Even before the sound of the starting thunderclap faded, Xiulan dropped into the fighting stance of her family style and swept her leg out across the damp stone, the hem of her dress flaring up to reveal the knee-high boots she wore beneath. From her lashing limb, a wave of blue-white flames erupted, rushing across the intervening distance toward Wen Ai.
A pair of fans appear...
2020-08-31 18:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
So commissions have turned out rather more popular than I expected! With that in mind I will be creating new pricing and categories. However, if you have already made a commission, you will still be charged at the old prices. The below is for commissions made after today.
The least expensive category is worldbuilding pieces. Worldbuilding pieces are written in the format o...
2020-08-30 20:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
<Do you think I was too harsh?> Ling Qi wondered as she made her way back to the line of the participating disciples under the bright cheers of the audience. She caught Ji Rong’s eye as they passed one another on the path to the arenas. Perhaps unsurprisingly given his relationship with Chu Song, he was scowling.
<Well, you infuriated her pretty well,> Sixiang n...
2020-08-29 17:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostWorldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found on Discord
2020-08-27 20:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post
“Miss Ling, Miss Chu, proceed to the second arena.” Ling Qi started as she heard the Sect Head speak her name, but she quickly straightened her shoulders and stepped out of the line of competitors, along with Chu Song.
Ling Qi shared a look with the other girl, who was now only a bit taller than her, and found her opponent’s expression cold, which was hardly unexpected....
2020-08-27 18:24:12 +0000 UTC View PostType Worldbuilding
RR Friendly. Found on Discord.
2020-08-26 22:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Ling Qi closed her eyes as she considered her options for the fight ahead, shutting out the murmur of the crowd washing over her and the actions of her fellow disciples. She had faced off against Chu Song and her group earlier in the year during one of the factional conflicts between those aligned with the Sun and Cai. It was a fight her side had won, albeit with Bai Meizhen handli...
2020-08-24 18:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Standing under the bright morning sun, Ling Qi could not help the restless nerves that made her want to shift from foot to foot rather than remaining perfectly still, lined up between the other winners of the preliminaries. The weight of the crowd’s collective auras tingled at the edge of her senses and weighed down on her shoulders still, but after last night, it was easier to e...
2020-08-22 21:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostWorldbuilding
RR Friendly. Found on Discord.
2020-08-20 23:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post
“Who was that you were speaking to?” Xiulan asked as she came within a polite distance. The other girl had cleaned up well since her match, she had changed into a rather form-fitting gown of crimson silk with black hems and flame patterned golden embroidery and a matching veil. The daring neckline that left her shoulders partially exposed seemed rather tame, now that Ling Qi ha...
2020-08-20 22:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Ling Qi found her afternoon free. She would have to make sure she left herself time to get ready for the Golden Fields gathering tonight, but that still left her time for her own interests.
Ling Qi considered seeking out Meizhen or Li Suyin, but eventually, she decided against it. The two of them would be busy with their families, and she didn’t want to butt in there....
2020-08-17 20:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Zou Chen scowled at his “companions” as they quarrelled like children. This frustration… It seemed that this year was not ready to let up on him just yet. Joining the prestigious Argent Peak Sect should have been a great opportunity for advancement, and joining his fortunes to Sir Kang’s this year should have only secured his opportunity further. He stood at the peak of the...
2020-08-15 23:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters: Gu Xiulan
Not RR Friendly. Found on Discord
2020-08-13 20:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Lu Feng’s dry voice had echoed from the mist. His unwitting puppet slumped, limbs still jerking spasmodically as his spear dropped from nerveless fingers.
“Do you think anyone finds your nonsense endearing?” Ling Qi could hear the scorn in his voice as she focused on him, finding the boy clinging to a tree branch high in the canopy, a wispy veil of leaves that was...
2020-08-13 20:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Standing under the bright morning sun was far more difficult when facing a sea of cultivators, their many and varied auras mixing in her vision like a smear of nonsensical color.
She stood alongside Cai Renxiang in the front row of the disciples lined up on the paved path leading to the four arenas. On her other side was Kang Zihao, clad in his sleek silver armor. The p...
2020-08-10 20:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a good thing her first meeting went so well because it left her unstressed for the next.
