Tiberius, the Celestial Warden and overseer of the Eternal Pursuit Pavilion just outside Desolark City, frowned as the long-range communication array built into his desk demanded his attention.
"What's happened now?" he mused, checking the sender. His eyes widened.
A Sage Advisor from the Frozen Star Sect's branch? He quickly straightened up and accepted the call, only to be greeted by the hologram of a disheveled Sage Advisor.
"Greetings, Celestial Warden," the man...
2025-11-07 09:07:27 +0000 UTC
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Stella flew through the dragon-sized tunnels of the palace toward the surface, hoping to run into Grand Elder Hanxu on the way, as she assumed the corpse-like man hadn't made it that far—but as she reached the final level below the surface, the whole building suddenly trembled violently—the ceiling cracked overhead, and loose chunks of ice rained down all around her.
"Is the palace under attack?" Stella said, exchanging a look with Janus, who was floating at her side.
"Or the ...
2025-11-05 12:48:01 +0000 UTC
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"Is this Ao Lingxuan's vault?" Stella asked the corpse-like Grand Elder beside her as they stood before a massive obsidian ice door in the basement of the dragon's palace. It softly glowed from the many protective formations embedded in the door and the surrounding walls.
"Yes," Grand Elder Hanxu said. Apparently, this man led the loyalist faction of Ao Lingxuan, so his cold tone was expected, considering Stella had just shown up and enslaved his Patriarch.
"Yes, w...
2025-11-03 10:59:51 +0000 UTC
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One moment, Jasmine had been eye-to-eye with an ancient ice dragon and lost consciousness; the next, she had stirred awake in an ice cavern on a stage surrounded by hundreds of cultivators. Initially mistaking the situation for them being captured by a cult, she was soon assured by Stella that it was not.
They were in the Lion's Den, a supposedly famous gambling hall, and Stella had come here to do just that, gamble. Or at least, that was the ruse she was running with. Jasmine knew her ...
2025-10-31 09:05:26 +0000 UTC
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"I concede," Ao Lingxuan uttered words he had never once said in his many years of life. Not when he fought tooth and nail in the chasm, nor as the head of one of the most powerful sects on this layer of creation. Worst of all was the person, the demon, to whom these words were uttered.
Zephyrine.
The ethereal, white-furred deer that had haunted his dreams more than he cared to admit. The one whom he believed until now had executed his mother in cold blood and cast him do...
2025-10-29 10:44:53 +0000 UTC
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"Ah," Stella held out her hand and caught a red snowflake. "It was over so soon."
"Stella!" Janus yelled from above. "What have you done?!"
It had only been a minute or so since Stella freed herself from the invisible line and let her anger loose on the fools of the Frozen Star Sect. Unfortunately for the gathered cultivators, the hunt had been relatively short-lived.
Glancing up, Stella's gaze drifted past the dozens of chopped-up bodies that were suspended in the air with ...
2025-10-27 08:51:10 +0000 UTC
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Ashlock wasn't a single tree on a mountain peak but rather the head of a vast forest of interconnected minds. He shared his knowledge of the world and granted use of his passive skills to his offspring, and they did the same for him.
However, just like how his offspring couldn't use his skills as well as he could, the same was true for him.
Ashlock had a deep understanding of shadow law after Nox assimilated the shadow throne in Tartarus. He could even infuse shadow law into his d...
2025-10-24 13:46:47 +0000 UTC
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"Thane, what is in your shadow?" Faelorian asked while hesitantly stepping back. Bright green nature Qi, so perfectly refined that it radiated off Faelorian like an aurora flare, wreathed him in a protective aura. All of the vines around him were tensed and ready to strike at the slightest movement.
Ashlock was surprised by Faelorian's defensive reaction. If the Monarch had seen Anubis lurking in Thane's shadow, why was he afraid? The Ent was only in the Nascent Soul R...
2025-10-22 12:07:14 +0000 UTC
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Ashlock was impressed by Thane's deductions and smooth talking as he watched his actions through Anubis, hiding in his shadow. Firstly, it seemed the man had figured out his plan to kill the Monarchs of the Celestial Empire through his mutterings, and he had to admit that the fabricated lie about the totem being a bomb to Cyphion exceeded his expectations.
Now, a more hot-headed cultivator witnessing this lie unfold before them might have directed Anubis to rise out of the shadows and k...
2025-10-20 13:07:52 +0000 UTC
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Ashlock was looking down at an unassuming mountain. To both the trained and untrained eye, there was absolutely nothing special about it. Just a plain old gray rocky mountain of average height, no snow, and surrounded by a regular forest. There was absolutely no reason for anyone to be out here, as there was nothing but endless forest for a hundred miles, yet someone was. A disheveled-looking man, with whom Ashlock was somewhat acquainted, was standing on a slightly flat part of the mountaint...
