Author's Notes: Thought I will add author's notes here and there. Here are the ducks I met yesterday. They were nice. “I don’t want to save
Author's Notes: Thought I will add author's notes here and there. Here are the ducks I met yesterday. They were nice.
“I don’t know what you think I am,” Yu Han said. “What am I if not typical?” He felt tired saying that.
“Feeling pressured?” Li Yao laughed. “Does it help you sweat?”
“You have too high expectations of me,” Yu Han said.
“It’s helping you lose weight.” Li Yao mimed a heavy load on his back. “...
2025-07-07 18:46:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
“And what do we sell?” Li Yao asked. “I’m guessing you don’t want to be like the rest. No endless grind in the Hidden Realm and selling the haul.”
“It’s not so bad,” Fang Zhao countered.
“It sounds plebeian,” Huang Niuniu said. “Once in a while is nice, but not forever.”
Yu Han flipped the noteb...
2025-07-01 08:35:38 +0000 UTC
View Post
Slow release for a few weeks. Maybe 1-2 weekly chapters. Fingers cross going to reach the 3 weekly release again before summer ends. As promised, Patreon won't be charged until it is 20 chapters ahead again, and 12 new chapters in Patreon have been posted.
I am settling into my new job. Hopefully, my visa will be renewed pretty...
2025-06-22 09:07:37 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 104 – Tax Rules and Comparisons
Yu Han’s Deep Sleep had activated after he had been knocked out by Gong Muhua. He was able to enter his Dreamscape with no issues.
But this time, his sleep was normal. No Deep Sleep.
How the hell am I supposed to test this?
It was a worrying development. He had no plans...
2025-03-21 21:56:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hey all, I have some updates on my current situation. Tldr; I have 60 days to complete my master's thesis. So I am slowing down releases.
This means I won't have as much time to write. I need to prioritize the thesis. over posting regular chapters.
If I try to do both at the same time, ...
2025-03-20 08:07:51 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 103 – Training the System
The next two days passed quickly. Fang Zhao was training like a maniac. Li Yao and Huang Niuniu would spar with him, with Yu Han joining in sometimes. The three of them combined couldn’t take him down.
Though when Yu Han maxed out his instincts with Thousand Petals Awareness, he came close.
2025-03-19 23:03:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 102 - Loot
“The Night Alchemists’ Yard archives list no Arts,” Elder Chang said. “Merely a few recipes and know-hows. Records of past exploits, and knowledge donated by our employees. Arts aren’t to be shared with outsiders. You shall only receive them for great contributions. Either as tokens for the Scripture Hall, or d...
2025-03-19 17:00:43 +0000 UTC
View Post
“I quit this stupid sect!” Bloodhound One shouted. He galloped on all fours like a beast, leaving dust in his wake.
White light surrounded his body as if air streams were parting to make way. He streaked past the dumbfounded Law Enforcers and appeared at the end of the road where it forked.
With each stomp, the earth crack...
2025-03-14 21:57:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
“We can’t trust her!” Fang Zhao whisper-shouted.
They were sitting in a huddle by a small fire. Mistress Miao was moon-bathing in a boulder on the other side of the cenote.
“Do we really gotta whisper?” Li Yao said. “If she can hear the Mad Bloodhounds from miles away, she can hear us too. This is ridiculous.”
2025-03-12 21:56:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
“Instruction manual?” Fang Zhao barked as if he’d heard the most ridiculous thing.
“A manual with instructions,” the cat said. “On how to use the ring. Did you read it?”
「Can I read the instruction manual too?」 Fei Rui asked. He had shrunk back to puppy size and nestled himself in Yu Han’s lap.
2025-03-11 05:48:27 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 98 – Mistress Miao
Fang Zhao was a boy. A slight and slender build, an inch or two taller than Yu Han, with red eyes and black hair that sparkled even when covered in grime.
Li Yao took his helmet off. “Holy landlords. Tubs, did he just grow a foot? Red-eyes, you gonna grow wings next?”
“W-What do yo...
2025-03-09 08:20:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 97 – Tanking Snakes
Huang Niuniu was the first to act.
She whipped out Pale Spine, the contraption tying around the width of the Redgrass Beak Viper boss in a second. The spines extended to grapple onto the beast’s scales.
