1/2 this week.
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The arena was set. The battle lines were drawn. The Puppet lightning Sect’s leadership would be determined, and the losers - the ones who survived - would be exiled. It was a harsh solution to their conflict, but a necessary one give the size and importance of the Puppet Lightning Sect.
The battle took place not far from Puppet Lightning Mountain – just close enough that it was in plain sight, but not so close that either side could draw on the mountain...
2022-11-28 18:30:23 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week ^^
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It did not take long for news of the conflict to spread throughout the entire Puppet Lightning Region. The Puppet Lightning Sect, which had recently risen to power, had fractured, and was on the verge of a civil war.
Many organizations, sects, and clans began declaring their allegiances. Battle lines were drawn. For the most part, however, the sects and clans steered clear of the conflict, as supporting the wrong faction might result in dire consequences....
2022-11-25 20:36:22 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week.
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Cha Ming opened his eyes to a room filled with violet lightning. Now that the puppet lightning soul was restrained, he was now in full control of his body. Despite the large amount of energy that had blasted through his body to serve as a conduit into his spiritual sea, his body was unharmed and unchanged – all save for a mark on his right hand in the shape a lighting bolt that that crawled up his wrist and forearm, ending just above the elbow.
“Come ou...
2022-11-23 06:42:52 +0000 UTC
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Super sorry about the delay. There are some personal matters that came up, and that I'm in the middle of resolving. Nothing too big, just a huge drain on my time and energy.
There will be 3 chapters this week. This one's extra long, but since I'm late posting I'll put up the next one right away.
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Cha Ming’s identity was a sensitive topic in the Puppet Lightning Sect, and as such, Artificer Lei had taken great care to hide any traces of his arrival. Not only was there a h...
2022-11-23 06:42:08 +0000 UTC
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2/2 this week. Come to think of it, this one's pretty long as well :)
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Dao Lord Blood Leech was dead. This was confirmed via their Heartforge Realm mission jades also by the fact that those infested with blood leeches regained their freedom. As for Enclave Lord Name Tree, his conspirator, he vanished. Neither of the three enclave lords of the Hallowed Turtle Ox Region knew where he’d gone, and Huxian and friends had no incentives to hunt him down.
Huxian would normally r...
2022-11-09 02:12:32 +0000 UTC
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1/2 chapters this week. Because this one is super long. Still moving. Will be more active soon.
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Thanks to the Hallowed Turtle Ox Teleportation Network, it only took a few hours to assemble the elites. Huxian then bunched everyone up on his ten fastest void ships, which included his own flagship, a miniaturized version of battlecruiser. Then they entered the void via an oversized gate.
“So that’s what you’ve been up to all this time,” Twisted Horn muttered...
2022-11-09 02:11:06 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week.
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Meetings, no matter the setting, were controversial at best, in that they were necessary to iron out details but a horrendous waste of time. Huxian tried to avoid meetings, but in times of war, it was hard to say no; a single missed meeting might result in hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives lost or displaced.
Forty demons and ten humans sat in a circular arrangement in a council-type chamber, wrapping around a planetoid construct that functioned...
2022-11-06 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week
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Cha Ming returned to wine house after the exchange, and Silent Storm, knowing he’d taken advantage of Cha Ming in their exchange, poured him drinks on the house for the rest of the night. Silence was the main course of the evening, despite the heavy crowd.
There were many reasons to return to the wine house. For one, Daoist Silent Storm owed him a favor and wouldn’t allow the elder of the Puppet lightning Sect to snatch him. For another, he didn’t stri...
2022-11-04 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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1/3 this week.
The Blighted Earth Sanctuary was a cultivation city, and as such, every dwelling had its own cultivation amenities. Though they weren’t as good as what could be found in clans or sects, they were sufficient for diligent cultivators to reach the rune gathering realm and continue on into the middle rune gathering realm.
To continue advancing, it was necessary to occupy a sanctuary cave, where higher-quality energy could be obtained. There were one thousand such ca...
2022-11-01 03:51:39 +0000 UTC
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Cha Ming only had a fraction of his power remaining when he woke, his body broken, and his energy reserves depleted. Many-colored lightning fell around him, striking the earth in such great quantities that it pooled into liquid lightning rivers that trickled down the creviced lands of the mountain slope he’d landed on.
Perhaps it was dumb luck, or maybe his intuition had saved him at the last minute, but he noticed that the patch of earth he’d landed on was completely dev...
