Chapter 346 - A Promise of Pain
As spring unfurled across the land, the grounds around the library pagoda came alive with color. Flowers of every hue, crimson, gold, and violet, blossomed in wild abundance, their petals gleaming beyond the boundaries of the spring array.
The air was rich with fragrance, soft breezes carrying the mingled scents of the new seaso...
2025-11-12 06:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 345 - A Merry Meal
Winter had settled in completely. Each day brought the end of December closer, and with it came deeper snow and sharper winds. Outside the spring array, the world was a white blur with snow whipping past in relentless sheets, dancing and spiraling like spirits caught in a storm. I watched for a moment, the muffled howl of the blizzard barely rea...
2025-11-12 06:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 344 - In Tiger’s Palm
After our little expedition, Song Song and I returned to the sect safely, having caught beasts like Pokémon and stuffed them all into the silver mirror.
Winter had come in full swing now. Snow blanketed everything, piling two feet high atop the walls surrounding the sect. It was late December, and the year was drawing to a close.
... 2025-11-12 06:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 343 - Inside The Mind
The world was white.
I stood beneath a sky of frozen glass, its surface glinting with ice. The moon blinked once, like an eye studying me from above.
I was inside the tiger’s mind. That much was clear. But it was… more developed than I’d expected.
This was why I disliked using my technique to read or control minds. Eve...
2025-11-12 06:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 342 - A Crazy Plan
I caught the stench of the bear’s breath as its roar washed over me, hot and heavy, rank like sour morning breath left to fester. It rolled across the air in waves, clinging to my nose with the acrid tang of rot and stale meat.
“Gross. I could feel some of that slobber hit my barrier,” I muttered.
Thankfully, I kept a skin-tigh...
2025-11-10 16:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 341 - A Fluffy Snow Creature
I leaned back in the old rocking chair I’d dragged up to the roof of the library tower, letting its gentle creak keep time with the rising sun. The wind was sharp and cool, carrying the faint scent of pine and distant rain, brushing against my face with a briskness that cleared the mind. From up here, the sect spread out in quiet sti...
2025-11-10 16:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 340 - Two Truths and One Lie
A thin layer of snow blanketed the fields just outside the Blazing Sun Sect as fresh flakes drifted lazily from the sky. Despite everything the sect had endured, its mountain remained a picturesque sight.
Song Song stood a few yards away, smiling faintly as she studied me. There was a dangerous glint in her eyes. Winter had come,...
2025-11-10 16:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 339 - A Place Out Of Date
Apparently, the kid whose idea Jiang Yeming found interesting was one of the quieter students in class. He rarely spoke and came off as a bit shy.
I read his paper and the thoughts he’d written during the lesson, and a smile tugged at my lips.
He’d suggested that since Qi Gathering beasts were still guided by instinct, may...
2025-11-10 16:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 338 - A Teacher Teaching
As we stood atop the library pagoda, my teacher, Cai Hu, gave me a look that said I was insane. He scratched his head, rubbed his chin, narrowed his eyes, and hummed like a wise old man trying to puzzle out my nonsense.
“So, you want me to make an array that can help you train your mental power?” he asked at last, closing his eye...
2025-11-10 16:48:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 337 - The Mirror Of Silver Fate
Summer was on its last legs, the blazing season dimming with each passing day. The sun still burned strong, but its edge had softened and no longer had the oppressive heat of midsummer, but a gentler warmth gilding the horizon. The sky wore a faint haze of gold and copper, clouds stretched thin like fading brushstrokes across a vast...
2025-11-10 16:48:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 336 - One Mistake Away From Death
I stared at the scorched ring of earth gouged around the barrier, soil carved away where the blast had hit it.
If it hadn’t been for my teacher’s arrays around the library, I would be dead by now.
Thankfully, I’d been paranoid enough to summon a shield around myself the moment I sensed the strike; oth...
2025-11-10 16:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 335 - Liar
The soundwave raced toward me, the air around it rippling and twisting, while lightning from my own array rained down as I breathed normally.
Despite the somber weight in my chest, I couldn’t help but feel… happy. These Foundation Techniques were fascinating, each one felt unique, personalized. Dangerous, yes, but also deeply interesting...
2025-11-10 16:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 334 - A Crushing Defeat
The array rumbled like a growling beast, its vibrations crawling through the earth and up my spine. The elders tilted their heads upward, their eyes narrowing as the sky within the dome shifted.
Above us, the clouds seethed and writhed; every coil of vapor became alive with threads of blazing light. Bolts of raw energy twisted and sli...
2025-11-10 16:47:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 333 - The Great Reveal
Despite my threats, the attacking elders barely flinched. Confidence sat on their faces like armor, calm, cold, and carved from long-borne certainty.
Dealing with experienced fighters like them was pretty troublesome. They had likely been part of some very dangerous squad at some point in their lives. They moved and breathed like...
2025-11-10 16:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 332 - The Breaking
The giant bone fist came down with earth-shaking force, its descent like a mountain collapsing. For a heartbeat, I felt its weight, knowing that this strike would crush me to a pulp.
I gritted my teeth and drove my Qi outward in a violent surge. At once, a greenish aura ignited around me, blazing with the weight and luster of solid jade.&n...
