Carried by the storm's turbulent winds, the Cursebloom Sap spread rapidly and engulfed the area within seconds. A demonic bull-looking beast whose curiosity had led it closer to the corpse backtracked from the bellowing miasma, yet it was too late. While the storm was suppressing Ashlock's Qi, th...
2025-04-16 14:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock was staring at his sign-in system in disbelief.
Idletree Daily Sign-In System
Day: 3671
Daily Credit: 13
Sacrifice Credit: 7409
[Sign in?]
7409 sacrificial credits was ...
2025-04-14 14:34:02 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, for those who didn't see it at the end of the last chapter, Patreon will be following RoyalRoad's M-W-F schedule, so the next chapter is tomorrow (Monday). This is because Patreon reached the target of increasing the backlog to 30 chapters ahead, which has been my g...
2025-04-13 14:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post"System, where are we?" Ashlock asked as he looked around. This wasn't the void despite the endless darkness, and it certainly didn't feel like heaven. Encircling him, souls were moved across a sea of golden hellfire by a nonexistent wind. Their souls were orbs of varying size and color, likely r...
2025-04-11 13:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostElysia woke with a start and screamed. The soul-tearing phantom pain of being annihilated by the heavens faded as she filled her lungs with air. After a panicked few breaths, she realized a few things. First of all, she wasn't dead. Second of all, wasn't this Stella's bedroom?
A hand smacke...
2025-04-09 15:55:28 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock watched on as Stella closed her eyes. After taking a deep breath, she spread her arms in a sweeping motion, and the hundred swords wreathed in white flames fanned out and vanished into the aether. Like a conductor, she motioned at the air, and the slaughter began.
In quick successio...
2025-04-07 15:13:17 +0000 UTC View PostStella felt a deep resonance between the ash spider cradling her soul and the sphere of ash that was Larry's Monarch Domain.
The aspect of eternal ash. What a fitting name for Larry's domain. Stella placed a hand on her chest. Something about the ash spider there filled her wi...
2025-04-05 12:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostStella returned to the safety of her house in Ash's Inner World and laid Elysia down on her bed.
"You're going to be okay, Elysia. You hear me? Hey, don't you dare die on me," Stella said with anger, "It's going to be fine—everything always is."
Elysia's mouth barely moved in respon...
2025-04-03 12:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post"Elysia?" Ashlock shouted into her mind as he watched the tree continue to grow out of her body. "Are you okay?"
A voice answered, but it wasn't Elysia's.
"Father." The tree that had bloomed from her chest swiveled its golden eye to...
2025-04-01 13:28:10 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock's immense Star Core hummed with power as he wielded his will without restraint. There was nobody present on Red Vine Peak as they were all attending the grand funeral, but if they had been, they might have been crushed by the immense pressure he was radiating.
For him to put on a sh...
2025-03-30 14:46:07 +0000 UTC View PostJasmine saw fear in the man's eyes as he stared at her. His posture and muscles were tensed, and he seemed frozen—his mind processing something unknown.
She tilted her head, confused. It wasn't often that people had such a strong reaction to her, especially people she had never seen befor...
2025-03-26 15:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostSullivan looked down at the murky tea with small black seeds floating on the surface with a mixed expression. Despite its somewhat questionable appearance, it had a tantalizingly sweet aroma.
"What's wrong?" Mary asked from across the table.
Sullivan glanced up at her, "You said you w...
2025-03-21 04:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostStella stood upon an unassuming rock formation. It was a shade lighter than the brown of dirt, with tufts of grass and little yellow flowers peeking through the cracks. The fresh smell of nature was carried by a calm but cold breeze as the sun began to set. To her side, at the base of the rock fo...
2025-03-17 15:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostStella gradually calmed the raging storm within her Star Core, reining in the white aether soul flames that had engulfed her body, blazed in a pillar, and touched the golden barrier above. As the white brilliance receded, she exhaled slowly, her breath carrying the last remnants of her rage.
<... 2025-03-13 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Skyrend family had faced three disasters that nearly led them to extinction, and they were now facing their third. It all started with the challenge of the Voidmind family, another of the old families in the Blood Lotus Sect, regarding their role in the deaths of the scions, Theron, and Kassa...
