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AIR Chapter 80

AN: As some of you know, I have COVID. I'm getting over the snotty stage and getting into the tired headache stage. But yeah, expect at least two more chapters this week if not more.

Gai Jin roared. 

The ground beneath him blurred and his feet broke the earth with the weight of a mountain. He chased. 

Gai Lu ran. 

The man was afraid, but not as afraid as Gai Jin would have wanted. His master’s hand weaved an old sign and a talisman shattered. Instantl...

AIR Chapter 77-79

AN: So tired, been writing all night. Sleepy. Good night.

Chapter 77 Chieftan Part 1

Chin chewed on a sugar cane out in the middle of a field. The sun was hidden and the clouds were full. 

“It’s going to rain soon,” he muttered. 

“How’dya figure?” The farmer next to him asked. 

“It just will,” Chin replied. “Get packed and clear the fields, and tell everyone to get inside. This one will be a heavy one.” 2024-09-12 16:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post

AIR Chapter 76 In the Beginning

AN:" Holy crap this chapter was a doozy. Lots of lore, lots and lots of lore. 2600 words which is almost the size of two of my regular chapters. I plan to upload another one here today or tomorrow, possibly a part two to this one with far less multiverse stuff and just some cultivation stuff.  

“Okay, where do we start?” I said. 

Chin sat opposite me across the table. We were ...

Chapter 75 Survior

AN: Short chapter today, but it lacks heavy worldbuilding and focuses just on characterization, which is easiest for me. Just wanted to cover my basis with Gai Jin as that plotline is going to get resolved soon enough.

Enjoy!

Madam Rose sat in her tent quietly. It had been that way for the past few days. 

All the other workers had given her space. Magney, the half-dwarf, and her ever-present companion stood outside the tent, warding off would-be pursuers.  2024-09-05 18:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 74 To Cultivate Part 6

Man, that guy was terrifying. 

I looked at the array and the little thing growled at me. 

‘You fucked up my existence,’ the thing said. 

“Wukong helped with that,” I replied. 

The array meandered over to me with expectation.

“No,” I replied. 

Then it… nagged at me, pulling at the fabric of my being like an angry small dog. 

“I’m not abandoning my path just to fix you,” I replied. 

Defining p...

AIR Chapter 71-73

Chapter 71 Conversations 

Po Pen smiled. Po Pen found joy in his work. People found it strange, repugnant even. 

But Po didn’t care. The joy wasn’t in the work itself, but rather the result. The clean streets, the fresh soil, and even the rot of waste into life were a beautiful thing to see. He had started the job as a way to make a living. 

He was quiet, too quiet. He couldn’t work most other jobs, because he hated talking and partly, h...

AIR Chapter 68-70

Chapter 68

Cai sat in a room with only one other person. He should have seen this coming, and he had, but he was still unprepared for this conversation. Over the past few months, his life had turned upside down and right side up. First, a fourth rank had tried to kill him, then a fifth. He had met an immortal and found a new path to power that would have carried him all the way to the fifth rank. And he had also given up that power, choosing to be weak and safe instead ...

AIR Chapter 65-67

Chapter 65

Her eyes had seen but she still didn’t understand. The fight had been one-sided and incredible. It was a thing to witness, a gift of wisdom and strength. 

But the villain lived. She had come here and traversed across the region in search of her half-brother. 

Xaio Wang knew her father. The man was a disaster. He was powerful and one of the elders of the Raging River clan, but he was a selfish fool. He had a hundred bastards within t...

AIR Chapter 62-64

Chapter 62

But the blade never touched his skin. 

The world held still and the sun itself seemed to stop in the sky. Cai, the assassin, Xaio Wang held. It wasn’t that they were afraid of moving, merely that they couldn’t.  

“Alright, where are their heads?” A voice asked. 

Over the attacker’s shoulder was a familiar figure dragging two headless corpses. The immortal walked along, pulling the fourth-rank bodies as if they w...

AIR Chapter 59-61

Okay, the backlog is ready. I'm going to dump about fifteen new chapters into the the five dollar tier and release the current eight chapters onto royal road. Yes, I have been writing.

The total release will be about 24 thousand words for you guys. Sorry for the silence but I was a bit busy with work and mainly writing on the side.

Chapter 59

The world is strange, Cai Xuin thought to himself. 

No, for someone like him, the world ...

AIR Chapter 56-58

The last two chapters get a little dark, so prepare yourselves.

Chapter 56 A Beast’s Nature

She had tried to ascend. It was probably instinct, but the baby had tried to become immortal. She wasn’t even at the right rank to ascend, but that’s what happens when you're a child of a Primordial I supposed.

But she had no Dao, nothing to ground her and that had almost killed the poor child. 

I walked, cradling her against ...

AIR UPDATE CH 52-55

No the story isn't dead. It's just hard to write. The plot is still soft in my head and the world is the biggest I've even thought of. Having said that, the update scheduled for AIR will be one chapter per week at the latest from now on.

Also, I've found a story I am passionate about. I've churned out 19 chapters in a matter of weeks. If you like my writing style and want to see me write consistently and quickly, I'll leave the link below.

I'm super sorry about the lack of updat...

AIR Chapter 49-51

Chapter 49 Merchants

The merchants were an integral part of the village’s income. They would come through during the rainy season and camp out at the village for a few days at a time, and some had started to use the area as a temporary market between the two divided parts of the region.

There wasn’t much reason to use the village as a central trading post. As wide as The Great Desert Strip was, all of the merchants had some method of crossing it. Most had pack beetles, some ha...

