Yoshika took a deep breath and then sighed in resignation. She doubted there was any way she could argue her way out of this, but she wasn’t about to just give up entirely. She fixed Yan Hao with a cold stare and frowned.
“Not that it’s any of your business, but we—Jia and I practic...
2021-05-16 17:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostYoshika sighed heavily, then winced at the twinge of pain caused by the movement. There was really no sense denying it—she’d been caught red-handed, so to speak.
“We don’t suppose we could convince you that it was a different demon that killed Yan Zhihao? That this really w...
2021-05-14 19:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe flood of energy was almost too much to bear. It reminded Eui of her breakthrough to the second stage, when she and Jia had absorbed a tiny sliver of the divine essence that Jianmo had used to suppress them after it broke down into more mana than they could contain within their domain. That ha...
2021-05-12 18:27:38 +0000 UTC View PostZheng Long’s advance was halted by a wall of stone erupting from the path in front of him—most likely from Dae. Without needing any prompting, Jia’s team moved into position for a defensive battle against a single powerful opponent. Jia and Rika retreated back to cover Dae and Eunae, respec...
2021-05-12 18:27:35 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be no chapter release today to prepare for a double-chapter on Tuesday. Overall the release schedule is the same, I'm just delaying a single chapter to spare you from cliffhanger hell. Thanks for reading!
2021-05-08 18:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostThey had barely even set out before crossing paths with Zheng Long and the others. Lee Jia sighed in frustration as soon as she saw them approaching. She had really been hoping to go the rest of the trip without having to see them again, but it seemed that fate had other plans. If she was being p...
2021-05-08 18:05:04 +0000 UTC View PostJia and her friends sat in a circle, watching the kitten bat playfully at her fingers. It was almost disturbing just how life-like it was, but the kitten wasn’t real. Only Jia could interact with it physically—to the others it was just an illusion created from spiritual energy. The reason Jia...
2021-05-06 19:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt had worked! Lee Jia hadn’t been certain it would, and she knew that she would have just lost the fight if it hadn’t. It had been a narrow thing, but Jia thought it had worked well for something so rushed together, and she was lucky that her friends had been able to put it together for her....
2021-05-04 18:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostA kitten. Its black fur was the only resemblance it had to the shadow spirit that Lee Jia had encountered before. The panther had been taller than her while on all-fours, and its eyes had matched her own golden irises. This tiny little furball seemed to be the size of a regular kitten—though it...
2021-05-02 20:08:34 +0000 UTC View PostJia and her friends were able to rejoin Hayakawa’s group at the plateau without incident. Apparently the Qin group had elected not to return, but Hayakawa wasn’t particularly bothered by it.
“They can take care of themselves. Besides, with three third stage cultivators in their group,...
2021-04-30 21:19:21 +0000 UTC View PostSpirits—they were odd things, and not well understood, even in the cultivation world. Humans cultivated by gathering essence within their bodies, minds, or souls—all three in Jia’s case, and she was beginning to wonder if there was any true distinction there at all. Magical beasts formed a ...
2021-04-28 20:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostMinami Yuuko was sulking, and she wasn’t afraid to admit it—at least, to herself. Everything had fallen apart after Lee Jia somehow managed to single-handedly take down their entire back line. Yuuko didn’t understand it—Fujino was almost as good as her, and he would have had Ishihara and ...
2021-04-26 20:50:35 +0000 UTC View PostMinami Yuuko was excited, but also a bit disappointed. She was looking forward to the chance to prove herself in front of the one who inspired their entire fighting style, but she was disappointed that she didn’t get to see Lee Jia fight. She agreed with that Qin guy—Zheng Long, was it? That ...
2021-04-24 20:26:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe run to the mountain was uneventful, and they made good time, arriving at the base of the mountain before noon. They slowed to a stop, meeting up with the Qin group who had run ahead, and was waiting for them. Zheng Long’s expression was smug as he raised a hand to greet them.
“Glad ...
2021-04-22 20:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostEui wasn’t particularly surprised at the news that Sun Jaehwa might be going after Lee Jia’s reputation.
“It’s exactly what I thought—she’s trying to ruin your reputation and blame it on me. Then she can step in, clear your name with the ‘truth’ that it was actually all me, ...
