Ash let out a short breath and then grunted. Folding his arms in front of himself he sniffed.
Glancing to the side, he looked to Tan.
The young man, who now looked very much like a young man now instead of a boy, was stretched out on the grass.
He’d grown an entire foot, fleshed out with a considerable amo...
2023-03-11 02:54:26 +0000 UTC View PostAsh stepped forward and dropped off the gate. Landing in front of it with a soft pat. Rou had of course come with him. She didn’t have much in the way of choice but neither did she complain or respond to it.
She moved with Ash and landed beside him.
“So eager to see your owl?” Locke asked, hitting the ground...
2023-03-09 03:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostAsh carefully extracted himself from Liu’s Dao and released her.
Though she didn’t release him.
In fact, he felt her travel back with him to his own Dao, hanging on tightly to him. Clinging to him, in fact.
She ended up being dumped into his Qi-Sea and next to his Dao pillar. A moment after her stature c...
2023-03-08 04:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostStanding there, Ash waited. Staring at those people coming forward for him.
False smiles, nervous glances, held breaths.
Along with a backpack full of entitlement that their precious little monsters in his prison shouldn’t be there, he imagined. Right now he really was contemplating simply cutting them down to t...
2023-03-04 02:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostStanding on the ground, Ash watched as Ghast’s blimp flew away. Heading upward at a near ninety degree that looked uncomfortable.
She was most certainly in a rush to get somewhere.
In Ash’s arms was a wooden chest. It’d been given to him seconds before he was just about thrown off the ship. Leaving Ash just ...
2023-03-02 04:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Ash could comprehend the situation, Qi-Lord Ghast was directly in front of him. Staring at him curiously with a head tilted every so slightly to one side.
Her long pale-brown hair was pulled back behind her head except for a set of bangs that framed her beautiful face. Brown eyes that were so light in color they ...
2023-02-28 06:12:52 +0000 UTC View PostAsh leaned away from the carved stone face.
To him it looked quite life-like if completely stone. It wasn’t based off anyone nor was it likely to resemble anyone.
When Ash carved it, he was just randomly carving it till it looked as if it were a person.
“You know, this really doesn’t feel any different...
2023-02-25 04:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostHui made a clawing motion with her hand cloaked in black Qi. Nine of the guards who were dressed in the colors of the Hand fell. Their bodies torn to shreds under Hui’s attack.
“Ha! Your weapon is more skillful. With each exchange she becomes sharper and more deadly,” Hui proclaimed and turned to look at him. Ther...
2023-02-24 04:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostAsh cocked his arm back and lobbed another attack.
Lord Hand casually swatted it away, another chain forming instantly as he did so.
Casually as could be, Ash attached it to himself, smiled and prepared the next.
“This is insipid!” shouted Hand. “We’ve been at this for too long! An entire incense sti...
2023-02-23 04:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostAsh and Hui walked up to the front of the audience chamber. Right where the Dais ended and petitioners would obviously stand. There was a number of such people to the left that were still waiting for their own turn to take said place
“What brings you to my court today? I don’t think I’ve seen either of you before ...
2023-02-22 04:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostSave State Hero, is out now.
As a reminder, Amazon has botched their review system. Anything less than a 5 is "I didn't like this book".
I wish it wasn't so, but Amazon isn't exactly a genius organization. From shadow-bans, to outright bans, to not even understanding how reviews work.
Thanks everyone.
Ash flowed into the group of men his blades held in tight as he determined where to strike first.
Even as he moved he felt his Dao swell up from inside. Where the momentum of the fight, the area around him, and even the city came into sharp focus.
The fight he was about to engage had a momentum that was more like ...
2023-02-16 04:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostAsh looked up from the wounded boy and found a young woman not far off. She was standing at an alleyway drainage way. The space she’d come from had been so narrow that Ash hadn’t even realized someone could actually fit through it.
She had light-brown hair and looked malnourished. Her pale-brown eyes were soft and w...
2023-02-15 02:30:31 +0000 UTC View PostAsh turned and looked to the door as it opened.
He already knew it was Locke and Rou returning. He could feel their Qi the entire time they were within range.
The fact that this place was just about barren when it came to Qi made it that much easier for Ash to see everyone, and everything. What little Qi there was...
