Sen sat with his legs crossed and eyes closed. The sun would rise soon, but it wasn’t up yet. It was a quiet time, when the night creatures had retreated to their lairs and nests, yet before the day creatures had roused themselves to go about their sunlit activities. He let that gentle hush was...
2024-05-13 05:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a few more wrong turns, but Terry managed to find his way to the southern gate out of town. He’d started to get the uncomfortable feeling that he was being watched about halfway there. In his old, sane, boring life, he would have dismissed that as rampant paranoia. In Chinese Period Dra...
2024-05-11 19:53:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman didn’t say anything, but she didn’t need to. The nervous anger on her face said it all. Terry knew that he might well have overestimated the strength of his position, but she at least thought he might be right. It was also pretty clear that she didn’t like what that ...
2024-05-09 20:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostTerry opened his eyes. Yep, I’m still in Chinese Period Drama Hell. That’s a disappointment. He winced a little as he sat up. He’d been so emotionally fatigued the night before that he’d just passed out without bothering to take off any of the swords he had tied...
2024-05-09 20:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt was with those thoughts clouding his steps that Sen approached the gates of capital proper. He knew that cultivators would often barge to the front of the line and demand entry. It was almost expected. So, Sen took a kind of perverse satisfaction in just taking his place at the rear of the lin...
2024-05-09 03:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, since there have been a lot of people who signed up after all these decisions were made, I'm going to do a quick review of the biggest difference between the Cultivator Only options and non-Cultivator Only options.
Way back when I first started this page, there were some growing pains...
2024-05-07 19:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Lord Lu,” said Long Jia Wei in a strained voice.
“Yes?” asked Sen, his eyes never wavering from the horizon.
“You should go.”
“No, it’s fine. I’ll—” Sen started.
“Lord Lu,” Long Jia Wei said through clenched teeth. “I am begging y...
2024-05-07 02:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so no one is surprised. I will be turning off comments on all new Unintended Cultivator chapters for a while.
2024-05-06 17:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostSen was relieved that there were no more incidents with the children that demanded his personal intervention. In fact, for the most part, the children simply did as they were told. He supposed that the upheaval had probably sapped some of their will to be imperious. That didn’t mean he didn’t...
2024-05-06 16:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they clear of the congestion around the city gates, Sen had recalled a trick he’d used once long ago to speed up a cart. He used his qi in a modified qinggong technique on the wheels of the carts and wagons, as well as the hooves of the oxen pulling them, to reduce the overall load and inc...
2024-05-06 12:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostSen was truly regretting his decision to offer He Jietang a job. The man had looked, well, he’d looked mildly unwell, but for a core cultivator that was the mortal equivalent of looking like he was on death’s door. Sen couldn’t even understand how the man had gotten into the condition he wa...
2024-05-05 09:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostHe Jietang tried to glare at the sun, but mostly just managed to squint. He felt terrible, which was actually something of an accomplishment for a core cultivator. Their cultivation tended to make it very difficult to get drunk, let alone stay drunk, and hangovers were all but unheard of. But it ...
2024-05-05 04:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next week was busy, but mostly quiet. Sen arranged for an auction and let a few hints slip about what manner of natural treasures and elixirs that were going to be up for grabs. While there was extensive complaining about the incredibly short notice that Sen mostly foisted off onto Long Jia W...
2024-05-04 01:28:16 +0000 UTC View PostSen smiled at the little house with the barn-like structure out back. It was exactly as he remembered the place, which he realized wasn’t that big of a surprise. It hadn’t actually been ten years since he last visited the formation flag maker and his wife, it just felt like it. He walked up t...
2024-05-03 20:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostSen regretted turning the decision over to Lo Meifeng almost immediately. The regret didn’t have anything to do with her. He’d just let his own weakness get the best of him. That he didn’t want to kill anyone else was a bad reason not to finish the job. Not that his other reasons had been w...
