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Sky Pride

By Warby Picus

What does it take to climb out of the trash and into the sky? The very heavens had decreed his death. He should have died in the womb. Or in infancy. Or when his family was murdered. Or when the house burned around him. Or when he woke up in the dump suffering from innumerable diseases and missing fingers. Even the magic ring with a ghostly grandpa trapped inside of it was sabotaged. A reasonable person would roll over and die. Tian isn't that reasonable. And as it happens, neither is Grandpa Jun. In a world where immortality can be cultivated, miracles are things you make for yourself. A broken boy will defy the heavens, and soar. What to expect: -1 chapter a day M-F. Volume 5 is already complete. -2k words per chapter (aprox, some run long) with a longer first chapter. -No Harem -Earned power growth -An MC who isn't a goodie two shoes OR an edge-lord psychopath -A power system based on actual Daoism  -Sects, giant monsters, natural treasures, flying swords, spells, talismans, secret arts, and a gentle sprinkling of young masters whose face need rearranging.

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Chapters (315)

  1. Chapter 1- In the Care of a Hateful God
  2. Chapter 2- Gourmet in the Garbage
  3. Chapter 3- Junkyard Classroom, Trash Heap Hospital
  4. Chapter 4- First Steps on the Path
  5. Chapter 5- Child of Destiny
  6. Chapter 6- Eating Treasure with Broken Teeth
  7. Chapter 7- What’s Swimming?
  8. Chapter 8- Pointing A Sword At Heaven
  9. Chapter 9- Lotuses Root in Tragedy
  10. Chapter 10- Ruthless Child
  11. Chapter 11- Lotus Above, Snake Below
  12. Chapter 12- Dustless Physique
  13. Chapter 13- Wolf Child Eyes The Sheep
  14. Chapter 14- Dressing Human
  15. Chapter 15- At the Foot of an Endless Mountain
  16. Front page of Rising Stars in Six Days! So have evidence of my dark history...
  17. Chapter 16- A Touch of Death
  18. Chapter 17- A Tree to Fill The Sky
  19. Chapter 18- The Dreadfulness of a Vine
  20. Chapter 19- A Rock Thrower Called Hong
  21. Chapter 20- The Delicate Art of Enmity
  22. Chapter 21- “You Made Us Wait, Junior Brother!”
  23. Chapter 22- Silently Taking a Life
  24. Chapter 23- Mission Demon
  25. Chapter 24- A Child Doing Wetwork
  26. Chapter 25- Brutal Methods of the Righteous
  27. Alright, this momentum is crazy. We gotta keep it going. More chaps coming this weekend
  28. Chapter 26- Moral Development
  29. Chapter 27- Picking Poison
  30. Chapter 28- Embracing the Wild Sky
  31. Chapter 29- The Difference Between Heaven and Earth
  32. Chapter 30- The Lay Sisters Promise They Will Be Gentle
  33. Chapter 31- The Sound of an Oncoming Storm [Special Note At The End!]
  34. Chapter 32- The Weight of the Word “Brother”
  35. Chapter 33- Partially Grown Immortals
  36. Chapter 34- A Boy Goes to War
  37. Chapter 35- First Journey Through the Sky
  38. Chapter 36- First Combat Patrol
  39. Tax Evasion In The Fantasy World [April Fools Chapter]
  40. Chapter 37- Meeting The Enemy
  41. Chapter 38- Enemies Meet on a Narrow Path
  42. Chapter 39- An Opportunity to Excel
  43. Chapter 40- Solitary Hunters of the Evil Path
  44. Chapter 41- One Line Between Life and Death, Then and Now
  45. Chapter 42- Hell is What You Make of It
  46. Chapter 43- Debating the Dao of Cruelty
  47. Chapter 44- The Heart of Tea
  48. Chapter 45- An Unpolished Jade
  49. Chapter 46- Waking Up
  50. Chapter 47- What Defines A Heretic
  51. Chapter 48- No Role But Victim
  52. Chapter 49- Heart Eating Hate
  53. Chapter 50- Raising Spears For A Long War
  54. Chapter 1- The Supreme Virtue Hell Suppressing Body Refining Sutra, and Losing a War
  55. Chapter 2- Purity is in the Mind of the Beholder
  56. Chapter 3- The Line Between Necessary and Good
