RAIDBOSS

One Week Break

Hey all, got some projects going on IRL. will be back one week from now. thx for reading!

Chapter 62

My Dantian ached, empty and hungry for power. I absorbed an unending and tortuous trickle as we negotiated with dozens of cultivators, squeezing every last benefit out of them we could. We sold Blood Cleansing Pills nearly as quickly as Yexiang could create them.

I stole one of the Blood Cleansing pills for myself, as well, of course.

Chapter 61

I stared at myself in the mirror, hair loose and falling over my shoulders. My arm ached. I had woken up in the middle of the night from rolling on top of it. Life qi still rolled through me in waves, filling me with an unending itching as my flesh and muscle stitched itself together.

The red welts along my skin had slowly faded.

But...

Continuity edit to c55

Hey all, in c55 there is a line where the elder shui says that there will be a 1 week recovery between each trial -- I removed this, the trials will all be back to back.

Chapter 60: Fragrant Leaf

I cast [Identify] as my eyes swept the room, searching for anything out of place.

[Grim Shui Haiwu, Darkwind Scion Path Cultivator, Core Formation Realm]

[Shui Mingyun, Darkwind Scion Path Cultivator, Core Formation Realm]

The tension left my body all at once. I leaned back to the wall, sliding to the ground.

Shui Yuhai s...

Chapter 59

Jin descended on me like a storm. He was slower when wielding the technique. The glowing storm around his sword circled outward, exploding into a wave of dark cloud and flashing lightning that buffeted me before I even raised my own sword to meet it.

Jin stopped several feet away. The anti-lightning on my sword parried the technique itself...

Chapter 58

Thanks for reading! Had some construction on my house that's over now. Also, I changed Shui Ling's name to Shui Yuhai.

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A heavy aura hung over the dining hall. It wasn’t a literal manifested aura of a cultivator; it was a heavy interpersonal tension. The few conversations that filled the hall were quick and quiet whispers, bar...

Thanks for reading!

Had some damage to & construction on my house that made it impossible to write at home. Back now!

Chapter 57: Darkrain Mountain

I sat in a circle of boiling storms. The inner world formed by the Mind Tempering technique felt increasingly solid and real around me. I managed to hold the image together for almost a minute when I heard the sound of pounding on a door. My head flicked to the side, staring at the spot of open air that corresponded to the door in the real world...

Chapter 56

The smile on my face was strained as I stared down almost a hundred cultivators. Luckily, none of them were staring at me. Instead, all of their gazes were locked solidly above my head and behind me. Littlebird sat dead still on my shoulder.

The Emperor’s hot, humid huffing breaths rolled over my shoulders as he puffed air out of his nos...

Chapter 55: Feng Jin

“They’re going to announce the first trial. Are you prepared, Grim Jin?” Bai whispered to me.

“Yes, senior.” I whispered in return.

“Good. You must be the first to complete it. The rewards they are grnating are specifically tailored to you.”

This was something I knew. I was meant to win. The entire tournament was ...

Chapter 54

A\N: Edited in more conversation between Sai and the emperor. Sai is reluctant about letting The Emperor eat people. But thinks sometimes its a good thing. Like with Long.

I pried open crusted eyes. My vision was blurred. My face was numb, the slick stone surface of the Stormwall road sapping away my bodyheat. The first noise I heard was ...

Chapter 53

[One Cut, One Kill reached level 5!]

[Death’s Descent reacehd level 4!]

Waves of black flowed off my blade like bubble black clouds; the darkness surrounded my sword and inched up my arm as I dove downward. All of my Strength, two of my skills, and every drop of qi I could muster flowed into the attack.

Long concentrated his ...

Chapter 52

Thanks for reading! I've been planning out the tournament arc.

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I shot to my feet and freed my sword in the same moment, my sheathe fell to the ground, and Littlebird shot into the entrance of the maintenance tunnel.

A second later, a massive open mouth slammed into place, covering the entrance entrance. Wet hot saliva sho...

Chapter 51

Time wore on me heavier than the ever present gloom of the Stormwall’s endless clouds. Without the day and night cycle, time blurred together, warping uncomfortably and unbalancing me. I rested when I grew tired.

There were only three hours until Littlebird’s egg hatched, which meant I would need to rest again early. I was saving the t...

Chapter 50

A\N: Chapter 49 got a pretty big edit to the second and third section.

