Cai stared out at the village from the hillsides. He did that a lot now.
Less in wonder and more in contemplation, looking out into the world to try and see more within himself.
And again, he found nothing.
The village itself was only a few miles wide. But still, it stood shining a ways away. It would be hard for a mortal to make out anything but he could mak...
2025-03-13 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 134
Chin and I sat beneath a tree, each of us holding a small cup of tea. The tea had come from Hidden Viper’s region, it was a dried variant of a spirit herb. It had lost most of its potency but had aged itself in flavor.
It was a delicacy. To take something so inherently valuable to most people and to kill it and let it wither, that was an extreme ...
2025-03-11 16:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostMedin was a tenacious woman. That was what people said about her.
She’d have to be tenacious to be with a man like Chin. She had to be strong and hardy and able to tie him down when he wanted to get back up.
The truth was, Medin was indulgent. She was just as bad as Chin in her own way. He was the stubborn farmer and she was the stubborn cook.
She punched i...
2025-03-06 05:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostDo you know the beauty of war? It is not in its glory or strength but in its very act. To kill, to devour, to take, it is at the roots of life itself. Even the peace between the primordials is nothing but a breath between clashes. To live is to kill. Mortal, immortal, god, or Imperium, we are life built on death.
-The First King of War, Name Unknown. Deceased Impe...
2025-03-03 23:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostYou cannot scream to the skies and to earth for fairness. You cannot find the soul of man within an empty world. The Heavens are the Heavens because we make them so, and the Hells are the Hells because we make them so. That is the greatness of humanity, that is our depravity.
-Nei Lo, The Judicar.
Somewhere outside of the region was a...
2025-02-27 17:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostSomething I worked on breaks from AIR. This story is heavily inspired by Superminion, DC, and Marvel.
I really like superhero stories, but I hate their inconsistencies. Why do the bad guys never get killed? The Joker is literally a domestic terrorist, if not Batman, some poor Gotham citizen should have offed him with a Glock. Or the US government should have gotten involved. How do secr...
Chapter 128
Nei Lo, The Judicar, Justice Herself.
The low Heavens were located above Lynoria and the numerous other realms beyond it. Among the central realms, the realms between Lynoria and the low Heavens were considered one of the safest to join. Avalon, Camalot, Atlantis, and many other celestial realms could be found here. They were known as the Golden Lands by...
2025-02-26 00:07:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 125
The old man sat by the river bank, his hand holding the rod and his arms still with patience. He was old, far too old for a God-Imperium. His skin sagged slightly and he was short with his back hunched over in age.
On his head was an old bamboo hat. It was weathered and brown, having lost its yellow shine and distinctive circular shape a long ways ...
2025-02-26 00:06:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122
The forest was dark in the most literal sense.
Darkness at its core was the loss of information. It was the corrosion of senses, physical or spiritual. At the edge of the forest was an absolute blackness that threatened to consume all there was.
“Do you have a way of seeing through it?” Forn asked me.
“Not yet, but I will in a sec...
2025-02-26 00:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 121
I felt the alchemical compound trying to kick in immediately. It was weak, and because it was weak it meant that my body, spirit, and soul would resist it.
I slowly lowered my resistance, keeping watch on Forn as I did so. I didn’t think she’d attack me, but wild meant many things and I didn’t know what it exactly meant for her.
N...
2025-02-26 00:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 119
“Nowhere around her,” Forn quickly replied.
“The Hills of Life are our territory. You can hunt a good distance away, just a little ways off of where we met, but anything closer than that is our land.”
Again, space and time didn’t exist here. What existed was the facsimile of both. The concept of the forest held and connected things ...
2025-02-26 00:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 116
There were no shores.
Not in the land of the dead.
“HEAVE!!!”
They all held fast in their small realm sailor. They were God-Kings, all of them. But here they were nothing but men floating atop a careless sea.
The Sea of Death roiled as the God-Imperiums clashed. Thankfully, the ship was at the edges. The impa...
2025-02-26 00:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 113
Running was a weird term. It was more like bringing their getting ever closer to me at incomprehensible speed.
And considering they would blip out of my perception if they were headed to anything else but me since existence was relative. With each step, they appeared closer and closer to me.
“Uh-oh,” I muttered.
The woman was ...
2025-02-26 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 109
I finished the book. It was a lot. I had to play with time a bit just to get through it all and for the first time in a long long long time, I was tired. My limits had been tested and pushed.
I was drained.
I laid down flat on the ground and the book laid blank next to me.
Done already?
It was back, and i...
I'm back, well I never really left. I have about 25 chapters to dump on here before getting prepared to write volume 2! That's right volume 2. Now that patreon is finally, finally going to be full up to the ten-dollar tier, expect regular updates. I will now be posting chapters as I write them.
Chapter 105
I have sat beneath this bodhi tree, and I hav...
