Li Yi Nuo stared at the man she only knew as Judgment’s Gale and tried to decide what to do. She refused to let it show on her face, but his last words had frightened her. They hadn’t been boastful, the way she would have thought that something like that would sound. He’d sounded like a man...
2023-12-06 19:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostSen watched the woman as his patience slowly burned away. He supposed if he hadn’t been immunized to all loveliness by the unearthly beauty of Lai Dongmei, he might have been taken off-guard by this woman. Almond shaped eyes that were wide with shock and fear stared at him. She had high cheekbo...
2023-12-06 02:05:25 +0000 UTC View PostStaring down at the compass in her hand, Li Yi Nuo felt a surge of frustration. Just how far had this curse-wielding cultivator gone? While she wasn’t eager to find whoever it was, she no longer worried that it was a death sentence hiding as a sect mission. Her master hadn’t been abl...
2023-12-05 21:09:46 +0000 UTC View PostOnce he’d regained his feet, brushed off his robes, and gathered the tattered shreds of his dignity around him like a robe of shame, Sen looked over at the divine spirit beast. The massive turtle gazed at him with a monk-like calm. It seemed that Elder Bo was going to wait for Sen to restart th...
2023-12-05 07:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I did not seduce a heavenly being,” said Sen through gritted teeth as he glared murder at the turtle.
“If you say so,” muttered the turtle, clearly not believing a word of it.
“Can we please get back to the whole diverged from the method problem?”
“I didn...
2023-12-04 19:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the journey to the cove passed without incident, much to Sen’s relief. While his physical wounds had all healed and he’d recovered much of the qi he’d spent fighting that spirit beast, he could tell that something was still healing. The fact that he couldn’t find or i...
2023-12-03 17:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostSen was a little surprised that he didn’t lose consciousness. That’s what usually happened after a battle where he’d pushed himself that hard and been injured. He certainly would have welcomed an inky blackness that freed him from pain. Then again, he thought, maybe it’s for ...
2023-12-03 06:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostSen had seen a lot of strange spirit beasts in depths of the wilds, from the damnable bear-cats to birds made entirely of fire. He’d even once been attacked by something that looked like the bastard child of a pangolin and a massive ivy plant. However, all of his experience with spirit beast ha...
2023-12-02 18:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen had enjoyed the first few weeks on board Captain Chen’s ship. Many of the sailors were new, but he’d recognized more than a few of them. There had been a little bit of awkwardness the first few days, but it mostly stemmed from a lingering sense of awe from the men he’d sailed w...
2023-12-02 04:50:40 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Okay. I got in touch with my publisher and they've upped the number of available downloads for the ARC. So, if you ran into the download limit message, you should be good to go now. ~Eric
Okay. So, way back when I was first doing the whole Patreo...
2023-12-01 22:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, the sleepy sleepy boy is awake. Sleeps too much, too much, too much!”
“I… I…,” said Sen, taken off-guard by her appearance and odd speech.
“And he stutters!” shouted the woman, pointing an accusatory finger at him. “Why does he stutter? Why? Why? Why?”
E...
2023-11-30 17:36:10 +0000 UTC View PostLi Yi Nuo looked at the gates to the Vermilion Blade Sect with a complex set of feelings that were somehow still numb. There was relief that the journey was done. A trip that she might have made in a week, or even a few days if she pushed herself hard enough, had taken weeks. She looked over her ...
2023-11-29 20:24:28 +0000 UTC View PostSen stepped onto the street from the inn. It had been a little disappointing. Some mild regret over not bringing Lo Meifeng with him stirred in his heart. The woman had a gift for finding good inns. Dismissing the merely adequate meal he’d had for breakfast, he started walking toward the harbor...
2023-11-26 22:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostSen could smell the ocean long before the great expanse of water came into view. He found the smell dredged up a mixed bag of emotions. There had been good things about the ocean journey. He’d learned a great deal about water qi on that ship. He’d managed to save the lives of those sailors fr...
2023-11-26 22:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostKalan stepped out of the ship to find a short, squat woman with a shock of white hair, deep lines creasing her face, and deep-set eyes the color of coal. She looked him up and down, sniffed, and then looked past him at the hatch. When no one came through the hatch, she frowned, and looked at him....