2025-10-17 09:31:20 +0000 UTC
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"Sis, have you... grown since I last saw you?" Janus said, looking her up and down with a mix of confusion and surprise. "You look older than I was expecting."
Stella opened her mouth to respond but found her lip quivering as she studied his kind-looking face. He was handsome, as expected of her brother, with light blonde hair somewhat hiding his pink eyes. The aura around him was that of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, and he carried himself well. He was also a lot taller than Stella ...
2025-10-15 14:10:24 +0000 UTC
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"Who is Ao Lingxuan?" Stella hissed through clenched teeth as a sudden cold gripped her body, seeping into her bones. She had many theories as to the dragon's identity. Was it Ilyzathar's child? While the dragon seemed ancient, it had been a long time since then. It could also be the father, or perhaps another relative? Or even a totally different ice dragon altogether? Whatever the case, this dragon clearly resented Zephyrine with a burning passion.
"He is Ilyzathar's child," ...
2025-10-10 12:00:26 +0000 UTC
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Stella shepherded Zephyrine out of Tiberius's office as soon as possible, partly because Tiberius seemed about to faint from stress, but also because, frankly, she didn't trust the man. He was the leader of an information guild that had originated from the Celestial Empire, and for the right price, he would disclose anything he knew.
The Ashfallen Sect already had too many enemies to risk giving away valuable information, which included the location and identity of a dragon. Kaida and A...
2025-10-08 12:33:53 +0000 UTC
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Tiberius, the Celestial Warden of the Eternal Pursuit Pavilion, could barely contain his laughter as a grumpy-looking Stella trudged into his office.
"Let me guess, you didn't enjoy the dramatic welcome you received?" he mused while gesturing for her to take a seat opposite him.
Stella huffed a few strands of stray hair out of her face as she sat down. "No, I didn't. What was that all about anyway? I had over twenty guards escorting me."
"Well," Tiberius intertwined his fing...
2025-10-06 13:34:42 +0000 UTC
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Stella patiently waited before the Ashfallen Castle, the centerpiece of Desolark City. To cement the Ashfallen Sect's might after the utter defeat of the Nightrose family, the previous castle, which had taken up a third of the city, was destroyed. The ground was dug up to remove all the ancient formations, and from the vast chasm left behind, a grand pillar rose, upon which a new symbol of unmatched power was built. If Stella remembered correctly, it had taken three days and the combined effo...
2025-10-03 13:24:03 +0000 UTC
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Stella hadn't seen the sun in what felt like a week—though it was hard to notice the passing of time in her alchemy cave, where there was no natural sunlight. Not that she was too bothered by it, as she had been thoroughly absorbed in her work and wasn't ashamed to admit she was hiding from Elaine.
For some reason, ever since Elaine became a mother, she was far scarier. Was it because Stella couldn't bring herself to fight back, knowing little Talon or Hazel was watching? Or was it be...
2025-10-01 12:18:03 +0000 UTC
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Thane thought the years spent living alone in the monster-infested wilderness had hardened him as a person—yet nothing could have prepared him for how casually Councilman Cyphion massacred so many people. It wasn't the coldness in his eyes as he went about it or his disregard for human life that had shaken him. It was the sheer effortlessness of it. Killing a thousand mortals in an instant was impressive, even for a cultivator like him in the Star Core Realm, but it was the fate of...
2025-09-29 13:15:57 +0000 UTC
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Ashlock had been enjoying a relatively peaceful morning when a rather frustrated Elaine landed on Red Vine Peak. Little Talon was clinging to her back like a koala, looking around sleepily with his void-black eyes. Hazel was missing, likely off at work with her dad or playing with Jasmine somewhere out in the fields.
Elaine came to a pause before the empty bench, with her arms crossed. Clearing her throat, she proceeded to demand in the most respectful tone she could muster,
2025-09-26 13:12:22 +0000 UTC
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Beside book 7 coming out today on Amazon, I have something else to share...
Ashlock vs Ig'Zal featured in Book 8s cover :D
This is definitly one of my favourites for sure, it turned out better than I could have imagined. Also, some might notice the yin yan composition going on here. Though, when you take away the ground, Ashlock really is just a wooden eldritch octopus thing... mh...
2025-09-25 16:18:40 +0000 UTC
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Yo yo yo! It's that TIME AGAIN! It's been like five months since a Tree book dropped on Amazon. Crazy how time flies. Anyway, I need everyones help again but this time more than usual. Amazon is fucked right now. Like, authors can't even access their earnings dashboard, and ranks aren't updating which kills new books (aka me).
So any help, and I mean any would be appreciated!
