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Fates Parallel Chapter 596 - Grandmistress

“I’m sure the God-Emperor would be a master of any discipline he set himself to, in theory. Lady Long Xiaofan surely didn’t mean to suggest anything untoward.”

Yoshika’s words didn’t convince anybody, but it was a convenient excuse to ignore the darker insinuations suggested by the dragon. By the emperor—a living dragon, just sitting right there at the table. Gao Yuanjun fel...

Fates Parallel Chapter 595 - Evidence

Over a century before Lee Jia was born, Seong Heiran left her mark on the world. In Yamato, she was relatively unknown—at the time, there was a great deal of infighting as the Ienaga clan slowly rose to prominence, and communication between nations was sparse. In Goryeo, even back then she was a polarizing figure, and that divide only became more apparent after her death. Qin, however, knew h...

Fates Parallel Chapter 594 - Honor

Yoshika thought she’d be more nervous about the summit gathering, but once she stood before the leaders of the world, its fate hanging in the balance, she had no nerves to hide. A calm washed over her instead of the usual panic that plagued her in life or death situations. She had a long history of last second desperation moves, but this time she was ready. It felt more like the moments of re...

Fates Parallel Chapter 593 - Meaning

The parties had all gathered—backroom meetings met, deals struck, schemes plotted. Everything was in order, and even if Yoshika were of a mind to procrastinate—and she was not—the assembly of the summit could not be forestalled any longer. It was time.

There was a certain element of ceremony to it. The grand hall of the Great Spiritual Flowing Purewater sect was their finest room, w...

Fates Parallel Chapter 592 - Diplomat

The emissary of the southern isles arrived without announcement or fanfare. She simply appeared one day, as though she had been there all along. Disconcertingly, nobody noticed Long Xiaofan’s arrival until she revealed herself to them. Nobody knew who she’d already met with or how long she’d been present. Yue whistled appreciatively as she and Jia prepared for their own meet...

Fates Parallel Chapter 591 - Obligation

Chunhua silently held Jia’s gaze throughout the entire retelling of Yoshika’s confrontation with Yan De. Ancestors, she even listened intensely. Once Jia was finished, she sat back and took a long sip of tea before grimacing.

“Ugh, cold. The trouble with these private conversations is that there are no servants to replace the tea.”

Jia reached across the table ...

Fates Parallel Chapter 590 - Intense

Intense. That was the only word to describe Long Chunhua. She had a weight to her presence and aura that belied her nature as a houtian cultivator. Yoshika wondered if she’d been holding herself back from xiantian for reasons beyond just the power that she’d imparted to her two children.

Yoshika had been told she could be intense. Certainly Eui and Kaede were—...

Fates Parallel Chapter 589 - Matriarch

The Awakening Dragon delegation was the last to arrive, despite their territory sharing a border with that of the Flowing Purewater. The Heavenly Empire of Qin was enormous, and the Awakening Dragon was the greatest of all the sects—first among equals. The sect proper was much further north than their border with the Flowing Purewater, and unlike the imperial clan—which had to travel from f...

Fates Parallel Chapter 588 - Contrast

As much as Jia hated politics, half a decade as the head of two—now three—states meant that she’d gotten used to it. Qin politics, however, were a class of their own, and she was endlessly grateful to have talented subordinates to handle the truly difficult conversations.

Mind you, even which subordinate handled which negotiation could send an important messag...

Fates Parallel Chapter 587 - Sanctuary

“You know, Shun, when you told us that you spoke personally to the Empress during your imprisonment, I assumed that meant that you’d exchanged a few words—not that you were a close enough confidant to be invited for a personal audience.”

Shun Song scratched the back of his head and chuckled nervously as he led his brothers up the steps towards the Flowing Purewater sect.

“...

Fates Parallel Chapter 586 - Inheritance

When the representatives of Qin’s southern sects arrived, it was with an army. A provocative message, but it didn’t escape Yoshika’s notice that it included every single prisoner she’d taken during the battle. She wasn’t in a hurry to meet with the grandmasters, just yet—she had other priorities.

One didn’t just show up for a casual chat with the prince or princesses, but Qi...

Fates Parallel Chapter 585 - Change

The summit was fast approaching, which really meant that it had already begun. As Yue had taught Yoshika, the majority of the negotiation would happen behind closed doors and in private meetings rather than during larger assemblies. Even their new engagement was being held in reserve until the best moment—at Yue’s suggestion. While arrangements had already been made with their friends and a...

Fates Parallel Chapter 584 - Renewal

Though the conversation with Jung had been enlightening, Yoshika’s next steps were hardly easy. For a start, Jia replaced Kaede in Qin. She was going to start things over with Dae. He was one of Yoshika’s best friends—her oldest. Along with Rika, he was one of the few who’d been her friend before Jia had even awakened as a cultivator. It was his advice that had led Jia to her first awak...

Fates Parallel Chapter 583 - Romance

Of every person who Yoshika respected as a teacher or mentor, Lee Jung was by far the youngest, but she’d always had a maturity that belied her actual age. She’d needed to. Growing up, Jia remembered her always being the ‘big sister’ to the other children who went through Lee’s thinly veiled human trafficking ring disguised as an orphanage. She was always the one knocking heads togeth...

Fates Parallel Chapter 582 - Blind

Yoshika felt awful. First she’d hurt Dae in a misguided attempt to encourage him, then Yue by fleeing from a moment of genuine vulnerability. The problem, she realized, was that she’d made the mistake of thinking that her empathy granted her a perfect understanding of the people around her. It was true that her empathy had grown more powerful—she could feel the emotions of those around he...

