He set off into the forest, following the familiar hunters' trails that wound between ancient spirit pines like ribbons laid across the landscape.
The trees here were absolutely massive —some of them easily thirty chi in diameter, their trunks rising straight and true for over a hundred chi before branching out into expansive canopies. They'd been standing fo...
2025-11-09 09:34:50 +0000 UTC View PostMy mind's telling me nooo.
But my booody!
My boody is telling me yeaaahhh!
(Oh Merciful Heavens, wtf am I doing?)
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Six weeks had passed since the day Chen Mu killed the Boar King with nothing but a stick and his will, and the world had not ended.
He'd half-expected it to.
He had spent the first few days after the f...
2025-11-09 07:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis concept is coming-of-age teen story in a d
2025-11-07 08:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostShould I rewrite it?
2025-11-05 21:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostSu Lian's cultivator senses cataloged the threats automatically, that clinical part of her mind assessing threats even as adrenaline began flooding her system:
Stage Two Qi Gathering — the smallest ones, barely larger than mortal scorpions but still deadly to unprotected mortal humans.
Stage Three and Four — the mid-sized warriors, each one more than a match for a trained guard ...
2025-11-05 09:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI've written literally tens of thousands of words over the last three days, and am now in the editing process. It's been a busy weekend! You can expect aggressive updates coming up -- in both stories. And, there's an upcoming member-only "surprise" arriving next month. I can't wait to share it with you all!
2025-11-03 09:36:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sand Salamander's back was surprisingly comfortable.
Su Lian had expected the ride to be jarring, rough — a necessary misery to endure for the sake of escape. But the reality was vastly different from her assumptions. The creature's gait, that strange six-legged undulation as it moved across the desert sands, created a very gentle rocking motion that reminded her of boats on calm wa...
2025-11-03 09:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a bit early for that holiday season, but I do hope y'all will check out my piano jazz album "Caribbean Christmas", which I released last year. There's sheet music for it too on Amazon if you happen to play the piano. I'll give the sheet music book free to members, just DM me if you're interested!
2025-10-30 04:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Princess Long Xueyue walked into the Garden of Harmonious Discourse precisely at the fourth hour, Crown Prince Tianlong Tianba was standing beside the pavilion, apparently admiring a specimen of winter jasmine.
He turned as her footsteps crunched on the white gravel, his mouth opening to deliver whatever carefully prepared greeting he had planned —
— and stopped dead, his e...
2025-10-29 07:46:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I just can't help myself. But this story has been in the works for a LONG time.
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The Los Angeles sun, even in late October, possessed a certain relentless quality, a golden glare that bounced off the chrome of a thousand luxury cars and the oversized, mirrored sunglasses of a million hopefuls, each one convinced ...
2025-10-27 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe summons arrived with impeccable timing — the morning after Xueyue emerged from seclusion, precisely long enough for her to have a bath, change into a new set of robes, and begin settling in for a working breakfast while reviewing Wei Long’s intelligence reports.
Not nearly long enough to rest or fully prepare.
Not long enough to seek an audience with her Heavenly Father, the...
2025-10-25 08:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe answer came the next morning, delivered with a knock on her door.
Su Lian opened it cautiously, her spiritual senses already extended, ready for another confrontation. But the man standing in the narrow hallway radiated no hostility. He was tall, weathered, with skin the color of polished teak wood and eyes that held the perpetual squint of someone who'd spent decades staring at deser...
2025-10-23 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI'm editing Chapter 6 right now. Then I'll get started on 7. Don't worry, updates are coming.
2025-10-22 00:20:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe confrontation came three days later, arriving with the grim inevitability of a desert sunrise.
Su Lian had known it would come. In a place like Onyx Pass — a festering wound of a town clinging to the last vestiges of Imperial authority before the lawless expanse of the Great Southern Dune Sea — violence and intimidation were the currencies that mattered. She'd humiliated someone c...
2025-10-21 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe path to the northern caves was one he knew well — one he had walked dozens of times over the past months while gathering herbs and firewood, or exploring the valleys and ridges with the cautious curiosity of someone learning a new home.
But today, everything looked different.
The forest seemed to press in closer, the ancient spirit pines looming overhead like silent witnesses ...
2025-10-18 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe night after Da-Li's rescue, Chen Mu did not sleep.
He lay on his rough cot in Old Man Bao's hut, staring up at the darkened ceiling beams where shadows pooled and shifted with each flicker of the banked hearth. The wood grain patterns seemed to writhe in the dim orange glow — ancient whorls and knots that had witnessed decades, perhaps centuries while they were still living flora, b...
2025-10-18 05:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Double Release!
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The ritual took three hours.
Wei Long worked in absolute silence, his movements carrying the precise, economical grace of a master craftsman who had performed the same task a thousand times before. He drew on the polished jade floor with a brush tipped with the hairs of a celestial fox that had lived for over a millennium befo...
2025-10-13 06:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostFor six long months, I was a ghost in my own body, my consciousness a solitary island adrift on a raging, internal sea of liquefied Qi. The seclusion chamber, with its humming jade walls, ceased to be a physical place. It was my tomb, my crucible, the entire cosmos contained within the fragile vessel of my flesh.
My Dantian was a pool of terrifying, absolute purity. The lique...
2025-10-13 02:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello guys! Unfortunately, my monitor burned up (at least, I HOPE it’s only the monitor and not the rest of the computer). I ordered a new monitor and it will get here on Saturday. Therefore, assuming nothing else needs to be replaced, the earliest I will be able to post update(s) is on Sunday.
Edit: The new arrival estimate by Amazon is October 8th.
I apologize for the inconvenie...
2025-10-01 00:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3: The Terms of Service
Vionica watched Cornelius with predatory delight, her full lips curving into a pout that was equal parts invitation and mockery. "Oh, sweetie," she cooed, her voice a silken caress that echoed softly off the vaulted ceiling, "don't just stand there looking like a deer in the headlights. I know it can be overwhelming — new world, ...
2025-09-29 05:34:11 +0000 UTC View PostAN: #LFG Wohooo!
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The world was still a thing of shadow and mist when he awoke, the silence of the pre-dawn mountain broken only by the distant, mournful call of a night-hawk. He slipped from the rough, homespun linen of his cot without a sound, his movements a fluid, practiced grace that felt both deeply familiar and utterly alien. The air in the small wooden ...
2025-09-26 05:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! My new techno album is out, and I wanted to encourage you all to check it out!
It's a story told through music.
First, we have the prophetic dream (Dreamwalker).
Then the Oracle summons the Hero (The High Priestess).
The Oracle issues a quest (My Quest).
The hero embarks upon the journey (The Long Road Ahead).
He finds a picturesque valley with ...
2025-09-20 01:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostPain.
The world dissolves into a brutal symphony of it. My ribs are a shattered cage, each ragged breath a fresh agony. The polished floor of the Elder’s office is cold against my cheek, the coppery taste of my own blood thick and cloying in my mouth. Lu Mian stands over me, a silent, impassive executioner, her Wood Qi a suffocating forest that has choked ...
2025-09-19 22:42:20 +0000 UTC View PostHis hands, which a moment ago had been clean, were now smeared with dark, cool soil. He stared at them, at the dirt caked under his fingernails, as if they belonged to someone else. He looked around wildly.
Ash was gone.
The office was gone.
The city was gone.
The blizzard was gone.
Now, there was only the meadow: stretching out in all directions, a sea of...
2025-09-18 07:52:04 +0000 UTC View Post
