Chapter 52 - Yung does a Doxxing
Yung gave the Flareful Empress his undivided attention for five whole seconds before he felt the most annoying itch in his ear. So he started cleaning it with a quill. As he did so, the violet-haired lady stared back with equal parts contempt and disregard.
“Kii?”
I know, Silky. But I'm new...
2023-07-14 01:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51 - Sect Recruitments Start!
At the apex of the amphitheatre, the imposing figures of the Big Five settled into their seats, adorned in intricately decorated garments that ranged from traditional robes to dazzling armour. Each of them carried a unique artifact, whether it was a sword, oar, cymbal, or claw, held firmly beneath their colourful ...
2023-07-11 00:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
If anyone of you is a med school guy (or gal), you might notice the cracks. Two toes were broken. Heh, well that just means I have more time to sit down and write. I got back from India. The trip was extended and did the x-ray immediately after returning. Got the results. And, as you see, my foot really is busted.
I'll upload the next chapter on Tuesday. The chapter schedule will be Tuesday + Friday until I have written enough for a weekly three-chapter schedule. Stay safe!
2023-07-09 03:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs I have mentioned on Royalroad in the previous weeks, from now, I am moving onto a twice-a-week release schedule. My trip to India lasts until July 6-7th, so the next chapter should be around July 8-9th.
I will post two chapters a week from then until I can save up enough of a backlog to move to 3 chapters a week (I cannot give a deadline for how long this might take). Thank you to all my awesome Patreon supporters for supporting the story while it was on the Rising Stars list o...
2023-07-02 23:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50 - Meat of the matter
There were a few caverns where the crops had been ransacked. The farmers sat on the aisles with forlorn faces. But they got up; they had families to feed.
"We’ll be rebuilding them, young lad. The blasted voidrift may have caused a fair bit of damage, but fear not, for us farmers are a resilient bunch, ye see?...
2023-07-02 00:48:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49 - Rice to the Occasion
“On the other side of the voidrift?” Youjin Chao was taken aback. “Not really. There are tales of cultivators going in, but not of them coming out that I have heard. However… sometimes, when a voidrift is closed, another rift opens in its place. Another kind of rift, to be precise.”
"And there...
2023-07-02 00:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48 - Hello voidrift, my old friend
"The only disadvantage of this battle formation is that it destroys the enemy extremely thoroughly, with barely any materials left to harvest." Youjin Chao explained, appearing completely impassive at Yung and Su Nanya's PDA. Perhaps he did not know what PDA meant, but the boy's empathic link was as clear as ...
2023-07-02 00:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47 - Clans going into caves
The next cavern in their delve was bigger both horizontally and vertically, and finally, voidfiends other than the murder bunnies showed their flying faces.
In the dark of the cave, the putrid monstrosities stirred, their tomb-sized shapes vaguely resembling stingray corpses, concealed beneath too many wings r...
2023-06-30 14:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe song in question, if anyone is interested - Sleeping At Last - "Saturn" (Official Music Video)- https://youtu.be/dzNvk80XY9s
Chapter 46 - Songs of then
Floofy broke out from under a shrubbery chasing a butterfly. Silky chir...
2023-06-29 08:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45 - Foxes are terrible therapists
A mortal lived less than a hundred years. One needed to at the least be in the Unfolding Heaven 1st realm to gain any meaningful increase in longevity, since the longest an Imperfect Heaven 3rd realmer could naturally live was up to two hundred years.
If Ziyou Yung stagnated at the Unfolding Heaven 1st ...
2023-06-28 00:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 44 - Songs of Now
It was not the most comfortable of experiences. But to travel sitting upon her servant’s shoulder was one of her most luxurious vanities, and shape-shifting her internal organs had solved the problem of mere balance.
Nanya, such graceful a being, flicked her cute ears, casting a tired glance at the madlander laywoman ...
2023-06-26 15:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43 - The more the merrier
Silky chirped, sitting on Yung’s nose. He felt the sadness radiating from the critter through their soul contract. The foxmoth had never met Yung’s parents, but his shrine was located barely a few feet away from their graves.
Yung's grandpa, Youjin Bao, would always get drunk, crying and reminiscing about hi...
2023-06-24 23:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 42 - Such useless an endeavour
Yung wondered if this was Su Yafeng’s daily life. Being told to leave when she was an inconvenience, and ordered around at all other times doing whatever Su Nanya fancied at the moment.
Which was currently a portion of pork-like fiend meat.
Su Yafeng sliced an aged chunk of it into thin strips and b...
2023-06-23 15:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostI was so busy with bank and university bureaucratic bullcrap that I did not have time to do the final editing pass for chapters 40 and 41 yesterday. So I did it first thing in the morning and posted them. Again, sorry for the delay T.T
2023-06-22 23:57:34 +0000 UTC View Post[Table of Contents]
Chapter 41 - A rebel teen meets his match!
After the small break to wash away his stress, and the rush of relaxation from the ‘cultivation’ session, Yung started organizing the notes from what he’d gathered. He then created a basic flowchart for what his newly devised token would do.
In the jade slip's, the jade scroll token's mechanism...