  57. Chapter 4- Nothing Personal
  58. Chapter 5- Refusing The Toast
  59. Chapter 6- The Long Patrol
  60. Chapter 7- A Medic In The Field
  61. Chapter 8- A Long Night Brings Many Dreams
  62. Chapter 9- What Makes A Cultivator?
  63. Chapter 10- Life and Death and Somewhere In Between
  64. Just wanted to say thank you
  65. Chapter 11- The Demon Called Money
  66. Chapter 12- Birds Die For Food…
  67. Chapter 13- Men Die for Gold
  68. Chapter 14- Pest Control
  69. Chapter 15- The Calculations of Heavenly People
  70. Chapter 16- What Every Adventure Needs
  71. Chapter 17- A Child Carrying Gold In The Market
  72. Chapter 18- Into The Wind
  73. Chapter 19- Burning Wild
  74. Chapter 20- Each Unique Suffering Life
  75. Chapter 21- “Glorious” Victory
  76. Chapter 22- It’s A Web, Not a Chain
  77. Chapter 23- Building an Arsenal
  78. Chapter 24- Long Range Acupuncture
  79. Chapter 25- A Straight Answer to a Simple Question
  80. Chapter 26- Planted On The Back Line
  81. Chapter 27- Manufacturing Quality Goods
  82. Chapter 28- A Gentleman Can Wait Ten Years for Vengeance
  83. Chapter 29- Hero
  84. Chapter 30- Bloody Money, Painful Merits
  85. Chapter 31- What Is Cultivated Is the Self
  86. Chapter 32- Wiggling A New Finger
  87. Chapter 33- The Expectations of an Attentive Senior
  88. Chapter 34- Just a Momentary Joy
  89. Chapter 35- The First of the Three Treasures
  90. Chapter 36- Growing Inside and Out
  91. Chapter 37- The Gentle Art of Taking A Hit
  92. Chapter 38- The Nature of Instruction
  93. Chapter 39- With Open Hands
  94. Chapter 40- Six Turns
  95. Since some people missied the note- I'm back on the 23'rd.
  96. Chapter 41- Dropped Straight Into It
  97. Chapter 42- Northern Soldier
  98. Chapter 43- One Fifth of Everything
  99. Chapter 44- Burning Heart, Frozen Guts
  100. Chapter 45- Embracing Yang
  101. Chapter 46- What It Means To Burn
  102. Chapter 47- Blazing in the Dark
  103. Chapter 48- Unfortunate Strength
  104. Chapter 49- Needle Sharp
  105. Chapter 50- Cutting to the Heart of Things
  106. Chapter 51- A Five Dimensional Attack
  107. Chapter 52- An Eternal Dao
  108. Chapter 53- A Five Colored Road To Eternity
  109. Chapter 54- A Son’s Love
  110. Chapter 55- A Father in Old Age
  111. Vol. 3 - Chapter 1- Unrivaled Since Ancient Times
  112. Chapter 2- First Under The Heavens
  113. Chapter 3- Broken Emissaries
  114. Chapter 4- Strangers With Familiar Faces
  115. Chapter 5- Making New Friends
  116. Chapter 6- Making Human Noises, Spotting Immortal Traps
  117. Chapter 7- The Second Supreme Virtue
  118. Chapter 8- The Red Plume General
  119. Chapter 9- A Daoist in the Garrison
  120. Chapter 10- Exploding Bad People
  121. Chapter 11- The Smokey Shadow of the Demon
  122. Chapter 12- Flowing Water Becoming a Landslide
  123. Chapter 13- A Local Snake
  124. Chapter 14- Trading Heads
  125. Chapter 15- Gone But Not Forgotten
  126. Chapter 16- A Fairy With Bloody Knuckles
  127. Chapter 17- A Rock Worth More Than A Kingdom
  128. Chapter 18- Finding Today’s Limit
  129. Chapter 19- Choking on Mortal Air
  130. Chapter 20- Thoughts Like A Mountain Stream
  131. Chapter 21- The Bamboo Medicine Hut
  132. Chapter 22- A Peaceful Life of Cultivation
  133. Chapter 23- Young Master Tian
  134. Chapter 24- Disgraceful Sparring
  135. Chapter 25- The Strength of a Doctor
  136. Chapter 26- The Tiger Appreciation Society
  137. Chapter 27- Business Opportunities
  138. Chapter 28- A Quick Stop At A Volcano
  139. Chapter 29- Making Friends With Your Fists
  140. Chapter 30- Selling the Dao
  141. Chapter 31- Charting the Sky
  142. Chapter 32- Messages From Above
  143. Chapter 33- Meeting Royalty
  144. Chapter 34- Beware Seniors Bearing Gifts
  145. Chapter 35- Not Just Enemies Meet on a Narrow Path
