It almost felt like a dream when Zac stepped out from his teleportation room and stepped into his compound. Six years. It had been over six years since he left Earth with not a single update on the state of things, except for the notification that...
2022-02-09 17:28:22 +0000 UTC
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Iz looked at the spot where Mr. Bug once stood, her heart filled with unwillingness as space smoothed out following the burst of chaotic turbulence. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. How did he escape? Was she set up? Her eyes thinned as sh...
2022-02-04 16:27:45 +0000 UTC
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The air rippled, finally exposing the two cultivators who had been standing at the shores of the small lake, just as the young man entered the twisting sphere of Chaos.
“Amitabha, Amitabha. How marvelous,” Three Virtues smiled, though th...
2022-02-03 17:48:01 +0000 UTC
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A/N: A bit belated, but thank you for resubbing, and welcome new patrons!
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Zac felt the first whisp of Chaos form when the two streams of energy from his shoulders finally couldn’t resist the mounting pressure, ...
2022-02-02 17:33:27 +0000 UTC
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The lightning-scorched tower had finally crumbled, unable to withstand time and the madness of its master. In the rubble, she sat, her heart burning with hatred and her hands covered in ash. Hatred against what, she no longer remembered. The ashes...
2022-02-01 18:07:23 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Small notice for February! The release schedule will be mostly as normal, with the exception of no chapters on the 7th and 8th of February.
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Far different...
2022-01-31 18:15:31 +0000 UTC
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As the world collapsed and the small mountain village was reduced to nothingness, Zac found himself standing atop a boundless ocean beneath a golden sky. There was not a wave or a ripple, yet Zac couldn’t see what hid below.
However, he co...
2022-01-28 17:16:31 +0000 UTC
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After having spoken his piece, Zac felt an odd premonition that he couldn't decipher. It seemed as though something had changed, yet everything was the same. The temple, the monk, and the statue - it was all as before. Yet Zac felt out of phase, f...
2022-01-27 19:04:28 +0000 UTC
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A day later, Zac reached Pavina’s mansion, and he found his teacher sitting with an axe similar to Zac’s own in her hand.
“You won,” Pavina nodded as Zac arrived, placing the axe to her side. “I’m quite the teacher.”
“Y...
2022-01-26 17:27:47 +0000 UTC
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Zac mutely looked on with amazement as deep cracks spread across the Izh’Rak Reaver’s bones. It was definitely the work of the Undead Empire’s commandments, a punishment for divulging the secrets to an outsider. Zac knew just how sturdy the ...
2022-01-25 17:20:21 +0000 UTC
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Not once since stepping into the Integration Sage over half a year ago had Zac felt this in tune with his creation, where he and his Dao were on track for becoming one and the same. The Inexorable Stance was no longer just an extension of his will...
2022-01-24 18:54:18 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the delay, we're back to regular scheduling now! Thank you for all the well wishes, Mr. Chubs is doing fine, except for some kidney stones we're getting removed next week.
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2022-01-22 18:29:30 +0000 UTC
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Today's (2022-01-21) patreon chapter is postponed until Saturday due to veterinary emergency (doggo will be fine). I'll try to get it out as early as possible.
Sorry for the inconvenience, have a picture of Mr. Chubs to tide you over!<...
2022-01-21 14:54:34 +0000 UTC
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Leyara passed through the barrier shielding the outer hall, and she was immediately greeted by a vast silence. Her steps, her breath, the basic sound of existence was swallowed by the void, leaving only a blanket silence. It wasn’t uncomfortable...
2022-01-20 17:41:43 +0000 UTC
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A/N: There was a typo in the previous chapter significant enough to mention here. Zac's new Dao Branch gives +300 Dexterity, not +300 Strength as mentioned in the original version that was sent out with e-mail.
[Bran...
