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The Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 23
The trip back to Amber Crossing took significantly longer than the mad chase after the cult leader. Calvin’s pace felt positively glacial, little better than a mortal’s run, but that was about all he could manage. He was exhausted and his qi nodes and channels were closer to empty than they’d been in months. He didn’t even have enough qi...
2026-02-15 18:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 22
Bit of a delay, but we're back with Chapter 22! Enjoy!
Calvin had to give the cult leader credit. He might be a butcher, torturer, more than likely a rapist, and altogether the exact sort of unrepentant monster that righteous sects like the Eight Peaks liked to point to when their own abuses and inequities came to light, b...
2026-02-11 12:25:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 21
Happy February everyone! I have no idea where January went, but lets have a Toll-Road chapter to start the month off strong! I'm going to be traveling this coming weekend so that may delay things slightly, but I'll try to get a good bit of writing in in the next couple of days to compensate.
Anyway, enjoy! 2026-02-02 00:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 20
Usually, Calvin liked to wait until he was back at the sect to claim and use any reward tokens he earned during a mission. It was…simpler that way. The first time around it had just sort of happened, with him not really getting a moment of privacy till he was back at his villa, but then he’d received his gemstone orchid and realized he’d h...
2026-01-29 01:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 19
Took my time with this one, I think its an important one to get right, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out in the end! Hope y'all agree and enjoy!
They ran like the wind, qi quickening their steps and trees passing by in a blur of brown-barked trunks and green needles. As strangely drab as it was to run thro...
2026-01-22 22:48:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 18
Warning: Violence and gore.
From a distance, the farmhouse looked almost normal. It was a big house, two stories tall and sprawling, wooden beams painted in warm tones of red, orange, and yellow to hide the predominant dull brown underneath. A large barn stood not far from the house, surrounded by a half dozen smal...
2026-01-18 16:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 17
For all that Calvin had stressed the importance of starting as soon as possible, it took over an hour to get everything ready. Ultimately that might have been for the best as it gave Calvin some much needed time to center himself. His role in the coming work would be critical, but his thoughts were unsteady.
While the others, mortal and cu...
2026-01-15 14:31:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 16
I'm still not sure what the best way to put Scroll tables into Patreon, but I really don't like using screenshots. Let me know what you think about this option/how readable it is.
Edit: Trigger warning for gore.
Edit Edit: Put the picture back in because this is way worse and I have finally...
2026-01-10 22:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immorality - Chapter 15
Calvin always felt odd wearing his official sect robes. They felt strange against his skin, smooth and cool like polished stone yet simultaneously so airy and light it hardly felt like he was wearing anything at all. Rubbing the fabric between his fingers it seemed like it should be as fragile as a spider’s web, as though an errant gesture wou...
2026-01-07 03:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 14
Happy New Years everyone! 2025 wasn't the best year for me (or just about anyone as far as I can tell), but hopefully 2026 will have better things in store for us all. This is my first update of 2026 and I think its a pretty decent one all things considered. Let me know if you agree!
So without further ado, enjoy! ...
2026-01-04 16:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 13
First of all, Merry Christmas to all my Christmas-celebrating readers! To everyone else, happy holidays (I know its a little late for some of them? Happy holidays retroactively?)
This chapter took a bit. In my usual writing style I'd probably spend another week(s) rewriting it over an over again until I was complet...
2025-12-25 04:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 12
This one was a bit of a struggle. Getting dialog to flow and sound just right is hard. Huge shout out to UncookedLegumes/Beans on discord for helping me refine/edit it. Probably would have sat on it for another day or two tweaking this and that without his input.
“Do you like it?” Gwen asked in a small voice....
2025-12-19 04:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 11
This chapter was starting to spiral into something a little excessive so I ended up cutting it in half at what I think is a fun stopping point ;p
Enjoy!
Calvin was tending to his private herb garden when the formation around his villa notified him that there was an unknown cultivator waiti...
2025-12-13 18:34:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 10
Though it was deep into the night when he returned to his garden villa, Calvin rose well before dawn as was his habit. A few hours of sleep were more than enough to reinvigorate his mind and body and he’d long since found that he preferred early mornings on days he chose to sleep at all.
The world was simpler in the early hours of ...
2025-12-10 00:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Interlude 1
This interlude is meant to go after Chapter 9 and boy was I excited for y'all to see it. I had a great time writing this chapter, and hope you all enjoy reading it!
Athena Ergane, Eleventh among Equals, hung in the vast expanse of unreality her people had named the Ninth Great Sea like an alabaster statue. A delicat...
2025-12-07 01:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 9
“I’ll let the two of you get to know each other.”
Ariadne slipped away, only to stop a scant few feet away at a nearby table and engage Garrion and his half-brother in conversation. Calvin looked down at Yue Gwey, meeting the younger girl’s eyes, and then both simultaneously glanced towards Ariadne out of the corner of their eyes.<...
2025-12-05 02:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 8
There was a celebratory mood on the air as Calvin made his way through Outer Village, a palpable sense of shared relief that made everything seem just a little bit lighter and brighter, if even just for one evening. The streets were crowded with disciples, rivers of dark blue robes interspersed with the occasional flash of bright color where a d...
2025-12-03 01:08:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 7
Calvin did not sleep that night, and doubted many disciples who’d progressed far enough in their cultivation to go without sleep for a night did either. Instead he spent the night puttering around his home, meditating in short intervals, and occasionally nervously pressing his sect token against the bronze disk sitting on his kitchen table to ...
2025-12-01 03:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 6
So it turned out that he had something of a stalker, a concept that left him feeling both somewhat concerned and oddly flattered. Gwen had met with Uncle no less than four times in the past two years, each time exchanging spiritual herbs and simple alchemical products for a combination of connecting her with potential tutors and information abou...
2025-11-29 17:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 5
The Outer Disciple’s Market Hall of Mortal Needs and Delights, typically shortened to just the Mortal Hall unless you were filling out official forms, was one of the largest yet plainest buildings in the Outer Village. Situated away from the main roads with their shops selling cultivation resources and luxuries, the building looked like it wou...
2025-11-28 15:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 4
A great wheel spun behind Calvin’s eyes, incomprehensibly vast and turning so quickly its outer surface was little more than a blur. Calvin could just barely make out endless rows of symbols as they flashed by, occasional fragments of names and meanings appearing in his thoughts in a headache-inducing flurry. Eventually it began to slow, and a...
2025-11-27 23:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 3
Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who celebrates!
The room that Calvin called his meditation room was not the chamber that whoever had designed—or perhaps decorated—the Garden Villa had originally designated for that purpose. That was a small room off the main bedroom in the corner of the building, with two large wi...
2025-11-27 16:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 2
It took another two hours to reach the front of the line, but they didn’t feel nearly as long as the hours before had. As much as the rigors of cultivation trained a cultivator to sit motionless for long hours at a time while maintaining constant focus and awareness, it didn’t make doing so any less boring. Calvin generally enjoyed cultivati...
2025-11-26 19:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe Toll-Road to Immortality - Chapter 1
Hello! If you spend any time in my discord, you may be aware that my muse has decided to almost exclusively focus on xianxia lately. I spent some time trying to work through it writing drips and drabbles (spoiler alert: it didn't work), but then November rolled around and I figured that maybe NaNoWriMo was a good opportunity to get it ou...
2025-11-26 05:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post