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Chapter 127 - Echoes (III)

"How'd you do that?!" there it was, the question that had no answer.

Well, it had an answer, just not a good one.

The young woman's eyes shone like stars as she crouched down to meet Light's, though the latter just ignored her and continued hiding behind me. Other kids tensed up and s...

Chapter 126 - Echoes (II)

"Pfft," somebody snorted almost as soon as I stopped talking.

I glanced over and saw a young, inconspicuous-looking woman shift her head sideways, though the jumping shoulders still betrayed her. A quick overview of their robes revealed, luckily, that they didn't all belong to the same powe...

Chapter 125 - Echoes (I)

The forest is rather beautiful, I must say.

But also rather daunting.

Without Wan Lan to guide us, I was beyond certain I'd have gotten us lost. Whenever she pointed out a 'landmark', it'd just make me go '...huh? Really?' because, to me, it just looked like another damn tree--as thou...

Chapter 124 - Choices in Life (VI)

I haven't gone hiking much back on Earth, and never into the actual wilderness. It was usually well-trodden hike trails with clear signs of human touch. One thing above all, however, that stood out to me was how... loud the forest would get at night. There's always some...

Chapter 123 - Choices in Life (V)

I found myself... drifting. Kind of half-asleep and half-lucid state.

I know I've passed out, and that I'm lying somewhere in the forest, possibly snoring, and yet, I can't pull myself away from... well, this. I'm back home, pressed against the soft, cushioned sofa that ha...

Chapter 122 - Choices in Life (IV)

Duan Luoyang stepped out of the void rather gracefully and invisibly, his sharp, azure-blue eyes immediately focusing on ashes and dust where there used to be trees.

He'd felt it, just so briefly, a *ringing of Dao*--when something of its make is awoken into the world. It passed as qu...

Chapter 121 - Choices in Life (III)

Long Tao stared at the happily snoring face of his Master.

Every time he exhaled, the mustache would flutter like leaves in the wind, making for a rather comic appearance. Furthermore, it seemed he was dreaming, as his eyelids kept twitching and he'd occasionally groan while swatting away s...

Chapter 120 - Choices in Life (II)

It is rather difficult to describe the sensation of feeling my hands catch fire. They weren't literally ablaze, no, as the man's attack never reached quite that far, but my brain, blinded by the decades of living in a non-magic world, was certain that they were burning.

As soon as ...

Chapter 119 - Choices in Life (I)

So, thirteen or so men (and one woman) had encircled the exit of the tunnel. Their backs were facing a forest of trees, behind us was a slight hillside that then fell back down into a town wall, and we... well, we were screwed.

Kids emerged at some point despite my trying to keep them down,...

Chapter 118 - Silence (III)

The remaining day passed by rather quickly and uneventfully.

The town calmed down for the most part and the rumors returned to being largely about the two fallen sects and the rising number of smaller ones trying to take over the suddenly empty seat of the region's sovereign.

Neither ...

Chapter 117 - Silence (II)

The atmosphere was... well, it was freakin' awkward.

It made sense, though, if you think about it. While Madame Lu may see Light as some herald and such, to Wan Lan she's just some random 6-year-old girl that she's suddenly being told to follow and effectively obey for no apparent ...

Chapter 116 - Silence (I)

For the first time in a few days, I sat drinking my beal in quiet calm. Every previous time was addled with a level of anxiety toward learning something new or discovering a potential guide. However, all of that has been resolved--so now, all I had to do was... nothing.

In two days, we'd le...

Chapter 115 - Spiritwood Grove (XIII)

The old woman's expression was rather comedic--eyes widened, lips opened into a circle, jaw hanging, the usual. Light, on the other hand, remained expressionless, taking a sip of water--same as me.

"... you're lying." she eventually said.

"Light."

The young girl extended her han...

Chapter 114 - Spiritwood Grove (XII)

Rumors abound as soon as the gash in the sky closed up, and I learned within seconds who the likely 'culprit' behind it is: the town's chief, titular Raging Bull.

Huh.

I guess I finally reached the stage where people are referred to by their nicknames that they've earned through blood...

Chapter 113 - Spiritwood Grove (XI)

"Hm," I mulled over the assortment of things the kids have picked up in the past six days.

There were mostly colored textiles--silk, wool, linen, some cotton, and something that looked and felt like sateen. As for why I know what sateen looked and felt like? Ask Ashley, my...

Chapter 112 - Spiritwood Grove (X)

Long night fell, the shadows curving as though light phased thorough a membrane on its way down.

Long Tao recognized it as it was one of the 'features' that a lot of low-level large-scale formations couldn't hide. Bending the Laws of Dao was already difficult, and trying to do so without be...

Chapter 111 - Spiritwood Grove (IX)

How do you recruit a former Demonic Cultivator that holds half the town 'hostage'?

Slowly, I imagine.

It's not like I can just walk up to her and go 'Hey, wanna join the Crusade of Monsters? Here, meet a Reincarnator!'

We hadn't even seen her since the day she escorted us. A dif...

Chapter 110 - Spiritwood Grove (VIII)

You know, it only dawned on me when I found myself adrift the masses, crowding the seeming central square of the town, that this was my first time being alone. Like, alone alone. At every other point, it felt, there was at least somebody nearby, or somebody to talk to if I wante...

Chapter 109 - Spiritwood Grove (VII)

I already missed just having a certainty of a house on a peak where nobody asked me for any money to stay there, to be honest. But what was I to do? Reject her? No. We needed a place, even if for just a few days.

"Do you take Spirit Stones for payment?" I asked.

"Ho ho, of course. Mad...

Chapter 108 - Spiritwood Grove (VI)

We didn't change our direction even after getting the news of the Spiritwood Grove; rather than aimlessly heading northeast, where the region's largest forest was located, we continued north and came to the town of our destination within a day and a half.

I'd expected a relatively smaller, ...

Chapter 107 - Spiritwood Grove (V)

The bandit's story was... well, lengthy would be one word to use. In part because there truly was a lot that happened, but also in part beca

The bandit's story was... well, lengthy would be one word to use. In part because there truly was a lot that happened, but also in p...

Chapter 106 - Spiritwood Grove (IV)

Ever since Long Tao's not-so-subtle 'foreshadowing', as it were, I've grown a bit... paranoid. I jumped at every shadow--not that there were

Ever since Long Tao's not-so-subtle 'foreshadowing', as it were, I've grown a bit... paranoid. I jumped at every shadow--not that there were many of t...

Chapter 105 - Spiritwood Grove (III)

We actually stayed in the shade of the tree for three days total while Long Tao, essentially, beat the basics into them. I had to admit...

We actually stayed in the shade of the tree for three days total while Long Tao, essentially, beat the basics into them.

I had to admit.....

Chapter 104 - Spiritwood Grove (II)

Looking at my Creation Points, I've got 360. No scope! Ugh. I'm still limited to just 100 points per art, which means that the limit is incr

Looking at my Creation Points, I've got 360. No scope!

Ugh.

I'm still limited to just 100 points per art, which means that the limit is in...

Chapter 103 - Spiritwood Grove (I)

To catch you up really quickly, the appearances they chose to take up on are rather... well, I don't want to say predictable, but they're pr

To catch you up really quickly, the appearances they chose to take up on are rather... well, I don't want to say predictable, but they're predicta...