The first thing he became aware of when James slowly rose to consciousness was pain. There was a savage ache that threatened to split his skull apart, which was second only to stabbing shriek of agony any time he so much as twitched his jaw. A fact that became increasingly apparent as his recentl...
2024-10-07 20:37:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, I'm not dead. I didn't mean to worry anyone. Most of last week was pretty awful. The erratic weather and bouncing barometric pressure that came with it turned what should have been a perfectly normal beginning of the week into migraine-palooza. That ran me straight into leaving for...
2024-10-07 20:28:44 +0000 UTC View PostChan Dishi once again contemplated the benefits and pitfalls of abandoning the capital and heading north. By all accounts, Judgment’s Gale was building himself a stronghold up there and taking in wayward cultivators. I could be wayward, thought Chan Dishi. It’s not like I’ve go...
2024-10-01 04:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostJames opened his eyes to a ceiling he didn’t recognize. Is this a hospital? He shook off that thought. Hospital ceilings weren’t usually made of stone. At least, he didn’t think they were. An absurdly beautiful face appeared in his line of sight. She looked like something out of a ...
2024-09-30 09:55:46 +0000 UTC View PostSo, as I intended them to, this weekend let me play around a little with an idea I've had. I've been on a bit of a manga, anime, isekai kick for a while, and thought it might be fun to try my hand at writing something like a light novel, or a few chapters of one at any rate. So, I wrote a cou...
2024-09-30 09:52:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe assembled mortals from the town looked nervous but not afraid. They were all respectful toward him, but Sen’s relationship with these mortals still borrowed a bit from the more casual approach he’d taken with them in the early days. He was happy for that today. He didn’t want them to be...
2024-09-28 04:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: The question has been answered. Thanks!
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I clearly remember that at some point in the series, Sen turned a mortal into a cultivator. Unfortunately, with a million words or so of text at this point, pinpointing specific events in th...
2024-09-28 02:34:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days were a flurry of activity, at least for Sen and Auntie Caihong. Much like the question of whether he should help the cultivators in his sect advance, there was an equally problematic question that Sen had been willfully ignoring for some time. Should he help the mortals who were...
2024-09-27 08:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re not going to participate?” asked Sen.
Auntie Caihong glanced at him before returning her eyes to the sky, where the figures of Uncle Kho and Master Feng were swiftly disappearing. He’d assumed that there would be extensive discussions about how to approach the mortal and sec...
2024-09-27 00:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostSen was met with blank looks from Uncle Kho and Master Feng. He saw mild sympathy on Auntie Caihong’s face, as though she’d expected things to go a certain way, knew it would frustrate him, and that everyone had filled their roles precisely. This was another reminder of that almost impossibly...
2024-09-25 06:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostSen had returned with Master Feng from the wilds to find a subdued Ai waiting with Auntie Caihong. They went through their usual routine of Sen asking Ai about her day, and her regaling him with tales of birds subjugated to her imperial will and yucky bugs slaughtered at her command. She brighten...
2024-09-23 19:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it would have taken a very skilled observer to notice it, dissatisfaction marred Long Jia Wei’s face. He had, with the tacit approval of Lord Lu, set himself up as something of a protector not only of the sect but of Lord Lu’s vision for the sect. The first goal often proved far easier ...
2024-09-21 04:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing around him for miles in any direction save for the wilds. He’d sensed a few spirit beasts as he approached the semi-barren spot, but they had fled the moment he let a little of his killing intent slip free. He was relatively sure that they were low-level spirit beasts, rather ...
2024-09-19 04:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostSen had expected his frankly disproportionate attack on the duplicitous spirit beasts to have some kind of an effect when word spread. After all, that was half of the reason why he’d made it so disproportionate. Even his wildest predictions were nothing in the face of the reality. His people ma...
