We settled in with tea, and after a brief moment of silence, Xiulan began to speak.
It was then when I realised that I was probably in over my head.
I wasn’t very good at this. Well, is anyone? Probably Meimei, considering she got Xiulan to talk in the first place.
I had no re...
2021-04-27 18:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostXiulan rose from her blessedly dreamless sleep with the early morning sun, as she always did. It was still a strange contrast. In the Verdant Blade Sect, the mornings were completely silent as the members of the sect performed their morning meditations. In the wetter months, the still and unmovin...
2021-04-26 17:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostAgain, not sure if this resolves things how I hope, for now. but its a start.
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Tigu could not classify what she was feeling at the moment. It was not the white hot rage, that familiar friend.
No, this was a sucking pit. There was some anger, but it was mir...
2021-04-21 18:58:26 +0000 UTC View PostI'm terribly sorry to announce this, but there will be no chapter on Friday
A medical procedure that I was waiting on was suddenly moved up to this week, instead of in late may, and I might be too out of it to write afterwards. Its nothing major, but they do need to put me out for it. ...
2021-04-20 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know if things came across how I wanted them to in this one.
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She had once been a part of an empire. A princess, in a palace of gold, serving well under her Empress. The Queen who stood above them all. Their numbers were without limit. Their armies, without peer....
2021-04-20 18:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostBi De watched over the little ones with serene grace. The young cows bucked and gamboled around the field, chasing and being chased in equal measure. It was a sight he was incredibly fond of. The young ones knew absolutely nothing of danger. To them, all of Fa Ram was safe and pristine, untouched...
2021-04-19 17:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostAgain, sorry for doing this, but this is the second version of the chapter "Still" with some major changes. Now instead of everything being available in Hong Yaowu, the pipes and copper are something that would have to be sourced elsewhere. The ending is also changed a lot, incorporating another ...
2021-04-19 00:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post“So, you think you can handle something like this?” I asked Yao Che, and the blacksmith stared long and hard at my drawings.
He considered them in great depth, a frown affixed to his face, until he nodded. “I’ll be able to do the pipes, even if they’re that small, and the spiral i...
2021-04-16 19:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, First, I would like to apologies for the delay. My google docs messed up big time, which tilted me off the face of the planet, and took entirely too long to fix, as well as the fact that some of the writing was lost.
Secondly, there has been some changes. The previous chapter has bee...
A collection of Teasers for all of the coloured images that are going to be used in the final light novel, as well as some other black and white images of Jin and Meiling.
Thank you everybody for your support. We're still a ways from the official release, but I hope you enjoy these!
... 2021-04-13 20:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostA prim and proper lady sat at a table, surrounded by papers. Her head was held high, her bearing was one of exacting poise. She observed the pieces of paper, and the half-unrolled scrolls before her with a critical eye, observing numbers and expenses and receipts.
A gentle breeze took the s...
2021-04-13 19:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Thanks, Brother Jin!”
“Hey Jin, play with us!”
“Jin, tonight, come have a drink!”
It was no trouble. Come on, you little brats! Of course! I wouldn't miss it!
Maybe I was just fooling myself. Maybe they didn’t really like me, or maybe they just liked me beca...
2021-04-12 18:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostHer Master was in her element. She strode around the house, checking and re-checking everything.
“Ri Zu, remember to take in the Hairroot fungus if it finishes drying before we return, we won’t want anything trying to eat it.”
Her Master’s voice was exciting in tone and even a...
2021-04-02 18:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostTwisting streamers of water flowed through the air. Droplets shone like gems, suspended motionless, floating without any visible support.
In the center of the tangled web, the formation of water, there was a fish. It was an ugly, drab brown carp. The most common sort of creature, his only r...
2021-03-31 18:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, Just letting everybody know, but I will be taking another small break, from APRIL 5th to APRIL 9th.
Sorry about this small break, and the fact that you don't quite have a full weeks notice, but I do need a small break for rest and planning at this juncture.
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2021-03-30 18:02:21 +0000 UTC View PostJin hadn’t been lying when he said the way he did things took a lot more work with the rice. Separating the seed, growing it in the little patches, and then transplanting it. Transplanting it at the correct distance too. Jin had made a little device for him out of wood. You rolled it across the...
2021-03-30 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMeditate. Train. Do the things Master Jin asked her to.
Meditate. Train. Do the things Master Jin asked her to.
Try to sleep. Dream.
She was in the valley, again.
Wake up feeling horrible.
Observe the earth spirit’s scornful glances. Stop her Qi from appro...
2021-03-29 18:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostRoutine Will be Updated with this section added to the bottom, and slightly more dialogue in the first section. For those who do not wish to reread the entire chapter to get to the end part, This is here. I honestly couldn't find a satisfactory place to put this as a whole chapter, so this is get...
2021-03-29 17:37:08 +0000 UTC View PostRoutine. Structure.
When I had first arrived, it had been a necessary thing. Self-Discipline did not come naturally to me. It had to be focused on, and worked at every day. Things needed to get done, and I was the only one who could do them. It was a desperate sort of drive, at first.
Xiulan took another bite of rice and exhaled in pleasure. It was… well, it was perfect. Her back felt so good. Senior Sister’s Medicinal Qi had worked out knots she didn’t know she had, and it felt absolutely amazing. She had avoided any of Xiulan’s meridians, and focused merely upon her ...
2021-03-24 18:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally we have a teaser for the vey large image of "The Arrival". There still is some texture work to be done, but this is the representation of the great Fa Ram, when Jin arrives.
2021-03-23 15:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some deliberation, this is how I will be handling art going forwards. The Magnificent Rooster Tier will receive all of the art at the full resolution, as well as the design process.
The Hen tier will get all of the art, at a smaller resolution, as well as the Design process.
... 2021-03-23 15:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostEdited to make the first part less explicit as to what they were doing.
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There were some things about life as a farmer that Meiling didn’t particularly enjoy. One might think, as the headsman’s daughter, she would be exempted from the difficult, or d...
2021-03-23 15:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt was always fascinating, watching another’s cultivation style at work. She watched, interested as Master Jin moved through his fields, and beehives deep in meditation. It was odd to use moving meditation so heavily. She knew not of a single Sect in the Azure Hills who used it to this extent, ...
2021-03-22 15:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post
A coloured image from the LN, and the lineart.
As always art is by the amazing Tsurot
Bi De stood at the head of the disciples. His countenance was calm, and his Qi was as still as a lake. The others, save Wa Shi, who had disappeared to places unknown, had been called to assembly. He supposed that was rather appropriate. Wa Shi would likely be more a hindrance than an aid in...
2021-03-19 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTo the direct east of the Azure Hills lay the Howling Fang Mountains. They were a stark contrast to gentle hills and rolling grass, standing tall and proud, stabbing up into the heavens defiantly, and biting directly into the Sea of Snow. The northern rangers were wind-blown and barren. Slashing ...
2021-03-17 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostShe was in the middle of a field. The sun was high in the sky, and the world was warm and pleasant. There was a little girl, who seemed achingly familiar, and yet was a total stranger. A tiny, emaciated, broken slip of a thing, her body marred by gold cracks. She was missing an eye, had a spl...
2021-03-16 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostGou Ren yawned, as the first light of dawn filtered into his “home”. He was originally planning on staying in Jin’s nice, big house... but. Well. Things happened. Good things, as far as he was concerned. He had gotten a good friends, and gotten to see his sister in all but blood, the woman ...
2021-03-15 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post