  146. Chapter 36- Learning to Talk
  147. Chapter 37- The Weight of an Ancient Name
  148. Chapter 38- The Gaps In Your Mind
  149. Chapter 39- Moonlit Lessons
  150. Chapter 40- Blessings Coming Together
  151. I'm on vacation, and will return on the 15th
  152. Chapter 41- Descending on the Courtyard
  153. Chapter 42- Dinner, Abbreviated
  154. Chapter 43- A Few Friendly Wagers
  155. Chapter 44- One’s Own Time
  156. Chapter 45- Generous Hosts
  157. Chapter 46- Attacked With Cakes
  158. Chapter 47- The Art of Carrying Crushing Weight
  159. Chapter 48- Gearing Up and Sorting Out
  160. Chapter 49- Survival is a Weapon All on it’s Own
  161. Chapter 50- What A Good Array Can Do
  162. Chapter 51- Hideous Things
  163. Chapter 52- Who Chooses To Stand Under A Collapsing Wall?
  164. Chapter 53- The Teachings of War King Cho
  165. Chapter 54- The Blood Red Battlefield
  166. Chapter 55- A Cup Full of Dao
  167. Vol 3. Epilogue
  168. Chapter 1- Young Cranes in Flight
  169. Chapter 2- Rushing Along The Agate
  170. Chapter 3- Bitter Water
  171. Chapter 4- Familiar Business
  172. Chapter 5- The Noble Vanguard
  173. Chapter 6- Cranes Descend on Bluestone City
  174. Chapter 7- Red Blood on Blue Cobble Streets
  175. Chapter 8- Merits, Earned and Otherwise
  176. Chapter 9- The Difficulties of a Golden Fish
  177. Chapter 10- Plunging into the Broad Sky Kingdom
  178. Chapter 11- The Copper Roof Inn
  179. Chapter 12- A Dinner Full of Struggle
  180. Chapter 13- Eating Steel
  181. Chapter 14- The Winecellar of the Copper Roof Inn
  182. Chapter 15- A Dream To Break An Empire
  183. Chapter 16- Untrustworthy Fortune
  184. Chapter 17- Necessary Rituals
  185. Chapter 18- The Qualifications of a Ghost
  186. Chapter 19- The Difficulty of Simple Things
  187. Chapter 20- Memory Etched in Bone
  188. Chapter 21- The Burning Sky Cranes
  189. Chapter 22- Shrine of the Northwest General
  190. Chapter 23- A Matter of Merit
  191. Chapter 24- The Wrath of the Gardener
  192. Chapter 25- Glorious Pillage
  193. Chapter 26- Ominous Isn’t Always a Bad Sign
  194. Chapter 27- Letters From Eight Directions
  195. Chapter 28- A Chance to Change Fate
  196. Chapter 29- Hooked on Acacia Thorns
  197. Chapter 30- Holding to Hope Too Long
  198. Chapter 31- Who You Find When You Are Alone In The Dark
  199. Chapter 32- Pain, Past, Present and Future
  200. Chapter 33- Fiery Sky Soup
  201. Chapter 34- The Ingratitude of a Junior
  202. Chapter 35- What Would You Pay For Your Family?
  203. Chapter 36- What Was Lost and What Was Found
  204. Chapter 37- Dragged into the Light
  205. Chapter 38- The Advantages of Being Useless
  206. For those who didn't read the Author Note- On vacation until Dec. 8
  207. Chapter 39- Making a Name for One’s Self
  208. Chapter 40- Choosing Your Family
  209. Chapter 41- Hearing the True Dao Preached in the Morning
  210. Chapter 42- Bleeding Fortune
  211. Chapter 43- Racing Home
  212. Chapter 44- Debating the Dao
  213. Chapter 45- Finding What Matters
  214. Chapter 46- How Terrible a Dead Heart
  215. Chapter 47- Eating Rice Today
  216. Chapter 48- Blowing on a Cooling Ember
  217. Chapter 49- Clearing The Mountain Gate
  218. Chapter 50- Standing at the Peak, Seeing Only Despair
  219. Chapter 51- The Daoists Return to Simplicity
  220. Vol. 4 Epilogue I
  221. Vol. 4 Epilogue II
  222. Sky Pride Vol. 5 Chapter 1- King of a Short Hill
  223. Chapter 2- Real Boxing
  224. Chapter 3- Proof of Growth
  225. Chapter 4- Awkward Farewell
  226. Chapter 5- A Home That Trains Your Heart
  227. Chapter 6- How to Climb a Magic Mountain
  228. Chapter 7- A Tea Failure
  229. Chapter 8- Bitten By a Ghost
  230. Chapter 9- Some Reward
  231. Chapter 10- The Use of a Sect
  232. Chapter 11- Dragon and Tiger Contending
