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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 13 – Karmic Considerations

Once Sen got Lo Meifeng and Falling Leaf to calm down enough to let him get a word in edgewise, their ire swiftly transferred from him to the Clear Spring sect. As far as they were concerned, it had been the sect’s job, in general, and the patriarch’s job, specifically, to see to their safety...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 12 – Consequences

Because I know everyone has been waiting for this. Also, yes, there will be another chapter tonight. ~Eric

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Lan Zi Rui was frustrated. He had been frustrated and growing ever more frustrated for the last two months. Ever since that wretched boy an...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 11 – You Peasant

Exiting from the odd enclosure that held the spring and the gardens, Sen was relieved that he didn’t find anyone waiting for him. At the same time, though, that lack of a friendly or hostile welcome from anyone left him even more concerned about just how long he’d spent communing with the spi...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 10 – Will and Water

Sen had been through a lot in his time off the mountain. Enough that it was easy for him to forget that he’d seen very little of the world. For all the intensity of his experiences, though, they were limited in scope. As a veil was pulled back before him, Sen was given an acute reminder that he...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 9 – Good for More than One Thing

Sen considered everything that had just happened, nodded to the patriarch, and turned to walk away.

“Is that it?” asked the patriarch. “No questions? No demands?”

“You don’t have what I need, no way to give it to me, or no intention of giving it to me. Regardless of the re...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 8 – Sealed

Sen tried to make sense of the patriarch’s words. How can they have it, but not have access to it, he wondered. His mind tried to come up with scenarios that might provide sense to the words, but he didn’t have much luck. The few things he did come up with were, even on casu...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 7 – Illusion

For the first minute or so, Sen tried to answer questions. Unfortunately, everyone was so busy yelling at him or each other that his attempts at answering went unheard. For the next minute or so, he just gave everyone an a generally annoyed look. That didn’t seem to dampen their enthus...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 6 – Karma

So, the migraine pill I took knocked me out cold, and I woke up in the middle of the night. So, you get a chapter at a ridiculous time. ~Eric

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Their first day at the sect was both calmer and more tedious than Sen had expected. He’d planned for more than ...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 5 – Reception

For a long moment, Sen wondered about his own reaction. Why was he nervous about this meeting? As far as he knew, Falling Leaf and Chan Yu Ming had never met, let alone had any bad blood between them. There was no reason why they should be at odds with each other. If anything, Falling Le...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 4 – Clear Springs

As they drew ever closer to the Clear Spring sect, Shi Ping grew increasingly nervous. He never said anything directly to anyone. It seemed that the combination of getting stabbed in the leg and witnesses Sen’s impromptu declaration of war against an entire species had buried fear firmly in his...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 3 – One Day

Sorry that these are coming at such random times. I got a new desktop computer that I planned on switching over to on my days off. What should have been an afternoon of work has turned into a week long debacle of technical glitches. I'm hoping the last of the insanity will be done today and that ...

Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 2 - Messages

Falling Leaf was closing on them fast, which meant that Sen had a limited amount of time to decide what he wanted to do. Of course, those limits were quite as limiting as they had once been. Much as advancements in the formation foundation stage had refined his brain and improved the speed and cl...

Unintended Cultivator Vol. 4: Chapter 1 - Progress at Last

Sen had thought he’d be happy to leave the valley of the fire cultivators behind, and he was…mostly. The only real downside was that one of the fire cultivators, Shi Ping, had come with them. Sen had gotten a heaven-chasing realm spear for taking on the task of bringing Shi Ping along and tho...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Bloopers

He did take a moment to study his dantian and the odd ribbon of new qi but left off almost immediately. There was no obvious damage to the dantian. Figuring out that new qi was important. He knew it. He also knew that it was something that he wasn’t going to understand with five minute...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 61 – Future Imperfect

Zhang Jing sat in the chair by the window and contemplated patience. If it were possible to cultivate patience the way that people cultivated qi, he believed that he would be a nascent soul cultivator already. For, if ever a man had befriended patience, he was that man. Even now, he waited in pat...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 60 – Leaving Is Never Easy

With the decision about where he was going at least tentatively made, barring new information, things relaxed a bit. They camped out at Sen’s little house for a few more days, while Sen slowly bled information about the capital from them. Auntie Caihong had been there most recently, so she gave...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 59 – Trading Tales, Part 3

Sen ended up making breakfast the next day since he was up first, or at least the first to wander out into the main room. It was always hard to gauge how long any given cultivator would sleep because there was no good way to gauge how long it had been since they last slept. He’d been g...