2024-05-03 09:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith the executions clearly over, the crowd started to disperse, although Sen could hear their hushed, fearful whispering. At least that part seemed to be going to plan. Lo Meifeng cast another disdainful look at Chan Dishi before she headed for the gate, obviously happy to have an excuse to leav...
2024-05-03 06:03:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Get up, for God’s sake,” said Terry. “I’m not going to kill her. But if I can’t get through to her, you are going to take her out of this town bound and gagged in the back of your cart first thing in the morning.”
Remdell looked like he was going to sag back to his knees in r...
2024-05-02 07:55:19 +0000 UTC View PostI realized I hadn't posted anything for this in a while, but I have been working on it here and there. ~Eric
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Grumbling and bitching under his breath, Terry got up from the bed and went over to the door. He thought about asking who it was. Of cour...
2024-05-02 07:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostSen put up with the bowing and creepy chanting for a little while before he encouraged everyone to return to their homes or duties. He wasn’t expecting them to get much done the rest of the day. Catharsis might be good for the soul, but it tended to be a tiring thing in his experience. Plus, he...
2024-05-02 07:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You needn’t participate in this,” said Sen. “I almost think it might be better if you didn’t.”
“It’s kind of you to want to spare me,” said Grandmother Lu. “But I have to be there, and your people have to see me being there.
Sen offered a reluctant nod. She was li...
2024-05-02 05:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs someone who wielded lightning and even storms, Sen was accustomed to loud noises. It just went with the territory. That was without even considering things like the sounds that were produced when he hit something very hard. So, the sheer, overwhelming noise of the explosion was a bit of a shoc...
2024-04-30 23:57:14 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, it wasn’t as simple as just saying he was sorry. If only mere words could truly undo misdeeds, thought Sen, the world would be a kinder place. The world was not one of kindness, though. A fact of which Sen was all too aware. Words were for the mind and, perhaps, the...
2024-04-30 13:27:35 +0000 UTC View PostSen was still distracted when the woman came into the room, so it took him a little while to realize two things. One, he knew her. Two, something was wrong with her. She looked sick. She was pale but not the intentional paleness that many women seemed to strive for. This was the kind of paleness ...
2024-04-29 11:13:52 +0000 UTC View PostTiu Li-Mei stared up at the wall of the Lu Manor and tried to still the trembling in her hands that had started the moment the king had ordered her to come here. Years. It had been years, and the thing she feared most in the world was still Lu Sen. And to make matters worse, he hadn’t ...
2024-04-29 03:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen let Wu Chia-Hao think about those questions, he looked around the room. It was a surprisingly bare room, save for a few pictures that had been rendered in a style Sen didn’t recognize. Standing from his chair, he walked over to the one of the images and studied it. It was a simple eno...
2024-04-28 07:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostSen swept his eyes across the rows of armored men standing between him and the gate of the Wu manor. They were terrified. As they rightly should be facing down a peak core cultivator, thought Sen. I’d question their sanity if they weren’t terrified. Sen let his gaze settle o...
2024-04-27 14:39:19 +0000 UTC View PostIn movies, manga, and comic books, someone yelling at a main character that way always resulted in them stopping to turn around and have a confrontation. This was especially true if there was a damsel in distress or child in distress. Terry didn’t know if there was an official name for that, bu...
2024-04-26 19:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m leaving,” announced Sen. “When I’m done making examples and fixing the problem with the defenses, I’m leaving.”
He was standing at the window and staring down at the damaged spot in the courtyard. It was something he’d found himself doing more and more often. He found i...
2024-04-26 19:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostGuo Wuhao, captain of the city guard, was not having a good day. He hadn’t had a good day yesterday or the day before either. In fact, he hadn’t had a good day in almost a week. These were the kind of weeks that had killed his predecessor. Powers far beyond him were moving in the city. There ...
2024-04-26 11:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostFinding the market wasn’t that hard. It took up an entire small square that seemed to have built for that express purpose. The simple part of the day ended there. Unlike most of the people who were wandering around, Terry had no idea where he should be looking to buy what. In the halcyon days o...
2024-04-25 23:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post