Diana Ravenborne had taken her time choosing her pocket realm. It was faint, but each of the shards floating in the celestial fog radiated an aura that allowed one to guess what was lurking inside. Of course, it was still a gamble at the end of the day. But Diana felt like she had won hers.
"Everything in here is just so delectable," she smirked, raising the savage monster she had impaled with her claws off the forest floor. The little bastard snarled viciously at her desp...
2025-01-27 11:46:52 +0000 UTC
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The chilling aura of metal Qi gripped Sebastian's soul as he materialized in a pocket realm. His eyes narrowed as he tried to survey the blinding landscape. A seemingly endless silver expanse stretched before him until it met a jagged mountain range of steel-topped bronze that welded into the horizon. A golden hue from the sun that seemed to have been forged from molten gold dyed the sky and danced across the silver expanse.
Veins of various ores ran between the harsh slopes of silver, ...
2025-01-25 14:04:04 +0000 UTC
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Ashlock had long suspected something was up with the Mudcloaks.
When he had rescued them alongside Douglas from the Dragonite Mines, a mere Soul Fire Realm pocket dimension, he had thought of them as cute little monsters reminiscent of dumb dwarfs. They could hardly speak coherently and had almost been wiped out by a race of primitive monsters. All he saw was potential in using them as a labor force, but nothing more than that.
"But the warning signs had been there from the start....
2025-01-23 13:48:29 +0000 UTC
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Stella took the offered seat. Like the rest of this place, it wasn't material. Instead, it was made from a gravity well stuck in a fractured vector of space.
"I'm curious," Stella said as she began to munch on the Mystic Realmwarp fruit. She could feel its mystical energies reaching through her body and gently caressing her soul. "How did you call out to my bloodline?"
A chuckle echoed through the space, "How indeed. The answer is more simple than you would think." A sphere of liq...
2025-01-21 15:47:50 +0000 UTC
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Stella awoke the following day to a voice as her body was being shaken from side to side by two tiny hands.
"Master!"
"Hmm?" Stella groaned as she was pulled out of dreamland. It had been an unpleasant experience sleeping under the nine moons ever since Ashlock took on desolation Qi, but that had changed with the recent addition of harmony dao. Instead of unsettling nightmares, she now experienced dreams that played with the concepts of duality and being on the edge of making big ...
2025-01-19 12:40:45 +0000 UTC
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Stella saw a great opportunity to boost the Ashfallen Sect's finances after Sebastian arrived shortly after his young master and hurriedly explained the situation more thoroughly.
"So you see," the poor man took a moment to catch his breath and survey the room. "That's why, while I would appreciate it if anyone could accompany my young master to explain the situation better, I understand if that isn't possible with the looming beast tide. I'm quite happy to accompany him a...
2025-01-17 13:20:12 +0000 UTC
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Sebastian Silverspire absentmindedly rolled a communication jade between his fingers as he stared out his window. He felt weirdly sentimental on this late afternoon as he awaited an urgent message from Ryker's mother. All he knew was that something had happened in the Silverspire family, and he needed to be informed about it.
He let out a small sigh. It's hard not to think such matters pale compared to this sight.
Despite the intense rainfall, darkened clouds, and the mou...
2025-01-15 15:21:17 +0000 UTC
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Stella hopped down from the wall onto an exposed tree root that was like a bridge through the swamp that had formed due to the intense rain. Balancing herself by stretching her arms out to either side, she walked past pools of mud from which Ents were emerging. Purple wood twisted up from half-decayed corpses that were face down in the muck, consuming the bodies and blood-stained mud in the process.
The Ents weren't large, only around a head taller than Stella. They had four legs, but u...
2025-01-13 15:11:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, a few days ago, Book 5 of Tree was released on Amazon. All previous installments of the series reached rank 300 in the store, held there for a few days, and then fell. This pattern has been pretty consistent with each release.
However, book 5 was different. Something unknown seems to have gone wrong. Whether it was the series falling out of the algorithm, the pre-order emails not going out, or something else, the book is doing badly. It hit rank 900 i...
2025-01-12 03:15:38 +0000 UTC
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"Douglas, don't just stand there," Ashlock spoke into the man's mind, breaking him from a daze, "You aren't good at fighting. This isn't the place for you."
"I'm sorry, Boss." Douglas's shoulders slumped, and he looked angry with himself. "You invested so many resources into me, but I couldn't win against a few beasts despite having the ground advantage. I failed you."
"No, don't feel bad. Your cultivation may h...
