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“The Heavens bled. The Heavens screamed. When the day of its silence came, we simply watched.
“It was not fate that held us. It was not prophecy that kept us from duty.
“We Immortals now kneel before Mount Tai, not because of reverence, but because of fear.
“Atop those graveyard peaks, the Perverse Emperor sleeps.
“May He dream eternal peace.
“May He never remember our King of Jade....
2025-04-26 07:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Notes:
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2025-04-17 13:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs for Dai, things remained the same as they always were: stagnant, purposeless, and hopelessly grim.
He continued to cultivate — for what else was he supposed to do? — until his growth stagnated at the apex of the Shaping Realm. He watched as those he deemed inferior rose to the Tempering Realm and positions as Core Disciple — their growth fuelled by Clan backings, while his was hindered for his origins as an outsider.
All the while, the same questions plagued his mind, inc...
2025-04-17 12:57:32 +0000 UTC View Post“You are upset,” Dai stated, voice low and green eyes sharp. “Why are you upset, Jun? This is a happy occasion. You have ascended both in your Sect position and Cultivation Realm. We should be celebrating. Yet, you threw a tantrum instead, ruining my mood. I should be insulted.”
Dai flexed his qi. Shaping Realm, Eighth Step. For a youth his age — and one without the backing of Clans — it was an absurd standing. Were he not joined from outside the Sect, he would have already ...
2025-04-17 12:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post20 years ago…
In a village of little importance…
“And why would you do this for me? I mean no disrespect, honoured fairy, but from the details you gave me regarding this… experiment, I cannot possibly afford your skills, nor the foreign material you seek to implant in my body.”
“One could argue you already paid for the surgery and the gene-spliced organoids with this coin.”
“That ...
2025-04-17 12:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
14 years ago…
The woman had no more use of Shao after that. The disciple’s worth to the Mistress had only ever been in the sanctity of her purity. Once the last of it was lost, the Mistress bid her farewell, gave Shao gifts as thanks for ‘a good time’, and closed the door to her mansion from her.
“I don’t think I can enhance your base physiology any further, and I have already extracted my fair share of wounds from you,”the woman h...
2025-04-17 12:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
18 years ago…
Defilement was a dance in several steps.
The body was first to go. Pinned down against the snow by those far stronger than her, Outer Disciple Shao could only grit her teeth and sob as teeth and nails tore upon her clothes and flesh. The Sect attire she had been so proud to receive was ripped asunder. The body she had cultivated so hard to impress her Sisters was now plundered of its meat and beauty.
Defiled by none other t...
2025-04-17 12:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostYihui sighed as she tucked away her smoking pipe once more. A pair of boys, one of whom bore the aforementioned sickle-related injury while the other clumsily supported him, came into her makeshift ‘clinic’ — little better than a small wooden shack the villagers loaned her, furnished with a table for her to set her tools on and a straw mattress for her patients.
At least this place gave her a table. The last village couldn’t even afford her that, and she had to lay out her instr...
2025-04-17 12:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
20 years ago…
‘You have not suffered enough. You cannot paint while bearing such meagre pains.’
Those were the parting words of her Master before Lu Yihui blew up the laboratory she had grown up in nearly all her life.
Her Master’s wisdom was simple, but profound all the same. Yihui’s understanding of Agony was narrow, and so if she wished to be a better Painter of Wounds, she needed to walk the lands where the greatest ...
2025-04-17 12:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman paused in her study, jade eye flaring. Her dead gaze sharpened as she studied the mural once more.
It is incomplete?
The Fox yawned, stretching languidly. The muscles of her form went taut, showing an expanse of silver smooth flesh that drove lust-maddened Kings to war.
How many lives were lost due to the Fox’s beauty, the woman wondered? Millions, hundreds of millions? Even discounting the atrocities she committed during the Age of the Gods, the death t...
2025-04-17 12:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
Once upon a time, in a place far beyond the shadows of the Star-Touched Lands — where grand pillars of concrete rose towards skies laden with smog and ash — there lived a painter of unparalleled talent.
