Holy shit.
It truly is the most appropriate reaction to what I'd just seen.
Lao Shun's jaw was agape, yet again (he really should stop hanging out with us just for that alone), Xing Feng was in awe, Rayce had a rather complicated look on his face, while the others... well, they looked like they expected it.
I didn't.
I mean, I did expect Xi Zhao to win--but I expected i...
2025-11-12 22:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostLu Yuhan leisurely grabbed toward a porcelain bowl sitting on the table, taking a single blood-red cherry from it and popping it into his mouth, biting down hard enough to tear through the seed.
His lazy eyes wandered from the city over to the edge beyond the border, where he noted the crowd gathering a few moments back.
What for?
A fight, most likely.
It wasn't a rare...
2025-11-12 22:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostI sped out of the house and headed over to the source of the roar; it was quite easy to spot since there was a fair bit of audience crowding it, forcing me to shuffle between them to get to the front. I got quite a few elbows into my ribs as a protest, but I endured it.
Once there, I could only sigh: Wan Lan and Xi Zhao stood on one end, with six men standing opposite of them, led by a y...
2025-11-11 21:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Here's a more up-to-date (story-wise) version of the world map, covering the previous area as well as far more of the northern parts.
She made a smoothie.
Okay, not literally. She didn't shove a bunch of chopped up fruits into a blender, pressed a button, and watched the magic happen. She squeezed juices out of some, she smushed others with her hands and fists, and some she just tossed in there and they melted, but the end product both looked and smelled an awful lot like a smoothie.
There were some 2025-11-10 22:10:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We became kind of like celebrities following the kids' cute little performance on the lake--everywhere we went, people recognized us, and just based on 3-4 rumors I've heard, they seem to think we're some kind of an Ancient Clan that has come out to the surface.
... kind of the same story we told certain chatterbox, which leads me to believe he's the man behind the rumors. I think he thi...
2025-11-10 22:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostLong Tao disappeared shortly after his rather... hmm, let's call it passionate, rambling over the old leader of this place.
I'm a bit scared over what he'll do, but I don't really think it's gonna happen anytime soon. Despite being a legendary monster, he's ultimately still nowhere near strong enough to directly face that monster; as such, his chance will come from long-term pre...
2025-11-09 21:43:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe 'basement' was simply a dark, damp room full of empty flour sacks stacked in one corner, and random bits and pieces of rotten wood scattered across the rest of it.
Yun Qi flicked his fingers lightly as a sphere of light appeared, giving the entire space some light as he tossed the man he was holding at the empty sacks in the corner. He'd already sealed all his acupuncture points, and...
2025-11-09 21:43:26 +0000 UTC View PostA faint gasp escaped his lips as he watched chains thicker than towers rip out of the ground and ascend toward the flattened plateau floating midair. It was breathtaking in ways he had never experienced before--a city remaining suspended midair, with massive chains acting as bridges.
There was a steady stream of people climbing up and down, and he joined one of the processions. Strangely...
2025-11-08 20:47:19 +0000 UTC View Post[--Creator's Eyes used]
[Target: Lu Yuhan]
[Dao Title: Silent Sage]
[Age: 2,838]
[Talent: peak-Jade (Weakened)]
[Cultivation Realm: Peak True God Realm (Weakened)]
[Cultivation Method: Annals of the First Sage (11th Volume)]
[Cultivation Arts: Endless Night (Myth), Shadow Strike (Myth), Raining Daggers of Blood (Legendary)...]
[...]
[Traits]...
2025-11-07 21:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs we made our way to the central plaza, so did the rest of the city, it seemed.
It was as though the floodgates opened and the rushing waters swallowed the world--except the waters were people, and floodgates were... well, honestly, I haven't a clue.
I knew the city was packed, but this was insane. We were rubbing shoulders within seconds, and before I could even comprehen...
2025-11-07 21:12:32 +0000 UTC View PostOver the three following days, I honestly felt like I was living right next to an airport--at any time of day or night, there'd be whizzing sounds shooting above us as yet another 'more important than anyone else' figure appeared in the city.
It was borderline abuse, though the abuse came with the realization that I couldn't take my morning walks anymore--there were far too many fuck...
2025-11-06 22:49:28 +0000 UTC View PostI went out on a bit of a solo exploratory mission--it was at the crack of dawn, while the kids were still cultivating. I know it didn't matter, but I still tip-toed as though I was 17 again trying to sneak out of the house to go cruising for a random party hoping to be taken in like a random vagrant.
It was rather chilly, but that had been sort of par for the course these past couple of ...
2025-11-06 22:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostPànqiū's eyes moved from the back of the young man to the artificially-tattered tome he'd handed her; she felt quite bemused by the whole ordeal, as it has been many, many centuries since she was last given an art or a method by anyone.
Rather than reading it immediately, she first finished cleaning up the space and retreated to her room; she didn't plan on housing anyone this year, bu...
2025-11-05 22:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post[--Creator's Eyes used]
[Target: Pànqiū]
[Age: 1,698]
[Talent: ???]
[Cultivation Realm: middle True God Realm]
[Cultivation Method: ???]
[Cultivation Arts: ???, ???, ???...]
[...]
[Traits]
[Earthen Touch (???) -- can discern properties of any nature-born herb by merely touching it; cultivating herbs of any rarity is far easier; can grow he...
