Completely flummoxed by the outpouring of what Sen assumed was respect, he blurted the first thing that came to his mind.
“Why are you all kowtowing to me?”
The kneeling cultivators traded confused looks with each other before the ...
2023-07-30 05:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostHaving never participated in a large-scale battle before, Sen had no appreciation for just how much work or how much time it would take even for the basic task of gathering the wounded. With core formation cultivators on the field, he thought it m...
2023-07-29 20:38:58 +0000 UTC View PostSen’s first instinct was to run away. Being the focal point of that much attention was like having one of his nightmares come to life. He could see the looks on their faces and wanted no part of it. He didn’t want their awe, or their fear, and...
2023-07-28 20:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostSen consciously kept his pace to something that the foundation formation cultivators could maintain. They covered the first hundred feet or so without challenge. Then, a pack of four water cultivators spotted them. Sen unleashed his killing intent...
2023-07-28 14:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Sen started paying attention to the conversation again, he learned that the fire cultivators had been out on patrol when the real fight started. They’d been trying to make their way back to the main compound but had been whittled down by at...
2023-07-28 03:40:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen knew that going into the valley was a bad idea. He also knew that Lo Meifeng was going to go down there and throw herself into the fight anyway. She had at least listened to his advice to approach quietly, suppressing her presence as much as s...
2023-07-27 17:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostSen was crouched down, carefully removing the roots of a medical plant from the ground, when Lo Meifeng wandered over to him. He glanced up at her, but she looked to just be curious about what he was doing.
“I have to make elixirs from som...
2023-07-27 03:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostWith the threat of the demonic cultivators if not entirely gone then largely neutralized, Sen and Lo Meifeng’s journey became a more relaxed affair. They still kept up a fast pace, but it wasn’t the kind of brutal pace that Sen would have dema...
2023-07-26 16:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostKalan was surprised to find his path utterly clear on the way to the bridge. He’d expected to meet resistance and traps. It seemed incomprehensible to him that the crew wouldn’t try to take advantage of their superior knowledge of the terrain....
2023-07-26 06:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostSen and Lo Meifeng found a back way out of the building and took off for the western wall as fast as they reasonably could in the confines of the alley. After the second time they had to chastise some would be thugs, they transitioned to the rooft...
2023-07-26 04:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter weeks spent running around in the wilds, it wasn’t difficult for Sen and Lo Meifeng to pass themselves off as weary travelers looking for an inn at the gates of Lin Wen’s Redoubt. The guards waved them through without so much as a second...
2023-07-25 18:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostKalan considered his next move as he dropped the thruster pack to the deck and stripped out of the EVA skin. It had taken Kala baby-stepping him through the process to deactivate the distress beacon built into that EVA skin. What a time to be ...
2023-07-25 07:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Open a comm channel,” said Temera, as she did her best to assume an air of casual indifference.
“Yes,” Em paused, “Ma’am. Channel open.”
Temera made up a name for herself on the spot. “Zeren cutter, this is Captain Emi...
2023-07-25 06:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen made sure that they stayed well clear of civilization, he also made sure that they kept moving away from the Temple of Eternity’s Edge. While it seemed less and less likely that Lan Zi Rui was going to chase them down, Sen didn’t fee...
2023-07-25 04:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Sen and Lo Meifeng were out of sight of the temple, they abandoned their casual saunter in favor of qi techniques. With core qi finally available to him, the pair made incredibly fast time as they fled back the way they had come. Sen had a wo...
2023-07-24 17:06:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe argument had lasted for nearly half an hour and Sen hadn’t gotten anywhere with Lifen. She’d dug in her heels about staying and the worst part was that Sen couldn’t refute most of what she was saying. Yet, he could also see tendrils of t...
2023-07-24 03:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending what felt like years in a place where his will and imagination made almost anything possible, waking up into the real world again was a bit of a disappointment for Sen. He immediately missed the godlike ability to alter his environm...
2023-07-23 17:21:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs relentless as Sen had been during his years training on the mountain, there had been also quiet moments. Moments of reflection, on his part, and on the part of his teachers. Master Feng, Auntie Caihong, and Uncle Kho had all spoken to him at di...
2023-07-23 03:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostHong Fu had spent most of his long life in positions of relative power and safety. He’d spent his childhood protected by his noble status, which had partially carried over into the sect that he’d joined. His quiet conversion to a demonic culti...
2023-07-22 16:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostSen kept up his kicking at the door until he eventually grew so bored with it that he was feeling tired. By then, it was late into the night, so he ignored the tray of food and settled onto the pallet. It wasn’t comfortable, but his body had bee...
2023-07-22 01:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostLo Meifeng turned to Sen and said, “We can’t let him take us in there. Better by far to die out here.”
Lifen looked appalled by Lo Meifeng’s words. The old man looked sad and a little disappointed. Sen just evaluated what he saw in L...
2023-07-21 16:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostWhile their brief moment of playfulness had helped lift everyone’s spirits, they all grew warier and warier as they traveled even deeper into the wilds. Every noise caught Sen’s attention. He refused to even entertain thoughts about his cultiv...
2023-07-21 04:09:42 +0000 UTC View PostEven with all of their advantages, traveling through the wilds was slow going. They had moved beyond the semi-tame portions into the true wilds. By Sen’s estimation, they were spending the same amount of time to move half the distance or less ea...
2023-07-20 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere was very little talking as the three of them left the site of the battle behind and for the rest of the day. While Sen’s elixir had done a lot to restore Lifen’s and Lo Meifeng’s energy, letting them stay awake, it wasn’t a substitut...
2023-07-19 21:21:37 +0000 UTC View PostSen and a weary Lo Meifeng made their way back toward Lifen. Most of the spirit beasts seemed to have decided that the fighting and destruction wasn’t worth whatever had brought them there in the first place. For the few that stuck around lookin...
2023-07-19 17:04:43 +0000 UTC View PostSen wasn’t given very much time to think about what he was going to do about the flying demonic cultivator before he was forced to worry about his own survival. While there were fewer spirit beasts floating around, that didn’t mean th...
2023-07-19 03:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostUnder normal conditions, waking up was something Sen let himself do slowly. It was a gentle rise from the wild fantasies of dreaming into the less fantastical demands of reality. He found that gentle rise to be a fine way to start his day, because...
2023-07-18 16:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen hadn’t expected to reach core formation as fast as he did, he had done a little preparation. He’d quizzed Lo Meifeng about her experience with it. While she had added a ton of disclaimers about how everyone’s core advancement was d...
2023-07-18 03:15:57 +0000 UTC View PostSen briefly wondered, is the universe trying to get me killed? Then, he had other things to worry about. That amount of any kind of qi, let alone heavenly qi, was enough to obliterate the obscuring formation if Sen didn’t contain it. Un...
2023-07-17 17:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostWith the decision made, they didn’t waste any time. Sen spent longer than he probably should have picking the spot where they would leave the road. Then, he used every trick he’d picked up since leaving the mountain, every bit of woodcraft he...
2023-07-17 04:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post