2025-09-16 08:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 331 - A Literary Problem
A couple of weeks after my birthday, I found myself once more at the dinner table, savoring the flavors of one of Fu Yating’s exquisitely prepared meals. The warm aroma of simmered spices lingered in the air, weaving with the faint crackle of oil from the kitchen, while the glow of lamplight softened the edges of the room.
Each bit...
2025-09-16 08:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 330 - Unchanging Funerals
I drifted through the discussion in a haze, my gaze fixed on what remained of Zun Gon.
He had been a person, someone I’d spoken with, even respected. One of the rare cultivators who could look past himself and consider the bigger picture. And now, all of that was scattered into blood and fragments.
With him died our last hop...
2025-09-12 10:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 329 - The Bursting Dam
It was a warm spring day, the kind where it wasn’t too hot or too cold, just right. The sun spilled a gentle golden light that seeped into the ground, carrying with it a comfortable warmth. A lazy breeze rolled through the fields, stirring the grass and carrying the faint perfume of blooming flowers.
I stood with my teacher in an emp...
2025-09-12 10:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 328 - Things Not Written
In the end, no matter how much we explored, the inheritance turned out to be about a man who sought to fuse two systems of talent: the bloodlines of monstrous beasts and the spirit roots of humans. Beasts had spiritual roots too, but they also had bloodlines that aided cultivation on top of that. Though those same bloodlines were like chai...
2025-09-12 10:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 327 - Things Not Seen
The mouse jerked violently as my consciousness seeped into it, its tiny body rolling across the forest floor in erratic spurts. It bounded left, then right, nearly smashing itself against tree roots, tumbling through dead leaves and snapping twigs as if trying to shake me off.
Since I hadn’t fully taken control, it was aware. The litt...
2025-09-12 10:30:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 326 - An Inheritance Of Rot
I looked around the dusty room. This place looked like it had been abandoned for a while. In one corner was an object that looked like a mirror, except its surface was rippling like a swirling pot of black ink. On a different corner stood a rotten shelf sagging under the weight of ruined books, and in the middle of the room was an empty...
2025-09-05 21:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 325 - A Time Long Gone
Ye An descended gracefully through a mist, her robes trailing like flowing ice. With her Qi wrapped around them, she lowered my two disciples and the masked elder as if they were weightless. The three touched the ground gently, cushioned by the shimmering frost that lingered in her aura. Even in something as simple as carrying others, she ma...
2025-09-05 21:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 324 - Gathering The Crew
After that ordeal with my teacher, I flew over to Song Song’s mansion. The place was an eyesore as always, with the white walls glaring against the surrounding greenery. But now it had a new addition: a marble statue in her yard, standing just before the entrance.
I landed, looked around, but found no one despite sensing her presen...
2025-09-05 21:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 323 - The Next Generation of Scheemers
It was a pleasant spring day, the gentle wind brushing against our hair while the sun above cast a comfortable warmth.
Which made it all the more ridiculous that some of the most talented younger generation of the Blazing Sun Sect were gathered behind an abandoned building like common hoodlums.
The reason for this...
2025-08-30 12:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 322 - Extramarital Affairs
As my killing intent reached its peak, even the arrays around my home, which were meant to buff me in case of a fight, amplified it to downright unnatural levels. Soon, people across the sect would notice, despite the privacy arrays I’d set up.
I exhaled slowly, letting logic and reason return, dulling the hostile thoughts toward...
2025-08-30 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 321 - Logical Discovery
I watched Jiang Yeming eat, keeping a soft, friendly smile on my face as she talked about everyday things.
She knew my family? The Liu Clan lived in the middle of nowhere, rarely visited. Even the few merchants who passed through were kept at arm’s length by the local powers, and no merchant would ever be received by clan members; a...
2025-08-30 11:51:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 320 - A Lady Lost in Time
Jiang Yeming froze as she stared at the figure in the doorway. Nothing about the young girl screamed danger; there was no eerie glow, no twisted features. On the surface, she was ordinary. Sure, the resemblance was uncanny. Her features mirrored Liu Feng’s in a way that felt unnatural, like someone had sculpted his likeness into another...
2025-08-25 23:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 319 - Cold Struggles
Ye An stood above the clouds, the sky vast and endless around her, as the first hints of spring stirred in the wind. The bite of winter was fading, replaced by something softer, warmer. Even with only one eye, her vision was keener than most. From her high vantage point, she spotted Liu Feng below, a small figure among a cluster of teens as he...
2025-08-25 23:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 318 - A Day in the Life of a Desperate Housewife
The morning light peeked through the kitchen windows, casting golden beams across the wooden floor and glinting softly along the countertop’s edge. Fu Yating stood at the stove, her silhouette outlined in the gentle glow. The aroma of sizzling herbs and fragrant spices filled the air, wrapping the room in warmth. ...
2025-08-25 22:35:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 317 - Changing Souls
As Wu Yan sat, the air shifted. Her Qi spiked abruptly, like a dam bursting, then twisted inward, condensing into a whirlpool that surged around her. The wind bent to its pull, snow lifting from the ground and whipping violently in a miniature tornado.
It seemed she had gained an insight after watching Song Song’s technique and after f...
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