2021-04-20 16:15:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days were spent training according to Eui’s directions. Despite their best efforts they were not able to find an essence-based technique for deafening themselves. If they wanted to protect themselves entirely from Yue’s enthralling song, their only recourse would be to pierce the...
2021-04-18 15:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia paced impatiently around the tiny living space as she considered the implications of the memory she had just examined. Not only did it create more questions than it answered, she was still no closer to learning how to resist Yan Yue’s technique.
“Argh, what a waste of time!” 2021-04-16 20:31:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Jia sat alone in her bedroom, eyes closed as she focused on her meditation. Opening her meridians by herself was an unfamiliar experience for Jia. She hadn’t really done it since her practice for helping Eui awaken, and afterwards she had always practiced joint meditation with Eui. It has been ...
2021-04-14 20:32:15 +0000 UTC View PostThirty six and a half seconds—a little more than a half. It was a weirdly specific number, but Lee Jia had absolute confidence in it. At first, she thought it was just how long she’d been able to maintain the technique, but the number was more significant than that. That was as much time as s...
2021-04-12 20:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostWith their project completed, Jia and Eui were somewhat at a loss for what to do. It had given them time to decompress from their stressful encounter with Yan Yue, but they had put things off to do it. Yue had been continuously sending them letters asking when they would actually be embarking on ...
2021-04-10 20:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia wished she could still communicate mentally with Eui as the atmosphere became tense around them. Instead, she stood back nervously and allowed Eui to speak for herself. Whatever Eui chose, Jia would support her.
Eui scowled at Dae, narrowing her eyes at him as he sat back and waited...
2021-04-08 14:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostJia lay on the couch feeling miserable. The day had started so well—except for the part where she had woken up on the edge of an essence deviation. She’d gotten to try Eui’s home cooking—which had been amazing—and she could begrudgingly admit that it had been fun to have her hair and ma...
2021-04-06 20:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostJia’s attempts to find answers about her and Eui’s predicament were spoiled entirely by the extremely awkward atmosphere. It was a bit more quiet than her normal study sessions with Dae, since it wasn’t scheduled and thus he didn’t have a specific study plan in mind, but that wasn’t rea...
2021-04-04 20:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia woke to a horrible throbbing pain in her head, and wished whoever was causing that horrible pounding noise would stop it. After a moment, she realized that the pounding was her own heartbeat, and that she would not be able to escape it. She hadn’t felt this awful since the day after her...
2021-04-02 20:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Jia, stop clinging to me. I’m not going anywhere, relax!”
“Just a bit longer!”
Since returning from their confrontation with Yan Yue, Jia had refused to let go of Eui’s arm. After months of getting used to the casual intimacy of their shared thoughts and emotions, being w...
2021-03-31 17:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt had worked. Lee Jia had nearly panicked when Eunae turned to leave—that was her only chance. Eunae had clearly been suspicious about something, and Lee Jia had noticed her searching around with her mana sense. However, Yan Yue had done a remarkable job at imitating Jia—from her mannerisms,...
2021-03-29 17:31:19 +0000 UTC View PostSeong Eunae—actually, just Eunae, thank you—the less she had to associate with her family, the better. Eunae was worried—more concerned, really—about one of her friends. She had precious few of them, and all of them she had met after coming to the academy. Well, nobody who knew her before...
2021-03-27 18:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostJia and Eui’s connection had been severed—torn apart somehow by Yan Yue’s technique. Jia didn’t know how it had happened or how it could be possible. It didn’t seem as though it had been intentional, but that was a small comfort when her cultivation might have been irreparably damaged.<...
2021-03-25 20:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostYan Yue had been upset to learn about Lee Jia’s plan to train her spiritual resistance with Eunae.
“You’re going to ask her to use that power on you on purpose!? If it meant that much to you, I could give you some tips on how to resist my technique, but under no circumstances...
2021-03-23 20:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia balked at Hayakawa’s demand, and she could feel Eui beginning to tense up as well. Hayakawa raised a hand to cut off a response.
“Before you answer, let me clarify. I don’t mean you need to teach me everything—only tell me. I may then want to exchange techniques or ...
2021-03-21 19:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post