2022-01-19 18:08:56 +0000 UTC
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As expected, the punishment for evolving a Dao firmly outside the System’s purview came with a harsher challenge. The System wasn’t shouldering any part of the tribulation this time around. Each rumble felt like a primal call of destruction, w...
2022-01-18 18:53:16 +0000 UTC
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The stone urn was a spatial treasure, and Zac eventually resealed it when the barrel was three-quarter full. For better or worse, there was a lot more of the grey mud stored in the vat, and he had to save it for future endeavors. The stench had sp...
2022-01-17 20:09:44 +0000 UTC
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Zac had prepared for this step since he accepted Kaldor's challenge, and with his latest spending spree, he had everything he needed to make the most out of his upcoming tribulations. So he made a beeline for his cultivation cave upon leaving the ...
2022-01-14 18:09:06 +0000 UTC
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As the dust settled, Zac was greeted by a deafening silence even after the isolating array had been deactivated. Traprandar was arduously getting back to his feet as his right hand hung limply to the side. A new wound, this one almost cutting the ...
2022-01-13 18:32:24 +0000 UTC
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Space was rapidly freezing over, and Trapandar furiously swung his ring blades to keep Zac in place. The warrior was using his signature skill already; every time the two clashed, a band of light was added to Zac’s body, hampering his movements....
2022-01-12 19:56:21 +0000 UTC
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The three-year shuffle for new arrivals was quite straightforward. It worked just like the normal relegations, where Zac’s prison brand had flashed a month before the deadline. In his case, it emitted a soothing blue glimmer, indicating he was a...
2022-01-11 19:43:20 +0000 UTC
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The swarm of elemental constructs was gradually being whittled down as the ravenous army of cursed shadows pushed forward. Hidden among the glacier, Ogras’ eyes shimmered as he looked for the leader of these wretched things. Finally, he spotted ...
2022-01-10 18:06:09 +0000 UTC
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With the flaws in his training method corrected, Zac returned to the routine where he rotated between wanton slaughter in the Wilderness, duels in the arena, and short periods of secluded cultivation. Part of him wanted to rush toward the peak wit...
2022-01-07 19:50:26 +0000 UTC
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Zac appeared in the teleporter of Samsara’s Edge with a flash of light, and he settled inside one of the empty buildings as took out an information crystal. It was a short missive on mastery skills, something he had picked up for 150 Purchase Po...
2022-01-06 19:16:15 +0000 UTC
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The chains of [Chainbox], the working name of Zac’s spare coffin, caused the whole ravine to be drowned in a raucous rattling which was continuously reinforced and multiplicated by the iron-rich cliffs to his sides. The clamor w...
2022-01-05 18:17:20 +0000 UTC
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Zac obviously understood that it was bad to rush a Dao breakthrough with treasures, but that didn’t seem like what Pavina was referring to when saying that breaking through would be detrimental to him.
“Do you know about the stages of co...
2022-01-04 16:42:35 +0000 UTC
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A/N: And we're back, for a month of uninterrupted DotF goodness! Thank you for resubbing, and welcome new faces!
To recap for any new readers who come straight from Amazon, new chapters are released Monday-Friday, th...
2022-01-03 17:36:57 +0000 UTC
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Zac made his way toward the heart of the life-attuned zone, his mind filled with misgivings. The token Ubo showed had just been a projection, but according to the elemental, the real Perennial Vastness token was his as long as he met with the Lord...
2021-12-17 19:41:00 +0000 UTC
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Zac looked down at his hands with incredulity and despair as the last embers of Oblivion dissipated in front of him. Soon, just a depression in reality remained, and a moment later there was nothing. The searing pain that ran from his head down hi...
2021-12-16 18:39:44 +0000 UTC
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"Never have I seen such a flighty bastard," K'Rav swore. "You've been reading that thing for months now. Strength comes from pushing forward and seizing what's yours, not cowering in a corner."
The goblin was sitting on a sofa in the study, ...
2021-12-15 19:19:42 +0000 UTC
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