Sen focused his not inconsiderable will on suffusing his entire body with shadow qi under Fu Ruolan’s watchful gaze. Her focused attention didn’t bother him. In fact, he was grateful for it. When she’d first described the process for her version of shadow walking, Sen had thought it would b...
2024-03-11 05:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Again,” said Sen.
The townspeople, under the guidance of Dai Bao, started the form over again as Sen and Uncle Kho watched. The elder cultivator had seemed both curious and dubious about Sen’s project to train the mortals to defend themselves against spirit beasts. As they worked thr...
2024-03-10 06:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of that evening passed in a glow of food, carefully-curated conversations that steered away from anything too dark for the girls, and familial warmth. While Uncle Kho and Auntie Caihong were very nice to both girls, it was clear that they were more focused on Ai. Falling Leaf surprised S...
2024-03-09 13:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t long after Auntie Caihong dragged a weakly protesting Shen Mingxia into a corner to negotiate for the picture that Falling Leaf arrived. Sen couldn’t help but a chuckle a little at the startled look on her face. The scene she had walked into was a little bit more exciting than what ...
2024-03-08 08:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostShen Mingxia just stared at Ma Caihong with her eyes so wide that Sen worried she might damage them. Then, the woman lurched to her feet, slammed her hands together and bowed so low she was basically looking at the floor.
“Lady Ma Caihong, this unworthy one is Shen Mingxia. I apologize fo...
2024-03-07 08:17:32 +0000 UTC View PostFu Ruolan glared at Sen. “You invited them here?”
“No! No, no, no,” said Sen. “I just sent them a letter telling them what’s been happening to me in recent… Um, years. It’s the first time I’ve been stationary for a while.”
“You should have told me they w...
2024-03-07 04:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostSort-of Unintended Cultivator-related news: I have opened up an additional ten slots in the Uncle Kho's Cultivation Corner tier. I'm not sure if anyone actually wants those slots, but the tier is also always full. So, now a few more people can upgrade to it if they want. It's main attraction is t...
2024-03-06 23:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s not wrong,” said Fu Ruolan.
After they had all eaten and Fu Ruolan had spent some quality time listening to Ai regale her to tales of walking through town, “training” with Dai Bao, and drawing orchids in the snow, the core cultivator had withdrawn to talk with Sen. The two ...
2024-03-06 09:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s really yours, isn’t she?” asked Shen Mingxia.
Sen looked at her briefly before returning his attention to Liu Ai and Li Zhi. The girls were running around outside the galehouse he had erected adjacent to the practice hall. While he didn’t think any spirit beast would be stu...
2024-03-06 05:52:13 +0000 UTC View PostMa Caihong had never bothered much with the little town at the bottom of the mountain. There had simply never been anything there to interest her. Plus, it was tedious to deal with mortals as a nascent soul cultivator. While she hadn’t been a great beauty in her youth, she had been fair enough ...
2024-03-05 09:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostSen stared down at his own hand. He shook his head violently in the negative. It can’t be that simple, he thought. He had to force himself to repeat the action. He waved his hand through the shadow the tree was casting. His eyes were locked on the snowy ground beneath. The sun overhead...
2024-03-04 06:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen hadn’t been able to predict exactly when another spirit beast attack would come to the town, he had known with certainty that one would come. With that knowledge in hand, he hadn’t wasted his time. He’d made a habit of making at least some healing elixirs that mortals cou...
2024-03-04 02:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt was all Sen could do to keep his breathing steady. If this had been his fight, he knew he would have been calm, collected, and focused. He might have even been a little excited. But this wasn’t his fight. Not really. He was mostly a spectator to the danger. His eyes traveled across the backs...
2024-03-03 06:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostSen had barely begun to walk away from the inn when his spiritual sense alerted him that there were spirit beasts near to the town. They were much too near to the town to be doing anything but preparing to attack. I guess this day was always coming, he thought. Now, we find ...
2024-03-03 04:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostFalling Leaf just stared at Sen with those green eyes of hers for a while, her hand gently stroking Ai’s hair as the little girl slept in her lap. That sleep was peaceful, for which Sen was deeply grateful. The awful nightmares of the first couple of months had slowly faded away, largely Sen su...