2025-02-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I know, I know, I'm two days late. But these chapters are....dense. I was constantly referring back to old chapters and was desperately trying to flush out laws and stuff. I spent all day yesterday writing them. And sorry that it's only two chapters. But on the bright side, I spent the week plotting out the next arc and feel like I have a decent grasp on how the story will go for the next 1...
2024-11-29 02:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Before God-Imperiums, you were nothing.”
That was an old saying of the multiverse. But it was wrong. The truth was, before a God-Imperium, you were whatever they wanted you to be. They gave effort to nothing, but in their natural state, they could easily dominate you. That was to say a God-Imperium without any will to control you, naturally would. Your qi, your soul, would become the...
2024-11-22 20:35:44 +0000 UTC View PostAN: What? A chapter that moves along the main plot?
I'll try for chapter 102 tonight.
The Divine Beast Emporium was vast. It contained many things, planets, galaxies, minor realms, and habitats of all sorts.
But there was nothing wild about it. That was what the Seer of the Void saw, and she saw everything.
That was her nature. She was a ...
2024-11-21 03:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I don't like how short this chapter is but the cutoff felt right. Expect two chapters tomorrow. A double whammy.
Chapter 100 Trading Pointers Part 2
Gai Jin defended.
Consolidating your rank meant knowing your abilities and their limits. Gai Jin had attacked, unleashing all he could and feeling the force flow through him.
He knew how much he c...
2024-11-19 06:06:57 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Wanted to hit chapter 100 today but this is all I got. Chapter 100 will be out tomorrow. Shame I couldn't get it all out today, but I gotta get some sleep before work.
It had been several days since Gai Jin and Lui Fong had reunited, and neither one had left. They were staying in an area of the forest that was far away from the village.
I have no qualms ...
2024-11-18 02:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Double whamy. Two small chapters. Happy Friday.
Chapter 97 Mei Shan Part 1
Mei Shan was correct. She always was. That was why she had been the leader of the group. Her judgement was sound and her eyes were clear.
She’d been thrown off for a bit. She’d met many beings, some far stronger than the even Mister Bill. She’d seen sixteenth ranks of...
The Five Sects region, officially known to the empire as region number 11276, was sending in numerous reports.
Mo Whe read them all. He was annoyed but somewhat pleased. Lots of the regions he governed had immortals within them, one even had a seventh rank ruling the place. But from region 11276, he would have expected nothing but degradation.
Yes, that place had been a ...
2024-11-14 11:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostChin grumbled then turned away. He couldn’t really see the fight, so I had given him a bit of aid, strengthening his senses so that he could observe the whole thing.
But once Gai Jin had finished praying and started to bury the corpse, he became completely uninterested.
“He’s a good kid,” Chin muttered, already turning his enhanced sight to the farmlands. 2024-11-13 23:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Accidentally put the wrong chapter here. This is the fixed version.
Chapter 93 The Face and The Heart Part 1
No words had hurt him more than those.
Gai Lui held still. He could not move, but he held still anyway.
“You are not worth my hate.”
What?
The words echoed in his mind and drew a picture he could not hate anymo...
2024-11-13 18:50:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 88 The Monk and The Monk Part 1
Gai Jin was bathed in rage, as he always was. He chased and chased, through the sky, through the air, through the ground at times, but the old man evaded him. He always evaded him.
He had filled his coffers with stones wrought of demonic qi. He had turned on his duty, using the thing beneath to grow rich instead of keepi...
2024-11-13 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWukong looked and beheld all.
He controlled himself and willed his qi to remain his, not letting it soak and infect the very nothingness outside of him.
The Monkey King was thinking, well he was always thinking, perceiving more in an instant than the oldest sixteenth rank had since the beginning of time.
He could feel his impact, his very nature pulsating thr...
2024-11-13 16:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 84 The Misadventures of Nai Part 1
Change was a hard thing.
Nai sat over a small hole, her face tight in concentration.
Change was the thing that drove life and forced it to grow. Age was the medicine of ignorance and the flowerpot of wisdom.
Yes, Nai thought. This was true.
Her face scrunched ...
2024-11-13 16:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Been a minute! But I have not stopped writing. My dad's leg is almost fully healed. He's hobbling around on a cane now. And I have twelve chapters to dump on patrons.
And now that I've dealt with pops, I PROMISE TO BE MORE CONSISTENT WITH UPLOADS.
Anyways, I think some of the best writing I've ever done is in the next twelve chapters so enjoy
The air was hot and humid,...
As some of you know, my father went through surgery this week.
He had a broken Tibia and I've spent most of my free time in the hospital checking up on him.
He seems to be on the up and up, so I'll be releasing chapters sometime this Tuesday if not earlier.
Thank you for your patience so far.
2024-09-28 17:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry this took so long. I wrote a major plot hole and had to rewrite some stuff. Chapter 83 is about 50% done and should be out by Tuesday.
Chapter 81
I stood out in the middle of the desert completely alone.
The air was dry and the sky was cloudy. The rain drizzled, most of it evaporating before it could hit the ground, some of it evaporatin...
2024-09-22 01:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post