It took two hours to recover my spent qi sitting on the road. The quality and amount of storm qi and its component parts overwhelmed almost all others, choking the void qi out of the air. While I cultivated, I felt Littlebird grow increasingly uncomfortable and distre...

Chapter 49

A\N: I edited the 2nd and third parts of Chapter 49. You may wish to reread them.

Rainshadow Long rode his mount like a demon, leaning forward. The veil around his head billowed; it was transparent only through a single side. Those around him couldn’t see his face through the opaque black mesh. Most could still feel his mood through his...

Tuesdays

Hey all, only got 700 words today. Maybe enough for double chapter tomorrow

Chapter 48

“We’re not being followed.” I said.

We trailed out of the city, leaving a pile of bodies in our wake. I had switched out the hat Thunderfist Yu cut for a backup from inside of my backpack. Rain poured against us as we ranged south. A glowing compass in my hand pointed the way through the rainstorm.

The muddy road was just as qu...

Chapter 47

Thunderfist Yu huffed a breath from his nose, leaning on a long spear with its flat end embedded into the ground. It’s bladed edge glinted off the lantern light around it, slick in the rain. I plastered an irreverent smile on my face.

Yu growled under the conical hat above him.

“You killed Brother Kai.” Thunderfist Yu said. “...

Chapter 46

Thunderfist Yu lit the shoddily hand rolled joint in his hand and puffed. He took in the harsh smell of resin and charcoal.

The rage of the storm outside was a noise he had learned to tune out over time, but he could never learn to ignore the smell of charcoal making. Storm’s Edge largest building had been turned into the headquarters of...

Chapter 45 cont

A\N: These words were added to the end of c45

The rain never stopped in Storm’s Edge. The city was built around it. Raised wooden walkways let water pass beneath them into irrigation routes that constantly sloshed with a river’s worth of water.

Canopies covered the roads, deflecting rain; except for where they leaked, creating ...

Chapter 45

A\N: very important fix at the last few lines

Wen stared at Feng Sai’s back with a rarely felt sense of concern. Real concern. It would have been better if Feng Jin had failed to reach the Third Realm; then the two of them could have lived ordinary lives, instead of being sucked up and spit out by the Grim Tempest.

“Is there som...

Chapter 44

The DAO system store had options that I could spend comprehension points on; I gained comprehension points with every level gained on my travel.

Supplementary technique’s wouldn’t advance my cultivation realm, but they could enhance my cultivation path, working alongside it. A Mind Refinement Technique was typically cultivated before t...

Chapter 43

A tingle in the back of my neck told me to throw myself low. Mud clung to my clothes, the ground hot and wet where the sun beat down on it. Only a second later, an arrow landed in the bark above me with a thunk.

[Danger Sense reached level 5!]

I sensed the next arrow coming and ran.

Eros was shooting at me from far out of sight...

Oops!

Took a two week vacation. I'm back! The next three chapters will be the transition back to the bloodstone continent and the beginning of the journey to the darkwind scion tournament.

Thirty days between the next travel means that Littlebird will hatch before then. I'm excited!

We should also have a chapter catching up with Meat som...

Chapter 42

“You smell terrible.” Anna swept in to the warehouse-turned-warehome and wrinkled her nose. The afternoon sun swept over her back, painting the floor orange and red.

Poppy sat in lotus. Black ichor puddled on the ground around her where it had dripped from her pores; impurity pushed from skin slicked with sweat. But I could see the cha...

Chapter 41: Vascaran Steel

Poppy tossed me two bags. I grabbed them out of the air, opening one to a half dozen tiny metal canteens. Three of them had faded green paint in a stripe around them, and the other three had faded red paint. The other had new clothes. My robes were in tatters.

“Healing and stamina potions.” Poppy said, stretching her arms. Then she str...

Chapter 40: Fight Dirty

After I told the party of Jinmei’s story, the rest of the lunch was quiet. She was just one of dozens. Mortals scooped up from around the country and brought into a desert devoid of monsters.

Poppy answered with a ‘hmmm.’

Most of the food was gone by the time I was done telling them about my circumstances — about the Grim Tem...

Chapter 39 Jinmei Interlude 3/3

A\N: These three will be posted on royalroad as one chapter.

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A guard dragged Jinmei back to her tent and blocked the entrance. She cried alone inside.

Blossom had been her first friend — the first she had gotten really close to. The only one who knew everything about her and hadn’t left.

The sun set when she hea...