Yi Ping kept a tight hold on Xixing. Hui walked ahead with Fa Chuyou, pretending not to care. This is a step in the right direction. Once we get her back to the Corpse Refinement Valley, I can figure out how to get her away from these demonic cultivators!
For them to give her t...
2022-02-24 02:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostThree cultivators stood in the black plains before Vertebra 108, an exhausted Xixing tied up before them. Their leader, Han Ziguo, narrowed his eyes at the approaching duo. A cold snort emerged from him as he caught sight of Fa Chuyou. The soft woman looked delicate, a lily in the sun, skin so so...
2022-02-24 02:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving the corpse in the coffin to soak up the fluids, Fa Chuyou led the way deeper into the valley. Outside the cave Gu Tian had vanished into, she paused and drew a breath. “Gu Tian! Time!”
A pause. Hui stared into the cave, trying to pierce the darkness within. At last, a form appea...
2022-02-21 23:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe second Hui’s qi passed through the coffin walls, it faded away. Startled, Hui yanked back his tendril of qi and found it dying, as if infected with death qi. He severed the tendril, leaving it to shrivel up into darkness.
Right! That water’s dangerous. If I want to examine it, I...
2022-02-21 23:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostHui looked down at the black-blooded girl’s corpse. She laid there quietly, eyes shut. Aside from the garish slash at her neck and the bloodless tone of her skin, she seemed almost ready to sit up and take a breath. A pang of regret sparked through his heart, and his eyes drooped subtly.
...
2022-02-20 03:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Er, right now? Elder Sister, Gu Tian is…” Hui smiled gently and nodded after the forgotten Gu Tian.
“Oh, right!” She looked at Hui, then glanced reluctantly over her shoulder at the cave Gu Tian had disappeared into. Chewing her lip, she hesitated, then nodded. “You go ahead to...
2022-02-20 03:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostWeeks passed. At last, Hui opened his eyes. The death qi fully assimilated with his death qi dantian, which rotated quickly, so quickly it began to hollow in the center. Checking his ordinary dantian, Hui smiled. They’re almost identical now. I’m in a much better place than I was when I e...
2022-02-18 22:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe three of them tore through the inheritance realm, looting every scrap they came across. At last, they stepped out into the sunset. Hui pushed his hair back from his forehead and stared up the sky, heaving a sigh. I almost died, but I gained great benefits. Is this—is this what it means ...
2022-02-18 22:19:03 +0000 UTC View PostBai Xue frowned. “Happily, but right here? Right now?”
Hui stared at him. A second later, his cheeks burned. “B-Hong Xue!”
“What? How else am I supposed to interpret that?”
Hui rolled his eyes. “Literally! I mean—ugh. I mean, if you carry me on your back, I think...
2022-02-15 00:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostHui glanced back. “We’ve got company.”
Bai Xue snorted. He slammed his foot down, stopped dead and whirled. Waving his fan, he shot a blast of flame up the passage, roaring at the four cultivators.
Hui threw out a pair of talismans after them, and a wooden and shimmering golden ...
2022-02-15 00:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post“A—after all that?” Hui asked, startled.
Bai Xue shrugged. “We can only enter this inheritance space once in our lives. We might as well take what we can.”
Hui hesitated. “That’s true. You can keep going?”
“I wouldn’t suggest it if I didn’t.” Bai Xue bent...
2022-02-15 00:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostHe burst out into another chamber. Identical to the first, but larger, it sported three full pillars rather than one with two stumps. Red light bathed the chamber. In the rear, the shelf with the gems and the basins let off a shocking red light. Bai Xue approached it, glowing eyes blank. He moved...
2022-02-12 18:47:07 +0000 UTC View PostHui climbed to his feet and brushed down his robes. He glanced around, then stepped forward toward the stone eye. It stretched two meters tall, wide enough for a man to squeeze through at the narrowest points. Following a strange instinct, he poked the eye in the pupil. The pupil separated from t...
2022-02-12 18:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe blood mist’s howling cut off abruptly. Utter silence replaced it, so sudden Hui’s ears rang. His feet echoed hollowly as he stumbled forward a few steps, kicking up dust.
He stood in a vast stone chamber. Torches lit ahead of him, illuminating the center of the chamber. Its walls va...
2022-02-10 03:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostChasing after Huang Muwen, Hui and Bai Xue leaped into the valley. Bai Xue brought up the rear, leaving Hui safely encapsulated between the two. For his part, Hui transferred a few talismans into his robes. The high-level talisman he left in his storage ring, unwilling to risk losing it in the in...
