She had decided to leave the Effervescent Moon-Time Palace for a change of pace. Her apprentice had wanted to come with her, but sh refused to let anyone accompany her right now. It wouldn’t be a change of pace if she was with someone to whom she was familiar.
Several p...
2022-10-07 14:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter exiting the sealed world, Hou Jingshu’s group continued traveling through the maze.
They did not find anything of value, but they did find evidence of other people having already passed through. Some areas had scorch marks like a battle had taken place. Other areas had corpses strew...
2022-10-05 17:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Look sharp, Wu!”
“Nnggg!”
Wu Jian gritted his teeth as Hou Jingshu attacked him. She wasn’t using her spear but her fists. He recognized the style she used as the one she had learned years ago from the Wu Clan’s Library. Her punches were straightforward and basic, but eac...
2022-10-05 15:07:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis place was strange.
Wu Jian and the others had spent a lot of time trying to find a way out of here, but they had yet to succeed.
The first thing they had done was try walking out. That had ended in failure. They walked for what had felt like several days, only to wind up returnin...
2022-10-03 17:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu floated in a dark expanse of space. No matter which direction she turned, all she could see was an inky blackness so vast this place seemed both infinite and infinitesimally small.
I see. It’s the dream again.
She already knew she was dreaming. She’d had this ...
2022-10-03 14:51:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What sort of power is that?” Wu Jian wondered as he and the others ceased moving to stare in horror at the scene. He had never seen something so grotesque. All the people who had chains attached to them shriveled up like dried out corpses.
“A dark power that we’d best avoid,” Yin...
2022-09-30 16:33:05 +0000 UTC View PostA wave of swelteringly hot wind blew in Wu Jian’s face seconds before he emerged from the hallway. He blinked several times as sweat formed on his brow. Wiping the sweat, he glanced around.
Heat waves distorted the air everywhere he looked, and the entire space was cast in a reddish glow....
2022-09-30 14:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
These are some of the more important side characters who show up regularly in the beginning of Severing Time & Space.
2022-09-29 16:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe level below the first floor appeared to be a simple corridor. That was what Wu Jian first assumed, but his thoughts soon proved wrong when they came upon a room with six different passages. In the center of this room was a statue. While it was cracked with age and missing an arm, the plaque b...
2022-09-28 16:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey to the ruins in the center of this jungle took about two days. They didn’t run into any cultivators, but they did have to fight against several magical beasts.
Wu Jian and Hou Jingshu had taken care of them. They fought side-by-side. Wu Jian used his spatial manipulation to pu...
2022-09-28 15:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some artwork of Wu Meiying that I hired Michio to do for me. I think they did a really good job!
2022-09-26 22:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostWu Jian was more than aware of the distrustful stares he was getting from Hou Jingshu’s three bodyguards. After saving the woman in question, he had gone on to help the three defeat their opponents. They had expressed gratitude but still cast him obvious suspicious glances.
He… well, he...
2022-09-26 17:06:58 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu could do little more than glare at the man looming over her. Her three companions were unable to aid her. They were trying, but their opponents used their superior numbers and teamwork to prevent them from reaching her.
Retou Meng grinned as his eyes trailed from her feet to her...
2022-09-26 14:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey were in a bad situation. Retou Meng was at the seventh subrealm of the Asura Realm. If you compared his cultivation to someone the same age from a larger sect or nation, he would come up lacking, but it was very good for a small nation like the Shang Kingdom. Wu Jian’s father had been at t...
2022-09-23 15:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Is this… really a sect? Are we even still in the Endless Desert?”
Wu Jian didn’t realize he had spoken those words out loud until Huǒ Shuchang turned to him with a grin.
“I guess I didn’t tell you, did I? The White Tiger Sect is located inside of its own dimension. Large...
2022-09-23 14:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu had met Retou Meng when she was just nine years old. This was several years before her father had sent her to live with the Wu Clan. Both Retou Meng and Húndàn Wang had become smitten with her during the party where she made her first appearance.
She had no interest in either ...
2022-09-21 16:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostWu Jian looked at Huǒ Shuchang, then at the person who had spoken. It was a young man maybe a few years older than his companion. He had similar red hair, but his was several shades darker, and even his eyes were a deep crimson. The structure of his face was similar enough that Wu Jian thought t...
2022-09-21 14:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Michiroon is working on more character art for me! It's the Wu Clan!
2022-09-21 02:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey from Shāméiguī to White Tiger City was long and full of danger. Not only were there many powerful magical beasts who made the desert there home, there were also many more bandits here than in the Shang Kingdom. This was all due to the scarcity of resources. The Qing Province lacked...
2022-09-19 16:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu spent most of her time at sea cultivating. She still hadn’t reached the Asura Realm, but she felt like she was getting close. Her bottleneck had weakened several times throughout the passing days. She was sure she could break through soon. All she needed was an appropriate catalyst,...
2022-09-19 14:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu did not feel like she had gotten nearly enough sleep. It felt like she had been forced to wake up seconds after her head hit the pillow.
With a heavy sigh, she climbed off the bed and stretched her arms as the morning light filtered in through the cracks in the window’s shutte...
2022-09-16 17:02:21 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu threw her hair pin the moment Wu Yong and Zheng Yawen dropped from their perches. She expected her hair pin to pierce her target’s neck, but the man she aimed for must have had an incredible sense for danger. He swung his cutlass and knocked her projectile out of the sky.
Wu Y...
2022-09-16 14:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostHǎiyáng City was a bustling port city located western coast of the Shang Kingdom. Perhaps the reason it had so much traffic was because it was the only coastal city they possessed. That made it the only trade route available for ships looking to trade goods in their kingdom, and while the Shang...
2022-09-14 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHou Jingshu had left the capital not long after her meeting with Zhou Lihua. It had taken several days to prepare the Imperial Family’s airship, gather the necessary supplies to make the trip, and handpick her bodyguards, but she was able to leave in five days.
Because the Shang Kingdom w...
2022-09-14 14:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle had begun, but Wu Jian made no move to attack yet. He studied Shā Ying Yue through the slits in his mask.
“I have a question,” he said at last.
“Oh?” Shā Ying Yue raised an eyebrow. “You would ask a question in the middle of battle? Either you are very confident...
2022-09-12 17:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostWu Jian leaned against the wall, arms crossed, brow furrowed, thinking about his current dilemma.
Several days had passed since the tournament began. He and Huǒ Shuchang had won all of their matches so far. Not all of them had been easy, but none of them had pushed Wu Jian to the point whe...
2022-09-12 14:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt took five days for the preliminary rounds to end. More than half of those who had signed up to participate had been eliminated. A handful of people had died during the preliminary rounds, but there had been less than Wu Jian was expecting. Given how dangerous everyone seemed, he had anticipate...
2022-09-09 16:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe evening air was becoming brisk as Shā Ying Yue walked toward the inn she was staying at. The Qing Province was a land of extremes. The days were scorching and the nights freezing. Many travelers found themselves succumbing to either one or the other, and not even cultivators were immune to s...
2022-09-09 14:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
