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Chapter 36: TALKS AND TESTS

CHAPTER

36

TALKS AND TESTS

JIEYUAN

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“You’re back.” Meiyao had eyes narrowed, looking him up and down. Arms crossed over her chest, standing by...

Chapter 35: BORN ANEW

CHAPTER

35

BORN ANEW

JIEYUAN

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The senior protector’s footsteps sounded faint, muffled, and they grew fainter, until Jieyuan could barely hear them...

Chapter 34: TAKE YOUR TIME

CHAPTER

34

TAKE YOUR TIME

JIEYUAN

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Immediately, the Fatebloom Heart stopped beating. Jieyuan felt his own heart race even faster, like it was pickin...

Chapter 33: FATEBLOOM HEART

CHAPTER

33

FATEBLOOM HEART

JIEYUAN

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It took Jieyuan a couple of seconds to remember himself and get a sense of what had just happened—what was sti...

Chapter 32: IN THE HEART

CHAPTER

32

IN THE HEART

JIEYUAN

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That was the second Fusongshi he’d killed. First an inner disciple, now a core disciple.

In a way, it was l...

Chapter 31: TO DISTRACT

CHAPTER

31

TO DISTRACT

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan threw the pill—and it’d barely left his fingers when the elk at the front charged forward, and barely a ...

Chapter 30: IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER

30

IN THE WOODS

JIEYUAN

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Hardly a month and a half ago, the Fatebloom Woods had been quite the sight. Jieyuan remembered quite clearly his f...

Chapter 29: TO PREPARE

CHAPTER

29

TO PREPARE

JIEYUAN

Jieyuan was standing in his doorway, clad in his new set of topaz robes. Just in front of his residence, rising into the air on a clo...

Terminology Changes

TERMINOLOGY CHANGES

(Dated 2024-09-27. If you've started reading FaUn on or after that date, feel free to ignore the announcement below.)

As I’m now starting to publish Volume 2 here, I’ve gone all over th...

Chapter 28: AND THEY PLOT

CHAPTER

28

AND THEY PLOT

QINGSHI

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Back straight, legs crossed, hands resting on his thighs, Qingshi sat on the floor of his cell, his back against t...

Chapter 27: TO SET FORTH

CHAPTER

27

TO SET FORTH

JIEYUAN

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Meiyao sat in Jieyuan’s living room. Jieyuan sat across her, the small table that had come up with the house betw...

Chapter 26: AMONG LIES

CHAPTER

26

AMONG LIES

JIEYUAN

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“Is that so, Daojue?” Taishou asked Daojue. “You were the one who found the cave?” Taishou didn’t seem part...

Chapter 25: IN THE SECT

CHAPTER

25

IN THE SECT

JIEYUAN

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It was at much lower speeds—but still far, far faster than Jieyuan could hope to run, at least at hi...

Chapter 24: TO RETURN

CHAPTER

24

TO RETURN

JIEYUAN

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Yunzhu slowly lowered her cloud to the ground.

Jieyuan stared at her throughout the entire length of her descent...

Chapter 23: CROSSING REALMS

CHAPTER

23

CROSSING REALMS

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan had headed straight back to their initial location after his fight with Sunqiu, and seeing Daojue’s fi...

Chapter 22: PROMISED FIGHT

CHAPTER

22

PROMISED FIGHT

DAOJUE

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Daojue and Gleaming End were one.

The spear Daojue was as if a perfect extension of himself. As he swung and...

Chapter 21: TO BRING DEATH

CHAPTER

21

TO BRING DEATH

JIEYUAN

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Over to Jieyuan’s left, Daojue and Qingshi began a battle that, by all accounts, seemed to be long-awaited on b...

Chapter 20: TO ACCUSE

CHAPTER

20

TO ACCUSE

JIEYUAN

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Confused though he was, Jieyuan still took quick stock of the situation. Qingshi was a mostly known element—blind, s...

Chapter 19: TO CONFUSE

CHAPTER

19

TO CONFUSE

JIEYUAN

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What in the Heavens?

It was like he’d hit a roadblock not even a step past the star...

Chapter 18: SO IT GOES

CHAPTER

18

SO IT GOES

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan had spent fifteen nights in the Gleamstone Forest. The first handful or so of them, he’d been tense, on edg...

Chapter 17: OF THE STONE

CHAPTER

17

OF THE STONE

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan turned around to face the entrance pretty much together with Daojue, and he did it just in time to see Daoj...

Chapter 16: IN THE CAVE

CHAPTER

16

IN THE CAVE

DAOJUE

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The Ring burned.

It sat wrapped around the forefinger of Daojue’s right hand, the hand with ...

Chapter 15: TO ESCAPE

CHAPTER

15

TO ESCAPE

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan was caught up trying to come up with both a reason why this was happening and a way out of it—and coming up ...

Chapter 14: TO ADVANCE

CHAPTER

14

TO ADVANCE

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan’s soulprism fell apart in a slow, prolonged outburst, the chroma comprising it dispersing evenly throughout...

Chapter 13: TRUTH AND LIE

CHAPTER

13

TRUTH AND LIE

JIEYUAN

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The fight had barely begun, and already Jieyuan was losing.

He was on his back foot, literally and figurativ...

Chapter 12: NOT TO FIGHT

CHAPTER

12

NOT TO FIGHT

JIEYUAN

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What came next wasn’t the wet, crunching sounds of flesh being torn and bone being shattered—the sounds you’d...

Chapter 11: HAZE OF RED

CHAPTER

11

HAZE OF RED

JIEYUAN

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Jieyuan got about twelve steps in before the wolf reacted. From absolute stillness it snapped into a crouch, four le...

Chapter 10: TO PREDATE

CHAPTER

10

TO PREDATE

JIEYUAN

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It was Meiyao who’d whipped her hand out, a signal sure as any for them to stop, and there’d been something so sh...

Chapter 9: GLISTENSTONE

CHAPTER

9

GLISTENSTONE

JIEYUAN

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It was in almost complete silence that what looked like a line of gray clouds appeared on the horizon, coming from t...

Chapter 8: SO THEY MEET

CHAPTER

8

SO THEY MEET

JIEYUAN

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As Yunzhu and Qingshi walked over, the crowd parted around them like Jieyuan had often seen mundanes get out of the ...