She was a woman whose heart bled with dreams and colours. Her brilliant brushstrokes, drawn by hands bearing steady fingers and matchless precision, brought forth hues of vividity to a world otherwise void of vibrancy.
Canvases portrayin...
2025-04-17 12:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe cultivator frowned at his reply. “No?”
“No. Great power, maybe. Far in the past, before my imprisonment,” the man admitted freely. “But a Demon? Never.”
The man’s mind spun, trying to divine the cultivator’s purpose. Why would the boy ask such questions? Surely the Clans had already found the truth, despite whatever suspicion they held about his origins. They were not that incompetent.
“There are times when one may deem blindness to be pref...
2025-04-15 14:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe man felt more confused than hopeful. The last time someone visited him was just recently after his humiliating defeat. A trio of fledgling cultivators — all barely within the Third Realm — led by some arrogant whelp who had just recently ascended to the Fourth.
The son of the Clan’s newest Patriarch, supposedly. The boy had come to gloat about his father’s victory over him, as if the triumph had been the coward’s and not the other slain Patriarchs who were brave enough to ...
2025-04-15 13:47:52 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
“Bury the Demon beneath the Earth, where the light of Heaven cannot find him. The world has no need for the likes of his madness, and our people lack the strength to suffer the price of his ambitions.
However, should the Divines ever come to reap the lives of our kin, remember that Demon. Hand over to him your flesh, and unleash his hunger upon the very Gods we worship.
Among Heaven and Earth, none will equal that Worm’s voracity.” 2025-04-15 13:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post
“Thank you, Father.”
The Patriarch kept walking down the hall, though he did give a bemused look to Feng, who was trailing behind him. “I have not even said anything yet.”
“You noticed my discomfort and brought me out of that room for my sake,” the Young Master said with a grimace. “My distaste for human flesh is as well-known as it is unbecoming, it seems.”
“Perhaps I did it for myself,” the Patriarch suggested kindly. “I may be in the Spirit Realm, bu...
2025-04-15 12:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
“It is in a cultivator’s nature to eat their lesser brethren. The lives of inferior practitioners are short, their pursuit of Immortality forever unfulfilled. What are the few decades of a weakling worth compared to the eternal life we may one day achieve? Better that we consume them now, for what little they may achieve in their pathetic lifespan pales in comparison to the honour of becoming sustenance to fuel our ambitions.
“We all serve the Path ...
2025-04-15 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, where are my manners?” Patriarch Shang shook his head. “As riveting as this discussion is, we did not gather here solely to talk.”
At his command, a group of servants orderly entered the hall, carrying trays and platters of steaming dishes. The air became rich with the mouthwatering scent of food, and soon, the table was filled with a banquet fit for an entire room full of guests.
There was far more served than what the four of them could reasonably finish. Their vari...
2025-04-15 11:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostThey were seated at an enormous dining table, one long enough to fit twenty people aside and with a width three metres long. It was often only used to host guests numbering in the dozens. With only four of them occupying the vulgarly large furniture, it made for a somewhat comical sight.
Rather than sitting at the end of the table — as was typical of his position — Patriarch Shang had chosen instead a place along its length with his guests. Feng, Lingyu, and Lianshi were on the othe...
2025-04-15 09:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
“No! Let me go! Stop, damn you! I didn’t join the Sect for this… I didn’t break free from my mortal bonds, cultivate my flesh and blood, and suffer all those trials just for this! I was not born to be your food!
“I don’t accept this… I cannot accept this! My flesh is my own, nothing about me belongs to you! Unhand me, you—! N-no, STOP! DON’T—!”
— Overheard words from a Core Disciple as he was ‘inducted’ to serve a term in...
2025-04-15 09:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post"Look at them, staring all doe-eyed at each other. Do you see that, interloper? You almost ruined that lovely couple."
Brother Dai's declaration interrupted said couple from their tender moment. His words were directed towards Sister Jin, but it was clear he purposefully said them loud enough for the two to hear.
“Good job seducing Jin, by the way,” Brother Dai called out to Feng, giving him a thumbs-up. “I am happy to see that the Young Master is not unpopular with women....