2025-01-11 14:58:05 +0000 UTC
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"Incoming!" Douglas roared at the top of his lungs as he brandished his sword and horizontally swung at the rapidly descending darkness. Brown flames met the blazing darkness as he hit it with all his empowered might. There was a satisfying crunch of bone as the monster was flung into the side of a runically enhanced battlement following the arc of his sword—obliterating it.
"Hah," Douglas let out a gasp as he raised his sword up once more. That was a good hit, but he could tell that ...
2025-01-09 15:17:31 +0000 UTC
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Douglas stepped out from the Ashfallen Trading Company headquarters into the pouring rain with mixed feelings.
His pride as a man and a seasoned rogue cultivator used to dealing with the darker and more brutal side of humanity was somewhat ashamed to be ordered around by a somewhat bratty teenage girl, especially when her demands were so ridiculous. But on the other hand, she was the daughter and spokesperson for a literal god worshiped by millions and the overlord of the sect he called...
2025-01-07 15:35:59 +0000 UTC
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"Please tell me you are joking."
Stella swayed back on her chair as if attempting to escape Douglas's glare from across the table. The broad-shouldered man caused the table to the creak as he leaned on it with the full weight of his arms like tree trunks planted firmly before him. He loomed forward, his forehead a stack of frown lines that each looked like a frown.
"Stella," he said slowly and seriously, "repeat what you just said."
"I told the Celestial Warden...
2025-01-05 14:38:24 +0000 UTC
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Tiberius, who originally hailed from the Celestial Empire, stood before a window overlooking Nightshade City. While the capital city of the Tainted Cloud Sect was nothing compared to the cities back home, a storm like no other thundered over the landscape, sending rain trails running down the window and blanketing the land in a cold fog. Large man-made airships loomed just below the clouds, some simply floating while others dipped down to dock with the surface.
"How are the evacuations ...
2025-01-03 15:18:02 +0000 UTC
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The Chairman of the Celestial Empire strode through a hallway of twisted golden wood with two attendants in tow. They had followed him for centuries but kept a cautious distance, lest they wanted to be crushed by his Monarch realm soul pressure radiating off him, causing the air around him to shimmer with rage. The trio had just left a meeting with the council, and things had gotten heated.
"Chairman, what are we going to do? At this rate, your hold on Empyrea will fall, which will caus...
2025-01-01 15:20:33 +0000 UTC
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Ashlock felt a foreboding breeze rustle his leaves as Maple was awoken from his slumber and stared down at Vincent.
He hadn't wanted it to come to this, but he'd been left with no choice but to manipulate Maple into helping him. When he had summoned the Worldwalker confined to the body of a mere squirrel many moons ago, his cultivation had been far too pathetic to have control over such a being. But Maple had offered a pact, one of peaceful coexistence.
They wouldn't interfere in ...
2024-12-18 14:40:38 +0000 UTC
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Vincent couldn't help but grin despite the pain of being impaled as he looked around. He was encircled by floating islands, all glowing with different types of Qi. They had shields and what appeared to be supercharged flowers pointing his way. There were also more of those monsters created from twisted wood standing on a few of the islands silently watching him.
However, a far larger island than the others floating right before him dominated his view. It was wreathed in cosmic Qi, and h...
2024-12-15 13:12:42 +0000 UTC
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The reality-shattering explosion pushed every Bastion backward like a tsunami. The shields on every Bastion except Erebus were vaporized in the shockwave, and the leaves on all demonic trees for miles had been stripped in the wake of the assault. It was a miracle that the Bastions hadn't been blown out of the sky and the forest below wasn't on fire.
As the roar of the attack reduced to a distant rumble, Ashlock wondered if he had spent more Qi shielding the Bastions and his offspring in...
2024-12-13 14:49:10 +0000 UTC
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Douglas realized he may have gotten in over his head.
Call him stupid, a blockhead, rocks for brains, whatever, he would nod and agree. He was a Grand Elder of the Ashfallen Sect but hadn't yet mentally grown into his role. After all, just half a year ago, he had been a debt-riddled thug scraping by in the shadows of Darklight City. So when a group of outer sect members that had recently joined the Ashfallen Sect after the tournament came to him, eager to prove their worth and to earn f...
2024-12-11 12:47:39 +0000 UTC
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To gaze beyond the veil of your own imagination is to risk the shattering of your very power. For in the blinding light of truth, what was once limitless may become finite, and what was once divine may crumble to dust. The strength of the mystic depends not on what is true but on what we dare to imagine as truth. Even in the face of the truth, never stop believing in the impossible. - Kael Mystshroud, the first ancestor and author of the Veiled Truths scrolls.
