I stood amidst an ashen forest when I finally came to. Flames ran rampant around me, the ground cracked and marred black.The influence of the First Law retreated from me, the golden rings within my eyes fading. I sensed strength leaving my body as my dantian and pathways began to ache.I stumbled for a moment, before continuing forward. I had been in a trance. A trance of fury and single purpose. A part of me was surprised that I hadn’t killed both the twins right then and there, but another was also glad that I hadn’t.Despite how much I seethed with hate, despite all of that, I could not justify killing children.Li twitched on the ground, as I walked towards him. He was still conscious after everything, which took me by surprise.I stared at his burnt body, half of his head of hair completely gone from where the flames of Gu and Qi had struck him.“Demon,” the boy rasped, his eyes unfocused.I kneeled nearby. Many words filled my chest, many things that I wanted to say. Yet nothin

Yan Yun walked through the halls of the inner sect. There had been a small intermission after the hunt, given the many unpredictable activities that had occurred. Her grandfather had called for her in that time period, and she found her gut twisting in anxiety.She walked through the corridor, reaching the chamber she recognised to be her grandfather's. Lightning Qi swirled within in a raging storm.“Yan Yun need not worry. Things should go fine.”Leiyu consoled her, and she returned a nod. Gathering herself, she slid the door open, and saw her grandfather standing with his hands put behind his back, lightning crackling around him in a furious display.Black burnt marks from stray lightning strikes marred the ground, and she could see Li shivering nearby, half his face covered in bandages from the burnt mark. Lei was nowhere to be seen, likely still being treated having his dantian shattered.“You have brought shame to our name,” the man echoed, as Li kowtowed deeply, his head set upo

“Why the hell do ya have so much junk?” Su Lin asked me, making a disgusted face as he carried out another pot filled with spirit herbs.Su Lin and his brother Cao Chen had both arrived at the sect to help me move out. Without even a letter or any other method of communication for the task. Zhang had stayed back at Taizhou with granny Lang, to take care of the old women and the shop.“How’s business been going?” I asked Su Lin, hauling over a bundle of pointless notes from my desk. I would have to stack them one day, but that day was certainly not going to be today.“Better than we’d ever expected. Things have changed down there. Ya’ll see when we get there,” Su Lin said, and I nodded.“Ya sure went and became famous though,” Su Lin said, as we passed by a pair of disciples who looked at me as if they’d just seen a fish with legs.“It’s not funny,” I grunted to the snickering Su Lin, putting my bundle of notes onto the cart standing outside the sect.“Sure is for me,” Su Lin replied,

I felt Ren slowly wake up from our bond, as the little turtle blinked his eyes. Nyan continued to resist instead, curling even more tightly around the turtle’s shell.With a crackle of lightning I saw Leiyu flying ahead, making his way to Taizhou before us by himself. In the distance I saw the people starting to gather, familiar faces and unfamiliar ones both mingling together as they saw the flying thunder eagle up in the skies.With a crackle of the reins, Mo Chen sped up the cart as the cart moved faster, rushing downhill to the entrance of the Taizhou. The village stood, waiting for us to arrive with the village head at the front.Slowly, we reached in front of the crowd as the cart settled to a stop an I jumped off. Guo Zou, the head, walked up to me. “It is an honour to have you with us, cultivators,” the village head greeted. “Please, allow us.”A few men, which I recognised to be the miners I’d saved with Liuxiang walked to our cart, and began to pick up all the things we’d ca

Moving into a new place was a lot of work. It always surprised me to realize how many things I owned when I’d still been living with the sect. Nostalgia both new and old overcame me, at the various items I’d found. A lot of the things my old self had owned before I’d awakened were mixed in with things I’d gotten in the few months that I’d been there. It took a couple of days to sort everything out, and only now was I finally happy with where things belonged.I stood by my desk, sorting my notes one by one, before placing them on the new shelf that I’d built. The move had caused me to go on a rampant sorting and cleaning frenzy as I began to order the chaotic mess I’d been living in. It was difficult to believe how I’d put up with it for so long.After placing the last one of my books onto my shelf, I walked back, taking a look at my new room. It was larger, with a desk by the window, and a shelf next to the walls. I’d moved the spirit herbs to the garden outside for obvious reasons. T