2024-03-02 04:11:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs Sen waited for answer, he watched the woman’s face. She seemed almost confused as she looked around at the building, and then over at Ai riding on the shadow dog. When she did finally look at him again, it was only for a few moments before her eyes shifted to look past him. He glanced over h...
2024-03-01 08:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostWu Meng Yao did her best not to stare at Lu Sen. It had been a long, long road to find him. She’d been away from the Soaring Skies Sect for years now, dragging poor Shen Mingxia along in her wake. They’d been gone so long, in fact, that she suspected they were members in name only by now. Not...
2024-03-01 05:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Again,” said Sen doing his very best to keep the boredom out of his voice.
Of all the things Sen had thought might happen when he agreed to teach the townspeople how to use spears all those months ago, he hadn’t really considered tedium as a possibility. Of course, he’d only ever c...
2024-02-29 06:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostSen took a little time to review the basic thrusts he’d taught Wang Bo and Dai Bao with the newcomers, before turning most of the gathered townspeople over to grizzled man. Sen focused most of his time and attention on the newest or most hopeless people, which included Li Hua. Of course, her ma...
2024-02-29 02:21:33 +0000 UTC View PostDai Bao trudged toward Sen like a man marching toward his own execution. It was obvious from his expression the man knew that Sen wasn’t happy, and that he blamed Dai Bao for some of that. Sen did him the courtesy of walking them away from the small collection of townspeople and erecting a wind...
2024-02-28 08:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip took a bit longer than usual since Sen had to keep his speed down a little to let Falling Leaf keep pace for the entire distance. It was late morning by the time they arrived at the wall. While the guards knew to let Sen pass, they eyed Falling Leaf as if they expected her to burst into ...
2024-02-28 05:51:16 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so we're swiftly rolling up on the official release date of Unintended Cultivator: Volume Two. Hurray!
At the moment, the Volume One ebook is still the number one seller in the Asian Myth & Legend subcategory and has been for quite a while. That is amazing! Books don't usual...
2024-02-27 17:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostA cocoon of shadow surrounded Sen. He had made and sustained it all night while he sat cross-legged on the roof of the galehouse. The hope had been that immersing himself in shadow that way would help provide some insight into the shadow walking technique. That hadn’t happened at all. It had mo...
2024-02-27 05:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostCommitted to his promise not to simply disappear because he got distracted, Sen limited his instruction of Dai Bao and Wang Bo to two hours. He drew a few conclusions from those two hours, though. The most important conclusion was that starting with someone who knew nothing about using a...
2024-02-26 05:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostSen stared at the eager face of the young man. While only a handful of years separated them, Sen couldn’t help the question that sprang to his mind. Was I ever that young? Whatever a calendar might say, Sen was quite certain that a massive canyon filled with experience stood between th...
2024-02-26 01:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen got the distinct impression over the next week or two that Fu Ruolan was actively avoiding him. Not that he necessarily minded that. It let him keep playing around with shadow qi and locking in his new understanding of the intrinsic matrix. He confirmed that all of the qi types he could acces...
2024-02-25 05:05:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe order seemed odd to Sen. There was certainly a place for discussing things, but he’d generally found it more effective to simply demonstrate his understanding than fumble through verbal explanations that only partially captured the true meaning of something. For him, cultivation was at leas...
2024-02-24 05:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Finally got tired of lurking?” asked Sen.
Fu Ruolan’s eyes went wide with outrage. “I was not lurking!”
“Really? Because it looked a lot like lurking. Hovering just out of sight all of the time while watching me,” said Sen as he made a stupendous effort to keep...
2024-02-24 02:06:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was both fortunate and unfortunate that Glimmer of Night loved making webs, at least in Sen’s opinion. The spider had made dozens of them at Sen’s request without a single complaint. If anything, he had seemed quite pleased with Sen’s focused attention on the process. That meant...
2024-02-23 04:37:13 +0000 UTC View Post“How in the world do you maintain this?” asked Sen.
He was staring at the qi web that stretched for hundreds of feet between widely spaced trees. Sen wasn’t sure exactly why the spider had constructed such a thing, but that question took a distant second position to the how of it. Sen...
2024-02-22 13:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post