Sweat beaded down my forehead as I stared unblinkingly at the ball of medicinal energy in my pill furnace. Over the past two hours, I had meticulously combed through the energy of all three herbs and fused them together as best my skills in herbalism and alchemy would allow. It was time for the n...
2025-06-20 20:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter nearly two and a half months in the Hall of the Herb Lord’s third-floor alchemy workshop, I had already advanced to Martial Disciple 3, and I was well on my way to Martial Disciple 4.
The herbs that Lord Yong had given me had all been used up, and the only thing left behind to prove...
2025-06-19 20:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostLord Yong had said that he wanted me to attempt to concoct at least five Qi Gathering Pills each day. At that rate, I would need 100 days to use up all 500 sets of herbs that he had given me. This was a bit slow for my liking, so, to ‘show my enthusiasm,’ I decided to increase my pace to seve...
2025-06-18 19:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostAfter taking the storage bag from Lord Yong, I went to the Assignment Hall to see about reserving an alchemy workshop. However, when I arrived, the attendant smiled and waved me away.
“Apprentice Fang, Pill Lord Yong has already made the proper arrangements. You will have exclusive access...
2025-06-17 15:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Jon left me alone with Yong GeHong, the Pill Lord’s posture shifted from that of a subject to that of a Ruler.
“Apprentice Fang, you have been able to advance your cultivation base more quickly than I had expected. However, speed should not be your goal. If you wish to gr...
2025-06-16 14:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Pill Lord Yong’s departure, I left the Hall of the Herb Lord and returned to my apartment. Once there, I sat down on a ratty, old cultivation mat, closed my eyes, and opened up the copy of the Writ of Pill Fire that now existed in my mental library.
I could have used the physical co...
2025-06-13 18:56:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I had joined the Hall of the Herb Lord, I had been told that my time was my own. I could sign up for tasks whenever I wished, but nothing was required of me. As long as I paid my dues, I would have a roof over my head and be considered a member in good standing.
After being conscripted...
2025-06-12 16:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostEver since our lesson on energy control, I had been hesitant to return to the Hall of the Herb Lord since I hadn’t wanted to spend any more time around Jon than necessary. This strategy of avoidance, however, had failed. The very first time I had left my apartment, I had walked straight into an...
2025-06-11 13:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the competition, the Scholar’s Tower held a small ceremony to celebrate Jon’s victory. However, I slunk away before it even began. The Tower’s elders seemed like rather amiable fellows, but I was the person who had stirred things up and made the competition between Jon and Young Maste...
2025-06-10 19:17:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the competition, the Scholar’s Tower held a small ceremony to celebrate Jon’s victory. However, I slunk away before it even began. The Tower’s elders seemed like rather amiable fellows, but I was the person who had stirred things up and made the competition between Jon and Young Maste...
2025-06-10 13:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe people of the Scholar’s Tower were incredibly efficient. Only moments after their Young Master requested a formal competition, an earth cultivator was sent to the square in front of the pagoda to transform it into an impromptu stage. The citizens of Proud Eagle City immediately noticed this...
2025-06-09 12:08:36 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Jon had forced me to be far more deliberate with my actions. He appeared to be a traveler from another world, and he likely had an unusually potent blessing—one that might allow him to grow in strength across time loops. Until I knew more about him—and about what the...
2025-06-06 13:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry, but there will be a lengthy delay for today's chapter. The same might also be true for tomorrow's.
The entire posting schedule this week ahs been erratic, and I'm sorry about that. I didn't take the opportunity to use the break to build a backlog like I should have, and the long...
2025-06-05 12:04:49 +0000 UTC View PostI froze up.
Who was this ‘Jon’? The architecture and naming conventions of the green- and brown-skinned ‘Hall’ people were different from what I was used to, showing that they came from an entirely different culture. Was this ‘Jon’ the same? Was he just a poor farmer who had bee...
2025-06-04 13:33:42 +0000 UTC View PostTaimoor first led me to an office on the Hall of the Herb Lord’s second floor, where a middle-aged man with charcoal-black skin and long black hair was reviewing a pile of paperwork.