Fates Parallel Chapter 581 - Confession

Yue bustled from place to place, making arrangements for the upcoming summit. She was harried, stressed, and very much in her element as she attended meetings with the Grandmasters of the Great Spiritual Flowing Purewater sect to discuss everything from guests and seating arrangements to topics of discussion and common goals. Everyone could agree that they wanted peace between Qin and Jiaguo, b...

Fates Parallel Chapter 580 - Magus

The Sovereign’s Tear was a divine relic unlike any other. It was, by the reckoning of the most powerful beings in the divine realm, in fact a demiurge relic—a remnant of the incomprehensible creator gods from which the font of creation sprung. Yoshika’s best theory was that it was itself a miniature font of creation, leaking a limitless amount of power from that same unfatho...

Fates Parallel Chapter 579 - Collaboration

It was hard, sometimes, for Hyeong Daesung not to feel like an imposter. Ever since Goryeo joined the Jiaguo empire, he’d been granted the title of Grand Magus, and no matter how much he was assured it wasn’t the case, he felt that it was only because he was a friend of the Empress.

Yoshika could be an inspiring leader, and had a talent for bringing out the best in those around her, b...

Fates Parallel Chapter 578 - Aid

Yoshika did not take Fang Shi up on his offer to swear fealty to Jiaguo. It wasn’t her intention to awe them into aligning with her, and she reiterated that her gifts were given freely. It didn’t really matter much—her domain made no distinction between those who had sworn themselves to her aloud and those who only did so in their hearts. She could already feel Xiu, Zheng Long, and Fang S...

Fates Parallel Chapter 577 - Largesse

Elder Fang’s home was a humble little place, set apart from other houses only by the enormous oak tree overshadowing it. The tree was so ancient that only the poor spiritual energy in the valley had prevented it from awakening as some sort of spirit or elemental. Even so, Jia could sense the faintest hints of a core beginning to form. The tree would be incredibly valuable for magical material...

Fates Parallel Chapter 576 - Rejoin

She had known it was over the moment she saw the mighty grandmaster. Fang Xiu did not know, precisely, who Yan De was—her husband did not like to speak of his past, and she did not press him. It was clear, however, that he had been a man who even Zheng Long could not oppose. Xiu knew that the sects held onto their people jealously, that was why rogues were so maligned. Being unaffiliated mean...

Fates Parallel Chapter 575 - Fulfill

Amidst all the excitement following what people were already calling ‘the battle at Kucheon,’ one man sat forgotten. Not that he could really blame them—Jiaguo’s citizenry, especially in its eponymous capital, could be almost religiously zealous in their support of the empress, and a great victory against no less than the mighty empire of Qin earned that enthusiasm. Still, Zheng Long di...

Fates Parallel Chapter 574 - Brainstorm

While Yue, Lin Xiulan, and the rest of Yoshika’s more socially and politically minded agents busied themselves to prepare for the upcoming peace talks, Yoshika brought together a gathering of the greatest magical minds across the entire continent.

She had the academy prepare a specialized space for large scale formations and brought in every single expert available. No more secrecy, no ...

Fates Parallel Chapter 573 - Cataclysm

With the summit arranged, Jiaguo left their captured prisoners in Sun Quan’s care and then the battle was over. Qin was still at war, but they had an uneasy truce, at least until then. Yoshika insisted that they expedite the process as much as possible, so Lin Xiulan actually left with the Qin elders in order to hurry back to her sect and make the necessary preparations.

Yue was no stra...

Fates Parallel Chapter 572 - Surrender

When it became clear that it was not going to be a short conversation, Yoshika invited them all to meet in Kucheon. Not the city proper, mind, but still within the shield formation. More specifically, she brought them to the prison camp where the captured cultivators were being held.

That was an incredible show of good faith, and in Yue’s opinion, a very strong message. While the displa...

Fates Parallel Chapter 571 - Triumph

So many things were happening at once that it was difficult to keep track. First, Empress Yoshika’s appearance. At first, Gao thought it was an opportunistic attack, trying to take advantage of the army’s unrest, but she’d come alone and expressed a desire to help calm the riots. Of course, from Gao’s perspective that felt oddly...tone deaf. She was, after all, the reason they were happ...

Fates Parallel Chapter 570 - Voidbreak

Jianmo had once confided in Yoshika that even their indestructible sword form—forged by the fires of Sovereign Chou’s hatred to withstand the element of Destruction, and tempered by souls consumed over the course of eons as the Bloody Sovereign’s primary weapon—could not survive the void between worlds.

“There’s a difference between empty space and the Void, you know. Both are...

Fates Parallel Chapter 569 - Superior

In the war between Yan De’s faith in his allies, and confidence in his own strength there could only ever be one conclusion. The seal around Yoshika shattered like glass, and the surrounding elders backed off warily. By then, Yoshika’s backup had arrived—Ienaga Yumi, Lin Xiulan, and Hwang Sung all stood at a remove, ready to intervene at a moment’s notice.

Despite the clear advant...

Fates Parallel Chapter 568 - Truth

Yue had never really known her father. Once her younger brother was born, he left for closed door meditation and didn’t return until sixteen years later—when her brother died. Yet she and Zhihao had spent their childhood living in his shadow. For Zhihao, it was a desperate struggle to live up to the name and prove himself worthy of one day inheriting the sect. Yue’s struggle was different...

Fates Parallel Chapter 567 - Song

Yan De, Yan Ren, Bai Renshu, Sun Quan, and Qian Shi—each of them at the level of a sect grandmaster, including Yan Ren who had once survived an encounter with the Demon Lord’s avatar. They surrounded her now, and Yoshika could already feel their power flowing through some kind of grand technique.

At last, the masterminds had shown themselves, but they had her at a disadvantage. Yan De...