§ My only complaint about the [Blood Effigy] technique is that we can’t properly see while in immaterial form. That’s why Sen had me materialize once again, positioned near Lady Serera as she confronted the Pooka. Hidden in the limbs of a blackened, gnarled tree that would surely have been long dead if not for its ability to tap the …

To my readers: I don’t want to leave you hanging for two weeks without an update, so I’m posting this to let you know. I’m currently dealing with a bad enough case of Corona Virus (pardon my not writing it normally, but for some weird reason, the website is censoring it) to interfere with my ability to concentrate on writing. …

§ Using [Blood Mist], Sen detected the presence Shinzha found when we were about a half-mile from the campsite. She halted the immaterial [Blood Effigy] and I manifested my image, standing on a [Water Step]. The two fairies who had been gliding along behind us using [Feather Foot] came to a halt. Sen had avoided using stealth so they could …

Programming note: I am increasing my number of locked chapters, so for a while I will be unlocking one chapter a week every Saturday while posting two locked chapters, Tuesday and Saturday. Letting you know now so you don’t think I’m forgetting to unlock. If I can maintain the two chapter a week output without trouble, I will go back …

§ Sen chose a wide area of open, relatively flat ground and helped me manifest there to wait for them to land. I found myself biting my lower lip as the craft touched down and made myself stop, because the others had told me not to do that. It’s hard to avoid, okay? It’s also hard not to cringe or …

§ “Ugh,” I grumbled, and Sen chuckled inside my head. My thoughts were more hers than mine, though. After hearing all the details about what had been happening in the camp from Dilorè and the Servants, my mind was too cluttered with her ideas, stuff that had nothing to do with the life of a teenage slave girl. But during …

§ According to Senhion’s knowledge, the Sunset Mountains, that run along the far western edge of the Baris Continent, form the longest cordillera on the planet. That’s why they stand in popular knowledge as the ‘other great mountain range’. But they more resemble the Appalachians or the Urals, despite stretching thousands upon thousands of miles from north to south. They …

§ The lushly wooded hill country known as Kasar lay far below my feet as I stood high in the air, contemplating my strange situation. I’m all alone in an unfamiliar world, and they expect me to just drop in on a military camp in the middle of a war. Is it just me, or do my seniors not have …

This will only be of interest to those who read Chinese fantasy and might be curious about the cultivation hierarchy in Fan Li’s home world. I originally worked this out for the Chinese cultivation novel I attempted to write, from which I also drew the character Fan Li herself. There is terminology here that people familiar with the genre will …

§ So, Volume 10 is in the books. Your author, Eric Fretheim, online as Fushigi on this site and on Discord, and as /u/ericthefred on reddit, has completed yet another volume. As I mentioned, this one has been a weird journey, because nothing really flowed the way I expected. I wonder if I will rewrite it eventually.  If you are …