A/N: Hello, everyone! You've probably guessed it, but MTPDDAT is coming to an end. After so many years, it feels kind of crazy to say it! On December 15, you'll receive the final chapter of MTPDDAT. But coming soon, before that date, I'll be releasing the first chapters of the next cultivation bo...
2023-11-24 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHe threw his own qi down beside the death qi and swirled it around, gathering up the scraps of the gold qi. With his own qi, a bit of phoenix qi, death qi, and the remnants of the gold qi, Hui reformed the character from memory.
The other characters paused. The glow dulled, then faded entir...
2023-11-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJun Ke scowled. “What chance? If she’s taken the Golden Immortal’s blood, she’s as much a puppet as any of the rest of you. Even if I win her heart now, it’s meaningless.”
Xi Muchen clicked his tongue. “Don’t be so rash. Do I look like a puppet?” He gestured. “Does she l...
2023-11-23 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe door slammed open. Hui and Xi Muchen both startled, while Jun Ke grabbed for a weapon he lacked.
Cho Haoli stormed in. “Xi Muchen! You don’t have the authority to remove prisoner—”
“Ah? I don’t? Then why are they here? If I don’t have the authority, wouldn’t they s...
2023-11-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAt the top of the stairs, Xi Muchen pushed the door open. Rather than stepping out into the small dark room or directly into the city, the door led into a large, comfortable room. Plush furniture lined the walls, the walls draped in soft drapes. Thick rugs stretched underfoot. A large window gaze...
2023-11-22 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostXi Muchen snapped his fingers. Instantly, the cuffs left Hui’s hands, and the door to the prison swung open.
Hui let out a slow breath, massaging his wrists. Relief flowed through him as his qi began to move again. I didn’t realize how stuffy it felt to have my qi passages all block...
2023-11-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHui looked around the prison, pressing his face up against the bars. Now that I have a better angle, do I recognize anyone here?
Unfamiliar and unfriendly faces stared back at him. A demonic cultivator with corpse-colored skin and white eyes hissed at him, and an aggressive-looking...
2023-11-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn no time, they reached Heart Lotus City. Hui watched from where he hung under Xi Muchen’s arm. Immortals flew around in the sky, going about their business. No one paid too much attention to Hui, handcuffed and dragged into the city. For his part, Hui looked around calmly. Placidly, he survey...
2023-11-20 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHovering in the air in a heroic pose, hand outstretched, Cho Haoli looked down at them, dressed in the same glittering gold as he’d been the first time he’d taken Hui out of the village. He smiled nobly. “Tian Lan, won’t you come with me?”
Tian Lan stared at Hui. She looked at Cho...
2023-11-20 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostFloating in the void, the Hui wearing white put a hand on his chin. His brows furrowed. What was that? That final image… the Elusive Ghost. Who is he? What is he?
I have no answers and no clues, except for the Elusive Ghost disguising himself like me, and looking like the mes...
2023-11-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe boy sighed. “I’ve heard that line so many times. Before you make your attempt to escape… why?”
“That world you long for, is the world I long to escape. The shining steel and brilliant light you saw exists, but so does darkness to equal… no. Darkness even deeper than this wor...
2023-11-19 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bonus chapters for Writathon goals!
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When he stepped into the hut, he found himself in a vast room. Stone walls stretched high overhead and gaped wide in every direction. Tigers, carved from pure white jade, growled at him from either side of the hall, lining the path down the ...
2023-11-18 17:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostHui crossed his arms, his lips twisted. He looked at the Prince.
“That’s… that’s really all, I swear. Please,” the Prince said, shaking his head.
Li Xiang glanced up. “He’s telling the truth.”
I wish he wasn’t. Hui sighed. These skills of his are...
2023-11-18 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLi Xiang hurtled down into a nearby forest, just far enough away to be out of the sight of the blue-robed cultivators. Hui glanced back. Distantly, fire encircled the blue cultivators and cut off their line of sight.
Good. They won’t notice us hiding here. And since we could fly liter...
2023-11-17 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostUnderneath them, the Immortal World churned. Sects attacked one another, fended off the gold cultivators, or both. Even in the skies, Immortals exchanged blows and traded massive spells that would have destroyed the fabric of the mortal world back and forth. Dodging the errant paw of a passing en...
