Chapter 181
Rin Wi hugged her sister with the full force of her being. This would crush anyone below the immortal rank, but Yai Mien handled it with little discomfort and a smiling face.
“It was about time someone caught up with me,” Rin commented.
“I’m sorry to have made you wait,” Yai replied.
All the other girls came around and hugged her. They all gathered around her happily. There was no envy there, just love and happiness.
...
2025-07-10 09:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 180
The first thing Mo Whe felt from a distance was thunder and unfiltered immortal qi. It was just outside of region 11276 and it was thick with fire.
It was powerful, comparable to the people of his own clan.
At that he sprinted to the sight. He expected the qi to have come from the old immortal, the one with a broken dao. It wasn’t the bandits. It couldn’t be. It was too righteous and just to be from them.
This was just qi. A burst of qi hail...
2025-07-10 09:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 179
The news had spread throughout the ten sects like a meteor. The lady was free. Fey Lin Fo of the Eternal Darkness Sect now roamed free and unrestrained and she was most likely still within the realm.
A tenth rank or higher could traverse into the void from any point, but a ninth realm still needed to search for the natural exits present within Ah-Marin and the exits were all guarded by one of the ten sects.
The Ten Sect's alliance, which was an allian...
2025-07-10 09:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 178
In all of existence, in all of the large and all consuming void, there were realms. They shone like stars in the dead of night.
Sometimes, it felt like the realms were a copy of the night sky. They weren’t, of course. If anything, the night sky was a reflection of them and the stars were a cheap reflection.
But still, the light and the distance, the way they seemed to be there and be seen made the stars something else of their own.
I sta...
2025-07-10 09:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 177
Tai Lui flew with the beast brothers. There were four of them and he was the latest to join.
There was Bear, Owl, Wolf and now him, Lion.
The names were strange at first. If they were a symbol of strength then why would they be animals of such varying strength. After his demonstration, he understood the names had nothing to do with strength.
It was about the style and technique of each person.
First there was Bear, his presence was overbea...
2025-07-10 09:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 176
Nai was a menace. She kept running everywhere and once she got outside, I felt some level of pity for the rest of the world.
She ran through mud, but eventually she got her sea legs and learned to run at the fifth rank. She practically invented a movement technique. I had to dress her in clothes strong enough to withstand her findish little legs.
She ran through a rock, a tree, and a vegetable stand. I paid the stand guy off handsomely, but Nai wouldn...
2025-07-10 09:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 175
Nai had a problem and that problem had a name.
It was a concept, unfortunately and not a man. She couldn’t beat this problem. She couldn’t fight it. She could only conquer it.
Putting one foot in front of the other, she started.
She failed.
Walking should have been easy for a being of her level. She had crawled down flat but walking was something else, a monster all its own.
You had to balance the whole of your body o...
2025-07-10 09:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 174
I punched and I dodged and punched back.
I was evenly matched for the most part. Pain seared through my body, actual pain, pain so strong that it would burn a demigod into nothingness.
Again, that was the seduction of power. It was why most God level beings thought so lowly of mortals. We felt what they felt but on a whole different level. As we grew and cultivated, so did our senses and abilities. We fought more, hurt more, sensed more.
W...
2025-07-10 09:08:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 173
The King of War gave the man a sword.
This was a mortal realm, in a mortal world and not one person here would reach beyond the immortal rank.
But that was fine for the King of War.
The boy was shivering from blood loss. He was young, seventeen years of age and he was a soldier.
He had been sent out to this area to fight, and his people had lost.
The war was in motion, much like any other, much like the infinite tha...
2025-07-10 09:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 172
“It’s called self reflection,” I stated. “Its a technique that revolves around finding out your instinctive weaknesses and growing beyond them. It works at any rank and is useful for refinement, though I haven’t used it since achieving my current rank.”
“You make it sound meditative,” Chin grumbled.
“It is,” I stated.