2025-11-04 21:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostWe all neatly sat around a rectangular table, marble-made from the looks of it, its rim garnished with traced, golden lilies. The table's beauty, however, was secondary to intently drool-inspiring spread on the table--there was an entire roasted pig at the center, its skin a mirror-brown lacquer dusted with fragrant spices, still sighing a thin wisp of steam. It looked edible enough to be stole...
2025-11-04 21:09:21 +0000 UTC View PostThough the exterior reminded me of a post-war building left alone to serve as a grim reminder of what had taken place there, the building's interior was... surprisingly pleasant. There was a rustic, almost artisan feel to it as all furniture was covered with pink satin, with walls themselves being home to over a dozen paintings--some in watercolor, some in oil, and some with graphite.
On...
2025-11-03 21:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post... right.
The system indeed spawns the most insane shit ever, doesn't it? But, it also meant that the task itself would be proportionally difficult.
As far as my immediate reaction, it was quite obvious: there's something sapping Life Qi of everyone here, stealthily, without any notice. There's really just one answer, isn't there?
But also, how?
It's one thing to plan...
2025-11-02 20:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostNope.
No, no, no, no.
I'm seeing things.
I must have eaten some bad mushrooms in my sleep and entirely hallucinated that thing just now.
Yup.
How else, pray tell, would there be a thing costing one billion points? No way. It's too early, and it's some haggard corner of the world where nothing of import ever happens. So, there's no way an entity so massivel...
2025-11-02 20:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the night camping under the stars--and boy, were there plenty. The entire sky was littered with them, organized in all manner of shape, with the most lustrous star almost seeming like a slightly distant moon.
The most unique thing, aside from the colors, was just how quiet it was. I couldn't hear a peep throughout the entire night--not the flap of some fish coming up for fun, no...
2025-11-01 22:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostWas I getting a rundown of the 'top ten known prodigies'? Of course I was.
"There was actually the change in the tenth place's ranking just recently, when Shi Fen managed to defeat..."
It was a long hour, suffice to say.
Of the 'top ten' kiddos battling away for the ranking, only one didn't belong to any of the Holy Lands: number 2, Xiong De, a vagrant cultivator who is rumo...
2025-11-01 22:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostShockingly, this was actually better than airplane travel back on Earth.
No, seriously.
I mean, there wasn't a guy or a gal coming up and down the aisle every once in a while asking me if I needed nuts, cashews, or almonds (they were making fun of me 'cause I didn't know the difference; in my defense, I was... 23...), or an assortment of wildly cheap alcoholic drinks, but I...
2025-10-31 22:33:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt's... beautiful.
Okay, I'm puffing it up a bit, but it's legitimately far better than I expected. I'd entirely thought it'd be some old-looking crapshoot reminiscent of, like, Plymouth Fury from the 60s. But no, there isn't a whole lotta chrome-plated garbage trying to look extremely futuristic, not realizing it's dating itself... wildly.
There were two long benches, eac...
2025-10-30 21:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time kids were done, the area looked... pristine.
Honestly, scarily so.
For a moment, I doubted my own memory of there being quite a few dismembered corpses decorating the landscape just a little while ago. Now? Now there was only nature, golden and glimmering.
Why are they so good at this? No, scratch that: how are they so good at this? Did Long Tao...
2025-10-30 21:55:37 +0000 UTC View PostLaugh, you bastard! If you wanna laugh so badly, then just laugh!
You and those friends of yours!
That damned chatterbox looked like he was about to lose it--not unlike Long Tao and Lao Shun who bothered even less to pretend--all while Xing Feng kept looking at me with this renowned sense of purpose.
... it's not that bad anymore, you guys! Honestly! I mean, yes, the stro...
2025-10-29 21:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a lulling moment in-between the head falling down onto the ground and the body following, where nobody present uttered a sound, much less a word. It felt as though everyone was collectively trying to truly understand what had just transpired in the span of the blink of an eye. No, even less than that.
Wei himself was in utter shock, having never, not even for a second, considere...
2025-10-28 22:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostWei chose to humor the old man, though stealthily signaled his friends that they should be ready to execute the plan immediately.
Though he appreciated the gesture, he knew well enough that not even the old man, who seemed to be in the middle stages of Spirit Manifestation Realm, could do much against their pursuers, let alone the kids, none of whom seemed to even be twenty yet.
T...
2025-10-28 22:09:11 +0000 UTC View PostHe wasn't so much a Know-It-All-Wei as he was a Chatterbox-Wei.
No, seriously, it felt as soon as I loosened the doors ever so slightly ajar, he pushed forth a tidal tsunami as though he saw it as an invitation... and hadn't stopped yapping for what feels like hours.
... no, scratch that, the fucking sun is setting. It has been hours.
Oh my God.
He hasn't stopp...
2025-10-27 21:43:52 +0000 UTC View PostAll three were men, and quite young at that, with the system revealing them to be in their late twenties. Surprisingly, two were at the peak of Spirit Manifestation Realm while one was actually in the early stages of Revolving Core Realm, like me.
They donned identical robes, clean silver with etchings of dark gold and red along the edges, and had even styled their hair in a same way; tw...
2025-10-26 21:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostNotifications broke out rather frequently in the past few days.
It all started with Long Tao, and now ended with Xing Feng--all the kids (including Lao Shun? Hello? Why are you learning an art like you're a disciple of mine?! And, far more importantly, system, why did you give me a reward for it?!) had gained the initial mastery of Enduring Eternity.
Not all of them would practice i...
2025-10-25 21:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post