Hi guys! I’m on vacation this weekend and next week — but the good news is that the Official Soundtrack for Book 1 is out.
Listen to it here:
Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m4LZKhHCrrOe3s4D_6XqGyahB3vfXoiVk
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/albu...
2025-06-14 15:32:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe last song in Book 1 OST. I will post the link as soon as the Album is released!
A bit of trivia: this is actually based on a piano etude by the same name.
2025-06-11 02:10:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys!
Thanks for supporting the channel!
It has come to my attention that not everyone got (or opened) the automated email about repricing. I’ve raised the cost of the Demigod tier by approximately $2 — for a number of reasons. Firstly, because I feel like the time and effort I put in and (hopefully) the entertainment value provided should be worth a couple more bucks a month. And secondly, because I need $ to invest into the audio book version of this and other projects....
2025-06-10 07:54:05 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Fun bits of trivia about the nuances of Chinese names and pronunciations. Towards the beginning of the chapter, Little Mei refers to Ruolan as Jie-Jie. What's meant here is this kind of "Jie-Jie" (姐姐), a common and affectionate way to refer to an Elder Sister. Ruolan's brother's name is also "Jié" -- but it's this kind of Jié: (杰), a character signifying the concepts of "outstanding," "heroic," "distinguished," or "prominent."
Ver...
2025-06-10 02:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostSpoiler warning, kinda? I guess? I always have the music in mind before the words are even written...
2025-06-10 00:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe interior of my private flying boat was an oasis of silent, opulent tranquility, a world removed from the wind-whipped clouds we sliced through with the effortless grace of a divine bird. Where the family's main air transports were like grand, sturdy, and somewhat ponderous barges – built primarily for cargo capacity – this… well, this was pure luxury.
I’ve had the boat “renovated” – through belief farmed from conversations with Big Sis Yue and Feng the Restored ...
2025-06-09 10:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in the designated "ritual chamber" – a seldom-used storage room I’d commandeered, its corners thick with old cobwebs that swayed like ghostly curtains in the faint drafts – hung thick and heavy with the cloying scent of dried herbs I’d had someone burn earlier. The pungent aroma, meant to suggest arcane preparations, mingled with the underlying mustiness of disuse.
It was all part of the intended ambiance, of course.
A way of… setting the stage. 2025-06-06 00:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently editing Chapter 26, which should be ready very soon. In the meantime... the Princess deserves a theme of her own, don't you think?
2025-06-05 06:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Qingshan sun, usually so brazen in t
2025-05-29 21:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostA palpable, almost electric silence descended upon the Qingshan Martial Arts Arena, so profound that the chirping of a distant cicada sounded like a thunderclap.
Lin Feng, the genius of the Azure Cloud Sect, the direct disciple of one of the strongest cultivators in the entire province, stood resolute in the center of the ravaged arena floor, his youthful face set with a fierce, almost fervent determination. His Earth-aspected Qi, remarkably dense for one of his age, was already ...
2025-05-25 05:34:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe day of the grand martial exhibition dawned bright and clear over Qingshan Town, a welcome respite from the oppressive humidity that had clung to the area for the past week. A palpable buzz of excitement, an energy unseen in these sleepy provincial streets for many years – and, perhaps, decades – vibrated in the very air. From the poorest slum-dweller near the newly-active docks and harbor district, to the most prosperous shopkeeper on the main thoroughfare, it seemed the entire...
2025-05-22 08:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostBe immersed; feel the hype! (New chapter coming this Thursday).
2025-05-21 01:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe next week in Qingshan Town passed in a dizzying, exhilarating kaleidoscope of progress and problem-solving. The entire town, it seemed, was undergoing a metamorphosis, shedding its dusty, provincial skin and beginning to pulse with a new, vibrant energy – an energy fueled by the sudden, almost unbelievable influx of my gold and the ambitious projects it funded.
City Lord Zhang Wei, ensconced in the comfort and security of my estate, was making excellent – indeed, miraculo...
2025-05-18 05:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostI was enjoying the opulent silence of my private suite when the damnable jade communications talisman flared to life once more.
