Terry and Kelima were nearing the top of the mountain when Dusk finally came bounding out of the growing evening darkness. She came over, rubbed against Terry’s leg for a few moments, then looked...
2025-11-19 13:05:58 +0000 UTC
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Kelima looked from the death weasels to Terry, then from Terry back to the death weasels. She closed her eyes and shook her head. Then, she looked at the monsters again.
“You know,” she s...
2025-11-19 09:44:20 +0000 UTC
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After catching a very long nap, Terry dragged his sorry ass out of the tent. He took a few minutes to eat some leftover murder-bird and splash some water on his face. Then, mostly because it was th...
2025-11-19 08:06:11 +0000 UTC
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Leaving a conquered capital was always a logistical challenge for Sen and his people. They needed to leave enough soldiers and cultivators to realistically defend not only the city, but the nation ...
2025-11-19 01:04:18 +0000 UTC
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Once word spread that he’d ordered the army to prepare to march, it was like everyone lost their minds. The lines of people that thought they needed to speak with Lord Lu had stretched out into t...
2025-11-18 01:11:56 +0000 UTC
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It wasn’t until Terry found himself standing in a sunny little clearing with nothing attacking that he realized he’d been bracing for an attack. Oh, right, he thought. Get...
2025-11-16 13:32:26 +0000 UTC
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Poke. Poke. Poke. Terry was vaguely aware that someone was nudging his shoulder. No, he thought. Still tired. Go away. Poke. Poke. Poke. That dragged him a little closer ...
2025-11-16 11:41:46 +0000 UTC
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Sorry this is arriving late. My weird sleep schedule and expanded daily writing duties caught up with me. Wound up sleeping through some of my normal writing hours. But, here's yesterday's chap...
2025-11-15 12:56:41 +0000 UTC
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“What could you possibly be so happy about?” demanded Kelima. “Look at that thing!”
It was only then that Terry realized that Kelima had seized his arm in a death grip with o...
2025-11-14 09:39:23 +0000 UTC
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As they made their way through the dungeon floor, Terry made what was, in retrospect, a very obvious discovery. The minotaurs were warm-blooded creatures, so blasting them with ice was a great way ...
2025-11-14 04:50:51 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so we're into November now, which is pretty much the beginning of the holiday season here in the US. Last year's holiday season was mostly a wash for me because A) I'm an adult and therefore ...
2025-11-14 00:53:58 +0000 UTC
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Sen and Master Feng walked out of the compound gates to find what looked to be a tense standoff. Guarding the gates were numerous mortal soldiers and what looked to be Sen’s entire cultivator hon...
2025-11-13 23:25:07 +0000 UTC
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After giving the matter some very deep and extensive consideration for approximately nine seconds, Sen came a conclusion.
“You know,” he mused aloud, “I don’t have to answer anyone’...
2025-11-13 08:36:45 +0000 UTC
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It turned out that Master Feng didn’t know what had happened. He had heard stories about weapons that endured tribulations, but had never actually seen. He hadn’t even met anyone who had seen i...
2025-11-12 01:20:59 +0000 UTC
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Man, it seems like just four months ago, Volume 6 was coming out. Now, it's time for Unintended Cultivator Volume 7 to makes its official debut in the world!
It's available in paperback, hard...
2025-11-11 18:55:00 +0000 UTC
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For Terry, the dungeon had been a mental grind more than a physical one. It had felt like crunch time back at one of his old programming jobs. Not a good crunch time when things had gone well. No, ...
2025-11-11 05:10:05 +0000 UTC
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Nodding his agreement, Sen left the forge and went outside into the courtyard. He cleared his mind as well as he could, assumed a stance, and began working through the sword forms he knew. There wa...
2025-11-10 21:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“This doesn’t look like a spa,” said Kelima.
“No shit,” said Terry. “Wait. How do you even know what a spa is?”
“Who doesn’t know what a spa is?”
“Sure, tha...
2025-11-10 07:18:48 +0000 UTC
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Terry stood there and tilted his head back. That let the drizzle that had been falling since nearly the moment they entered this godforsaken floor wash some of the blood off his face. The mud gobli...
2025-11-09 06:14:49 +0000 UTC
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After doling out a bit of their food and water to Kelima and Dusk, Terry refused to let himself be sidetracked. He spread out his blankets, ignored the hard stone beneath them, and went to sleep. A...
2025-11-09 03:59:49 +0000 UTC
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Now that he’d found Kelima, Terry’s first instinct was to get moving again. However, the idea of fighting again after all that pain actually made something inside of him cringe. There was also ...
2025-11-08 02:02:41 +0000 UTC
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Terry lost complete track of the world as pain wracked his body. It was like that agony closed around him, and he was just a tidy speck of sanity adrift on an endless, stormy sea of suffering. Ther...
2025-11-07 21:30:49 +0000 UTC
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While the first few days in the forge had been marked by lengthy periods where Sen did nothing, the final day was much busier. He spent much of the day standing near the anvil, pressing his qi and ...
2025-11-07 18:35:55 +0000 UTC
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By the time the third day of forging the swords had arrived, Sen had started to understand why Master Feng had said it would take so much experience to master smithing. The elder cultivator hadn’...
2025-11-06 19:42:16 +0000 UTC
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As Master Feng went back to work at the anvil, Sen tried to focus on the manual again without much luck. Instead, he found himself turning over what his teacher had said about the last person he’...
2025-11-06 05:41:23 +0000 UTC
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I meant to post this yesterday with the chapter and just forgot. I don't normally figure out bloopers as I'm writing the chapters, but this one came to me. So, I figured I'd post it as a fun li...
2025-11-06 05:39:44 +0000 UTC
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“How many times are you going to do that?” asked Kelima.
Terry shot her an unamused look and said, “At least a thousand times more.”
With that, he summoned the queen’s source ...
2025-11-05 06:13:45 +0000 UTC
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At first, the sounds of Master Feng working in the forge distracted Sen. The heat would have been distraction, as well, if he’d been trying to study the Shadow Gate manual years earlier. Yet, the...
2025-11-04 20:09:52 +0000 UTC
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Locking Master Feng and himself away from outside disruptions proved a little more challenging than Sen initially anticipated. While his honor guard and the soldiers he’d grabbed were willing eno...
2025-11-04 02:59:21 +0000 UTC
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Kelima eventually got tired of throwing rocks at him. Quite literally. She kept throwing until it looked like she didn’t have the energy for it anymore. Somewhere in the middle, Terry had just go...
2025-11-03 07:35:55 +0000 UTC
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