Of course, there's the book: 2025-09-25 16:06:53 +0000 UTC
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Thane awoke to the ringing of bells. Not the pleasant wind chimes synonymous with the month-long festivals of Floridawn—these were loud, bone-rattling clangs that echoed throughout the entire city as if heralding the fall of the sky. Such a heavy, metallic sound was rare in Floridawn, a place intertwined with the harmony of nature.
"Ugh," Thane groaned, rubbing his head and looking around. With nowhere to go after arriving in the inner city so late at night, Thane had taken up residen...
2025-09-24 10:43:59 +0000 UTC
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Empyrea, Capital City of the Celestial Empire.
The Chairman of the Celestial Empire frowned as he withdrew his finger from a small hole in the World Tree—it was stained with a black sap that turned into a miasma upon contact with the air. The Chairman used his Monarch Realm soul pressure to freeze the miasma in the air and curiously inspected it.
Never in history had there been an instance where the World Tree's golden sap turned black. Why now? Was this the doi...
2025-09-22 10:33:06 +0000 UTC
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[Notice: Elaine, Khaos, undefined, and undefined have exited the Eternal Realm]
Ashlock barely had time to inform Stella of the news before his vision blurred, and he looked within his Inner World at the exit of the Eternal Realm. His anticipation could barely be contained. Just how strong had she become? How were her children? Did the birth go well? If he had to guess, it did, the two undefined people marked by the system message had to be those children.
Elaine ...
2025-09-19 14:26:35 +0000 UTC
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Stella massaged her skull as a headache brewed after sending out the last of her parchments and writing out her advice to the elite disciples. It had been a long few weeks, with today being the worst yet, marked by unrelenting coordinated attacks from the disciples, forcing her to remain on her guard at all times.
A normal lesson for a few hours twice a week would have been way easier than this. Just what were you thinking?! What kind of idiot would suggest a th...
2025-09-17 12:15:54 +0000 UTC
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Stella fled the lecture hall through the portal, enraged at herself.
You idiot! What is wrong with you? she berated herself as she emerged into a forest deep in the wilderness. You had so many lesson ideas, why did you fold under the pressure of all their expectant gazes and come up with this ludicrous idea? Execute one of them if they fail to get a hit on you? Elaine is going to execute me if this gets out.
"Are you...
2025-09-15 12:11:06 +0000 UTC
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Staring down the abyssal throat of a shadowy being, Jasmine could only freeze in place. Its maw slowly widened to engulf her in its darkness.
"What the hell are you freezing up for, you idiot!" Sam shouted as he punched the monster in the side of the head—his fist wreathed in earth Qi. His words snapped her back to reality, and she swiftly lashed out with her whip, obliterating the beast. As it faded into the surroundings like smoke caught in a breeze, pure Qi flowed into her body, br...
2025-09-12 13:56:06 +0000 UTC
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After a long and well-needed hug, the two friends separated.
"I'll get going now," Diana said, giving her a sad smile. "Sect duty calls, and I've got to cover for Elaine and Douglas now that they are in the Eternal Realm."
"I could help?" Stella offered.
Diana brightened at the suggestion, but then her expression turned complicated. "Well... what do you know about teaching cultivation and techniques? That's the main duty I'm covering for Elaine."
Stella felt offended. ...
2025-09-10 12:41:11 +0000 UTC
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Stella was glad to finally have a leash around Morrigan. The effectiveness of heavenly oaths on Origins was dubious at best, especially on the Origin of the Void, and ever since they met, Stella hadn't been able to decipher this woman's true intentions.
Was she friend or foe?
However, now that Morrigan was effectively trapped in the Grove of Eternal Rebirth, Stella didn't have to worry. From now on, Morrigan's motives had to align with the Ashfallen Sect's greater interests if she...
2025-09-08 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan had faced the scorching soul flames of reincarnation an unfathomable number of times and endured the experience of having her memories, knowledge, love, and pain stripped from her. For regular souls, the torturous experience wasn't remembered, but Origins never forgot. Fragments of their dormant memories were returned to them slowly through the heavens' whispers, which were actually echoes of their pasts harvested by the heavens during their reincarnations. For the cultivators, the w...
2025-09-05 08:45:43 +0000 UTC
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Alright, the last two chapters didn't quite hit the mark as I wanted them to, so I've made some extensive edits to both chapters. The number of changed lines is too many to put here, so I advise a reread of both chapters 503 and 504. I still don't think they are the best chapters ever, but I believe the changes have made them more enjoyable, and the characters act more rationally. I will be boarding my 13 hr flight to Atlanta now so I will have to fix any errors or issues with the rewrites wh...
2025-08-28 07:47:33 +0000 UTC
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