Dragon of Rochester

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 15 🎸)

I crossed my arms and glared down at my mentee. “Three Drops Silent Toxin.”

He winced. “I know! The beat was off.”

“It’s good that you figured that out. While playing rock and having fun is important, there are times when you could be put in a life and death situation where the beat of your drums can save or doom your sect.”

He scowled. “But demonic music isn’t used much in sect wars… right?” His eyes grew wide. “Is this really that serious?”

...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 14 🎸)

“I’m going to have them teach me,” Little Spring said with a proud grin.

I blinked.

::I noticed that I gain a deeper understanding of a topic when you ask me to teach it back to you in my own words.::

Ah! Right. The Explain it to Someone Else to Learn the Subject Better method of improving.

::Besides, I need to understand the cultivation method of beast tamers without revealing the techniques of the Indomitable Will Sect.::

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 13 🎸)

After I brought my two new students into my shared courtyard, I set up a soundproof formation — which was essentially a simplified obfuscation array. Next, I took the drum set out and gestured for Three Drops Silent Toxin to sit on its stool.

He glanced at each drum and cymbal with curiosity before taking his seat. He picked up a stick and tapped it on the metal rim.

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Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 12 🎸)

As I escorted Shadow Panther and Three Drops back to my courtyard, I started giving them introductions on the Dao of Rock. Since I planned to put these two through hell for the next week, I figured that I should start early.

After lecturing for a while, I paused to let the topics sink in.

Shadow Panther’s brow furrowed. “Ah, Senior Linlin?”

“What?”

“If I remember correctly, the test for rogue cultivators to enter the inner sect needs you to help us improve ...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 11 🎸)

“Or you could give up your pills and we’ll let you live,” Broken Serpent offered.

Three Drops Silent Toxin seemed to think about it for a moment, then punched the nearest guy — a bald poison body cultivator — in the face before taking out a knife.

Baddie clutched his nose and took a few steps back, then joined two others in dog-piling Three Drops, who managed to stab a fox-eyed girl in the shoulder before getting dragged to the ground face-down. They started tying him wi...

Delay Due to Health

Hi everyone! As you can probably guess from the title of this post, my cold (the same one my son has that lasted for four weeks) has begun to kick my ass. Worse, it’s begun to affect my head (affecting my decision making) which I sadly need for editing and writing. For example, I should have sent this out Thursday when I first noticed that it started getting worse but hindsight is 20/20.
I took my son to the doctor yesterday and he mentioned that because we nearly self isolated for the ...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 10 🎸)

Little Spring walked over while carrying a tome on Beast Blood Contractors. His brow furrowed and his eyes lost focus.

“Find something troubling?” I asked.

“It’s just. Very different from what I thought it would be like.”

I grabbed the tome from his hands and looked through it. Since I couldn’t believe what I read, I skimmed through it again.

I didn’t know much about beast taming, but even I knew that there were several standard contracts.

The one m...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 9 🎸)

With Little Spring’s help, we finished all the instruments, including the drum set, before the sun rose. As Foundation Establishment cultivators, we didn’t have to sleep every day, so we merely cleaned up and left the space. A commotion outside caught my attention.

I stepped out of my room to see Gold String Delicate Touch standing in the middle of our courtyard with his arms crossed. In front of him was a pile of muddy red and gold uniforms that had been thrown on the ground like t...

Notice: No Chapters This Week

Hi everyone!

So, while I was still recovering from my bug, my Little Dragon caught it. This means he’s had to stay home with me and be a truly horrible patient, as I assume most 5 year olds are. Basically, I haven’t had my normal editing/writing hours this week so I was not able to get anything done. 

Judging from what happened with me, he will probably be sick into next week.

I am so sorry I wasn’t able to get chapters out. I’ll try to get something done as soo...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 8 🎸)

The courtyard had three separate houses. I took the nearest one and left Little Spring and Gold String to argue about who would stay where.