2023-02-11 02:41:23 +0000 UTC View PostCultivating Levels:
Body Refiner
Mortal Refiner
Spirit Refiner
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Empowered Mortal
Enlightened Mortal
Awakened Mortal
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Sovereign Immortal(2)
Dreadful Immortal
Heavens Defying Immortal
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Ashley Sheng (Ash...
2023-02-10 06:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostLocke managed to nearly swindle the inn-keeper out of the room she got for everyone. Talking him down in price to the point that there was no way he was even breaking even.
Likely the room was being rented to them at a loss.
All it’d cost Locke was promising to mention the place if others asked where she was sta...
2023-02-09 05:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s really strange,” Rou murmured, peering upward into the orange sky above them. “It isn’t sunrise, or sunset. The coloring is the same though.”
“In the book I read it said the light is weak. Since it’s artificial in nature, that’s no surprise,” Locke replied.
Ash was rather confused by it a...
2023-02-08 04:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostUsing his finger Ash carefully sketched out the next carving he thought that’d be best for Xiaohui in the dirt of the ground. Without using Qi, or permanently etching it into the stone, this was more akin to a child doodling scribbles.
Clicking his tongue he realized that this sketch wouldn’t work either. Xiaohui’...
2023-02-04 03:23:00 +0000 UTC View PostPanting, Ash stumbled along through the darkened sewer tunnel.
He could hear Rou and Locke moving along behind him in a similar fashion. While they had fairly good night-sight, the darkness that surrounded them was near impenetrable.
Only Ash’s sense of Shen’s Qi and a helpful green arrow gave them any directi...
2023-02-02 02:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostEdmund was quick to get down low and scurry through after Alina through the doorway. He’d only barely managed to get his head and shoulders through before he could see the other side.
He’d exited into a location that could only be described as a hellscape.
Literally and figuratively.
“Oh, uh, heh, welc...
2023-01-19 01:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostEdmund lifted his rifle and held down the trigger. Emptying the magazine before Zeus even appeared.
So that the moment he did, nearly every round hit him. Quite a few slamming into his head, in fact.
It did absolutely nothing.
The rounds mushroomed and fell to the ground at his feet even as he launched his a...
2023-01-18 03:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostEdmund flinched as something slammed into the make-shift bunker he was behind. It sounded strangely as if someone had slammed a baseball bat into the ground.
Ducking behind the bunker entirely Edmund tucked his head in as well.
Whatever had just struck, he really didn’t want to have his head above cover for it.<...
2023-01-17 01:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post“If you boys are done antagonizing Alex, Rene’s back,” Dorothy stated in a flat tone. Apparently she didn’t really approve of them prodding at Alex and his mother.
Edmund didn’t really care one way or the other.
He was emotionally numb to parents and the idea of them mattering at all.
Existences th...
2023-01-14 02:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostDorothy was happily gnawing at a stick of beef jerky while Alina took another sip of her energy drink.
The convenience store had been a raided, looted, mess. Where nothing had been upright and it looked as if a tornado had gone through it.
The two ladies had just picked up a few things, made sure there wasn’t an...
2023-01-12 05:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostEdmund let out a slow breath as the phone rang. Dorothy was calling him.
He’d accepted the invitation from Romina just as he had previously. Everything up to this moment was the exact same so far.
His plan was to push to go on the mission, cancel on Romina with the excuse of the mission, and then go. Going out w...
2023-01-11 04:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, look at that. Still no news about what happened,” Romina grumbled. “You know, it’s going to be kinda fucked up when I drop my videos on their heads in a few days.
“The editor is going through them all right now and putting it together. They’re doing two different versions. An only marginally edited one ...
2023-01-10 05:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostRubbing at his eyes Edmund just about slammed down into the chair rather than sit in it. Causing the desk he worked off of at home to shudder and clatter with the force of it.
“Holy fuck, Eddy, what the hell are you doing?” groaned Romina from the couch. She was laid out across it.
The two of them had managed ...
2023-01-06 00:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post“— is about it,” Edmund finished with a shrug of his shoulders. He picked up his cinnamon roll and paused. “That leads me to here and now. As soon as we finish all the introductory stuff I’m going to put down another save-state. It’s been a little since I put the previous one down so I shouldn’t get too tired or...
2023-01-03 00:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostEdmund made it to Legion HQ much faster than he’d done so previously.
To the point that he’d been putting deodorant on, brushing his teeth, and shaving, all while driving. He needed to get there as soon as possible if he wanted any chance of gathering everyone up.
Except when he walked in the front lobby it wa...
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