2025-04-15 08:46:59 +0000 UTC View PostLianshi went on a hunt? That would explain her mollified mood. Now that the Young Miss mentioned it, Feng realised her eyes had turned a lighter shade since he saw her that morning, lessening from a dark cinder hue to rich smouldering ember — a sign of satiation.
How fortunate for him, then. As a cultivator in the Fourth Realm — and a mere Step from her breakthrough into the Fifth, no less — Lianshi felt her hunger more acutely than that of her other Sisters, especially since the ...
2025-04-15 07:51:11 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
Many are the luxuries afforded to a cultivator. A stronger body. A longer lifespan. The respect and fear of lesser mortals. The first taste of Divinity.
All of them are chains. The further one advances, the less human one becomes. Those who are weak stopped appearing to you as people, but as resources. Insects. Trash to be killed or used at your leisure.
They become meat, the fuel for your cultivation.
<...
2025-04-14 13:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post~~~
A long time ago, in a world very different from what it is today, there once lived a curious human child.
Growing under the safe shadows of modernity, the girl spent her youth studying the past of bygone eras. One day, after chancing upon a book detailing the life of ancient beasts, she beheld the tales of towering behemoths; ferocious creatures that once ruled a world without humans. Fascinated by such legends, she would often dress herself up in their image, to ...
2025-04-14 13:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostFeng raised an eyebrow at her bold declaration.
Sister Jin’s eyes were bright and teasing, a far cry from the hunger and paranoia from when he first met her earlier. It seemed the influx of flesh and qi had greatly mollified her mood and endeared her to him.
His status as Young Master likely helped build a degree of trust as well. They had not known each other for long, in truth. While he had seen her on occasion during the Split-Headed Carnivore’s visits to his Sect, there wa...
2025-04-14 13:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostAN
The previous Omake, Chapter 36, contained NSFW elements. If you have skipped that chapter and arrived here from Chapter 35, you may continue here without missing any crucial plot points.
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“A cultivator may marry for many things: wealth, connections, or even just to secure a suitable partner for dual cultivation. All of these are reasonable justifications, for they pave the Path forward towards Immorta...
2025-04-14 12:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note:
[NSFW Semi-Canon Omake]
Warning: This chapter/omake contains NSFW content. Feel free to skip to the next chapter if you wish. It has been ensured that the plot and story will progress unhindered even if this chapter is not read.
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Feng did not step away as Sister Jin slinked closer to him, even as she placed a hand on his bare sh...
2025-04-14 12:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe two of them opted to move to a more secluded corner, away from the potential stares of Juniors and mortal servants who might spot them waiting at the public stairway. The fires of the Sparring Hall might have dulled, but there was still a great deal of work to do before the damage could be said to be contained.
It would not do for the Young Master or the female disciple to distract the others from their duties, especially since asking those lowly servants to ignore the naked pair mi...
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“Indulge in every wicked thought that hides in the dark corners of your heart. Satisfy the perverse temptations that plague every moment of the waking mind. Witness all the wrongs and evils of Humanity, and rejoice at its sheer beauty and ecstasy.
That is your right — the right of the strong.”
— Creed of the Carnivores
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The Young Master walked back down the stairs, flanked by two Core Disciples...
2025-04-14 12:40:12 +0000 UTC View PostDid she… Did she think this was his offer to dual cultivate with her? Her adamant rejection was a little more understandable now, but even so, Feng felt a little flustered that she thought him so licentious.
“This isn't a proposition for anything improper,” the Young Master replied, trying to calm her down. “I am not interested in you that way, Senior Sister.”
Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that it would be inappropriate for him to show any interest in her. ...
2025-04-14 12:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing?!” Sister Jin exclaimed with a horrified expression. Her previously guarded stance had been replaced by one of panic as she dashed towards the Young Master, presumably to stop him from hurting himself further.
Brother Dai stopped her before she could reach him.
“Relax,” he said, exasperated. “The fool is just offering you a meal.”
Feng pressed the broken blade deeper into his right flank. An onlooker might regard his actions as one of lunacy, ...
2025-04-14 12:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post