Taimoor cupped his fists to this man. “Manager Ulagan, a new Disciple has requested a position as a serv...
2025-06-03 13:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I generally do not update the version of the story that is released to Patreon. If you want the best reading experience, check out the versions on Amazon and Royal Road. Below is the story as it was originally written.
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2025-06-02 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
First, as usual, I want to thank everyone for supporting me on this journey. Book 4 & 5 stretched on far longer than I originally expected, but overall, I think that was for the best. While I know there were mixed feelings about the kingdom building and clan building aspects,...
2025-05-02 12:08:15 +0000 UTC View PostUpon waking up in my tiny house, I took a moment to decompress and then got to work. Suliang JueXin’s takeover of Chang’an signified a fresh start for my Su Clan, but that’s all it was, a start. If we wanted to make the clan everything that I knew it could become, then there was still a lot...
2025-05-02 12:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted JueXin’s group to consume as much of the Su Clan’s strength as possible so that they could create a new, more stable clan to replace it. But to make this happen, I needed help.
“System, teleport me to LuLu.”
Purchase confirmed. Cost 3,760 credits. 2025-05-02 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Upon waking up in my room in the Su Clan, I wasn’t in any hurry to act. Returning through time signified closing the lid of the Eclosion Pot that was my inner world, and I needed to let things ferment before taking the next step.
Not wanting to waste this time, I decided to spend it learn...
2025-05-02 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostStepping out of Emperor LI’s portal, Mei and I appeared in a musty cave deep underground.
In the center of the cavern, there was a ring of five large, black vats the size of beach balls. Each of these vats was covered in a thick wooden lid and had been sunk half a meter into the floor. In...
2025-05-01 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostUpon returning to my tiny house, I had a difficult decision to make.
Creating that Rank 7 body cultivation technique had given me a huge discount for my next large purchase, but it had come at a terrible time. With 50% off a quadrillion credit purchase, I could, theoretically, save up to 50...
2025-04-30 12:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing the pattern that I had become accustomed to, I paid for a teleport to the town west of the Wastes and spent two years experimenting with body cultivation. Shortly before this time was up, I made a few purchases to help with my upcoming life:
Enhanced comprehension of beast taming:...
2025-04-29 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWith my Karmic Energy Storage Formations in place, I could now rapidly increase my strength without needing to rely on outside forces. This gave me a lot more freedom with how to move forward.
So, what did I need to research next? The answer was obvious: Rank 7 body cultivation. How to rese...
2025-04-28 12:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostUpon waking up in the Su Clan’s compound, I made a snap purchase. The clan believed that it would take time for my blessing to return us to the start of the loop, but that only bought me two years, and I had a lot of work ahead of me.
“System, teleport me to a secluded spot in one of th...
2025-04-25 12:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostBoth Shen and Du XiongMing had their own goals for this life.
Shen was given a portion of the Jiu Clan’s blood essence and was promoted to the position of the Clan’s Patriarch. No one was happy about this, but Shen needed Sovereign-level energy, and if we had to have a Jiu Clan, it migh...
2025-04-24 12:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostHaving millions of people crammed together in my inner world for any longer than necessary wasn’t necessarily a bright idea. However, there was something that I needed to do in this life, and I couldn’t have people running around outside before I did it. So, I told the clan’s leadership tha...
2025-04-23 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the vast majority of people were out of my inner world and back to where they had come from, I was finally ready to figure out what the hell had just happened. While there were plenty of people that I could have asked, I fell back into my old pattern of centuries and called on ShouLi.
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2025-04-22 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostTen years to the day after I first met with Grand Elder Zheng BoQin and took control of both the Nine Rivers Sect and the Nine Rivers Continent, the portal to the Central Continent opened unexpectedly, and an unfamiliar woman stepped through. At any other time of year, this event might have been ...
2025-04-21 12:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostBack in my new cultivation chamber atop the Summit of the Nine Rivers Sect, I extracted a strand of spirit fire from the Eternal Grove Fire and constructed a stone lamp for it to sit within. Then, I inscribed the bottom of this lamp with a Qi Gathering Formation to feed it energy.
Once ever...
2025-04-18 12:00:38 +0000 UTC View Post