The Luo representative was housed in more modest accommodations than the Bao. Rather than a house, they set up a number of tents surrounding a larger pavilion made of a thicker sort of cloth. If she remembered her lessons correctly, the Luo controlled a fair amount of pasture land;...
2020-08-08 22:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostType: Worldbuilding, Poetry
Not RR friendly.
2020-08-06 22:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
<Focus.> Sixiang’s mental voice sounded tiny in her thoughts, an echo of an echo, but it was enough. Ling Qi knew she was better than this. Hadn’t she mastered the Argent Mirror? Wasn’t she supposed to know herself?
That was the trouble though. The Mirror couldn’t provide answers on its own; it was only a tool reflecting what was there. Ling Qi had many reasons ...
2020-08-06 21:16:48 +0000 UTC View Post
“Where in the world did all of this come from?” Ling Qi asked in amazement as she strode along behind Cai Renxiang and beside Gan Guangli.
The empty fields to the north of the tournament grounds had transformed since she had last seen them. During her brief stint as a cleaner, she hadn’t given the fields much thought besides thinking it odd that so much cleared land was...
2020-08-03 21:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hey guys as a little bonus here's some content cut from the main story describing a Sect Job Ling Qi took.
Ling Qi reported for a Sect job early in the morning. The directions given at the main hall sent her down the mountain to meet the requester in town. Rather than the disciple and owner of the mansion himself, the job giver turned out to be a rather elderly ...
2020-08-01 19:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
With this the last week before the start of the tournament, Ling Qi redoubled her efforts to deepen her understanding of many of her core arts, building off the efforts of the last few months of heavy practice. Ling Qi finally achieved the sixth step in her Sable Crescent Step art, and with it, the coalesced Grinning Crescent Dancer technique. The technique was the culmination of t...
2020-08-01 19:09:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Between further tutoring, cultivation, and the Sect job overseeing construction at the outskirts of the village, Ling Qi found her free time somewhat limited, and so she did not often find time to stop at home during the week. In what time she did have though, she made sure to offer her congratulations to Cui on her breakthrough, along with a small gift. The second gra...
2020-07-30 19:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The days following passed quickly, long hours of cultivation passing by in what seemed like moments as she progressed toward new levels of mastery.
The mountain was peaceful. Even the constant background noise of sanctioned duels faded away as more and more disciples began to enter closed door cultivation, pushing for some last edge or skill increase as the end of the y...
2020-07-27 17:44:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Sable Crescent Step. It had been one of her first arts, among the three gifted to her by the Grinning Moon at the beginning of the year. With it, she had learned to move through shadows, how to move through spaces she could never have fit through, and how to glide between blows with the grace of a dancer.
After she had gotten her dress from Cai Renxiang, she had thought...
2020-07-25 19:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Ling Qi avoided pushing things so far again in her practice with Meizhen, if only to avoid having to repair her flying sword again. Slowly, she improved, and its motions became smoother and more natural. It still felt odd though as if she were learning to use a limb she had forgotten.
According to the Inner Sect tutor she had hired, that was precisely what a domain weapon was...
2020-07-23 20:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters: Zhengui, Hanyi, Xuan Shi
Not RR friendly. Found on Discord
2020-07-20 20:01:21 +0000 UTC View Post
They stood atop a snowy cliff, the falling snow separating them like a gauzy veil.
In her hands, Ling Qi held her flute, loose and ready, while the wind tugged at the trailing hem of her silken gown and the free strands of her hair. At Ling Qi’s side, her little brother rippled with heat, the fires burning within melting away snow and leaving the young snake-tortoise ...
2020-07-20 19:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Sixiang wanted to attend a human party. Among the older years, there was apparently a bi-weekly gathering of various semi-important disciples. This was the group that she and Fu Xiang had helped Lady Cai pacify in a time that now seemed very long ago indeed. Sixiang had attempted to attend previously, but they had been rebuffed at the door.
Much to her regret, getting an invi...
2020-07-18 18:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, what do you think?” Ling Qi asked as the last notes faded into the evening air. She still hadn’t come up with something satisfactory on her own so she had simply returned to practicing the compositions Mother had sent her.
“I think you have surpassed me by a great deal,” Ling Qingge replied wistfully. They were seated on a blanket laid across the porch overlook...
2020-07-16 19:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post