62nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
The conversation about white-feathered dinosaur puff balls was surprisingly pleasant. Everlast was so engrossed in her descriptions, that she was not overly disappointed when she failed to find the core.
Once done with the butchery, she sent a pulse of spiritual energy, wh...
2024-10-23 06:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt had no idea what had happened. One moment, Puresnow was soaring, cleaving down with her sword, the next she was lying on her back, gasping for air with Dandelion holding her weapon in one hand, her wrist in the other, bent to the point of near snapping.
“That was fo...
2024-10-22 09:23:06 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt could not help but open his jaw a crack as Dandelion swished past him and the two Everfrost Palace disciples.
“You can do it,” the immature sagely man mouthed, smiling and winking like a mischievous imp, before disappearing in a sudden burst of speed. His head was...
2024-10-21 13:38:55 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“We are fine, thank you for your concern.” Everlast’s tone and bearing had changed, and while Newt still saw hints of disdain in Puresnow’s grimace, the woman remained silent.
“I’m fine as well, what about you, Senior? Did you kill it?” Newt already knew the ...
2024-10-21 03:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“What lies have you told Master to deceive her so completely?” Puresnow snapped at Dandelion. “She knows our abilities! Senior Apprentice Sister Everlast is a hair’s berth away from entering the fourth realm, she is three hundred years old, and has completed many mission...
2024-10-20 11:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post61st of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
After finishing the paperwork at the association and after Dandelion picked up his belongings from his much humbler Stellar Night inn, Newt and Dandelion reached the gate just in time to see the disciples of Everfrost Palace exit a cramped side street and reach the main boulevar...
2024-10-19 14:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post61st of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Greetings, Master Swiftbeak,” Dandelion hailed a white-haired man with broad shoulders and massive arms, who registered to Newt’s third eye as a third realm cultivator.
“Dandelion, my boy,” the blacksmith exclaimed with a smile, moving to clap Dandelion on the b...
2024-10-17 12:13:10 +0000 UTC View Post61st of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
The Quarter of Coin bustled from the moment the first light signaled the end of the curfew, and by the time Newt and Dandelion arrived, half an hour after dawn, it looked like it had been working all night.
Despite the mass of cultivators coming from thousands of miles awa...
2024-10-16 10:19:28 +0000 UTC View Post60th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt lay in his fancy bed, which felt like warm, feathery pudding, waiting for his roommate to return to their dimly lit room, still coming to terms with his situation.
How did it come to this? Why would anyone pay one first realm spirit gem to spend a night in a fancy...
2024-10-15 17:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post60th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Dandelion forced himself to calm down. “I assure you I am the person you are looking for and not a fraud or a face thief.
“If you are referring to me lacking the aura of the metal-attributed spiritual energy, I have reforged my cultivation and started again. Coincident...
2024-10-15 08:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post60th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“You will regret this!” Guildmaster Barbadon shouted after Newt as he left the guild proper.
But before Newt managed five steps, he saw a familiar attractive blonde leaning against the wall. He took a moment to realize she was the woman who had managed the reception de...
2024-10-13 16:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post60th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“Greetings, honorable guildmaster,” Dandelion bowed, absolutely nonplussed by the accusation.
Halfway through his words and gesture, a short twig of a man entered the lobby.
“Don’t you ‘greetings’ me, you ingrate. Whose kid is this? Who are you trying to ...
2024-10-12 12:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostBonus chapter for my first patrons. Advanced chapters permanently increased to 21!
60th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Blackfist guided Newt through the streets of Thunder Ridge, leading him towards the Quarter of Crafts, where most guilds established their ou...
2024-10-11 18:11:25 +0000 UTC View Post60th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt wowed, staring at the massive, forty-foot-tall sandstone walls which surrounded the imperial city of Thunder Ridge. Viewed from the imperial capital, Thunder Ridge was the imperial family’s furthest outpost, a backwater town controlled by insignificant branch members.
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Blue rivulets, their color as deep as an ocean, veined the ankylosaurus’s carapace. The beast’s armor was in tatters, clawed and pried opened by a powerful beast, several times larger than a velociraptor. Thin patterns of blood danced in foot-wide bubbles of water, which cov...
