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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 54: Bloodstorm Unleashed

1/3 this week!

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Seventeen cultivators simultaneously unleashing their auras and law projections caused the void to tremble. Spatial tempests picked up, carrying away the dregs of planar dust that were now all but useless to Cha Ming....

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 53: The Final Battle

last chapter of last week. Another to follow.

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Cha Ming use Bloodstorm Rush to flee until he was several dozen kilometers away from Oster. It was only once he was certain that his clear runes were out of range that he dared expand hi...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 52: Gathering Strength

2/3 this week.

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A pulse of power filled the air as the eight largest planar fragments shattered, revealing gaping holes in space that tore apart their surroundings. The Chasewind Plane’s membrane shook and threatened to break apart...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 51: The Making of Deities

3 chapters again this week.

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Wei Longshen could think of better ways to spend his time than hiding behind large pieces of spatial debris to avoid heavy fire from fiendish artilleries. Ideally, these other things would involve music, ...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 50: The Rise of Three Moons

3/3 this week.

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After three days of fighting, little was left of the defensive fortifications Oster had directed everyone to erect. They now mostly relied on large planar fragments and the natural chokepoints and cover they provided....

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 49: Propping the Heavens

2/3 this week.

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It was no longer possible to hide his breakthrough. And as fortune would have it—or misfortune, in this case—his “allies” still needed him. Because the demiplane was no longer collapsing, but he was. ...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 48: Clash of Wills

1/3 chapters this week ^^.

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Dao fragments formed the core of every plane. This included mortal, transcendent, and even immortal planes. Not only did they set the rules for each plane, they also set their tone and their nature. It was...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 47: Shattered Form

2/2 this week!

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Cha Ming had grown much stronger since fusing his three energies and consuming the Flamewing Demiplane. This had several consequences, one of them being that he could no longer enter weaker planar fragments without ca...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 46: A Risky Plan

I haven't set the number of chapters this week, but rest assured, the whole book will be posted by the end of February.

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The void adjacent to the Northern Abyss was a veritable maze of spatial fragments. This had a lot to do with the...

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Book 17 - Chapter 45: The Second Fortress

2/2 this week.

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The fiendish fortress was of peculiar construction, in that it was built downward into the Northern Abyss instead of on a horizontal plane like they were used to. Its only entrance was a circular door built of a stran...

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PtM 17 - Chapter 44: Equilibrium

1/2. I made a mistake, so posting Chapter 45 right after this.

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After forty-eight years of hard work, the battle for the Chasewind Plane had reached a tipping point. The realm’s Dao Origins had reached a critical point in their hea...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 43: Planar Battlefield

2/2 this week.

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Huxian’s worries proved to be all for naught, as Oster and Cao Wenluan outright rejected Cha Ming request for a meeting. In their view, this was a competition. Collaboration would only make things needlessly complic...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 42: The Third Phase

1/2 this week. Enjoy ^^

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Now that the general situation on the Chasewind Plane was decided, Cha Ming and the others returned to the Heartforge Realm to complete the last leg of their training. Cha Ming sought out Dao God Heavenbind a...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 41: Return

3/3 of this week. Enjoy ^^.

Material planes were a lot like living beings in that they required a constant influx of energy to survive. The planar membrane was where most of that energy came from, and it came in the form of primal chaos ener...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 40: Renegades

2/3 this week ^^

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Wei Longshen flickered through the forest like a phantom, stepping on unbroken branches and lightly packed leaves, leaving no trace of his passage. Tree trunks and boulders did not hinder him, for his body had no fl...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 39: Continuous Calamities

Three chapters this week, but the word count is long, so less chapters next week. I think it's worth the tradeoff though in terms of where things cut off.

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Clouds accumulated once more, filling them to the brim with Heaven and Earth ...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 38: Breaking Through

3/3 this week!

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Exhausted from his spiritual journey, Cha Ming left his spiritual sea and returned to his body. His inner world had reached an absolute bottleneck. It was heavy and bursting at the seams, with no room for further expa...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 37: The Second Truth of Mists

Big chapter today. I waited like a year to write it (or some version of it) and the next one. So I'll post chapter 38 right away, as I think the read better continuously.

Enjoy!

2/3 this week.

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Ninesky flew a circle aro...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 36: Upheaval

Happy New Year Everyone!!! I'm back and rested and ready to write. Three chapters this week. Time to power up!

1/3 this week.

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The discovery of South Blight Fortress and the impending detonation Flamewing Demiplane sent shockw...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapters 33-35

Merry Christmas! As promised, 3 chapters today!

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 32: Fortress


The mountains of South Blight Sanctuary were treacherous and unstable, prone to collapsing mid-battle. What water they found was poisonous, and plants that at first seemed edible reduced their energy reserves instead of replenishing the...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 31: Missing


Years came and went, and soon, it was autumn again. Bronze and gold leaves fell like rain upon the twin mountains, covering it in a beautiful but temporary layer of decay that marked the end of the first half of their stay in the Heartf...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 30: Friction

5 more chapters (After this one) before the end of the year. I'm going to go ahead and schedule two more in the coming days, then 3 on Christmas day. ^^ It's also a good breaking point in the story thus far. 

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The Heartforge Rea...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 29: Rest and Recuperation

3/3 this week!

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After a bitter year of fighting with blood cultivators, evading corpse puppeteers, and nearly being turned into a corpse puppet himself, Cha Ming returned to the Heartforge Realm for an extended recovery. And unlike t...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 28: Proving His Worth

2/3 this week. More to follow ^^. 

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Patriarch Blighted Heaven was an early law stitching cultivator, but unlike most cultivators in his sect, he’d cultivated both his qi and his body. Huxian had given Cha Ming an extensive por...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 27: Terms

1/3 this week! 

Also, Heartforge is now out on Audible, for those who listen there ^^.

https://geni.us/heartforge 

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The inter...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 26: Bloodstorm Gorge

2/2 this week! Also I have a new shiny desktop now. Built it with a friend. I'm going to take a picture once my desk comes in.

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The battle for the Blood God Region was over. The Blood God Sect and the Blood Demon Sect were no more, a...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 25: The True Blood Monastery

2 Chapters this week. The second one is a bit longer than normal.

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Without their leaders, the remaining cultivators from the three blood sects put up little resistance. Cha Ming and his allies captured them before moving in on the se...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 24: Settling Accounts

3/3 this week!

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Oster Fireblight was a practical individual in that he would do almost anything for money. ‘Greed is good’ was his slogan, and he applied that to every facet of his life.

Which was why, despite having taxes ...

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PtM Book 17 - Chapter 23: Cha Ming vs Thunderclash

Hm, in hindsight 2 chapters is on the low side this week. 2/3 this week. I'll post another one in a couple of days, and that will finish up this confrontation.

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The match to decide the leadership of the Puppet Lightning Sect was all...

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