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B2 Chapter 36
Xiao Yongzheng's words hung heavy in the air, an ancestral death sentence delivered a world and age apart.
And then blood stained the calm.
It was formless-gleam that struck first. The figment of the fox that had spoken licked delicate...
2026-01-15 01:50:50 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 35
Orange-crest had no idea what he expected to find at the end of the tunnel. If he'd been pressed to guess, he would have said something surprisingly homey. A space cozy and warm, like Daoist Scouring Medicine's home, except perhaps larger and more...
2026-01-08 21:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - Next Chapter Delayed Until Tomorrow
Sorry, hate doing these, but needs must when you spend all day wrestling with your outline. It's getting late and I'm only 3/4th the way through Chapter 35 and I'm not quite satisfied with the current end point, so I'm gonna take tomorrow rather ...
2026-01-08 00:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 34
Death came for Wu Yingjie in silence, slicing through the darkness like a baleful wind.
His plan, if you could call such a hasty thing a plan, had gone perfectly. He'd dragged the tip of the River-Parting Fork along the floor for three paces...
2025-12-31 22:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 33
Wu Yingjie and Li Shuwen trudged slowly across an endless plain, a pair of ants slowly making their way across the graves of legends.
It was an interesting image. Li Shuwen felt it was a little heavyhanded for a poem, as a comparison to thei...
2025-12-24 18:26:13 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 32
When orange-crest returned to the glade where he'd forgotten himself and laid low two dozen hollow spirits, the qi was already beginning to grow thin. Closer in density to the Fathomless Well than Godsgrave Peak after a match. For a moment, fear f...
2025-12-17 23:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 31
Orange-crest grinned at the translucent disciples slowly stalking toward him from the edge of the tree line. Their faces were as still and slack as those of corpses, with flat cheeks, empty eyes, and mouths hanging just the slightest bit open. Eer...
2025-12-11 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 30
B2C30
Orange-crest took in a deep breath, alone in the hidden realm for the first time. This world smelled alive. The smoldering wheat was acrid and mouthwatering in equal measure, like roasting chestnuts buried in chalky wood-ash. But whe...
2025-12-03 23:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 29
Orange-crest cycled his qi and activated the Drunken Phoenix's Breath. He'd long since graduated from candles to sucking in entire small fires. He told himself this was just more of the same. Keep his qi moving, fill his lungs with a barrier of qi...
2025-11-26 19:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 28
Orange-crest stared down at another world. A sky as blue as the heavens above, cut into the stone like a fishing-hole in a frozen lake. It seemed as if they'd descended so far that they'd found a hole that emptied out into the far side of the worl...
2025-11-20 00:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 27
As soon as Xiao Shulan sat down to cultivate, orange-crest got up to explore. The monkey felt a little disappointed in Xiao Shulan, that she so easily bought the suggestion that he'd been laying around in indolence after being the first of their p...
2025-11-12 21:38:41 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 26
Author's Note: If you have not already, you should read B2 Chapter ? and Chapter ?+1 before this one. I'm gonna figure out where they fit in the story next week, and update all the numbering to account for them. You can find the first of t...
2025-11-05 20:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 25
Orange-crest had never seen an angry mushroom before.
Or one with arms, for that matter.
The strange creature hardly seemed to care what he thought about it, no more than it cared about Wu Yingjie's sputtered protests, or Yang Wei's sp...
2025-10-29 22:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - Updates Moving to Wednesdays
Been mulling this for a while, decided to pull the trigger this week. My weekend trip gave me less writing time than expected, so it seems a good time to make the swap (Rather than staying up til 3). Hopefully moving the deadline to Wednesday will...
2025-10-26 16:54:02 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 24
Yang Wei and orange-crest tore through the sect, cutting across the least populous section of the mountain. Least populous for humans, at least. But what other populations really mattered, in a place like this?
They were a study in contrasts...
2025-10-19 22:06:42 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 23
Orange-crest stared at the array of herbs spread out before him. He lifted one paw, letting it slowly drift over to the shavings of Two-Shadowed Yew roots. His master's face was as inscrutable as an overcast sky, revealing nothing of the weather t...
2025-10-12 21:46:24 +0000 UTC View PostB2 Chapter 22
"Fraught as it is with unknowns and dangers, that is yet not the most ill-conceived plan I've ever heard."
Orange-crest stared at his master. He'd had all these arguments ready. He still wasn't sure he wanted to descend into the dark, but he...
2025-10-05 21:32:53 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 21
Orange-crest did not have the words to help his master understand the exact nature of the gnawing terror that would not leave him alone. So many words, yet he never had enough of them. But Li Xun knew fear, and trusted his disciple. He did not nee...
2025-09-28 20:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 20
Hu Weimin shivered beneath the combined gazes of almost two thousand daoists. The weight of their attention burned down on him like a legion of judging suns. He could feel them dissecting his every twitch, divining his future in every minute fluct...
2025-09-21 22:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 19
"Oh. So that's Lu. Doesn't look so bad. Nice robe. Very shiny."
Elder Lu cut a rather odd figure in his finery. He was old, older than any monkey orange-crest had ever seen. His hair was thin and wispy, his skin spotted with dark splotches t...
2025-09-14 20:39:26 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 18
Orange-crest stared morosely at the bowl of congee in front of him. He lifted his spoon, and poked at one of the green and yellow clusters. It jiggled a little in the pool of thick white goop. Aww. The congee wasn't even hot. Barely warm.
Th...
2025-09-07 23:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 17
There was a shape to banquets, Li Xun mused. Or rather there was a shape to banquet halls, which the events themselves naturally followed. In the Empire of Xiao, this shape was an elongated horseshoe. Some clans with oddly designed compounds had o...
2025-09-01 22:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - Next Chapter Delayed to Monday
Sorry. Hate doing these, but hate putting out chapters I'm not proud of more. It is starting to get late and chapter 17 needs at least a few more hours in the oven. I don't think I'll be happy with it if I push through tonight. I have a commitment...
2025-08-31 23:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostBBnB - B2 Chapter 16
Orange-crest sat quietly in the cave where he'd left formless-gleam to her self imposed solitude. A drop of water fell from the ceiling, dampening his eponymous crest. He liked the drippy-spot. Not for always, but for now. He was in a mood to be j...
2025-08-24 22:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post