"Marked for death?" Ren scoffed. "Why not just kill me now?"
"That can be arranged," the void creature flexed its bloodied claws menacingly. "However, the Covenant prefers to give their victims the hope of survival and take pleasure in crushing those hopes."
Just like that spider wanting to weave...
2026-01-26 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRen was suddenly on the back foot again with the deployment of a Monarch's domain, yet he had a smile on his face.
Magnus had taken him by surprise, but now that the fire Monarch had summoned his domain, Ren all but confirmed that Magnus was a weakling.
Ren slowly withdrew a sword and coated it in dark red poison.
"I n...
2026-01-23 05:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn the blink of an eye, his domain, the inescapable plague, bathed the hangar in a green miasma.
"Ah," Ren breathed in the toxins and let out a satisfied sigh. His body, tempered in poison since birth, had gone from merely resisting poison to embracing it upon becoming a Monarch. He practically lived and breathed poison, and it wasn't ofte...
2026-01-21 03:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostGrand Elder Ren felt it first—the wrath of the heavens churning overhead.
He looked up at the darkening sky. "Come to interfere after seeing how unfair this Moros airship is?" Ren muttered, though he doubted that was truly the case. Over the past hour, nearly half his fleet had fallen to Moros's relentless attacks, with no apparent way t...
2026-01-19 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostElder Zhen, captain of the Blazing Sunrise, was in disbelief.
"We have to break formation, Elder Zhen!" his formation commander shouted over the chaos. "The trees, they are fighting back with fire! Our shields are being devoured at an unbelievable rate! We will be bare within minutes!"
"Can we not increase the output?!" Elder Zhen ye...
2026-01-16 10:10:28 +0000 UTC View PostImperial Flagship, the Radiant Dawn.
"Elder Hao's ship, the Titan's Judgement, has been successfully destroyed."
The announcement rang through the Radiant Dawn's control room and was met with grim, hardened expressions.
"Grand Elder Ren, your orders?"
Ren remained silent, eyes fixed on the distant streak ...
2026-01-14 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe world around Elder Hao slowed to a crawl as lightning Qi from his soul flooded his spirit roots, electrifying his reaction time and accelerating his thoughts.
The demonic sword had somehow brute-forced its way through multiple layers of shields, and now he faced a wave of shattered glass that rushed toward him as the sword sla...
2026-01-12 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post"The reports mentioned that the fleet was quite large, even by the Celestial Empire's standards, with a flagship present," Tiberius reported, his voice somewhat grave. "I'd suggest more than a warm welcome."
Ashlock was surprised. Was it that big of a deal?
"What's the reported location?" he asked.<...
2026-01-09 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post"Councilman Faelorian Lysanthos of the Flower Accord is dead."
The announcement rang through the hall like a funeral bell and was followed by a pin-drop silence, despite the thousands in attendance, many of whom were from the hundred noble families of Empyrea.
"He was slain in battle by a dark god going by th...
2026-01-07 08:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostStella was already in a bad mood. Ash was currently battling the Celestial Empire to free her mother and had even slaughtered one of the Empire's Monarchs without her! If that wasn't bad enough, she had been sent away to the Eternal Realm again and wasn't permitted to return until she reached the Monarch Realm, which sucked. She was cur...
2026-01-05 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostTessellate Citadel, a spatial and aether pocket realm orbiting the 6th layer of creation.
Kael had not been idle in Princess Stella's absence from the Tessellate Citadel. She had left him in charge of her recently purchased estate, and he had done his best to live up to her expectations.
However, taking care of her m...
2026-01-02 18:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostStella felt like there was something unmistakably different about Ashlock.
It wasn't his cultivation realm, as he was exerting the same oppressive spiritual pressure as usual—it was something else. Stella traced her fingers along his rough bark as she tried to pin down the reason for the shift.
He has this subtle aura around hi...
2025-12-31 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock was trapped in another dream.
Like the last one, he took on an energy-like form—this time, the ancient force of nature. What felt like centuries slowly passed by as he experienced life not as a tree, but as nature itself.
During this indescribable amount of time, Ashlock surrendered to his situation and attempted t...
2025-12-29 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock had put his all into the attack.
Yet, as the desolation beam finally ceased after draining his personal Qi reserves dry, causing his Inner World to fracture from the strain and for the sky above Red Vine Peak to turn a dark gray, Faelorian still lived.
Even as the world around him had succumbed to ruin and what was once the m...
2025-12-26 09:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Unlike last year, when I returned to the UK to see my whole family for a week, this year I'm remaining in Tokyo. That means I'll only be taking today and tomorrow (24th/25th) off from writing, meaning the next Tree chapter will be on Friday the 26th.
Sorry for the wait, I know the recent ...
2025-12-24 02:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe All-Seeing Eye was not only a wielder of desolation that brought about the ruin of creation but also seemingly a lord over the abyss.