“Niu’er—” Yu Han wanted to yell at her audacity but soon grasped her inten...
2025-03-06 07:42:14 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 96 – Counting Up
The natural shelf where Yu Han’s group had hidden provided a precarious viewing point. If not for the talismans, the slithering Redgrass Beak Vipers below and the flying Redgrass Viper Hawks above would have already noticed them.
Pale green bog moss crept right up to the edge of the cenote’s throa...
2025-03-04 08:00:35 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 95 – It’s not Stalking if it’s for a Good Cause
They made their way through the bog, stepping over fallen trees and jumping from one stable patch of land to another.
Core Formation in two years. Yu Han couldn’t get that out of his head. Are they all protagonist templates? Is inborn talent really tha...
2025-03-01 07:50:32 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 94 – True Geniuses Cheat
“We can slowly test how much you can separate,” Yu Han said. “The marketplace sells things that are too difficult to process at a huge premium. For example, one of the ingredients Niu’er needs for the Deep Sea’s Vitality Spite is a poison from a Bat-Faced Centipede, a type of Gu.”
...
2025-02-26 21:56:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 93 - If it’s a Ring, it’s a Cheat
The next monster to attack them was a human-sized mantis with wooden eyes. As it flew out of the canopy towards them, Huang Niuniu slashed its wings with Lotus Razor. It screeched, falling to the ground, where Li Yao separated its head from its body.
They encountered monsters twice ...
2025-02-24 23:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 92 - Into the Hidden Realm
The Banana Moss River led to the docks at the Triplet Horn Mountain, but the Drizzle moved into a small tributary around a mile before the docks. Then it made its way to the back of the mountains, where another small base of the Law Enforcement Hall was located.
The Triplet Horn Mountain was a mount...
2025-02-24 20:21:51 +0000 UTC
View Post
Chapter 91 – Jade of Moments
"Why don't you look happy?" Tan Ruoxuan glared at them, her ponytail furiously milling in the wind. "Your foes are captured. You can move back to your abodes." She glanced at their getup. "After returning from the Hidden Realm. It is a joyous occasion."
She scanned their reactions again. "So why look li...
2025-02-19 20:10:22 +0000 UTC
View Post
Huang Niuniu successfully levelled up. She had an extra skip to her step on the way back.
"Did you know? There are tiny bugs in the water, as small as a water drop, that can give off light," the girl said.
"Phytoplanktons." Yu Han cleared the overgrown foliage by the abandoned trail with his halberd. If they needed to come her...
2025-02-18 13:40:59 +0000 UTC
View Post
"Neat." Yu Han stared at his profile. Is there a limit to how many extra stat points I can gain? Or is it unlimited? Yu Han didn't think so.
He would go forward with the assumption that everything had a limit. The limit to allocating Primordial Qi was one such data point in the evidence. Whether that limit depended on the wei...
2025-02-14 21:55:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
What the hell was that? Yu Han groaned. How long had it been since he’d collapsed? It felt like merely a minute, but his body was dripping with sweat. He was lying flat on his back, heaving deep as if he was drowning.
There must be a limit to how many Primordial Qi I can put into a single substat! That was t...
2025-02-12 21:55:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Life and Laptop Update:
I got a new laptop. The old one's motherboard was shorted at 2 places. Luckily, the SSD was unharmed and I got back all the data. I didn't have to rewrite the three latest chapters I had written in my backlog. For some reason though, dropbox did not automatically sync what I wrote on Feb...
2025-02-11 01:40:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sorry guys, my laptop died. All the edited chapters are on it, and I am in a location where I can't repair it untill the 11th. I'll keep track of chapters and post them immediate after I get it repaired or buy a new one. Sorry for the delay. This happened in the middle of travelling and it feels like a thousand things are going wrong at once (I ...
2025-02-02 23:24:23 +0000 UTC
View Post
"We'll bait it!" Yu Han said as Fei Rui jumped from one tree to another like a flying squirrel. "Take this pearl. The moment the worm charges at you, project it—"
A line of green fire tunnelled through the canopy, the heat searing off the green leaves to ashes.
"Fuck!" The fire had almost touched his Coverall helmet, but Fei Rui ha...
2025-01-31 21:00:05 +0000 UTC
View Post
