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Cultivating Chai 50

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Xiao Feng allowed his focus on the essence cultivation art to break away, as Lianhua gingerly lifted the pill furnace’s top. 

A loud hiss sounded out as the steam trapped within the pill furnace escaped, clouding his line of...

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Cultivating Chai 49

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Lianhua’s right hand pulled away from the amethyst dragonstone burner’s knob as the Frost Lily’s bone chilling Qi began to seep out upon being heated, cooling not only the refined paste wrapped Sylvan Heartroot but also dulling the...

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Cultivating Chai 48

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Xiao Feng’s gaze was fixated on the pill furnace before him, his expression one of total concentration as he watched the Pearl Orchid bulb fall towards the melange of bone marrow and blood essence. 

He tried to make hi...

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Cultivating Chai Chapter 47

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Xiao Feng observed intently as Lianhua poured the vial full of thick, silver liquid onto the metal plate that isolated the interior of the pill furnace from the outside world. 

He had expected Lianhua to turn the handle,...

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Modern Patriarch 1 is on sale for 0.99$ and Book 2 has officially launched :D

Hi everyone,

I'm back to announce that Book 2 of Modern Patriarch (with that stunning cover) is out on Kindle Un...

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Cultivating Chai 46

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“Pearl Orchids are considered a delicacy amongst spiritual beasts, due to a circular bulb that is found in the center of each flower. Full of seeds, the bulb is packed with both unattuned Qi and nutrients that aid in the development of...

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Cultivating Chai Chapter 45

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Arrayed before Lianhua and Xiao Feng were seven different ingredients, some contained in sealed glass vials while others were kept out in the open. 

“Now,” Lianhua began, before her lips curled up into a mischievous ...

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Cultivating Chai Chapter 44

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Xiao Feng decided to follow Lianhua inside, not seeing a pressing need to return for his Pill Furnace if he wasn’t going to be doing any pill refining today. 

He did his best to not stare this time around, but found th...

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Cultivating Chai 43

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Lianhua watched with her arms crossed as Xiao Feng trailed behind a procession of alchemist designates that had full wooden baskets slung on their backs with sturdy rope straps. 

Had it not been for the fact that she was...

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Cultivating Chai 42

Advance chapters start from here :D

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Xiao Feng strode into the Alchemist’s Haven with a strut, his expression cheerful as he came to a stop before the alchemist designate who manned the cash register. 

The alchemist des...

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Cultivating Chai 22-41

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To make a cup of masala chai was a ma

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Cultivating Chai 4-21

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Xiao Feng had naturally known t

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Cultivating Chai Chapters 1-4 (New Story WIP)

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Xiao Feng awoke with bleary eyes. 


It took him a moment to register that he was lying down, another to determine that it was soft and comfortable and a third to conclude that he was nestled on a bed....

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Born for the Apocalypse Chapter 4 [A Daoapocalypse LITRPG]

Chapter 4:

Fifteen minutes passed as they ventured past the small clearing and deeper into the forested land, choosing the path that allowed the most light to cascade through the intertwining network of branches that had for...

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Born for the Apocalypse Chapter 3 [A Daoapocalypse LITRPG]

Chapter 3:

His eyes scanned his surroundings one final time, making sure he hadn’t missed anything.

First, the sun was white now. Or atleast, the light cascading into the small, forested clearing they found thems...

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Born for the Apocalypse Chapter 2 [A Daoapocalypse LITRPG]

Author's Note: Yeah, still struggling with modern patriarch chapters a little. If you want a refund for this month just DM me and I'll process it, no questions asked. Till then, feel free to read this if you want, I'll be uploading the first 4 cha...

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Early Access- Born for the Apocalypse Book 1: Void Marked.

Modern Patriarch is currently on a short break that will end in a day or two. If you want to read some of my stories until then, I'm putting up born for the apocalypse, which is an older story of mine, that is being refined and edited for a royal ...

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Chapter 58: The Final Question [END OF BOOK 1]


There was a final question that had been eluding him, tantalizingly sitting just outside his grasp. The most effective of deceptions had a tendency to conceal themselves a little outside the realm of rationality, beyond the threshold of...

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57: Light in the Dark

Little had changed since his last visit to the sealed cave systems, except this time there were a different pair of guards on duty. This was likely the reason why Meili Zhu had recommended that he wait— the same trick twice, and it would no long...

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56: A gesture, An unravelling

As Yao Shen walked through the sandy lanes of the Inner Sect, he could not help but take a moment to admire the architecture that bore some resemblances to Mesopotamian styles, like the use of cuneiforms as signboards for various buildings, the zi...

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55: Envoy

It was a little after noon when Yao Shen awoke from his slumber. Apparently, he had underestimated the toll Soul Cultivation would exact from him, the last few hours a complete void in his memory. True slumber was a phenomenon that he had...

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54: Cave Systems

Yao Shen willed his Earth Qi, and it responded. Before his eyes, a Golem was shaped from the very earth beneath his feet, taking on humanoid features as it came into being, a near-perfect replica of Yao Shen’s own physical body. He then stretche...

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53: Bell Artifact

It had been a long while since Yao Shen had to resort to sneaking around, especially within the confines of the Azlak Plains. The only person that he had informed of his whereabouts was Meili Zhu, as her assistance had been instrumental in conceiv...

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Chapter 52: Exploration

The next few days fell into a rhythm of productivity, as Yao Shen rapidly ticked off tasks on his checklist. The tour of the Earth Division provided for a good change from the tedium of politics, though little captured Yao Shen’s interest beside...

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51: The Earth Division

Yao Shen calmly observed as the massive stone disk guarding the entrance to the Earth Division’s inner sect rolled back into position after the last of his contingent stepped inside the cave entrance. Runes flared to life upon its surface as the...

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Chapter 50: Yanyue and Shadow

Yanyue's sat in a meditative posture, her eyes shut and her brows furrowed in concentration. Gently clasped between the palms of her hands was the Xue Family's Heart-Cleansing Sea Pearl, a gentle azure glow emanating out of it.

Yanyue cycled...

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Chapter 49- Divine Mountain

Yao Shen’s eyelids were shut as he trailed across the sky, using nothing but his divine sense to guide him forth. He allowed the winds to crash against his person, his long hair wildly fluttering at the natural Dao’s whims. The landscape benea...

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Chapter 48: Auction House (Final)

A Guardian from the Earth Division had delivered the shares back to his Sect, and Yao Shen had been rather curious if there would be any untoward developments there. He had considered extending an option to defer the auction to Patriarch Kang Long...

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Modern Patriarch Chapter 47: Auction House (2)

The succeeding three days were the liveliest the three divisions had been in years, if not decades. The internal auctions had sparked a buzz among the upper echelons of cultivator society, a thrum of cautious excitement echoing out despite an atte...

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Compendium of Artifacts and Constructs [Spoilers for Chapter 20]

Nieven Orb, Construct: 

Origin: Elvish

A game that involved controlling small constructs via divine sense and battling each other that are designed specifically to resist the intrusion of Divine Sense. If the potency of t...

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