’d cultivated both his qi and his body. Huxian had given Cha Ming an extensive portfolio on the major figures in his region. The Patriarch’s demigod bloodline was that of God-Emperor Blighted Heaven, who was famous in demonic circles for slaying the legendary Moongold Condor.
“Are you ready, Clear Sky?” the Patriarch a...
2022-12-17 22:41:01 +0000 UTC
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1/3 this week!
Also, Heartforge is now out on Audible, for those who listen there ^^.
https://geni.us/heartforge
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The intermission lasted three days, and in those three days, the sects and clans of the three regions discussed, argued, and drew blood. Most of the attendees were not friends, and the line between cutting banter and insult was both blurry and ever-changing.<...
2022-12-14 16:35:07 +0000 UTC
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2/2 this week! Also I have a new shiny desktop now. Built it with a friend. I'm going to take a picture once my desk comes in.
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The battle for the Blood God Region was over. The Blood God Sect and the Blood Demon Sect were no more, and the Blood Sword Sect only possessed a remnant of its former glory.
The True Blood Sect was not interested in managing the region, but unfortunately, the conflict had gutted any other power able to take up the mantle. As a result, the region ...
2022-12-08 17:04:46 +0000 UTC
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2 Chapters this week. The second one is a bit longer than normal.
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Without their leaders, the remaining cultivators from the three blood sects put up little resistance. Cha Ming and his allies captured them before moving in on the sects themselves.
Though they tried their best to take prisoners, it was inevitable that many innocents were swept up in the conflict. A sect’s leadership might be evil, but human nature was variable.
Time was limited, so they killed any ...
2022-12-05 23:04:34 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week!
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Oster Fireblight was a practical individual in that he would do almost anything for money. ‘Greed is good’ was his slogan, and he applied that to every facet of his life.
Which was why, despite having taxes to collect and battle reports to catch up on, he was lying in wait between the mountains separating the Puppet Lightning Region and the Blood God Region with a full half of his mercenary forces.
He was still counting crystals, but most of his a...
2022-12-02 16:30:56 +0000 UTC
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Hm, in hindsight 2 chapters is on the low side this week. 2/3 this week. I'll post another one in a couple of days, and that will finish up this confrontation.
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The match to decide the leadership of the Puppet Lightning Sect was all but over. Four out of five members of each side had defeated, making this a technical draw, but the two leaders that mattered from the sinful faction were dead. Even with Dao God Thunderclash, it would be difficult for them to assume leadership if t...
2022-11-30 21:58:00 +0000 UTC
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