After Wu Jian and Zhou Lihua returned, the ceremony to bestow the Heavenly Ghost Flame upon the winner had commenced.
Zhou Lihua had been forced to present herself before the Zhou Kingdom’s emperor. The man in question had remained seated on his throne, acting all high and mighty like Zhou Lihua was lucky to just be in his presence. Wu Jian did not like Emperor Cì Shā. He seemed like ...
2023-02-20 14:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I realize I haven't even shared this version yet. This is the art cover for volume 2.
For the curious, it does not mean I'm publishing this series yet. I'm just having my artist do the artwork.
STNS is owned by Tapas. They actually have the selling rights. The reason I'm working the Tapas angle so hard is because I want this series to do really well so Tapas will help me get it publ...
2023-02-17 20:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This is just an alternative version of the STNS cover. It'll probably go on the inside of the book once it's published.
Enjoy.
2023-02-17 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“There are only four of you left, and to the four who successfully refined a pill, I say: congratulations. It is no small feat to practice alchemy under these intense conditions. We alchemists spend our days locked away in our refining rooms. Rarely ever do we display our skills before a crowd. The pressure of refining pills before an audience is much different than refining within the quiet ...
2023-02-17 16:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe Three Layered Red Yin Yang Pill was both one of the most advanced and sought after alchemy pills for cultivators trying to break into the Human Limit Realm. It required ingredients that were exceedingly rare for a tier 4 pill. Not only were the ingredients rare, but they were difficult to refine, requiring a vast amount of time and chi.
Zhou Lihua didn’t know how much time had passe...
2023-02-17 14:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe night passed. Zhou Lihua had not slept at all that night, instead choosing to spend her night in quiet meditation.
She had spent much of the night trying to center herself in preparation for round three, which would prove to be her biggest challenge yet. She was not only going up against two disciples of platinum rank alchemists, but she would be refining a pill she had never attempte...
2023-02-15 16:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostZhou Lihua felt sweat trickly down her scalp as she removed the pill from her cauldron. She had just barely finished in time. If she had been even one second later, even a split second later, she would have been forced to forfeit.
She looked at the pill in her hand. It was a light blue color with a silvery sheen that made it seem luminescent. She could not see any imperfections on its smo...
2023-02-15 15:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s going on? Why did everyone’s cauldrons explode?” asked Wu Jian.
He knew very little about alchemy beyond what Zhou Lihua had told him. Having watched the woman refine pills several times already, he knew that cauldrons exploding was nothing knew. She blew up several in his presence already.
This didn’t always mean the cauldron itself exploded. It was often the ingr...
2023-02-13 16:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter everyone who was participating made it to the arena, Sao Yong stepped forward. Wu Jian had been told only a little about this man. He was the head of the Zhou Kingdom’s Alchemist Association and a Gold rank alchemist. That made him one of the best alchemists in the entire world.
The man spread his hands out in a grand gesture. “Welcome, everyone, to this year’s Young Alchemist...
2023-02-13 14:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostWu Jian couldn’t tell her not to worry. She was right. If she didn’t win this, there was no telling if they would be able to find a tier 5 alchemist with a heavenly flame in time to cure Emperor Hou Jun.
Most alchemists with a heavenly flame were already tied down to a sect or nation. Convincing a sect or nation to loan their alchemist would cost an exorbitant amount of money, and the...
2023-02-10 17:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostYun Chi was a famous Platinum rank alchemist known far and wide as the Alchemy Guru. He was one of only five Platinum ranks in the entire Xaio Continent, and this girl was his apprentice? It was no wonder her pill had turned out so amazing!
Zhou Lihua had confidence in her abilities as an alchemist. She knew she was talented. However, she suddenly had some serious doubts about her ability...
2023-02-10 14:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news! Lonwa delivered the artwork for Man Made God 005 just now! I'm about to begin formatting it for eBook and Print!
2023-02-09 00:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostYao Song waved his hand like he was about to play a zither. The ring on his index finger glowed before several thousand ingredients appeared around him. Each ingredient, encased in its own luminescent glow, flew toward the work stations. This was followed by a basic alchemy cauldron landing on the station as well.
It seems he wants us to use a standard cauldron to see who among us has...
2023-02-08 16:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostZhou Lihua woke up before the first light of dawn. The first thing she saw upon opening her eyes was a broad chest. She spent a long moment admiring it, then looked up, into Wu Jian’s sleeping face. His mouth was slightly ajar. He must have had trouble breathing through his nose. The slow rise and fall of his chest told her that he was still in a deep slumber.
“He looks so vulnerable ...
2023-02-08 14:34:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon rewards have been sent via DM. You'll notice I did things a little different this time since I started using Mega NZ to send art rewards. Let me know if you're having trouble accessing your reward.