Chapter 48 Gu Xin

AN: This was originally two chapters but I couldn't make either one of them long enough for their own posts so I mashed them up together. This is mainly a set-up chapter for someone I plan to introduce waaay further down the line, but I also wanted to showcase just a bit of the Void Blade empire and the people that govern it. Enjoy!

The battle didn’t last long after that. The dao angel burst into immortal and Rin Wi took it all back. She cycled the qi through and through and the dao r...

AIR Chapter 45-47

AN: I just posted chapters 43 and 44 so go read those if you haven't already

Chapter 45 The Village Part 2

The dinner lasted for about an hour with everyone eating their share and taking themselves to bed afterwards. Renk, having just woken up, took his apprentice Taura and his books outside and towards the Light Tower. Medin packed the man full of food and dried meat as he went out and waved him off with a satisfied smile. The man waddled out like a pa...

Chapter 43-44

AN: Thanks for holding out this long guy. I will press the resume button on the Patreon after I post the next three chapters, which will probably be done by the time you read this. 

Chapter 43 To Cultivate Part 4

“Push and pull Chin, remember that. Push and pull.”

The cross-legged old man nodded.

I watched as the qi struggled through his meridians, floating to the first qi point, then fizzling out and dying before it could go any further.

Chapter 42 To Cultivate Part 3 Daos

Hey guys, long story short I'm in between jobs right now and I'm taking a training course to improve my resume, so writting has been at the back of my mind right now. Patreon will be paused untill I'm able to upload the five chapter quota so yeah. Sorry for the wait.

Chin sat there, legs crossed and hands clasped in meditation. It had been a couple of days since our last session, and the rainy season had kicked in with intensity, and it was heavy.

Different s...

Chapter 41 Rin Wi

Rin Wi sliced the food down to pieces. Her hands could move faster, but the equipment wouldn’t hold, even with her qi-reinforcement techniques. She was already working in her own separate kitchen out and away from any mortals and her hands moved at multiple times the speed of sound, though she used her movement techniques to avoid the sonic booms she would produce.

But even then, she was slow. She could move ten times this speed and keep that pace consistently. At her fastest, she cou...

Chapter 40 To Cultivate Part 2

“Before you can cultivate, you first need to learn how to sense and move qi within your own body. Now that would normally take us years or even decades to truly master but we’re going to fast-track the whole thing and do it in three minutes.”

I pulled out a berry and passed it over to Chin.

“What is-”

“Just eat it!” I yelled. “You keep asking too many questions!”

Chin didn’t comply and inspected the berry for a few more moments.

“Can you-”...

AIR Chapter 38 Children and Beasts

Part 1

The little girl stared at me, eyes viciously accusing and angry.

“Gah!” She said while pointing.

“I had stuff to do.”

“Gah!” She said again.

“I was busy.”

“Gah gah boo, me bfppp!”

I sighed. It had been a month since she was born, and it had been one hell of a month. She was up and angry at me when I’d gotten back and there were a lot of baby gibberish accusations thrown my way.

It was weird. Apparent...

AIR Chapter 39 To Cultivate

Chin sat opposite of me, legs crossed and arms together. There was a small wooden platter with two cups of tea and warm buttered bread, courtesy of Medin Chin. We were sat on top of a small hill a mile or two outside of the village.

It was a bunch of hustle and bustle out there. During this rainy season, approximately a hundred thousand merchants would tread through the village over the next few weeks. That was one of the reasons Chin was so obsessed with farming. He not only had to fee...

AIR Chapter 37

The Keepers were an ancient and almost primordial group. They were said to have been established by one of the first sons of man, though no one knew what his name was. Nonetheless, their sole purpose in life had been to find and store information, all information. Anything from news to history to laws and daos could be found within these books.

These shelves contained countless knowledge of lost worlds. People and societies, beasts and insects, life and legacies. It was said that everyt...

An Immortal's Retirement Chap 34-36

Chapter 34 Insignificant

And there it was. There was my death sentence.

“Oh, pipe down,” Sun WuKong said.

“Pardon?”

“I know your aura and I know your mind.”

I stayed still for a moment, wondering if he was saying what I thought he was saying.

“I won’t kill you, or torture you, or erase your memory or any of the other things you’re thinking of.”

“Thank you for your mercy, Great Sage,” I said with a deep bow.

An Immortal's Retirement Chapter 33

Sun Wukong nodded his head. He had listened, which was surprising considering all the other options he had at his discretion.

He could have taken the information straight from my soul in a numerous number of ways, but instead, the Monkey King had sat down and listened.

I didn’t dare lie. I just spoke, telling him everything I knew. And he already knew where the child was. He had traced back my qi to Ah Marin and knew her exact location. After that, I didn’t have any reason or ...

An Immortal's Retirement Chapter 27 Arrays

I stared at the puzzle in my hands.

It was a marble-like orb that was about the size of a closed fist, almost like a crystal ball, but shinier. Its surface blinked in repetitive action as I did my best to solve it.

In cultivation, there are three fundamental forces, a push, a pull, and a hold. They were called the three fundamental forces because that was how everybody started cultivation. You needed to be able to pull in qi from your surroundings, and then push it through your ow...

Welcome to the MainFrame

Hello Patrons! Don't worry, the first advanced chapter of immortal retirement is coming soon. But I've found myself suffering from writer's block as of late, so here's a story I've somewhat started writing on the side. It's a system-apocalypse litRPG story and something I've had stewing in my brain for a long time now. 

Don't worry, there will be more Immort Retirement chapters to come, but I need some time to plan this arc ahead and I plan to improve the pacing and push things alo...