While inside my room, I set up my defensive formations. The kid could set up his own arrays and, as a rogue cultivator, Gold String, would have some way to defend himself as well. I’d still set up a formation around the courtyard tomorrow for extra protection.

Once all my formations were in place, I slipped into the space’s forge room. Wit...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 7 🎸)

If merely easing rage was my goal, there were many songs I could choose from. But this was a test. If I only solved the issue and didn’t help the person move forward, the underlying anger would eventually return. What I needed to play here was a song that not only soothed rage, but overcame it. For this, none more impactful than those spiritual rock songs inspired by Tool.

Which was likely because their music was healing. At least, that was from my own experience! And it wasn’t just...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 6 🎸)

Little Spring picked up Xiao Bai. He sent an exasperated look at the puppy and I could have sworn he said, ‘You’re as bad as my older martial sister,’ but that couldn’t be right. I was obviously significantly better than Xiao Bai. At least, when it came to assessing danger. However, if we were talking about adorableness, the white puppy was obviously king. He even had the kid beat.

The first knocked-down ape slowly started to get up by pushing against the stone floor. Little Spr...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 5 🎸)

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The poisoners' trial ended. None of the rogue cultivators managed to create something good enough for the Golden Core judge.

After that, they held a test for Dread Painters. There were only four rogue cultivators who used this unusual cultiv...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 4 🎸)

When I stepped out of the building, Lord Bountiful finished speaking with an aide. The young man bowed, took a jade slip from the city lord, and ran off. He turned around and smiled at me. “Did you talk about everything you needed to?”

“I did.”

“Then perhaps, before you go, I could interest you in seeing my Red-Feathered King Hawk? He’s beautiful and a perfect hunter.”

“Spiritual beasts hate me, remember? Even your sharks tried to stab me.”

He waved o...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 3 🎸)

While I waited in the guild’s main room with the bored clerk, I mentally reviewed some of the songs I’d memorized that could be useful. Of course, there were only so many I could play. Much like with my other disciplines, I was held back due to my realm. My internal Qi’s quality and amount just wasn’t enough to fuel the effects of the more powerful songs.

Frankly, knowing stronger techniques but being unable to use them was frustrating as fuck.

::Sister Lin!:: Lit...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 2 🎸)

I hopped off the woman’s head. She was also in Foundation Establishment but wore purple robes that were much more sophisticated than what I was currently wearing. I had to admit that the clothes in this part of the world were very pretty. It made me wonder if the Manhua version of the original story had suddenly switched artists at one point.

“I demand an apology!”

Ah, this classic situation. “I think you should demand your apology from the teleportation array. It’s the ...

Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (Part 1 🎸)

-330 Years ago in Fairy Lin’s past-

I stood in midair above the sect and glared at the Four Arts Peak Master Clean Brushstroke. The urge to kill her and her peak elders practically overwhelmed me, but my willpower was greater. Besides, nothing good would come from their deaths. It wouldn’t stop my anger or bring the long-dead back.

She concealed her rage with her fan, but her eyes told me that if I hadn’t been a realm above her, she would have ripped my face off. 2023-07-30 02:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Story 10 Bonus - Catching Up: A Dao of Paperwork Short Story

I rushed into the sect leader’s hall where Unyielding Firestorm was just finishing his conversation with Peak Master Verdant Bamboo.

Once she left, he turned to me. “Early Rise Swift Brush! You’re finally here!”

His lips were smiling, but I noticed a flash of panic in his eyes before he hid it.

Great Martial Aunt Lin had only been gone a little under a week, but we all felt her absence. The increased workload had definitely started to weigh on our dear junior sect le...

Story 10 Synopsis, Cover and Initial Art

Thank you all for your patience! You are the most wonderful patrons a writer could ever ask for!!!

I promised that I would tell you all a bit of a synopsis of Story 10 - The Spy That Rocked Too Hard. I wasn’t able to do that last week because the chapter ended up being full-size and taking just as much time as a normal chapter.

This is as spoiler-free as I can make it.

Synopsis:

Lin and Little Spring want to get home to the Indomitable Wil...