Hotui Mata spent only two days in his deliberation before he found me at my state-requested house.
The house itself was simple and out of the way because the looks of confoundment from visitors are worth far more to me than any amount of luxury, so it clashed beautifully with his robes as he planted his face on the grou...
2024-12-20 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIf Province Lord Lung Hao was honest with himself, he loved his job. He knew that his peers considered the Scale-Scrape barrens a punitive position, but that stopped bothering him only a few short months into his post.
Yes, there were no resources left after the great battle with the dread Salt-Scale Serpent had formed ...
2024-11-02 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Esteemed Immortal. You requested to be informed when a Bone Frog was reported in the Bloating Corpse Fen.” the guard captain, Fui Lee, addressed me with a medley of emotions. He hadn’t yet adjusted to me treating him and his men like people, or to my penchant for working alongside the common farmers.
It had only ...
2024-10-20 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOne perk that I had actually predicted encountering after my ascension was the interest to be garnered from rulers after they heard about my dinner techniques. Because really, some guy is famous for making meals taste better just by being there. What ruler isn’t going to be interested?
And as word spread...
2024-09-29 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNobility, I’d heard, sometimes mused at why winter was associated with death. Some argued that it was due to blind eyes not being able to see the vibrant beauty in the frost, or the subtle elegance of the winter predator.
Some insisted that the peasants only cared about their own food crops, and having harvested them ...
2024-09-06 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostRaka stared at the wooden hut. Ling stood beside him, disbelief on her face matching what he allowed himself to feel.
So much had changed so abruptly five years ago, during the civil war that lasted all of a week while they thought they were tracking Guang down, only to learn from a cackling breeze that Guang had ordere...
2024-08-11 02:18:47 +0000 UTC View PostDinner with Rangtu was enlightening and more than a bit revealing. She was happy to catch me up on several groundwork matters regarding existing as an Immortal Spirit, from the theory of how to weave my own path among the mortals, the explanation of why I would be unable to hide myself from mortal eyes like Heavenly and Earth...
2024-08-03 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHaving throttled the strength of cultivators willing to come after me directly with City Lord Huan’s aid, and having demonstrated that I could handle anyone who could afford the Face to come at me, the subjugation war went relatively peacefully on my end.
It would have been unnervingly peaceful, even, if not for...
2024-08-02 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOne trope that I’d thought I understood about xianxia stories was the incomparable value of the auction houses. From simple buying and selling that alone is difficult to overstate why someone without the backing of a dedicated pavilion would find useful, to the ways that the auction houses had dreamt up to kee...
2024-08-01 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I’d started to suspect you of delaying for poor reasons.” Yang Zhao grinned as he tested the balance of his new axe. “I am glad to discover myself wrong in that.”
“With how long I was left preoccupied, I cannot fault brother Yang for honest doubt.” It had truly been far longer than courtesy demanded, betw...
2024-08-01 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSang Lee stood across from me, glaring at me with malice as our brethren packed in around the arena. After all, if we were going to risk losing a disciple, the sect wanted to make sure as many could learn from the exchange as feasible.
“Any last words, thief?” He shouted as he drew his sword.
“No...
2024-07-31 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe warped boar snarled at me. It was massive, its eyes level with my own, and its shaggy back rising almost half that again from the ground.
I held my gaze steadily despite the abject fear of facing down such a beast. I was strong, yes, but having expended all of heaven’s gift to get a head start on my foundati...
2024-07-31 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Before I face my death, it strikes me as an oversight that the sect scholars have so little to publicly say about tribulations.
Like, I know I have an abnormally scientific mindset for the position of ‘Cultivator’, but tribulations are still quite a fundamental part of the process, and the most anyone had to say...
2024-07-30 22:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostNow that I was looking for it, the constant focused attention on me was even more obvious than Hu and his cronies trying to wear me down. Instead of unnerving me or bothering me, this relaxed me for the very simple reason that it was always either confused, fearful, or both.
For someone who thrives off fucking with peop...
2024-07-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDemon beasts aren’t actually demonic. Not in an Earth-western sense, at least.
They’re actually just cultivators. After a fashion.
See, like any other strand of evolution, sometimes the variety of life gives rise to individual creatures capable of taking in a type of ki and making use...
2024-07-29 23:48:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I must say, little Guang, you have a clever method to yourself.” Elder Tong spoke as I poured the tea. “To hear the rumors, you’re the most devoted outer disciple the sect has.”
I smiled at the jab. The art of politicking was so strange here. “I’m sure the rumors see me favorably more for my meal h...
2024-07-29 23:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Guang Jinsheng, reporting for duty.” I announced to the administrator who’d taken several minutes to acknowledge my arrival.
“Ah, I was told you’d be getting promoted soon.” she smiled easily. “Brother Gao Li will be happy to hear that you didn’t get yourself killed.”
I held my bow politely as s...
2024-07-29 23:46:24 +0000 UTC View PostY’know. Conscious reincarnation isn’t that bad.
I mean, sure, having to go through infanthood with a fully functional mind isn’t great. And the culture shock is very real when you go from a post-industrial society to a rural farming community that has to haggle for verified news.
But other than...
2024-07-28 23:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
On suggestion from several people, I slapped together some cover art for the story I'm about to start catching up here!
Feel free to laugh if it's amateurish. I'm only really able to barely meet my own standards.
2024-07-28 23:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostWell, in a couple days at least. Gonna get it sorted with Royal Road which I also just remembered I made an account for.
Honestly, life just ran away with me in a bad way over the past couple years. But hey! I live and a shiny new Xianxia story was what dragged me back to functioning!
So there's that...
2024-07-25 05:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostHolstein cast a practiced eye over the open prairie and sighed. It was a lovely day. The sun hung high in the afternoon sky casting a golden sheen over the wild wheat that spread out like a grassy sea in all directions around the caravan. He could make out the distant silhouettes of the Vine Forest to the west and the Copper ...
2021-11-27 04:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, you who trawl undeveloped pages!
As I told anyone who reads bios, I like telling stories. I'm even accused of being good at it.
I'm mostly here to allow my accusers to throw lunch money at me to keep me working on the stories they like. If you'd like to join their ranks, I'm always happy to hear both prai...
