Sen couldn’t believe his eyes when the second set of Soaring Skies cultivators arrived. It seemed that whoever was in charge thought the first group had been incompetent, because they sent another group of six qi condensing cultivators, including the one he’d spared. There were no tricks or g...
2023-06-24 05:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Lifen’s mother took Sen’s advice. What customers were still at the Silver Crane were sent home. The employees who had somewhere else to go, went there. The guards fetched water by the barrel and, later, Sen remembered to ask them to find some buckets. One of the more enterprising ...
2023-06-23 17:31:12 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they reentered the city, Sen gave Lifen a sheepish look.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
“For what?”
“I don’t think I did you or the Silver Crane any favors there.”
“I don’t care.”
Sen was so shocked that he stopped walking. “You don’t care?” 2023-06-23 06:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Sen bought himself a few minutes by cleaning up the impromptu campsite. Once he had everything stowed again, though, there was not getting around it. Heaving a small breath, he turned to look at Lifen.
“Just how angry do you think she’s going to be?” he asked, as an unfamiliar nervous...
2023-06-23 00:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, there will be two chapters today. The first chapter will just happen a little later in the day than usual. I was up stupid late doing edits on Vol 1 for the publisher, then got hit with some insomnia. So, I'm going to catch a bit of sleep, then get back to writing.
But, I do ...
2023-06-22 13:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostSen resisted the urge to start yelling at the heavens, but only because he had a number of more pressing concerns. Unlike the advancement in Orchard’s reach, safety was not a short run away. It was happening on the beach, whether Sen liked it or not. He needed to protect himself from unwanted o...
2023-06-22 00:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostWith his minor business settled for the day, Sen and Sun Lifen left Grandmother Lu’s shop. Sen suspected that the employees who knew who he was were greatly relieved by that. He glanced over at the young woman who seemed both pleased and exasperated. He knew he shouldn’t feel that way, but he...
2023-06-21 16:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This was dinner last night. Pan seared salmon, roasted asparagus, and a cucumber, tomato, and avocado salad.
2023-06-21 12:31:25 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, I've been asked a few times about a Discord for Unintended Cultivator. Honestly, I've been really hesitant to entertain the idea because I really only started using Discord about three weeks ago.
In brief, Eric's Discord Mastery Level = emoji poop. I'm not even really sure w...
2023-06-21 03:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostSen woke up the next morning with Sun Lifen wrapped around him. He hadn’t planned on having company the night before. In fact, he hadn’t planned on anything except maybe getting something to eat and sleeping. The food had been easy enough to get. He just asked if someone could find him someth...
2023-06-21 01:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostSen had only planned to soak in the bath long enough to extract some healing from the plants. Yet, once she got past her initial surprise at his status as a cultivator, Sun Lifen became quite conversational. She asked him so many questions about what it was like to travel and where he grew up tha...
2023-06-20 15:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment, Sen was standing there. The next he was being ushered into the back of the establishment where he passed rooms that often seemed to have a preposterous amount of decoration, and a host of young women and men Some of them stared at Sen with pure curiosity, others with vaguely concerned...
2023-06-20 02:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostSen didn’t maintain his absolute isolation stance the rest of the way to Emperor’s Bay, but he also didn’t make a point of interacting with anyone. He focused mostly on speed, only occasionally slowing or stopping if something caught his attention. He did, however, make a point to stop and ...
2023-06-19 22:04:47 +0000 UTC View PostLo Meifeng was frustrated. Orders had come down from the top, the very top, that some kid was supposed to be kept under quiet observation, assisted if absolutely necessary, and efforts made to spread the silly name that a bunch of rural fools had given to him. Honestly, thought ...
2023-06-18 22:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next three days, Sen used his quingong technique almost non-stop, keeping it right at the edge of what his passive qi gathering could support. He stopped for nothing, often diverting into the forest to avoid contact with the people on the road or to skirt around the one village he saw. He...