“No,” Chin said, looking from me to the reflection of me standing next to him. “Its not.”
There...
2025-07-10 09:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 171
The village was situated near the northern right side of the small valley. It would be the entrance most people came to, if they were trying to cross the Great Desert Strip during the rainy seasons. It had a walkway that led directly to the northern tip of the valley and that was where the cultivator’s would camp during those times.
Now, that was where Cultivator Town was. That was where the cultivators gathered and traded. It was a place of qi and refinement, ...
2025-07-10 09:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 170
I kept working for about a week straight. Time, effort, knowledge, everything I had into creating something better than I ever had.
The best thing about arrays was that they were mostly thought. The blueprint was the scaffolding. The building part, while tedious, was easier.
Most of it was driven by passion and desire. But a lot of it was driven by regret.
The old array, the one I had made to find peace still hadn’t moved.
It...
2025-07-10 09:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169
The dragons ducked and ran in the fields outside of the valley.
Small ground critters dug and extended themselves through the small and still sandy earth. And though they were large and the world was small, it still took them time to dig it regardless.
The desert was no more, and trees were already sprouting, some bigger than men. The outline of many forests were already in view and the rush of beasts into the desert was something to be witnessed.&nbs...
2025-07-10 09:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 168
Daos grew as the self grew. My dao was a paradox, and while I had thought that paradoxical nature would stump me, it seemed to not interfere at all.
“Daos are everything. They are an expression of the self, the path ahead and behind.”
I stared at the girl, Fey Lin Fo. She was walking with Mei Shan from a distance. She had a unique nature herself.
She had stolen a technique, one that pushed directly against the technique she had mastered....
Chapter 167
I read.
The Tome had given me access to a lot of information, all within my rank, but still useful.
I was still set on making myself a cultivation technique, one that tailored to my needs and abilities. The problem was that my dao was lacking.
But there were ways around that. The practice of raising your dao had to do with how you lived and how your actions reflected your dao. The dao of the blade required the use of a sword, the dao of ju...
2025-07-10 09:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 166
Nai did not go inside the brothel. She had done that once before and Yai Mien had given her a vicious scolding. She had spent the rest of that day with no treats and had even gotten a glare from Medin.
“Well, well, well, a voice spoke. What are you doing here?”
Nai turned and saw Mei Shan along with that new girl looking at her.
“Aug!”
That was gibberish for None of your business.
“Is it now?” Mei Shan asked.
... 2025-07-10 09:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been awhile, about 40 or so days since my last drop.
But uh, well I am taking this seriously, the problem is the longer I don't drop the more guilty I feel and the more I have to write to make up for it. So I put my head down, and worked to get these thirty chapters done as an apology for the people who still support me.
I am sorry to make you wait so long, but I hope these chapters alleviate those feelings. On the bright side, I finally have the time to keep up with this pa...
2025-07-10 08:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 163
Three dragons and a dog played in the pond.
Though if you asked the dog, he would say that he was just chasing some rather strange looking worms.
The forest air was cool and the wind rustled through the leaves and Tob chased after something that only it could see. Nai couldn’t see them for some reason. He hadn’t bothered to ask why. Nai was a person after all, even if she did smell like an animal for some reason, she had the definitive shape of a ...
2025-05-29 00:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, this a poll as I have some spare time and want to give you guys something special. I'm going to write a couple of chapters tomorrow as I have some unforeseen free time and I want you guys to choose what they'll be about.
Also, Glossary on the way along with a Character Index.
2025-05-19 16:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 157
I had to stop picking up strays. The Maidens, Nai, Cai Xuin, and now some poor old demigod.
I sighed and stood still in the night sky, looking down at the growing village beneath me.
“Am I getting too egotistical Wriendler?”
The sword hummed in reply.
Sad as it was to say, this blade right here was probably my oldest companion. I had kept it, raised it, fed it, and bonded with it since I was a child. <...