2022-10-29 11:59:02 +0000 UTC
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“Naïve,” said Patriarch Blood Demon. He drew a blood red blade, and the air began to shimmer and condense into frayed red robes made up of loose strips of cloth that gripped and clawed at the air like a living, breathing creature.
Cha Ming took a step forward and vanished, appearing behind the sect master. His staff came crashing down, followed by a second, and third.
“A powerful attack,” the sect master admitted, his voice echoing in Cha Ming’s ears. “Or...
2022-10-28 11:59:01 +0000 UTC
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After six months of training in the Clear Sky World, the rebel cultivators had undergone a metamorphosis, and were well on their way to matching the power of a Tier 2 sect. Unfortunately, Tier 2 sects also required inheritances and accumulation. An all-out conflict with the Blood Demon Sect was out of the question.
But that didn’t mean there were no options. Every sect had their vulnerable points, and the Blood Demon Sect was no exception. Their blood pool was Ch...
2022-10-26 11:59:02 +0000 UTC
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VPN is finally working again, so I'm going to upload all the chapters for the rest of the month as scheduled releases. There are 4, including this one, to make up for the fact that I deleted the prologue and will convert it to an epilogue.
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The Blood God Region was slightly larger than the Azure Tempest Region, and thanks to its bountiful resources, it was occupied by more sects as well. The Blood God Sect had thirty subsidiary Tier 2 sects, and each of these Tier 2 sects had an...
2022-10-24 11:50:25 +0000 UTC
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The regions in the Heartforge Realm were not arbitrary divisions. Every region had their specialty, and most times, it had to do with geography. The Primordial Gloom Region was constantly overcast and received little sunshine; the Azure Tempest Region boasted the strongest winds of any region. In the Southern Hemisphere, there happened to be 32 such regions, and each one had been assigned a single Heartforge Realm Warden.
The Joss Smoke Region was different from the above-men...
2022-10-23 08:04:43 +0000 UTC
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As pointed out by others, I accidentally only posted on chapter so far. So I will post 2 now.
As a note, I'm flying in 4 days and so nervous I can't even drink orange soda without getting stomach burn. So don't panic if I accidentally don't get you anything over the next week. I will definitely make up for it after I arrive.
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Peaceful mornings were hard to come by on the Chasewind Plane during the chaos that followed every fiend outbreak. There was always something...
2022-10-23 08:04:03 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week.
Also, I'm going to be shifting the prologue I posted earlier to the end of the book (with modifications). Apologies for the confusion. In hindsight, makes for a much better cliffhanger epilogue than a prologue. As for the Yama bit, I'll include it at the end (unmodified) as a bonus chapter. Yama vs Angels and Devils (Corporate Style).
PS: By the way, have any of you ever read the manga 'The Ravages of Time'? I read quite a bit of it back in the day, and I miss it. ...
2022-10-20 07:02:28 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week.
The Clear Sky World had never stopped growing ever since its merger with his own inner world. And as the only landmass that could accommodate life in the Clear Sky World, the Jade Moon Demiplane had grown to several times its original size.
It didn’t take long all for Cha Ming to clear out a plot of land and put-up boundaries around his own alchemical crops and garden. And since the Unbroken Branch Sect mostly cultivated the wood element, he split off a segment of...
2022-10-17 01:15:51 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week!
Having come to the Chasewind Plane six years ago, Cha Ming was quite familiar with the Azure Tempest Region he’d been assigned to. The region saw its fair share of severe windstorms that could rip off the face of even powerful demigods, and Cha Ming, having never left his protectorate, expected more of the same everywhere else.
It turned out the Blood God Region was very different from the Azure Tempest Region, whether in terms of geography and po...
2022-10-15 01:23:21 +0000 UTC
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1/3 this week.
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It was an hour past sunset in Soaring City, and already, the populace was hard at work. Not just the working men and women, but children also. The city had barely survived the recent fiend outbreak, and all free hands were needed to clear the rubble and rebuild.
Almost a quarter of the city’s buildings lay in ruins. Half the city’s streets were completely unusable; specialized crews had been assigned to clearing them out and filling in the largest sinkh...
2022-10-11 02:23:26 +0000 UTC
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3/3 last week. Second chapter to follow shortly.
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Cha Ming looked around in disbelief. This was supposed to be a friendly meeting of the sects and clans, but Soaring Blade had been egging him on the entire time, and now he expected him to jump out and duel him? What was worse, no one seemed surprised by this development. Instead, they were waiting to see how he would respond to Sect Master Soaring Blade’s challenge.
There were several ways to deal with the situation. Cha...