2024-10-10 03:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post42nd of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt’s quick nap lasted nine hours. By the time he got up, the morning had nearly passed, noon merely half an hour away.
The innkeeper fiddled with his hands, but steeled himself and approached Newt the moment he spotted the young man.
“Lord Cultivator, we ...
2024-10-09 19:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post41st of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt sprinted back, spear in hand, and charged into the still-feasting allosauruses. The nearest beast raised its head in time to see its own blurry reflection in the spear’s tip before sharp steel pierced its eye. The allosaurus’s roar died before fully forming, leaving the...
2024-10-08 10:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post38th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
“What do you plan to do now?” Elder Stronggrow asked Newt. The experienced man could tell his student and rightful patriarch had no intention of staying within the clanhold.
“I have done everything in my power to assuage my guilt over Uncle Victor’s unfortunate dea...
2024-10-06 06:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post28th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt was still running towards his spear, his skin covered in Magmin Scales, as he jumped through a wall of fire. Then the world dissolved, and he was back inside the mine. He crouched beneath the ghostly twin stars in confused silence when his spear clattered to the ground next...
2024-10-05 16:01:45 +0000 UTC View Post27th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
What now? Reality had shattered Newt’s plan of pitting two monsters against each other. If he fought Magmin head on… Newt hesitated, but since it was the only way left, he considered the situation.
He was one layer weaker than Magmin, a negligible difference. ...
2024-10-03 09:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post27th of Season of Air, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt spent most of his days in the mine cultivating his realm, erecting earth glyphs and digging trenches for lava to fill to create fire runes. He had soon discovered that Blackfist had arranged the runes into primitive spell formations, which enhanced the overall effect of eac...
2024-10-03 09:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post53th of Season of Water, 57th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt spent nearly eight weeks guarding Blackfist. While Newt stood guard over the entrance, the former sect master shut himself in the depths of a cave and successfully reset his cultivation over the course of twenty days. Blackfist used the remainder of the time to cultivate ...
2024-10-01 13:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post67th of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
After overcoming his initial aversion, Newt enjoyed the theoretical discussions with the sect master. They were eye-opening, as was the wealth of runes the man offered once they refined what it was that Newt wished to achieve with his realm and techniques.
Newt spent thr...
2024-09-29 06:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post63rd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
“I apologize for acting the way I did.” Newt took a seat across the table from Blackfist. “I am confused, and I would like to ask some questions, if you don’t mind.”
“Tea?” Blackfist asked.
“No, thank you.” Newt paused and only continued speaking ...
2024-09-29 06:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
Sect Master Blackfist handed Newt a small leather pouch he picked off a shelf. “Take these.”
Newt opened the pouch and found five grape-sized pills. “What are they?”
“First, you thank the person giving you a gift, then ask questions.” Blackfist rolled h...
2024-09-27 16:26:53 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
As it turned out, Sect Master Blackfist knew a lot about cultivation and elemental theory. And his opinion could be described in a single polite sentence - the ruling elemental theory was nonsense.
Four elements theory, even with yin and yang variants which upped the num...
2024-09-27 16:26:05 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
“I believe I told you to sleep or meditate, not to go for a walk around the city and come back,” Blackfist said instead of a greeting as Newt entered his tea parlor.
“I realized I have failed to introduce myself.” Newt gave a shallow bow. “Newstar Blazing Salam...
2024-09-27 06:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt left the sect master’s tea parlor in a daze. He felt hollow and did not know what to do with himself. A master of a small sect, a peak third realm cultivator, a man with dozens of children and over twenty wives, told him he was planning to go off adventuring just like t...
2024-09-27 06:42:11 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt could not believe what he was doing, sitting in a secret room, spying at Blackfist’s back through a peephole.
“Do not get emotional about things I am about to say. I will put on an act and not mean them. Besides, my standard for women is much higher than you wou...
2024-09-27 06:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post62nd of Season of Earth, 56th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt really had licked his fingers that night, the breaded yamaceratops filets were exquisite. He also managed to defend his chastity and the sanctity of his heavily scented rented bedroom. Dahlia proved to be a wonderful distraction, and the scandalously clad witty woman made...
2024-09-27 06:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post