  233. Chapter 12- Digesting Gains and Losses
  234. Chapter 13- Moon Crossing the Lake
  235. Chapter 14- Making Do With What You Have
  236. Chapter 15- Struggling Mountain Folk
  237. Chapter 16- Gathering the Young Experts
  238. Chapter 17- A New Way of Fighting
  239. Chapter 18- The Irascible Sister Lin
  240. Chapter 19- Falling Towards The Valley
  241. Chapter 20- Fire and Water
  242. Chapter 21- Stone Forest
  243. Chapter 22- A Study of Yang and Families
  244. Chapter 23- A Yin Man
  245. Chapter 24- The Door of Contradiction
  246. Chapter 25- The Simian Complaint
  247. Chapter 26- Finding the True Metal Between Fire and Water
  248. Chapter 27- Close Enough to Taste, Far Enough to Kill
  249. Chapter 28- A Yang Man
  250. Chapter 29- Foundations Fit for a Heaven-Piercing Pagoda
  251. Chapter 30- Joining Hands Against The Heavens
  252. Chapter 31- Blazing Heart Saint, Tempered Sunforged Phisique
  253. Chapter 32- Necessary Words
  254. Chapter 33- We Are What We Say We Are
  255. Chapter 34- Many Ways to Show You Care
  256. Chapter 35- Green Stone, Red Eyes
  257. Chapter 36- Negotiations with a Tough Toad
  258. Chapter 37- Bad Daoists Trying to be Better
  259. Chapter 38- The Many Flavors of Fortune
  260. Chapter 39- Placing the Toad in the Hole
  261. Chapter 40- Sweet Reason
  262. Chapter 41- Speaking Plainly
  263. Chapter 42- Expected Conclusions
  264. Chapter 43- The Princess Pierces the Sky
  265. Chapter 44- A Heavenly Bird
  266. Chapter 45- Run or Fight or Both
  267. Chapter 46- The Arrival of Consequences
  268. Chapter 47- The Bindings of Past and Future
  269. Chapter 48- The Responsibilities of a Senior Brother
  270. Chapter 49- Word From On High
  271. Epilogue I- The King of Hell and his Book Carrying Servant
  272. Epilogue II- Soft Rice is the Tastiest
  273. Vol. 6 Chapter 1- Impatience
  274. Chapter 2- Every Test is One of Character
  275. Chapter 3- Confident is a Strong Word
  276. Chapter 4- The Poison Called Doubt
  277. Chapter 5- Qualifications of a Clenched Fist and an Open Palm
  278. Chapter 6- Pretty Songbirds All in a Row
  279. Chapter 7- Just a Stick with Some Holes and the Dao in it
  280. Chapter 8- Sound and Color
  281. My book is being pirated on Amazon (Update- Publishers are on it)
  282. Chapter 9- How Heavy a Dream
  283. Chapter 10- What Fortune Gathers
  284. Chapter 11- Sowing Fate
  285. Chapter 12- Growth, Broadly Defined
  286. Chapter 13- The Intersection of Diagnosis and Weeding
  287. Chapter 14- What Kind of Teachers Are These?
  288. Chapter 15- The Music of Time Together
  289. Chapter 16- The Human Vessel is Empty
  290. Chapter 17- Revelation of the Saints
  291. Chapter 18- The Education of Saints
  292. Chapter 19- Exploring a New Realm
  293. Chapter 20- The Evolution of Arts
  294. Chapter 21- Friends in Damp Places
  295. Chapter 22- A Fortune Gathering Toad. All Kinds of Fortune.
  296. Chapter 23- The Vast Darknorth Sea Art
  297. Chapter 24- Stepping out onto a broader stage
  298. Chapter 25- The Foxes’ Tails are Hard to Hide
  299. Chapter 26- Mountain Gate City
  300. Chapter 27- The Greasiness of the Merchant Class
  301. Chapter 28- Finding Leads, and Gathering Supplies
  302. Chapter 29- Mermaid Silk
  303. Chapter 30- Finally Getting It
  304. Chapter 31- Are We Heretics Now?
  305. Chapter 32- Healing
  306. Chapter 33- Learning to Fly
  307. Chapter 34- Making "Friends"
  308. Chapter 35- Revisiting Grievances
  309. Chapter 36- Burning Bright
  310. Chapter 37- The Trouble With New Tools
  311. Chapter 38- The Kindness of Strangers
  312. Chapter 39- The Limits of a Trainee Doctor
  313. Chapter 40- Medicine Saint Jun and the Street Sweeping Mendicants
  314. Chapter 41- Leaving in a Rush, Arriving Like You Never Left
  315. Chapter 42- The Calling of Blood