2022-10-11 02:22:33 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week!
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On the Chasewind Plane, there exists a saying: wind is freedom, blood is life, and lightning is a cage. Though he wasn’t sure about the last two parts, Cha Ming agreed with the first. Wind was freedom, and with a pair of wings, the possibilities were endless.
Cha Ming was currently flying on painted wings. His azure tempest wings were a hundred meters from tip to tip, so every flap sent him flying several kilometers before he managed to straighte...
2022-10-06 01:52:46 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here are ePub and mobi files for PtM 16 - Heartforge.
Last time I didn't include a mobi file, because I didn't think it would be useful, but apparently it's possible to read the file using your kindle app if you jump through a few hoops?
Do let me know if you have a preferred format that isn't ePub or mobi, and I can upload that as well.
2022-10-04 07:58:27 +0000 UTC
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It took a bit longer than I expected to edit this one, but we're in business. One of three chapters this week. How many total this month will depend on how many words I add or subtract in the third draft.
For those of you waiting for Book 16's epub/mobi, I'll be posting it shortly.
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The storm struck suddenly and without warning, from all directions at once, battering the Inkwell Plane with enough force to sunder continents and empty oceans. This was not a normal spat...
2022-10-04 07:42:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey Everyone,
My apologies on the lack of communication. As many of you might know, I currently live in China. Because of the national holiday, my VPN didn't work, which meant that I couldn't connect to Patreon, Discord, emails, etc.
Note: this situation will change soon. I'll be in Canada next month, and won't have to deal with VPN for the foreseeable future.
So back to Book 17. The long and short of it is that Book 17 is a monster. I've written most of it up to 2nd...
2022-10-02 08:48:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello Everyone,
First of all, thank you so much for following on Patreon. The first half of the Heartforge Realm arc is now over, and the rest of it will conclude in Book 17 - Bloodstorm. I hope you're all enjoying this arc so far.
As much as I'd like to get straight into Book 17, that's not going to be possible this time around. I know I promised I would, but I've got to face the facts - the book's not even completely written yet (I'm still 5 chapters out). I therefore have no ch...
2022-08-27 05:48:15 +0000 UTC
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2/2 this week. Announcement post to follow.
Two weeks after the start of the fiend outbreak, shortly after the last of the fiends were slain, a wind blew across the Chasewind Plane. To most, it was just a normal wind, the kind you saw every day. But to those in the law-stitching realm or the divine or demonic equivalent, it was a miracle.
This wasn’t just wind. It was a chasewind.
Wherever the chasewind blew, lightning receded, as did all manner of pestilenc...
2022-08-27 05:15:20 +0000 UTC
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1/2 this week, to finish the book. After that, a bit of a break. Will explain in a few days.
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Cha Ming was no stranger to battlefields. He’d experienced large-scale war on the Ling Nan Plane and in Verdant Crossroads. Wars were messy and complicated, and by inserting oneself carelessly, it was easy to cause more problems than you solved.
He took several minutes to analyze each army, both mortal and transcendent. The mortal commanders, he discovered, were quite adept at w...
2022-08-22 22:00:41 +0000 UTC
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3/3 this week.
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In the middle of a fiend outbreak, there was no such thing as rest, only fighting and recovery. Cultivators hopped from one battlefield to the next, purging fiend blood when they needed to, but otherwise cycling their qi to the point of exhaustion.
Even Cha Ming was starting to feel the toll after three full days of frantic flying and fighting through a tortuous path that tripled the distance between Cha Ming and Soaring City. And still he never dared stop ...
2022-08-21 03:18:37 +0000 UTC
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2/3 this week.
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A gush of messages awaited Cha Ming the moment he appeared in the planar teleportation formation. Most of them were pleas for help, while others were quick communications from his friends about a similar eruption of fiends in their own protectorates.
Cha Ming and the others had long expected a fiend outbreak. He only wished he’d had more time to prepare. Just a few more years… Well, there was no use thinking about what he could have done. The fiends wer...
2022-08-18 00:47:07 +0000 UTC
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1/3 this week.
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The approval of the Azure Tempest Sect kept the Soaring Blade Sect off Cha Ming’s back and allowed him to continue expanding the Clear Sky Conglomerate. What followed was a peaceful year. Too peaceful, in fact.
There were no pirates, and sect infighting was at an all-time low. Even the number of fiends that were spawning had decreased significantly.
Talk of a fiend outbreak occurring in the near future became increasingly common. The data certainly ...
2022-08-16 00:39:37 +0000 UTC
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