2024-09-17 21:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostSen stood in the wreckage of what had been pristine forest for a long time before he walked back to where he’d unleashed that odd variant of Heavens’ Rebuke. He just stared at the massive crater. It had been unbelievable when seen from the air, but the scale of the destruction w...
2024-09-16 23:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostJust some questionably connected thoughts I wanted to get out of my brain. ~Eric
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Like pretty much everyone else with even the vaguest interest in science fiction, fantasy, or film, I learned about the death of James Earl Jones over the weekend. I...
2024-09-16 10:39:24 +0000 UTC View PostSen flew over the forest at a speed that would have seemed reckless if he’d brought anyone else with him. He hadn’t. He very specifically and intentionally hadn’t. He’d left Falling Leaf to “guard” the last four survivors with a glowering Master Feng as backup. Sen had briefly explain...
2024-09-14 01:17:46 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, I didn’t kill them,” said Sen as he eyed the spirit beasts.
He’d drawn Falling Leaf away from the small group of potential enemies and put up a wind barrier to make sure their voices didn’t carry. Unfortunately, that did nothing to stop the spirit beasts from staring at t...
2024-09-13 04:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostSen’s first reaction was to go find someone older and wiser to make this decision. Barring that, he just needed to find someone other than him. I’m not qualified to make this choice for the entire town, he thought. I should ask… Then, it hit him. There wasn’t anyone else...
2024-09-12 02:43:38 +0000 UTC View PostSen knew from personal experience with his hiding technique that people could mask themselves from a spiritual sense. In a place like the capital, that represented a huge stumbling block in dealing with or flushing out enemies. Widespread attacks were simply too dangerous and carrie...
2024-09-11 03:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostI left the poll up an active for close to 24 hours, and the results are now in. Of the people who voted, an overwhelming majority voted to keep the notifications on. I will, therefore, leave the notifications in place for the time being.
I may revisit this again in six months or year. I do...
2024-09-10 21:19:21 +0000 UTC View PostSen walked along the wall that separated the town from the rest of the rest of the world. Once the word had spread that the spirit beasts had begun their war, all pretenses had been abandoned. The cultivators in Sen’s sect had been explicitly put to work expanding and reinforcing both the physi...
2024-09-10 01:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostIn which you decide if the notifications will continue or will go away.
I have no dog in this fight. Honestly, I provide the notifications of lower tier chapter access to be nice. If they go away, my life would actually become a tiny bit easier because there would be one less task in it. 2024-09-09 23:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Something weird is going on with Patreon where chapters that should be appearing in collections are apparently going missing. They aren't missing. They aren't even inaccessible. When I post a chapter, there's a box I check to put the chapters into a specific volume in the collections tab. For som...
2024-09-09 23:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostSua Xing Xing had not been trained to panic. Like all cultivators, she understood well the supreme necessity of control. All was chaos and swift death without the steadying hand of control. Yet, as she had stood in that strange room with the spider-kin, a room filled with beast cores modified in ...
2024-09-08 05:19:03 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I had to move and went off to Dragon Con and came back feeling like hell, I said I was going to think about what my schedule was going to look like moving forward. While things were chaotic, I did give it some serious thought.
My conclusion is pretty much what I said w...
2024-09-07 05:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dropping Zhi and some pastries off with the girl’s mother, Sen dawdled a little in taking Ai back. He knew any of the nascent soul demigods wandering around his sect would gleefully take her, but he resented the necessity of it. He didn’t want to go and deal with matters that threatened...
2024-09-07 04:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a moment when something that felt very much like the heart demon that had once afflicted him rose up inside of Sen’s chest. He wanted to fly south. He wanted to find whatever damned fool spirit beasts had dared to choose this day, his day, his one day with his daughter a...
2024-09-06 03:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostOkay. My migraine did finally, mercifully go away today. I spent my afternoon dealing with a small mountain of dull but necessary administrivia. I won’t bore you with too many details. If you think things like changing addresses on student loan websites and trying to remember which box...
2024-09-05 22:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post