Mistress Veilshade watched from above with bated breath as something deep below Councilman Faelorian's home awakened. Something truly terrifying.
The first signs that something was terribly wrong h...
2025-12-22 09:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostUmbraholme, the City of Darkness – Celestial Empire
The chamber was bathed in blackness, the only illumination a faint silver glow radiating from the carved runes of concealment etched into the stone walls—soft enough not to disturb the shadows that clung stubbornly to every corner.
A dozen cloaked figures sat ar...
2025-12-19 09:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: Due to some circumstances, I'm writing Tree today and will write Shapeshifter tomorrow. So here is wednesday's chapter early! I also made some edits to the last chapter: Jasmine is now mentioned as staying behind at the Frozen Star Sect to train with Janus's discipe, and Stella now puts Crow's body back on the table as bait. 2025-12-16 09:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"Crow is dead," Moose said the obvious as he stood beside the blood-drenched table with another Shadow of the Silent Thorn standing at his side. Raising Crow's head by his hair, Moose got a good look at Crow's final expression of pure terror, which he still wore in death. Whatever he had seen before his demise had shaken him to his core. "He's s...
2025-12-15 15:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostStella was back in the Lion's Den gambling hall.
Not because she had a newfound addiction to gambling, but because a week had passed since she first set foot in these frigid halls, and it was finally her last night here in the Frozen Star Sect.
Tomorrow, she would return home to Red Vine Peak and Ashlock.
Sitting in the corner ...
2025-12-12 13:03:41 +0000 UTC View PostAshlock's conversation with the mysterious shadow Monarch was forced to come to an abrupt end when another Monarch of the Celestial Empire made their presence known.
A Monarch he was all too familiar with.
Appearing middle-aged, like most Monarchs Ashlock had seen so far, the man's slicked-back white hair and purple robes embroidered...
2025-12-10 12:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostThane blinked in disbelief.
A cultist? For the All-Seeing Eye, no less?
The man seemed normal enough, yet something about his kind smile felt terribly out of place. The bottom floor of the restaurant was in an even worse state than the second floor, with a few dead bodies that had succumbed to the desolation haphazardly pile...
2025-12-08 11:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostThane hadn't slept in days.
Not that he needed to, as a Star Core Realm cultivator, but the constant stress of his current situation weighed heavily on him. Councilman Faelorian Lysanthos had dismissed him like a stranger after losing control of the All-Seeing Eye's mouthpiece without lifting his exile, meaning he...
2025-12-05 09:37:35 +0000 UTC View PostWorld Tree Canopy - the city of darkness, Umbraholme.
Mistress Veilshade frowned. It was never a good sign when a black tulip slowly rose from the shadows to the height of a human in her cultivation abode.
"You have my attention," Mistress Veilshade said coldly, annoyed that her research had been interrupted...
2025-12-03 13:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostMagnus had never expected to see a dragon in such dire straits.
Below him in the depths of a vast valley-sized crater of fractured ice was a struggling, mountain-sized black-scaled dragon, pinned down and slowly being crushed to death by the most fearsome ice creature that Magnus had ever laid eyes on.
He glanced between the two, con...
2025-12-01 12:11:10 +0000 UTC View PostAstralis had learned a shocking truth—that the beast tide was heading for the Celestial Empire. So, upon recovering from Ig'Zal's mind control by bathing under the calming moons in Ashlock's Inner World, he fled the lands of the Ashfallen Sect and returned to the depleting Spiritual Spring.
No matter how prideful he was, he knew that mar...
2025-11-20 11:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter invading Magnus's mind with Abyssal Whispers and welcoming him back, Ashlock felt the horrific coldness of the primordial ice that had seeped deeply into his entire being fade into the background while in the presence of the man—who had not only become a Monarch of flame—but had seemingly shed his mortal body and become fire i...
2025-11-17 15:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostAfter entertaining a few ideas, Ashlock ultimately decided that absorbing the primordial ice core was the best decision.
While a little primordial ice Qi remained inside after Bob's feast, it wasn't enough to do much with, but what it did still contain was the dao knowledge of primordial ice Qi. Something he was very curious about...
2025-11-14 13:23:29 +0000 UTC View PostMagnus Redclaw opened his eyes to a fiery hellscape. The sky was a churning cloud of thick black smoke, blanketing a land of magma and roaring flames. He did not know how long he had been cultivating here atop an obsidian pillar, but he did know his time in seclusion was drawing to a close, for he had achieved the 9th stage of the Nascent Soul R...
2025-11-12 10:41:07 +0000 UTC View PostBob was in his greatest battle yet. His foe? One of the many tiny invaders. Despite being far shorter than him, the little monster with giant glowing blue eyes was as relentless as the rest of its kind. They wanted in, but Bob would not let them.
This was Stella's sanctuary, and his big sister had entrusted him as its door. His gr...
2025-11-10 10:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post