4th of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt slotted his spirit gem into the spell formation and activated it. The ambient energy grew denser, and Newt started with his first item on the agenda. He created one tendril o...
2024-11-24 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post4th of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt stopped before a light-brown wooden door. A black tag with white letters hung at eye level, saying, ‘Joyguard’.
Did he change his name after taking up this posi...
2024-11-23 08:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post4th of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“A bright lad,” a booming voice said from a handful of steps away, disturbing Newt’s focus.
He was using three tendrils to feel the ground. The sensation was akin to l...
2024-11-21 09:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post4th of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt sent a pulse of spiritual energy into the earth and lost contact with it right away.
“Why’d you start with three feet right away?” Elder Alabaster yelled before r...
2024-11-20 11:25:07 +0000 UTC View Post4th of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Don’t worry, you’re really close, much closer than someone your realm has any right to be, and I hate to interrupt you, but now it’s time for our daily lesson.” Elder Alabaster di...
2024-11-19 07:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post4th of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt had been developing his new technique for about an hour when he sensed an intrusion.
“Senior Apprentice Brother, it’s past eight in the morning.” The faintly fami...
2024-11-17 09:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post3rd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt felt like gastonias had walked all over him as he entered room five-o-three. Even dead tired, he froze after taking a single step inside. The room was brightly lit, the air f...
2024-11-16 10:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post3rd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Alabaster shrugged and said the only logical thing, “Sure.”
Newt could tell she expected Crystal would beat him into the ground. He looked at Crystal, and the young woma...
2024-11-15 18:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post3rd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“That’s an interesting defensive skill for your realm. Most can’t separate their protections from their body until the fourth realm. How far can you push it?”
Newt p...
2024-11-14 08:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post3rd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt reached the northern training field an hour and a half before noon. His new uniform fit perfectly, but nobody noticed, since sect uniforms were supposed to fit perfectly anyw...
2024-11-13 13:26:11 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“You may check out up to three tomes containing no secrets, martial arts, or cultivation techniques. You may read them wherever, or even take them on missions. However, you have...
2024-11-12 12:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Huh?” That wasn’t Magmin?
“What happened with the cores?” Still obsessed with money, Newt hardly considered the embarrassing question as it escaped lips....
2024-11-10 04:53:07 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt’s heart skipped a beat. He opened his mouth, but words failed him, and Elder Woodhopper’s smile grew wider.
“You are Newstar, a new inner disciple. It’s highly ...
2024-11-09 03:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Good day, I am Elder Longfang. I’m also a member of the Formation Scribes’ Guild. You must be extraordinary to join outside the admittance period.”
Newt half-bowed ...
2024-11-07 14:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Opportunities always come with a certain risk.” Newt said after collecting himself.
The words were hollow, when you heard the stories, the risk always happened to other...
2024-11-06 04:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt was at a loss, unsure what to do. Both women shut themselves in their bedrooms while some unfortunate guy’s stuff clogged his. Worse, he could not just throw the junk out, ...
2024-11-05 07:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Based on the flaky impression he had of Elder Alabaster, Newt expected a lot of things from her. Two hours every day, ‘be at the northern training field an hour before noon, and...
2024-11-03 08:21:44 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Name?” a bored clerk with gray hair and droopy eyes said, not bothering to grace Newt a look. His aura revealed him as a fourth realm cultivator, and considering his appearan...
2024-11-03 04:49:58 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt’s eyes immediately adjusted to the light as he left the sub. Just like Elder Alabaster had said, darkness and the small confined space meant little when cultivators meditat...
2024-11-02 08:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post1st of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
For the first time in his life, Newt entered a port. The pier was huge, catering to a hundred docked ships, with plenty of empty space left over. Then, he saw the sea. The greenis...
2024-11-01 18:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post1st of Season of Fire, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Thank you for everything, Senior.” Newt bowed deeply to Elder Frostgrave and the disciples of the Everfrost Palace. They had escorted him to the twenty-seventh imperial city ...
2024-11-01 04:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post89nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Elder Frostgrave led the way for about a mile away from Thunder Ridge until the party reached a ramp leading to a stone viaduct. The elevated road was around eighty feet wide and ...
2024-11-01 04:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post82nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Newstar, we are beyond the point where you can just say you owe me another favor, and I will not reveal a secret like that to you, nor anyone else, without getting something of...
2024-10-31 13:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post80th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
The return to the surface was a torture. Luckily, Everlast had some food stashed away in her spatial pouch, and Dandelion reshaped their bubble once so they could sleep. But even ...
2024-10-30 09:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post66th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
The green light glared in the claustrophobic space barely larger than a coffin. It shone from below, painting everyone’s face a ghastly play of green and shadow. Newt’s heart ...
2024-10-29 15:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post66th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt could not believe what he was seeing. Everlast was also stunned, but she lacked the third eye, so she could not see the intricate flows of energy as Dandelion executed yet an...
2024-10-27 12:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post66th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Here it comes,” Dandelion flew up from the pit in the furthest corner of the upper tunnels.
The shaft was a spiraling tube as wide at the cave was tall, and an infuriat...
2024-10-26 17:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post66th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt and Everlast carefully entered the frostworm cavern. Dandelion was not as stressed, nor did he tiptoe around, he simply walked normally, his steps muffled by cushions of air....
2024-10-24 10:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
The frozen ground shook as the enraged frostworm’s bellows rattled Newt’s bones and made his molars buzz.
“It’s furious,” he said aloud what they already knew.
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