2023-11-16 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHui narrowed his eyes right back at Bai Xue. “I’m not undressing, Elder Sister.”
“Could’ve fooled me.”
He drew his robes apart just enough to bare his neck, then tilted his head. Shiny red feathers glimmered in the firelight. “I’m currently the Vermillion Bird.”
<... 2023-11-15 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Excuse me?”
“You heard me. Take your clothes off.”
“Er, could I decline?” Hui asked.
“Hmm… I don’t think so.”
Beside him, Li Xiang reached up to her neck.
“Elder Sister, you don’t need to respond to that seriously.” Hui turned toward the da...
2023-11-14 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, Hui flew directly down to the brothel, casually creating an invite in midair. He tossed it to Li Xiang and made a second for himself. “Stay close. It seems to also be a bit of a swinger’s club, and maybe an exhibitionist club too, so don’t look around too much if you don’t want...
2023-11-13 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHui skipped back. The sword cut through the front of his robes. Feathers flew free, bright red like blood.
“You aren’t living your truth, either,” Li Xiang accused him.
Hui touched the cut robes. Not… my truth?
No, that’s fair. I’ve changed, thanks to th...
2023-11-12 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Xiao Hui, I’ve come. Like we promised.”
A voice?
Who is it?
No, I recognize it. It’s—
Hui reached out, and his hand hit a wall. He pressed against it, confused. A wall?
That’s right, I was trapped.
Even ...
2023-11-11 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHui laid Li Xiang’s body down on the floor. Reaching to his neck, he laid Zhubi down beside her. Resuming a meditative stance, he plunged himself into cultivating, more than ever before.
Zhubi, do you hear me?
Elusive Ghost, do you hear me?
Song Wei, Li X...
2023-11-10 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe thread snapped. Pure, true gold spooled down, looping over Hui. He gazed up, where the crack remained and that single black eye gazed down. He pointed. “I’ve seen you. Are you coming down now? Or do I have to go up?”
“I’m here.”
Hui jumped back, grabbing onto Li Xiang ...
2023-11-09 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a timeless time, he came upon a feature in the darkness. A small shape, pushing out of the ground. A hand, clawing for the sky. All white, with black fingernails.
Hui knelt. Tipping his head back and forth, he inspected the hand. This looks almost like… well, almost like the ver...
2023-11-08 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhite.
A figure sat in the white. Feeling nothing, knowing nothing, it gazed at nothing and thought nothing.
Time flowed by.
Another figure appeared in the void. The first figure turned. A white figure stared back at it, utterly featureless, save for empty black holes for its ey...
2023-11-07 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeep lines wound through the jade, twisting through the pale green stone. In the center, a strange, upright on one side, wobbly on the other shape Hui didn’t recognize stood boldly out, its plainness emanating a special kind of importance. Flecks of gold shone from the depths of the carved line...
2023-11-06 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately, Hui called out in his mind. Mortal? Rogue? Sectgoer…?
No, I don’t have any clones out. But if that’s the case, who is that?
The copy of Hui turned and fled.
“The Elusive Ghost!” Xie Tiangong released Hui and chased after his copy.
T...
2023-11-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn the far side of the mountain, he paused, then shot out of the forest and high into the sky. Flying back over the mountain in plain view, he zipped down toward the manor, following the example of the other cultivators he’d seen. Like this, I don’t appear suddenly out of the forest near ...
2023-11-04 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHe flew after them at a distance, carefully staying out of the range of Jun Ke’s divine sense. He clutched the floor tile, for lack of a better idea of what to do with it. At his small size, it stretched the entire size of his chest, gleaming with a pale jade sheen. Holding on with all his migh...
2023-11-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHui zoomed off, low to the ground. Rocks jutted up at him. Stray ceiling tiles from shattered roofs cut at his body, while he swerved narrowly around fallen wooden beams. Li Xiang glittered after him, a brilliant bauble attached to a fast-moving fly. I’ll fly low! Lose them!
“I...
2023-11-02 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe second Hui hit the ground, he sprinted toward the mortal cultivator’s base camp. After watching them for a week, I have a basic idea of where they’re hiding during the day. I’ll come from the same direction, and they shouldn’t notice anything wrong.
He ran a hand over h...
2023-11-01 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post