2025-05-18 20:20:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153
The rest of the day went about as I thought it would. A bit of socializing here, a bit of drinking there, but I managed to keep my peace for the most part. The only one with enough guts to talk to me was Gai Jin, and he was a good kid, so I didn’t mind that much.
I felt something in the distance. I watched as two women entered the region, one of the ninth rank and the other at the peak of the fifth.
“That damn Fisherman,” I mutt...
2025-05-09 05:44:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 151
Food was in many ways, one of the key unifiers in life. Everyone ate at some point and most things kept eating, if not for necessity than for pleasure.
Beasts, insects, and men ate, even plants ate the rays from the sun. And giving food was one of the most primitive signs of friendship, or at least a sign of non aggression.
That was why I was hosting a feast, one cooked by Rin Wi and Medin.
I felt a little bad intruding on them, but Rin did...
2025-04-22 05:13:27 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Chapter 151-152 are still in edit jail, but they'll be released tomorrow. Also these two are a little dense, the next two should be lighter.
Chapter 149
I understood a lot of things. It was part of my job, or rather my calling to do so.
But what I didn’t understand, at least not well enough, was the map in front of me.
“What is this?” I asked the floating book.
A map, a true map of existence.
It loo...
2025-04-19 03:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostDeath did not chase people. It didn’t have to, people thought it did. They would always look back with fear at the ever closer end and think it was after them.
As if Death didn’t have other things to do.
Well, it didn’t.
But Death certainly didn’t chase. He chased people the same way the ground chased the rain or how the sea would chase the river.
No, Death didn’t chase, but it did wait and people would come raining down on him eventually, all on their own...
Chapter 145
Cai Xuin was having a relaxing day. He was having many of those lately. Relaxing here, relaxing there, occasionally getting a visit from his sister and having an interesting talk about the ever shifting politics of the Five Sects.
Apparently, the Raging River, who had been the most powerful of all the five sects, was having a minor upheaval due to the recent developments in the area. The first one being Mister Bill, and the second one being Gai J...
2025-04-12 03:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry about the week of no chapters. I had a busy week, but I got four chapters here and most of them are decently sized.
Chapter 141
I was tired when I woke up. It felt like my soul had gotten into a fight and lost.
Rest, the Tome spoke.
But something in my head told me to get up, it told me to start working.
I didn’t think he would go this far.
I was lying in the middle of a field somewhere. I had been stargazi...
2025-04-03 23:34:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 140
“But what can I do?” I repeated.
The Fisherman, the Dragon, and the Carp that leaped over the Dragon’s Gate all looked at me.
I was small, so incredibly small in front of them. I felt like a spark against the sun, like the shadow of a man staring into the depths of a black hole.
“Fate is the sum of our actions and the expression of our desires. Dane was fated to die in that moment not because he chose to do so,...
AN: Two more chapters will be out by the end of today but this is what I have for now. These chapters were tough to write and I'm still not sure I like them but nothing is perfect.
Chapter 138 The Fisherman Part 1
I was alone, then I wasn’t.
I don’t dream. I was at the twelfth rank- no thirteenth now and people of my rank don’t dream.
People of my rank don’t make mistakes either. What was happening? My mind felt- it felt slow. As if I w...
2025-03-20 14:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you that enjoyed The Crow, it's officially launched on Royal Road. It has about three new chapter since I last posted it on here.
Triple Chapters of AIR on Tuesday by the way.
But if you haven't read The Crow, it's a Sci Fi superhero story and it's pretty fun. Give it a go.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108043/the-crow
AN: Leave Typos below, and yes I do use Grammarly.
Chapter 136 Sewers Part 2
“Monsters underneath the village?” Chin almost yelled. “Monsters?”
“Calm down Chin, they wouldn’t be monsters, they’d be slimes. And they would be able to-”
“They would be harmful and they would be monsters!” Chin spat.
“You’re throwing a tantrum. It's still up to you at the end of the day, just let me explain exactly what I’m planning to...
2025-03-14 00:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post