Chapter 40 - Tinkering Paws
They argued back and forth and finally settled on an acceptable remuneration. Yung's portion was increased by a lot, which honestly he didn't really feel bad about. Setting best market practices wasn't his job. There were no anti-trust laws here, and how the market balanced itself was out of Yung's capabilities to fathom. T...
2023-06-22 23:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39 - Fat but flexible
"We've done testing these," Ziyou Maque put the two sound transmission tokens Yung had created with Silky's special dim gold silk on the table. After Wang Lihou noticed their efficacy even in the Warring Twilight forest, they had removed their spiritual imprints on the artefacts and handed them to Ziyou Maque and Youjin L...
2023-06-20 03:01:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38 - Am I the Baddie?
“Friends.” Su Nanya repeated one last time. She mouthed the word, rolled it around, then hugged him as if satisfied.
In their tender embrace, time outside flew without care.
The sky was adorned with soft hues of pink and orange. Tranquil clouds floated lazily in the distance, their procession instilling se...
2023-06-18 15:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37 - A fox is a man's best friend
Nanya successfully broke through to the 12th stage of body refinement. But she hadn’t had enough of her servant’s qi yet.
"We demand more!" Her voice was squeaky, her eyes were scorched.
“M’lday… you messed up.” Su Yafeng said with relief. “Come, you can get back to rebellious behavio...
2023-06-17 12:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36 - Harem shmarem
“Holy hell, where’d that come from?” Ziyou Yung gaped, swearing like the woolly-headed halfwit he was.
“Listen to us, then speak!” Nanya removed her fingers from the boy’s palms and cupped his surprisingly bouncy cheeks, pressing them together, “This is about some person else; a fair maiden of an unsung s...
2023-06-16 01:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post[Table of Contents]
Chapter 35 - Riddles that the fox weaves
“I believe true love can cross all impossible boundaries.” Youjin Chao stood firm on his beliefs. His self-confidence was applaudable, if nothing else.
“I’m surprised you’d have so much faith in ‘true love’ after what Youjin Chun did.”
“She wasn’t the one. How could ...
Chapter 34 - I love you, bro. No thanks, bro!
“Harem clothes?” Yung asked, confused. Is that what her skimpy bikini dress is? Right! That fat bastard Hong mentioned it too.
“Brother Yung is unaware? But you have been spending so much time with her.” Youjin Chao said.
“I’m a peasant and a country bumpkin. I don’t have...
2023-06-14 03:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33 - Bye bye bunny
Yung decided to leave the wasp nest be. No need to disturb other people’s homes. He stretched, and gave the place one last once over.
The graves looked proper now.
Yung stared up at the sky. The sun was about to go beyond the horizon. He decided to head back. He’d done Su Nanya wrong and would need to correct...
2023-06-13 07:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32 - I'm glad we had this talk
Yung left the sword and the short spear with the house. Too cumbersome to carry, too many bad memories for his pacifist psyche.
Besides, Yung convinced himself rather forcefully, I don’t have a storage artefact.
The auction house elder promised to prepare a Heart qi-powered one the...
2023-06-12 05:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post[Table of Contents]
Chapter 31 - Between ten mugs of beer
The world outside continued to move. Since the Youjin clan decided it was a perfect time to implement Yung’s terms, they held no hands back.
In a few days, the most remarkable transformation had taken place in the slum. What was once composed of poverty and despair was now illuminated by the smiles of i...
Chapter 30 - The main quest reveals herself
“…. You really were eavesdropping on my conversation with Chao.” Yung said, amazed.
“How dare you flirt with these Jiujiu and Ling harlots when you have not yet even had the utter fortune to be rejected by us! We forbid it. We forbid you from it.” Said the vixen with equal bewilderment, as th...
2023-06-10 00:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29 - It annoys her to the paws!
After giving the scary fox maid a few more minutes to capture Ziyou Yung’s lamentable figure from multiple angles, they brought him down.
“His palm is scrapped,” Chao said, “Wrist shattered, and one shoulder dislocated. But nothing else. Thankfully.” He paused, removed his vambrace, and fitted it...
2023-06-09 01:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28 - Big bad kitty cat, very mad then sad
“Woof!” Su Xiya whimpered a sorrowful cry, reaching the grey streak a third of a second too late. “Woof! woof!”
She got up, then glared at the revealed Imperfect Heaven 3rd order dusk valley lion with abhorrence. A signal beacon left her storage artefact, the flying fox origami rising up ...
2023-06-08 00:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27 - Right?
Chao shook his head to get rid of the distracting thoughts.
He popped another pill, crunching it violently with his incisors, while Ziyou Yung fought a dusk valley lion under Free Sparrow’s boisterous guidance.
These were 2-Star fiends. And on average, at a higher stage than the previous Wretched bloodhounds. Yet stil...
2023-06-07 02:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26 - First combat goes horribly right
Yung debated using Empathic isolation and wondered if it would be cheating. Hmm, I can just ask—Whoa!
The moment his attention slipped, the zombie-rabbits jumped. Yung instinctively used total Empathic isolation as he stumbled out of the way quite disgracefully. The voidfiends landed besid...
2023-06-06 11:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post