Over the years, Jiaguo had developed a number of satellite villages—the first tentative steps into expansion from a city-state capital of the empire to a true nation of its own. The first of them was Urayama, a farming village that had emigrated...
2024-05-27 19:43:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was always a little strange, returning to Goryeo. Eui and Jia had both grown up there, but neither of them felt any real attachment to it. Eui in particular always felt unwelcome. Even after she’d removed the brand that once marked her as an ...
2024-05-24 19:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostJiaguo’s controversial demonic rehabilitation center was, in essence, a prison. Starting life as an innocuous medical pavilion for academy students to treat any injuries or illnesses they incurred in the course of their cultivation, it had under...
2024-05-22 19:31:12 +0000 UTC View PostAn Eui, Seong Misun, and Seong Eunae were gathered just outside of Jiaguo’s gates as they prepared to depart for Goryeo. Misun had her arms crossed, tapping her finger impatiently on her upper arm.
“Where in the ancestors’ names is tha...
2024-05-20 20:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostJia had a pretty rocky history with Zheng Long. They had met as enemies, and he was directly responsible for the first time she experienced the pain of bodily death. For cultivators, death of the body was still a mortal wound, but if the soul coul...
2024-05-17 19:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostSeong Misun’s revelation was quite the bombshell, but ten years was both a triflingly short time for immortals, and also a long enough time that it was difficult to feel pressured by it. Nevertheless, it did manage to sober the room somewhat, an...
2024-05-15 20:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostJa Yun paced back and forth around the house, wringing her tail nervously.
“Do you really have to go?”
Eunae sighed and smiled softly, stepping forward to gently cup Yun’s cheek.
“Of course I do. Unlike you, I am not a ci...
2024-05-13 19:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more pinups from CJ. This time it's Lee Jung, Sun Jaehwa, Lin Xiulan, and Ienaga Yumi. I doubled it up this month because I totally forgot to post in April. As always, the spicier versions are available for Demon+ tiers in 2024-05-10 19:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The princesses did not expect Yue to respond right away, allowing themselves to be ushered into the embassy while the girls greeted their other guests. Yoshika gave her friend a concerned glance.
“Are you alright?”
Yue sighed and n...
2024-05-10 19:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike the approaching Qin delegation, Seong Misun did not signal her arrival in any way. She simply arrived one day, carried by her wind walking spell, and expected to be greeted appropriately. Yoshika knew the princess’ idiosyncrasies well, an...
2024-05-08 18:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostAs expected, Yan Yue’s ascension had set things into motion all over the continent. Xiantian ascensions were rare, and the fact that Jiaguo boasted two in such a relatively short period of time didn’t go unnoticed. Seong Misun answered her sis...
2024-05-06 19:27:38 +0000 UTC View PostHyeong Daesung—or just Dae, to his friends—was poring over his personal notes while he worked on the next revision to his main project. His jobs as the headmaster of Jiaguo’s academy and the nation’s chief magical researcher kept him quite...
2024-05-03 18:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostNobody but her mother knew just how important Heian was to Jiaguo. The ancient grand formation that ran through Yoshika’s soulscape was one of a kind and impossible to replicate, and it required constant maintenance. The soulscape would exist wi...
2024-05-01 17:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Seong Eunae was nearly as busy as Yoshika most of the time, but without the advantage of multiple bodies with which to attend her appointments. As Goryeo’s ambassador to Jiaguo, she was in charge of the academic exchange programs, and a...
2024-04-29 20:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostAlmost five years after Jiaguo had transformed from a tiny city state into a burgeoning new empire, Yoshika still couldn’t get used to just how much work it was to run an empire. Yan Yue and Ashikaga Sae were excellent leaders, but...
2024-04-26 17:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostYan Yue collapsed onto the plush couch in her sitting room and let out an exhausted sigh. Tired though she was, she still had a lot of work to do. Not as High Arbiter—Yoshika had volunteered to relieve her while she recovered, and while that wou...
2024-04-24 18:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe peak of Mount Geumji was still and silent, save for the ominous roiling of the dark clouds high above. Even in the middle of summer, the air so high up was deathly cold to mortals, but barely an inconvenience for the small group gathering toge...
2024-04-22 17:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey there everybody! Now that book 7 is finished here on patreon, I'm going to take a break from posting for a week while I get some editing done to prepare for book 6's amazon release in a couple months, and to let the backlog fill back up a bit....
2024-04-12 18:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostDeep in the wilderness of the imperial countryside, within an isolated cave far away from the endless politics of the great sects, Zheng Long sat in quiet meditation. He wasn’t high on any great mountains, nor was he located in a place of power....
2024-04-12 18:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Hmm, let’s see...if I invert this portion of the spell matrix, then add another formation here to balance the...no. That won’t work either, hmm...”
A complex map of interleaved spell formations twisted in the air above Do Hye as he ...
2024-04-10 17:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostQin Zhao slowly sipped his tea as he sat alone in a room large enough to comfortably accommodate an entire army. It had been centuries since the last time he’d visited the imperial palace, and it was still as senselessly ostentatious as he remem...
2024-04-08 18:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostYoshika missed being in multiple places at once. There were so many things demanding her attention, and while concentrating her power had been invaluable when it came to challenging Yu Meiren, she was struggling to prioritize her endless list of o...
2024-04-05 20:33:47 +0000 UTC View PostStarting an empire was the last thing Yoshika had ever planned on doing. While it was true that she technically intended to take over the world, she’d never intended to do so as a ruler. In hindsight, it should have been tellin...
2024-04-03 19:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostAfter taking a moment to compose herself, Kaede began making her way to the castle courtyard. Her father was dead, and the war was over, but the real work had only just started.
“Jianmo, what happened while we were gone?”
The sword...
2024-04-01 19:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostWith Yu Meiren’s death, Shogun Hayakawa had lost his last meaningful asset. The war was effectively over. Jiaguo and its allies advanced unopposed toward the capital, and more of Hayakawa’s vassals surrendered every day.
Yoshika was worr...
2024-03-29 19:44:45 +0000 UTC View PostYoshika and Yuuko watched with bemusement as Morita made his pitch to an utterly baffled Yang Qiu.
“It’s not as strange as you might think! Are you familiar with the Lady Tennin in the north?”
Yang Qiu pursed her lips.
“Y...
2024-03-27 19:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn the aftermath of Yu Meiren’s defeat, there was a lot of damage to be undone. Though there were no casualties among the civilians, Meiren’s careless disregard for collateral damage had left the surrounding lands ravaged by toxins spreading t...
2024-03-25 20:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough Yang Qiu and the others had done well to limit the damage, the frenzied demons had still disrupted the peace in the Kasuga refugee camp. Between the demons being suppressed by their own allies and the uncertainty it had caused among the c...
2024-03-22 17:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostWith Lady Ashikaga’s help, most of the remaining lords weren’t too difficult to convince. Thanks to Lord Noguchi and Jin Hu’s efforts, the generals already had their doubts, and Kaede’s message—bolstered by Kasuga as a witness and Ashika...
2024-03-20 18:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostBefore she could move on to the other lords, there was one other thing Kaede needed to take care of. There were relatively few mortals in Ashikaga’s camp, and only one hiding a small arsenal of shikigami in their robes.
The priest was in t...
2024-03-18 17:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post