One day, when a young boy, Lineir, is scavenging alone in the abandoned Old City he angers a horde of undead. Chased all the way back to the New City, he escapes the fearful undead but gets several of the local city officials killed in the process! The next day his back is infected with a strange undead curse mark and the city officials are after his head! Follow Lineir's story as he uses his wits and the help of a mysterious master to cheat death and one day, Fate itself! Set in a classic ancient Chinese fantasy world I respond to questions and followers at the beginning of the latest chapters usually. Follow me for news on where the story will go and what new stories I will be bringing soon! Note-Have no fear the chapter lengths are supposed to be erratic until Chapter 10 ish where you can expect standard chapter lengths. Original Description of the overall story universe- This story is about a middle world where fate itself has been broken. That means that those who would have lived ordinary lives, can now lead extraordinary lives, lives which could alter the overall scheme which the gods have put in place. But as these once ordinary individuals are freed from fate, the greater world is shaken as fate fails to control the order of things. While mortals squabble on the ground, will anyone look to the sky and see that it is falling? Royal road admins I am real

I have been reading a lot of Xianxia lately. Coiling Dragon, Stellar Transformations, Desolate Era, Martial God Asura, etc etc. So it would come as no surprise that I got an idea of my own xianxia novel. I would like it to be original though I must warn you it could end up as just a mix of all the xianxia I have read. Just so you know, so judge accordingly. Synopsis: Turmoil is ever present in the world. Strong hunt the weak and the weak try to become strong. In such a world, the body has less importance than the soul. For a desire which transcends life itself, powerful magical beast spirits grant their immense powers to humans. This is a world where souls do battle and immortals rule. Where spirits abound and death is just another opportunity. Where there is good and evil with power to destroy the world. Where a lucky encounter can change a destiny. In such a world, Sa Muni was born. A simple farmer’s son, who unexpectedly had a bit of talent to cultivate the soul and become a spirit warrior, capable of making a contract with the beast spirit and using it’s powers. But being a mere farmer’s son, his destiny was to become fodder for more powerful forces. Those who take what they want, even your soul. But a lucky encounter would give him the chance to change his own destiny. Will he succeed or will he fail? Will he choose the side of good or turn to evil? Authors Note: I am not Chinese so the names would probably not be Chinese. I will still follow the convention of writing surnames first, like the Chinese names.

Mong Dynasty thrived for centuries. However, like many powerful families, rifts and the temptation of power slowly eroded away the golden aura and revealed the cracks of evil and the power struggles that ripped the foundation apart. Crown Prince, Mong Bai-Lian and the Second Prince, Mong Bai-Ling. Mong Bai-Lian worked for control and power. Mong Bai-Ling strove for justice and truth. Differences soon changed them from brothers to enemies, crashing the Dynasty and bringing an end to peace. The only ones that can help save and resurrect the Mong Dynasty come from the Wuxia world. Wu Ming-Li, a little girl from the once great Mong Dynasty grows up as a commoner. She worked every day to survive and to take care of her drunken adoptive uncle. After her uncle sold her to a corrupt Magistrate as his new young bride, she ran and found herself now embroiled in the world of Martial Arts, Wuxia, and more trouble than she could imagine. Will she be able to find out the part she plays in this ever changing, war-torn world? *This is truly fictional.*

China, 627 C.E. The Tang dynasty's rule remains tentative after a decade of civil war. The rise of a new uncertainty in the far south thrusts the fledgling dynasty between its most powerful enemies in the north and the possible revolt of the southern aborigines. The emperor and his grand minister delegate a two-man assessment team - the Shaolin Blade, Tanzong and the Imperial Commissioner, Li Wei to travel into the southern regions and negotiate with the aboriginal leader. The first volume of this epic wuxia adventure tale follows the duo to the mysterious Isle of Pearls. To get there, they must use secret Taoist underground waterways, fight off the airborne attacks of the Thunder Lords, cross storm-tossed seas in a shaman's bronze ship, and then sail aboard the Dragonfly, with the female aboriginal pirate captain, Byung Nhak, as she engages the local warlord, the Iron Shaman and his fleet of Seahawks. Their heroic journey continues into the center of the island through the unexplored "Land of Drifting Ghosts" mountain range in search of a legendary lost Buddhist monastery. While the long hidden Celestial Masters sect of Taoism and an enigmatic Tibetan princess pose an immediate threat, Tanzong's internal conflicts offer the greater danger. The series, The Adventures of the Shaolin Blade Tanzong, will follow Tanzong's adventures throughout the medieval Chinese empire.

Dream of the Dragon Pool – A Daoist Quest is a novel-length tale woven around the historical fact of the death-sentence exile of China’s greatest poet, Li Bo (701-762 A.D.). This is an adventure story of magic, myth, and occult powers written as traditional Chinese-style heroic fiction. Forced by the emperor’s exile order, Li Bo travels the Yangtze river, toward certain death in distant Burma/Myanmar. Along the way, he unwittingly befriends the emperor’s most powerful shamaness who is trying to escape from palace life to Mount Wu and serve the mythical Rain Goddess, legendary mistress of that sacred mountain. Li Bo accidentally awakens the dark forces of the Blood Dragon, a mythical Chinese water creature, and its ghostly followers in pursue of a magical sword, the mythical Dragon Pool Sword, that he receives in a dream from a Daoist Immortal. The cast is rounded out by Li’s bodyguard/companion, a wandering blade veteran of the Tang dynasty’s Central Asian conquests, known as the “Iron Talon;” a mysterious swordsman/musician, who travels with a ghost-catching drunken monkey; a “dream assassin,” capable of killing people from within their dreams; and a blond, green-eyed, Central Asian female ghost, enslaved by the Blood Dragon’s powers. All the characters are authentically inspired by medieval Chinese “tales of wonder” storywriters and woven together by the author, a medieval China scholar turned novelist.

Xiaolong was raised by his eccentric god-grandfather Qiankun on an island and has it pound into him daily that one day he has take revenge for his parents' death. After his grandfather's demise, he travelled alone to the mainland, a place called JiangHu, and struggled to survive in a strange environment and with strange people where he is supposed to be called Dunstan. Along the way he acquired better and stronger martial arts, but would he be able to carry out his life's goal, or be assimilated and forgotten?

The King of Uä and his retinue make their annual pilgrimage to the Summer Palace. En route, a scullion and a fighting man meet over a campfire story, and something blooms between them. But strange things are transpiring in the palace corridors, and the chilling fireside tale that connected our would-be lovers may be more real than anyone suspects. A fantasy inspired by swashbuckling stories of all vintages, from ancient China to Dumas to Fritz Leiber and Steven Brust. Updated Wednesdays until it's done.

The year is 800 AD. Yang Xin Qian, the empire's deadliest assassin, is dying in seven days. She will do anything to defy death, even if it means time-traveling to modern Beijing as a highschool student. There, she meets Chen Qi Feng. The lessons start.

A weird-western tale of Annalina Callbright's journey across strange lands to find a master gunsmith's magnum opus and return it safely to its rightful owner. In this land, monks are trained in the ways of gunplay and are tasked with keeping the supernatural horrors of the wilds at bay. High-flying wuxia action meets spiritual contemplation in an adventure that will take you from a serene abbey carved into red mountains to see a ravenous living dust storm on the parched plains and battle hideous wendigos in haunted forests.