2022-02-10 03:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostThump. Thump.
Hui startled awake. His hair stuck to his face, eyes hazy. He yawned and rubbed his face, then stretched.
Ah. I had a good night’s sleep.
…Wait. I slept? I shouldn’t need to sleep anymore. What happened?
He blinked around, and...
2022-02-10 03:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostVertebra 60 was a distance up the skeleton. Hui climbed up the bones. They slipped under his feet, the surface smooth and polished. Hui operated his movement technique to maintain his balance, hopping up the bones. I wish I could fly! It would be so convenient to zoom directly to the 60thvert...
2022-02-06 22:11:59 +0000 UTC View PostRunning down the skeleton, Hui ducked into his cave. Breath still ragged, he leaned against the cave wall. The bone cooled his heated forehead. He pressed a hand against his forehead and released the ghoul skin, gulping a breath. Grabbing at his robes, he wiped his face. Damn, I’m such a vi...
2022-02-06 22:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostOut of the Valley of Beasts. Bai Xue hurtled through the air, toward a higher point on the snake skeleton than Hui had hoped to reach. He flew into his cave and released Hui, stepping back.
“It’s good to see a familiar face,” he sighed, stretching. As he did so, he swapped back to his...
2022-02-04 23:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostHui raced toward the death qi. As he drew close, he suppressed his qi, hiding his presence. He raced through the forest, ducking branches and leaves, and in no time, came to the edge of a clearing.
In the clearing, a pair of demonic cultivators battled a half-dozen five-meter-tall red goril...
2022-02-04 23:35:15 +0000 UTC View PostSitting inside his cave, Hui circulated his qi and investigated his new ghoul skin more closely. His qi flowed easily from one shard of flint to the next, confirming his first glance. I already used the flint as a sort of network, but now they’re definitely even more connected.
H...
2022-02-03 01:35:41 +0000 UTC View PostHui froze in midair. His dantian shuddered, trembling in fear. “E…elder sister?”
“Following me all the way here… you’re a suspicious one, aren’t you?”
“Sus…suspicious?” Hui stuttered. No, no. She means I’m being suspicious of her, not that she’s suspiciou...
2022-01-30 22:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostThey passed another two coffins. One had a shut lid, and the other laid open and empty, only the sticky remnants of a purple fluid clinging to its corners. Hui kept a healthy distance from both, in case something mysterious and ferocious dwelled in their depths, as well.
At last, Fa Chuyou ...
2022-01-30 22:15:34 +0000 UTC View PostNight settled over the demonic sect. A low fog curled around the base of the snake skeleton, casting it in a yet more mysterious air. Shadows moved in the fog, indistinct and faint. Some flitted over the snake’s bones. Others darted in and out of the valleys.
From out of the fog, a soft, ...
2022-01-29 15:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostHui stopped dead. “Eh.”
She stepped forward and took his hand. “A death cultivator like yourself, with unprecedented intelligence at such a low realm? If I refined your corpse, I wonder… to what heights could you soar? Please, I’m begging you, Xie Hao. Let me refine your corpse! I...
2022-01-29 15:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostChang Bolin’s ghoul leaned toward him, stumbling over his own feet. He stared dully, eyes glazed and white, coated with thick cataracts. His jaw worked slowly. Faintly, his brows furrowed.
“Eh? You already know him?” Fa Chuyou asked, covering her mouth with her hand.
“Ah—ah....
2022-01-28 01:03:27 +0000 UTC View PostWith a friendly wave, Gu Tian left Hui alone on the vertebra. Immediately, Hui felt a hundred predatory gazes land on his shoulders. He glanced left and right, then darted into the immortal’s cave carved into the side of the bone.
The cave only extended about ten meters, the length of the...
2022-01-28 01:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostThey zoomed out of the forest, and the demonic sect appeared, laid out before them. A huge snake skeleton curved up from the earth, ferocious and bizarre, hundreds of meters long. Its bones were as white as jade. The smallest of its vertebrae stood as large as a house, the larger ones bigger than...
2022-01-24 00:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostHui sped through the forest. The two strongest of the life qi cultivators chased after him, both in the third stage. One, the same as him, had cultivation of the low third stage, while the other emanated an aura of mid-third stage. The stronger of the two surged ahead, then waited for the weaker ...
2022-01-24 00:33:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe scene came back into motion. The father stared, looking at the boy, the bloodstained sword, then at his own hands. He screamed in horror and stumbled away.
Halfway through the father’s stumbling, the scene froze. The illusion tore at the corners, breaking apart in black cuts and jags....
2022-01-22 20:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post