The primitive nature of these devices – each requiring a dedicated twin to function, meaning an entirely separate talisman for every single long-distance contact – was a logistical nightmare I was already mentally redesigning. A universal communicator, perhaps keyed to spiritual signatures?
Another project for another day.
It had been, pe...
2025-05-18 00:29:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe first rays of dawn were just beginning to make their way through the expensive silk curtains of my bedchamber when I awoke. For a blessed, fleeting instant, there was only the soft comfort of the exclusive, high-thread-count, Golden Orb Weaver Spider Silk sheets (manifested, of course!) and the lingering, pleasant tingle in muscles that had actually been used with some ferocity.
A small smile touched my lips as I stretched, the movement fluid, powerful, my body thrum...
2025-05-16 08:42:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe light of the sunset, thin and pale as watered wine, crept through the intricately carved window screens of Su Lian’s private chambers, painting fractured, melancholic patterns across the worn silk hangings and the dark, heavy redwood furniture.
Dust motes, thick as a summer swarm of spirit gnats, danced in these hesitant beams, each a tiny, indifferent speck in the grand, decaying tapestry of the Su Family’s ancestral manor in Fallen Star City.
The air itself felt a...
2025-05-15 05:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a little something to set the mood if you like caves... (I'm working on the new chapters, I promise).
2025-05-15 00:41:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence within the newly reclaimed cabin of my flying boat was a heavy cloak, stitched with the lingering threads of ozone, stale blood,
The silence within the newly reclaimed cabin of my flying boat was a heavy cloak, stitched with the lingering threads of ozone, stale blood, and the faint, metallic tang of fear that clung to the plush upholstery like a stubborn ghost. Outside, the sky bled through a spectrum of bruised purples and angry greys as we sliced north-westwards, leaving ...
2025-05-14 06:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe world tilted on its axis, or so it felt to me, when Jiang Yue’s voice, usually a vibrant melody of adventurous cheer, suddenly cracked l
The world tilted on its axis, or so it felt to me, when Jiang Yue’s voice, usually a vibrant melody of adventurous cheer, suddenly cracked like a whip. One moment, the cabin of my flying boat was filled with her resonant laughter and her vibrant, almost tangible tales of tomb-raiding; the next, it was a crucible of sudden, inexplicable, heart-s...
2025-05-12 08:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
He sells youth to the desperate. Now he must answer for the dead.
Jack Casimir is living the high life behind smoked glass and marble floors in Beverly Hills. To the outside world, he's the most discreet and in-demand image consultant in Los Angeles—renowned for miraculous makeovers that defy time and science. But Jack's real talent lies in the shadows, wielding ancient necromantic arts under the euphemism of "vital restoration."
For years, he's walked the raz...
I think it fits the storytelling narrative quite nicely, don't you?
2025-05-10 05:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe gentle, almost subliminal thrum of the spirit-stone powered engine, a monotonous vibration that permeated the very structure of the flyi
The gentle, almost subliminal thrum of the spirit-stone powered engine, a monotonous vibration that permeated the very structure of the flying vessel, was a stark and unwelcome counterpoint to the tempest of emotions that had begun to churn within the breast of Zhang Wei, City Lord of Qingshan Town. They were homeward bound from Fallen Star City, a...
2025-05-10 05:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe obsidian leviathan flew swiftly – and with an unnerving silence – through clouds infused with the encroaching twilight. Within the heart
The obsidian leviathan flew swiftly – and with an unnerving silence – through clouds infused with the encroaching twilight. Within the heart of the vessel, a cabin insulated from the stratospheric chill by unseen formations and layers-upon-layers of expensive spirit-infused materials, Eighth Princess Long Xueyue felt the carefully construct...
2025-05-09 08:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post(Somewhere in a Parallel Universe, where Leo thought to actually search for the User's Manual)
[System Query Detected: User desires operational information.]
[Display System Information? Y/N]
My jaw nearly dropped. "Are you fucking kidding me?" I whispered aloud to the empty room, the sound startlingly loud in the silence. "A help menu? Now you offer me a help menu? Of course, “yes!” Display it!"
The air before me...
2025-05-07 07:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostI sat calmly, or at least projected an image of
2025-05-06 06:21:25 +0000 UTC View Post