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2023-02-07 22:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostKěnéng was a beautiful city. It had looked magnificent from far away and was even more beautiful up close. The buildings were all magnificent structures built to look like small palaces. The flora and fauna were colorful. Gorgeous pink sakura blossoms filled the skyline while colorful flowers took root around them.
Several arched wooden bridges crossed over numerous canals. Steam from t...
2023-02-06 17:13:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Alchemist Association in Kěnéng was very different from the one in Imperial Shang City. Not only was it much larger, but surrounding the massive pagoda was a sprawling complex of aesthetically pleasing edifices. Between the buildings was a beautiful garden with a variety of tropical flowers. Some of the flowers had petals that were almost as large as Wu Jian’s head, while others contain...
2023-02-06 14:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe luxurious room was filled with moans and sighs of pleasure. Cì Chuān lay with his hands behind his back, completely naked as a pair of equally naked and nubile young women pleased him with their mouths.
He had always had a higher libido than most--quite different from his father and older brother. The pair seemed almost asexual. It was a wonder their father had slept with his wife e...
2023-02-03 17:01:57 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately after leaving the Great Wall, Zhou Lihua’s caravan traveled east until it met the Snow River, then followed the river north before curving around and traveling south-east. They had to stop at several towns and villages along the way.
It was an enlightening experience.
“There’s something odd about this town,” Wu Jian murmured as he stared at it from within their c...
2023-02-03 15:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons,
The new month is upon us and a lot has happened.
I'd like to begin this newsletter by announcing that I have completely redesigned my website. If you'd like to check out the changes yourself, please feel free to do so. In fact, 2023-02-01 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“This is bliss…”
“Is it really?”
“Yes, it really is.”
Wu Jian stared down at the woman using his lap as a pillow. Scintillating blonde hair several shades close to brown traced artful curves across her body and trailed down the chair like a curtain. He ran his fingers through those locks. Her hair was softer than the finest of fabrics. It was a clear indication t...
2023-02-01 16:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostZhou Lihua stood in her ingredient room. It was a large room within her compound that had shelf upon shelf of alchemy ingredients. All the ingredients were divided by tier, then further divided by name.
She had started with the tier 1 ingredients, then moved on to tier 2, 3, and 4. There were even tier 5 ingredients within this room, but she could not refine tier 5 pills yet, so she didn...
2023-02-01 14:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostWu Jian sat with Hou Jingshu and Yōuměi in the mess hall, shaking his head as he stared at the pile of plates. All the plates belonged to Yōuměi. She sat at the table with them… sort of. It was weird. She couldn’t sit on the chair because her body was too massive to fit, but she had placed two paws on it and leaned over to scarf up food from her plate. Whenever she finished one plate, s...
2023-01-30 19:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostWu Jian, Hou Jingshu, Jia Xinyue, Mei Xilan, Xian Fen, and Yōuměi emerged from the Sacred Grounds several days after entering. While there was no noticeable difference in Wu Jian’s and Mei Xilan’s cultivation, everyone else had received a powerful boost. Xian Fen and Jia Xinye especially had become much stronger now.
It was just like Wu Jian thought. The Sacred Grounds greatly benef...
2023-01-30 14:35:25 +0000 UTC View PostHou Gun was a man who’s meager talents did not match the expectations placed upon him. Born from the emperor of a small nation and a woman from the most powerful sect on the Xaio Continent, Hou Gun had many expectations placed on him from birth. His mother had desired him to become a powerful cultivator who could raise this nation to become even more prominent than the Xia Dynasty. His father...
2023-01-27 17:03:04 +0000 UTC View Post“This is the Sacred Grounds?” Wu Jian asked of no one in particular. He wasn’t sure anyone would answer him anyway. They, like him, were left staring in wonder at the scene before them.
The Sacred Grounds was not very big. A small lake that was closer in size to a pond filled most of the space. Various blossoms and trees surrounded the lake’s edge, vibrantly colored like a rainbow...
2023-01-27 15:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Amber Lee Connors sent me the audio files for A Most Unlikely Hero, Volume 4. I'm going through the chapters.
I'm hoping to have this out within the next few weeks.
2023-01-26 16:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a preview of next month's art. Liremi is working on it right now.
2023-01-25 19:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostMei Xilan was a persistent woman. She continued to make not-so-subtle advances even though he had rejected her. When he asked why, she didn’t say anything. It was like the woman was incapable of answering. Because of that, Wu Jian had no idea why she was pursuing him, but he and Hou Jingshu had spent much of the time on the Zhang Jian Tang simply trying to avoid her.
It was exhausting.<...
2023-01-25 17:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a full day before Wu Jian was fully recovered. He would have liked to say that his time spent convalescing had been relaxing, but the truth was that it had been anything but. Mei Xilan had been visiting him almost every day--much to Hou Jingshu’s frustration. He didn’t know why the young princess disliked Mei Xilan so much, but apparently, something about the cold woman’s attitude...
2023-01-25 15:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post