Grills are magical

I’m housesitting right now. One of the best parts is that there’s a grill here. So, today, it’s steak, grilled zucchini with garlic pepper, and a pepper/mushroom/onion sauté. 

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 58 – Trading Tales, Part 2

Sen had suspected that the three nascent soul cultivators would keep him talking for days if he let them. So, he begged off with excuses about being tired after making the house. He was tired, just not physically. Recounting everything he’d done for a year, give or take, had been ...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 57 – Trading Tales, Part 1

“We all have stories to tell,” said Master Feng, “But I think we all want to hear yours first, Sen.”

At those words, Sen looked down mournfully at the heaping plate of food in front of him. He supposed it was a small enough sacrifice to tell his story first. He did pop a dumpling in...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 56 – The House that Sen Built

When reasoning kicked back, Sen realized that they all clearly had a lot to talk about. More importantly, there were big parts of it that he, at least, didn’t want people listening in on. Falling Leaf’s actual identity as a transformed, evolved, metamorphosed – Sen wasn’t sure about the t...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 55 – At the Gate

It took more than a week, and Sen was very nearly to point of simply leaving the fire cultivator’s valley, before something finally changed. Sen was hiding in his assigned room and pretending not to be there. He’d made the mistake the day before of answering the door and telling someone to go...

Rinn's Run: Chapter 42 - Rinn's Wrath

Kalan was vaguely amused to note that the Zeren ship was sufficiently larger than the Ankala Rising that he could drag his feet in going somewhere he didn’t especially want to go. It wasn’t any particular reluctance to do what he knew he had to do when he got there. He’d committed to that b...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 54 – Pick a Reason

With Duan Yuxuan’s certainty that Master Feng wouldshow up there at some point, Sen found himself stuck in one place with no clear picture of when he might leave. It was a strange feeling for someone who, aside from his time trapped at the cult, had rarely stopped anywhere for more tha...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 53 – Matriarch

For all that the pair of them could have probably flown wherever they wanted in the compound, Duan Yuxuan led them through the place on foot. Everywhere they went, there was more kowtowing. The only exceptions were a few, peak core cultivators that Sen assumed were highly positioned in the order....

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 52 – Sword Lessons

Sen was in a bad mood when he left that garden. Nothing had happened that he hadn’t expected, not really, but the whole thing was just a massive frustration for him. He’d thought that he and Lo Meifeng had made progress. His knee-jerk reaction was to say that they hadn’t made any progress a...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 51 – Questions and Answers

It wasn’t much of a conversation at first, as Sen laid out the reasons why he was angry with Lo Meifeng. She tried to justify a few things at first, but Sen just asked her to wait, assuring her that questions were coming. She reluctantly fell silent after that and simply endured his words. Word...

Rinn's Run: Chapter 41 - An Order to All Things

Taking control of the ship had been an important step in the plan, but it was only the first step. There was an order to all things, and Kalan needed to take the next steps to impose order on this foreign vessel. It started with gathering up the few survivors who remained. It didn’t take long, ...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 50 – Sect Perspective

Wu Meng Yao had never considered herself a coward. She had fought spirit beasts and rogue cultivators without hesitation. She had endured the pains of advancement and tribulations. She had held firm on the path of cultivation where so many others hesitated, broke, or failed. Yet, every day, the i...

Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 49 – Don’t Forget About the Kidnapping

The next week was a true test of Sen’s patience. While a few of the most severely injured water and fire cultivators needed a bit of additional attention, Sen spent most of his time trying to avoid people. He often went out on long trips into the valley that lasted for most of a day. They weren...