If she were to be honest with herself, Ling Qi was dreading attending the hunting party. Even if Luo Zhong had invited her in good faith, which she was not sure he had, she was still spending the afternoon with a bunch of people who would be contemptuous of her at best. Frankly, she got enough of...
2021-02-04 22:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Xiao Fen? Is that you up there?” a wary voice called out from the woods. “I don’t really have the hang of this art yet…”
“Your senses do not fool you, Liu Xin,” Xiao Fen said stiffly.
The boy that stepped out of the woods was an average looking sort. He wore the Sect...
2021-02-01 22:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi took one last look around the small music hall, eyeing the handful of other disciples occupying the seats within. Despite her best efforts, word of the matter had gotten out. Not many had bothered to show up, and most were no doubt here out of idle curiosity, but she recognized a few disc...
2021-01-30 23:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi peered into the distance at the smoking crater in the ground, the glassy glimmer of melted dirt and shattered stone surrounding it. Then she shook her head. “Sorry, little brother. You still missed.”
“Ugh, stupid Zhen,” Gui grumbled. The giant tortoise lowered his head and s...
2021-01-28 23:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostOver the course of the next few days, things went peacefully enough as Ling Qi returned to the main force and joined the detachments dealing with the issues she had helped map out. Soon enough, they were on their way back to the Sect, and she had been commended for performing her duties well.
... 2021-01-25 21:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostLi Suyin allowed herself a small smile of satisfaction as she placed the last of the seeds into the jar of preservative and tapped the lip, activating the sealing formation on the container. Humming to herself, she collected the discarded rind of the fruit and brushed it into the bin beside her w...
2021-01-23 18:29:28 +0000 UTC View PostType Worldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found in the Interlude-Spoilers channel on Discord
2021-01-22 00:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, she took an overwatch position as they began to make their way south, painstakingly searching for unusual qi in the soil.
Below, her subordinates took on a triangle formation with Mo Lian at the head and the other two fanned out behind him. The search was rather dull to begin wi...
2021-01-22 00:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post<You’ve got this,> Sixiang encouraged.
Ling Qi appreciated the sentiment as she leaped lightly down from the cliff, floating like a leaf on the breeze. As her feet touched the damp grass on the river’s shore, she stopped restraining her qi, and her flute materialized in her hand. ...
2021-01-18 20:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi stood at attention in line with the rest of her classmates in the scouting division as they waited for their respective tutors to return from conferring with the other officers for this Sect exercise. On the plateau below where they stood, the disciples of the other divisions milled and f...
2021-01-16 17:02:30 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi looked to her right, following the line of Sixiang’s attention into the lane between rows of stalls. Briefly, her vision was blocked by some passersby, but she soon met a pair of dark amber eyes, and the young man they belonged to immediately stopped.
It took only a moment to plac...
2021-01-15 01:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters Nie Ai, Hou Min
Not RR friendly. Found in interlude spoilers channel on discord
2021-01-14 23:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt took four days to make it back to the Sect, and by the time they arrived, it was the fifth month.
For the first time, Ling Qi got a real sense of just how massive the province and the Empire were. Ling Qi had been a little surprised that they had not simply taken another transport format...
2021-01-11 19:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi felt the familiar fluctuation in the radiant qi emanating from Cai Renxiang’s blazing sword, the unstoppable pulse that could tear up even the roots laid down by her Thousand Rings Unbreaking. So as the upward slash launched the Bai up and back, hurtling backward through the air with hi...
2021-01-09 16:55:02 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi found her thoughts drifting back to the old story which she had read when looking into Bai Xiao Fen and the Bai clan in general.
“But the Red Python and the Green Asp scorned their ascended father’s will, and they rose in rebellion against the first White Serpent Queen. Only...
2021-01-08 02:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostFor once, Ling Qi did not soar as she took off toward her destination. The expense to her qi, small as it was, was not one she was certain she could afford.
The map that she had memorized showed that the terrain was mostly flat, and while the marshy terrain would have been an obstacle for m...
2021-01-04 22:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi arrived at Cai Renxiang’s door only a quarter hour later, having flown straight there. As she stepped through the door, absently chewing a qi restoration pill, her eyes darted around.
There were no immediate threats that she could see, and she could feel the other girl sitting in ...
2021-01-03 00:19:45 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters: Yan Renshu
Not RR Friendly. Found on Discord in Interlude Spoilers
2021-01-01 21:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi ascended the steps into the fiery archive, Sixiang at her side and Hanyi just behind her. The greyed-out, frozen world seemed to fade away behind them until at last they stood inside of the billowing flames. Ling Qi looked around at the flame-wrought shelves that seemed to stretch out bey...
2020-12-31 23:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi smiled despite herself as Hanyi let out a last excited woop from her perch on Ling Qi’s back. She landed, her legs bending to absorb the impact as she came to a stop on the roof of one of the little mansions that lined the quiet avenues of the inner city. With how busy she had been, Lin...
2020-12-28 21:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi yelped, clutching Zhengui to her chest as she tumbled head over heels into the open sky. Hanyi laughed as she tumbled through the air beside her.
It was nothing like the controlled flight she was used to. Ling Qi spun, bobbed, and drifted on the breeze like a leaf caught in a windst...
2020-12-27 00:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostCultivation always made time fly by.
It was frustrating, Ling Qi could admit. Days could pass by without her noticing while she spent time whirling and dancing among the faded stones of a long dead city to the music of dreams and the cheers of her spirits, advancing toward and achieving the...
2020-12-24 20:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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2020-12-23 03:16:48 +0000 UTC View PostIf she ignored the uncomfortable feeling that Bian Ya’s flirtations gave her, Ling Qi would say that the chatting that followed was actually a little fun. With the subject changed from politics, their conversation drifted to music and poetry, which was much easier fare.
Still, she left th...
2020-12-21 21:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi found her liege surrounded by a small gaggle of disciples.
Among them was Bian Ya, her one-time tutor. She wore a clinging, two-layered gown of shimmering green and white, and her hair was put up in a complex arrangement, woven through combs and flowers. Bian Ya still felt like a li...
2020-12-19 21:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters: Gu Xiulan, Shen Hu
Not RR Friendly. Found on Discord in the Interlude Spoilers Channel.
2020-12-18 00:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post“So, I think I would call my outing with Xuan Shi a success,” Ling Qi finished, drumming her fingers on the arms of her chair. She’d left the exact details out of her report, but she had parted with the Xuan scion on good, if awkward, terms.
“Very good. He is an important contact,...
2020-12-18 00:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi looked up through narrowed eyes, studying the looming shape of the guardian. “I will identify its weakness,” she said. She breathed out, giving Zhengui and Hanyi a nudge. “You won’t be alone in your part though.”
Behind her, a great shadow formed as Zhengui emerged into th...
2020-12-14 21:22:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Incredible,” Xuan Shi breathed, stepping across the threshold from cloud to stone.
Ling Qi was not sure she would go that far, but it was pretty impressive. Inside the doors was a long pillared hall like a grand temple with a thick red carpet leading up its center. The only light in th...
2020-12-13 00:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post