2023-11-26 04:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostLi Yi Nuo frowned up at the sky. The winter was nearing its end, but it wasn’t over yet. Based on the clouds overhead, it seemed that the season was preparing to remind all of the world that winter’s fury was nothing to dismiss. She hated the winter. She hated the cold and the snow. She hated...
2023-11-25 10:28:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs the days wore on, Sen found himself encountering more villages and towns. At first, he simply trudged through them, almost heedless of the fact that there were living, breathing human beings in them. Most of the people he encountered on the street simply stared at him. A few times, he felt cul...
2023-11-25 10:26:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe speed of Sen’s travel slowed considerably for a time. While he started every day using in his qinggong technique, he always found himself simply walking along the road by the time afternoon rolled over him. While his qinggong technique didn’t call for a lot of attention when using it in s...
2023-11-24 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take Sen very long to realize that he’d been mistaken. There were more dead than dying in the village. He just hadn’t recognized the signs. His spiritual sense was attuned to find life and qi. Dead bodies rarely had either. Still, he kept walking. No one else was going to help tho...
2023-11-22 23:14:41 +0000 UTC View PostSen was working extremely hard to only pay attention to what was in front of him. Unfortunately, it was a task made difficult by the excessive boredom involved with that. There were no spirit beasts or even any other travelers to occupy his thoughts. Occasionally, at the farthest reaches of his s...
2023-11-22 23:13:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe stranger’s jaw worked back and forth like he was fighting not to express some very angry words. Sen watched this struggle with empty indifference. He’d been trying so hard to get the man to leave and avoid the necessity of violence. He was still willing to let the stranger just walk away....
2023-11-20 22:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe farther away from the capital he got, the more confident Sen felt that he’d outrun any potential pursuit. Not that he expected that pursuit would herald any violence, just the imposition of deeply unwanted obligations. If the king had asked for his presence, Sen would have been hard pressed...
2023-11-20 22:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post“He’s a quick bastard, isn’t he?” observed Sen from where he was leaning against a wall.
He and Lo Meifeng watched as Zixin ran around a corner at speed, his robes still on fire. It had been a short and brutal exchange of pointers that had mostly involved Lo Meifeng pelting the man ...
2023-11-19 16:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostMorning found Sen sitting out in the courtyard. A small part of him made note of the city coming to life around him, not the city was ever truly silent. Even in the deepest parts of the night, there was still activity. Most of his attention was focused on his cultivation. Lo Meifeng had been righ...
2023-11-19 08:40:50 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, it's been a while, but there's finally some stuff I can share about Unintended Cultivator Vol. 1. My publisher has put it up for preorder with an expected publication day of Dec. 19. Right now, it's just the ebook version that's available for preorder, but the option for physical editions s...
2023-11-18 17:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostSen left the home of Tan Lin and Ung Wen feeling much more thoughtful than he ever would have expected. He’d been of a mind to make a simple deal and get some formation flags. Instead, he’d left with a challenge. He was relatively confident that he could meet the challenge. At least, he thoug...
2023-11-18 16:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, this is another one that I hadn't planned, but I'm not above the occasional bit of fan service. Once I thought about the idea of a Lo Meifeng and Chan Yu Ming chapter, I liked the idea. It was a chance to get some things in play that would have been harder to accomplish in a Sen POV cha...
2023-11-17 11:20:34 +0000 UTC View PostSen had mixed feeling about leaving Chan Yu Ming to Lo Meifeng’s dubious mercy. While Lo Meifeng didn’t have any particular malice toward the other woman that Sen knew about, she also wasn’t the sort who neededany particular malice. Staying wasn’t an option, though. Unless he wan...
2023-11-16 08:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post“You should stay inside for this,” said Sen as he stood from the table.
“Why?” asked Lo Meifeng.
“Because whatever trouble is out there, it’s not here for you. No point in dragging you into my problems any deeper.”
“Oh,” said Lo Meifeng. “I don’t plan to ge...
2023-11-15 08:22:11 +0000 UTC View PostSen briefly brooded about the missed opportunity to deal with Zixin, but decided it was something he could put off for at least one more day. Based on what Lo Meifeng had told him, the guy had been coming around on an almost daily basis.
“Is that why the formations are active?” asked Se...
2023-11-13 16:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post