Johan grew up rich. He could eat caviar and truffles with foie gras, wagyu, and fancy royal bloomers for every meal if he wanted to (he didn’t), but preferred white rice and rogan josh instead.
Rice was the staple food of Johan’s childhood, and he’d kept the habit well into adu...
2025-08-04 05:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Are there no Martial Arts manuals?” Yu Han asked the shopkeep.
“Kids these days,” the middle-aged Outer Sect disciple said with a shake of his palms. “Back in my time we would rightfully win manuals in a duel or pick them up from the corpses of our enemies—”
“N...
2025-08-01 12:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostFang Zhao broke out of the water, kicking hard against the bottom of the stream.
He swam to the shore.
Mistress Miao watched from atop a mossy boulder stuck between two trees that grew twisted around it. Her two tails swayed without any apparent pattern. From time to time, her ...
2025-07-27 04:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostAfter their Night Soil Collecting rounds, Yu Han and Huang Niuniu headed back to their huts.
Fang Zhao had already given back the Jade of Moments with all seven of his martial arts recorded, from start to finish and from multiple angles, with him supplementing verbal instructions. 2025-07-22 12:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The man, bald with sunlight shining off his head, carefully tiptoed around the mounds of dirt Fei Rui had dug up. He wore a modified sect robe with the character “Liang” on the right sleeve.
His identity token hung from his waist belt. It had orange strokes, the same as Tan Ruoxuan’s....
2025-07-19 07:35:44 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Notes: Thought I will add author's notes here and there. Here are the ducks I met yesterday. They were nice. “I don’t want to save
Author's Notes: Thought I will add author's notes here and there. Here are the ducks I met yesterday. They were nice.<...
2025-07-14 08:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“I don’t know what you think I am,” Yu Han said. “What am I if not typical?” He felt tired saying that.
“Feeling pressured?” Li Yao laughed. “Does it help you sweat?”
“You have too high expectations of me,” Yu Han said.
“It’s helping you lose wei...
2025-07-07 18:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post“And what do we sell?” Li Yao asked. “I’m guessing you don’t want to be like the rest. No endless grind in the Hidden Realm and selling the haul.”
“It’s not so bad,” Fang Zhao countered.
“It sounds plebeian,” Huang Niuniu said. “Once in a while is nice, ...
2025-07-01 08:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostSlow release for a few weeks. Maybe 1-2 weekly chapters. Fingers cross going to reach the 3 weekly release again before summer ends. As promised, Patreon won't be charged until it is 20 chapters ahead again, and 12 new chapters in Patreon have been posted.
I am settling into my ...
2025-06-22 09:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 104 – Tax Rules and Comparisons
Yu Han’s Deep Sleep had activated after he had been knocked out by Gong Muhua. He was able to enter his Dreamscape with no issues.
But this time, his sleep was normal. No Deep Sleep.
How the hell am I supposed to test this? 2025-03-21 21:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, I have some updates on my current situation. Tldr; I have 60 days to complete my master's thesis. So I am slowing down releases.
This means I won't have as much time to write. I need to prioritize the thesis. over posting regular chap...
2025-03-20 08:07:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 103 – Training the System
The next two days passed quickly. Fang Zhao was training like a maniac. Li Yao and Huang Niuniu would spar with him, with Yu Han joining in sometimes. The three of them combined couldn’t take him down.
Though when Yu Han maxed out his instincts wi...
2025-03-19 23:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 102 - Loot
“The Night Alchemists’ Yard archives list no Arts,” Elder Chang said. “Merely a few recipes and know-hows. Records of past exploits, and knowledge donated by our employees. Arts aren’t to be shared with outsiders. You shall only receive them for great contributi...
2025-03-19 17:00:43 +0000 UTC View Post“I quit this stupid sect!” Bloodhound One shouted. He galloped on all fours like a beast, leaving dust in his wake.
White light surrounded his body as if air streams were parting to make way. He streaked past the dumbfounded Law Enforcers and appeared at the end of the road where...
2025-03-14 21:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post“We can’t trust her!” Fang Zhao whisper-shouted.
They were sitting in a huddle by a small fire. Mistress Miao was moon-bathing in a boulder on the other side of the cenote.
“Do we really gotta whisper?” Li Yao said. “If she can hear the Mad Bloodhounds from miles aw...