2025-03-09 18:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostDiana waited patiently before the black stone gate of Tartarus, built into the back of the Ashfallen Trading Company’s headquarters in Ashfallen City. The gate had been further improved since Vincent Nightrose had been led inside. It now featured defensive runic formations inlaid into its surfa...
2025-03-04 21:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post“He stole the sword I gifted you?!” Stella was livid after hearing Tree’s words. “How dare he! Here we are, minding our own business, and some bastard from the Celestial Empire comes along and takes my gift to you? Where is he? I’m going to kill him!”
“Calm down, S...
2025-02-28 20:18:16 +0000 UTC View PostLyriana Silverspire frowned at the golden hairpin she was twirling between her fingers. “Why didn’t Sebastian answer me?” She muttered as she fiddled with the artifact inlaid with emeralds. It was a long-range communication artifact that she had used to converse with her son’s attendant m...
2025-02-25 21:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock appreciated Catherine taking the lead in informing everyone about the funeral. For some reason, he felt that if he were to speak about the funeral plans, it would carry less weight. It felt so much more genuine coming from Catherine—the scene of a mortal mother clasping hands with a Nas...
2025-02-22 00:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostStella squinted at the mystical fog and felt a sinking feeling in her chest. She could accept the Redclaw Grand Elder reaching the Nascent Soul Realm before her. He was a war hero who had been cultivating for as many, if not more, decades as the years she had been alive. The gap in their life exp...
2025-02-18 15:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Jasmine looked around with confusion, she was surprised to suddenly be embraced from behind. Still jumpy from her month of survival in the pocket realm, she jerked her head to look behind.
"Are you not happy to see your mother?" The woman who had captured her smiled.
After relea...
2025-02-16 12:13:32 +0000 UTC View Post[Chapter warning: Don't be eating food while reading]
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Jasmine was surrounded by death. That was a rather dramatic way to put it, but it wasn't wrong. Around her were withered corpses of bugs the size of her head who thought she was free food and curious plants that ...
2025-02-14 14:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock couldn't believe how much divine energy naming the flagship had cost him. "System, did you make a mistake? Naming the flagship cost as much as naming Akasha, who is an ancient spirit tree. Why did it cost so much? Didn't I just give the lump of rock that makes up the Bastion a name?"
<... 2025-02-12 12:53:14 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock returned to Red Vine Peak with simmering rage. He knew it was due to his own carelessness, but he couldn't remember the last time he had been robbed.
"Why was that bastard from the Celestial Empire even there?! I thought the strongest cultivator left in that region would be the fres...
2025-02-10 14:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostSullivan felt it—everyone did. He was startled awake out of his drunken slumber. His darkened room on the top floor of his brothel reeked of booze, sweat, and sorrow hung in the air. He had returned here a mess after losing his cultivation due to being mind-controlled by Vincent Nightrose.
<... 2025-02-08 13:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note]
'Spirit of death' was changed to Soul Eater to maintain continuity with an earlier chapter. Also, Nyxalia inhabits the area between Darklight City and Argentum (Silverspire area). Nightrose City sits somewhere between them. Therefore, references to Nyxalia fro...
2025-02-06 13:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock was somewhat taken aback as his sword that harbored Vincent's vengeful soul devoured the Silverspire cultivator's body. He hadn't known it could even do that, especially on its own.
"Stella gave me this Bloodiron sword as a birthday gift. I know it can grow in strength if fed lifefo...
2025-02-04 14:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock had kidnapped not one, not two, but twenty aether Qi trees from Stella's pocket realm, and they were all gathered before him like a small, out-of-place forest. Their translucent trunks shifted in and out of reality, giving them a ghostly appearance, and their starlight leaves seemed unfaz...
2025-02-02 14:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostVespera Silverspire, second wife of the Silverspire Grand Elder, stood alone in a courtyard of dancing shadows. Her eyes were closed as she listened to the overhead rumbling of the heavens. It had been days since the divine lightning began enacting its wrath upon the peak, meaning her husband had...
2025-01-31 14:24:13 +0000 UTC View PostAmber Redclaw's meditation had been going smoothly. Due to cultivating above a lake of fire while perched on a sword, nothing but streams of fire Qi spiraled through her consciousness, imparting upon her the knowledge of an eternal blaze and flooding her soul with Qi, all of which she greedily ab...
2025-01-29 13:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post