2023-06-18 17:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostI realize that I never set out a formal policy about the comments section, but I feel like I need to set out at least a few guidelines about what is and isn't acceptable.
Disagreeing about what I wrote, what it means, or whether it works: acceptable.
The same pretty much applies to an...
2023-06-18 06:19:10 +0000 UTC View PostSen knew that using the liquid qi would make Heavens’ Rebuke more powerful, but he hadn’t fully appreciated how much more potent it would become. Add that in with the wrong balance between the lightning and killing intent, he’d expected a lot of destruction. What he saw, though, was so far ...
2023-06-18 05:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostSen didn’t have a lot of qi to work with, so he decided that he wasn’t going to bother with complicated qi techniques. He wasn’t going let Changpu use them either. Sen could feel the sect cultivator start to cycle qi as he bore down on the other man, so he let a little of killing intent loo...
2023-06-17 16:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostSen had been right about what to expect. As soon as he stopped speaking, questions started pelting him like hail. Of course, he couldn’t really understand any of the questions because the Soaring Skies sect members were talking over each other, each one getting louder as they tried to be the on...
2023-06-17 04:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostSen woke up, which surprised him a little. Watching part of the town’s stone wall simply disintegrate into a rain of fast-moving projectiles had left him with the cold certainty that he was about to die. Yet, he hadn’t. Of course, not dying and being healthy were two wildly different things i...
2023-06-16 22:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, chapters are coming today. I got sucked into a telehealth thing to renew my migraine medication prescription. That's turned into a whole secondary thing with this sprawling online survey that just won't end, and recording videos, and on and on. The takeaway is, you will get two chapters...
2023-06-16 18:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe knowledge that the bird spirit beasts needed to go first did not fill Sen with happy feelings. To get the birds, he needed to limit visibility from the air in a way that didn’t pin down his exact location. That meant he needed to implement the other idea. The only upside to that idea was th...
2023-06-16 03:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostSen leaned up against the wall and pressed a hand to his side. He could feel warm blood trickling between the fingers. His side wasn’t his only injury. It wasn’t even his worst injury. At least, Sen didn’t think so. It was just the one that hurt the most at that moment. He’d rolled over a...
2023-06-15 14:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostBeya followed Kalan onto the ship. He headed to the bridge first and asked Em to assemble the appropriate data and recordings. That was pure theater since Kala would do the actual work, but he’d long ago agreed that Kala got to decide who knew she existed. After that, Kalan gave Beya a quick to...
2023-06-15 07:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostKalan had given serious consideration to running down the man in the hallway. He was confident he could have done it. He was far less confident he could have done it without drawing a lot of unwanted attention. Considering all the noise he’d made fighting that woman, Kalan was shocked that auth...
2023-06-15 06:39:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe longer Sen stayed in the town, the more unsettled he became. It wasn’t a huge place, probably only home to a few thousand people. At least, that was Sen’s best guess. Of course, any place that was meant to house thousands of human beings became something wholly other when there was no one...
2023-06-14 23:11:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn previous days, Sen had been making only half-hearted attempts to avoid the Soaring Skies sect members. While he hadn’t especially wanted their company, he also hadn’t worried that they were going to try to harm him. Wu Meng yao was simply too earnest in her talk of honor. If nothing else, ...
2023-06-14 14:05:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sen finally roused himself the next morning, he felt odd. It took him almost three full minutes to understand what had changed. He felt relaxed, possibly for the first time as an adult. He was willing to accept that there were probably benefits to abstinence. It was almost unbeatabl...
2023-06-13 22:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Sen’s best intentions to simply avoid the Soaring Skies sect members, it turned out to be a lot more difficult to achieve in practice than he expected. While he could hide from them, it wasn’t something he could do all the time. Nor, for that matter, was it something that he ...
2023-06-13 16:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Yup. I do my editing on a hard copy. As the cavemen taught me.
2023-06-13 06:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post