2025-03-12 21:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Instruction manual?” Fang Zhao barked as if he’d heard the most ridiculous thing.
“A manual with instructions,” the cat said. “On how to use the ring. Did you read it?”
「Can I read the instruction manual too?」 Fei Rui asked. He had shrunk back to puppy s...
2025-03-11 05:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 98 – Mistress Miao
Fang Zhao was a boy. A slight and slender build, an inch or two taller than Yu Han, with red eyes and black hair that sparkled even when covered in grime.
Li Yao took his helmet off. “Holy landlords. Tubs, did he just grow a foot? Red-eyes, you gon...
2025-03-09 08:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 97 – Tanking Snakes
Huang Niuniu was the first to act.
She whipped out Pale Spine, the contraption tying around the width of the Redgrass Beak Viper boss in a second. The spines extended to grapple onto the beast’s scales.
“Niu’er—” Yu Han wanted ...
2025-03-06 07:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 96 – Counting Up
The natural shelf where Yu Han’s group had hidden provided a precarious viewing point. If not for the talismans, the slithering Redgrass Beak Vipers below and the flying Redgrass Viper Hawks above would have already noticed them.
Pale green bog moss ...
2025-03-04 08:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 95 – It’s not Stalking if it’s for a Good Cause
They made their way through the bog, stepping over fallen trees and jumping from one stable patch of land to another.
Core Formation in two years. Yu Han couldn’t get that out of his head. Are they all ...
2025-03-01 07:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 94 – True Geniuses Cheat
“We can slowly test how much you can separate,” Yu Han said. “The marketplace sells things that are too difficult to process at a huge premium. For example, one of the ingredients Niu’er needs for the Deep Sea’s Vitality Spite is a poison from a ...
2025-02-26 21:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 93 - If it’s a Ring, it’s a Cheat
The next monster to attack them was a human-sized mantis with wooden eyes. As it flew out of the canopy towards them, Huang Niuniu slashed its wings with Lotus Razor. It screeched, falling to the ground, where Li Yao separated its head from its ...
2025-02-24 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 92 - Into the Hidden Realm
The Banana Moss River led to the docks at the Triplet Horn Mountain, but the Drizzle moved into a small tributary around a mile before the docks. Then it made its way to the back of the mountains, where another small base of the Law Enforcement Hall was lo...
2025-02-24 20:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 91 – Jade of Moments
"Why don't you look happy?" Tan Ruoxuan glared at them, her ponytail furiously milling in the wind. "Your foes are captured. You can move back to your abodes." She glanced at their getup. "After returning from the Hidden Realm. It is a joyous occasion."
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2025-02-19 20:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostHuang Niuniu successfully levelled up. She had an extra skip to her step on the way back.
"Did you know? There are tiny bugs in the water, as small as a water drop, that can give off light," the girl said.
"Phytoplanktons." Yu Han cleared the overgrown foliage by the abandoned ...
2025-02-18 13:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Neat." Yu Han stared at his profile. Is there a limit to how many extra stat points I can gain? Or is it unlimited? Yu Han didn't think so.
He would go forward with the assumption that everything had a limit. The limit to allocating Primordial Qi was one such data point in th...
2025-02-14 21:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat the hell was that? Yu Han groaned. How long had it been since he’d collapsed? It felt like merely a minute, but his body was dripping with sweat. He was lying flat on his back, heaving deep as if he was drowning.
There must be a limit to how many Primordial Q...
2025-02-12 21:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostLife and Laptop Update:
I got a new laptop. The old one's motherboard was shorted at 2 places. Luckily, the SSD was unharmed and I got back all the data. I didn't have to rewrite the three latest chapters I had written in my backlog. For some reason though, drop...
2025-02-11 01:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry guys, my laptop died. All the edited chapters are on it, and I am in a location where I can't repair it untill the 11th. I'll keep track of chapters and post them immediate after I get it repaired or buy a new one. Sorry for the delay. This happened in the middle of travelling and it feels ...
2025-02-02 23:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post"We'll bait it!" Yu Han said as Fei Rui jumped from one tree to another like a flying squirrel. "Take this pearl. The moment the worm charges at you, project it—"
A line of green fire tunnelled through the canopy, the heat searing off the green leaves to ashes.
"Fuck!" The fire had ...
2025-01-31 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post