2024-12-09 14:35:28 +0000 UTC
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Stella was unsure of what to do as she crouched on a branch of one of Ash's offspring and watched the horde of crazed people rush below. There was a creak as the branch she was perched on bent slightly from the weight of someone landing beside her.
"What do you think, Grand Elder Redclaw?" she asked the man as the temperature in the air notably rose.
"Vincent got us good," the man grumbled as he stroked his chin. "I've confirmed that each person's strength is around the lower stag...
2024-12-06 15:11:53 +0000 UTC
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Elysia Mystshroud had a wide grin as she walked the central street of Nightrose City. After the construction of the new castle in Ashfallen's name that occupied the center of the city where the Nightrose family's castle had stood for decades, and the populace accepted the change in their overlords, there had been a flood of new sign-ups to the cult of the All-Seeing Eye.
Some businessmen with good foresight had approached her with plans to construct grand places of worship for the All-S...
2024-12-04 12:19:17 +0000 UTC
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[You have suffered a hit from a Nascent Soul Realm attack]
"Huh—" Ashlock's confusion was shocked out of him by a world of pain.
He had been targeting each of the warehouses Stella had identified with the help of Sullivan with desolation Qi imbued with spatial and blood dao to eliminate Vincent's blood clones. It didn't matter if they hid inside a coffin or walked around. They died all the same. What he hadn't been expecting was to receive return f...
2024-12-02 14:06:18 +0000 UTC
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Vincent clasped his hands behind his back and took in the sights all around him.
Floating islands, big and small, dotted the celestial sky with shimmering gold waterfalls cascading off their sides. He stood upon a bridge of gems. If he glanced off the side, he could see down into the layers of creation below. All were below his feet, and he was at the peak of creation.
Of course, this was all an illusion. He could step off the bridge, and his feet would find solid ro...
2024-11-30 15:28:15 +0000 UTC
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Stella sat on the couch of her home while Diana let out an exasperated sigh. "You got it so wrong it might as well be backward."
"So you're telling me it's not a type of wrestling?" Stella retorted.
"Yes, that is exactly what I'm telling you. Where did you even get that idea?" Diana pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration.
Stella shrugged, "The brothel? They gave me a list of opponents to choose from."
Diana...
2024-11-28 11:59:39 +0000 UTC
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"What did you do, Morrigan?!" Vincent snarled as he glared at the grinning woman. This was the worst outcome. He ideally needed a person alive so he could drain the required blood from them for the bloodline absorption ritual to work. While this arm did have some of Stella Crestfallen's blood, it was already too stale, and even if he drained every last drop from the arm, it wouldn't be enough to fill more than a cup, let alone a coffin.
Morrigan had clearly betrayed him, and he h...
2024-11-26 13:04:26 +0000 UTC
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Two pink eyes of blazing bloodlust peered through the darkness and bore down on Vincent Nightrose as the golden threads of fate spiraled upwards into infinity. He tried to grasp at them, but like silk threads, they slid through his fingers. No matter which threads he attempted to follow, they all ended in loose ends.
Vincent cursed as he dismissed the divination and wiped a trail of blood from the corner of his mouth. Despite his efforts to fix up this body that he had stolen fro...
2024-11-24 16:07:04 +0000 UTC
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Stella looked at Sullivan's utter look of despair with childlike excitement.
She could crush this man to a pulp with a mere thought, and in the past, she might have done that. Killing gave her a euphoric sense of agency over her life. It was a physical manifestation of all her efforts—the ability to reap the life of another meant she was growing stronger, that she was no longer the victim of this cruel world and could take control of her life.
But she...
2024-11-22 13:52:51 +0000 UTC
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Sullivan's soul-core hummed in his chest as he aggressively pushed Qi toward his muscles. His ragged breaths came out in clouds of mist as he charged through the rain down the muddied back streets of Darklight City.
He could not see or hear it, but the chasing creature's presence was all-encompassing, bearing down on him and making his hair stand on end. He swore it was right behind him no matter how fast or far he ran. Daring not to even waste a moment looking back, he kept goin...
2024-11-20 13:13:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! I will be taking a few days off as it's my birthday tomorrow! I planned to write a chapter in advance that would upload while I was away on a trip, but I also caught covid which has given me brain fog making writing harder than usual.
So, the next chapter will be in a few days. Thanks for the continued support :)
Oh, also, I have switched to the new patreon system, so anytime you subscribe, you will get 30 days of access and then will be charged on the same day. So there ...
2024-11-17 10:06:55 +0000 UTC
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