Terry slipped out of the back of the Adventurer’s Guild and made his way out to the street. He pulled his rice hat down a bit to obscure his face and merged into the foot traffic. He didn’t try...
2024-06-16 05:47:55 +0000 UTC
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Sen had to ruthlessly suppress his panicked, guilt-ridden instinct to literally bury the evidence. It would take nothing to sink their corpses down into the earth far enough that no one would find ...
2024-06-16 03:10:51 +0000 UTC
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Sen stared at the shelves around him and had to resist the urge to steal everything. Even recognizing that this library was intended to serve the sect’s outer disciples, meaning all of t...
2024-06-16 01:03:00 +0000 UTC
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Despite almost daily practice with shadow walking, Sen had come to a frustrating conclusion. It was never going to get better. It still jarred his senses every time he made the transition. He’d i...
2024-06-15 06:08:21 +0000 UTC
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Terry stared across a primitive desk at the guy from the counter. The man had introduced himself as Vinlin Montsel. He was second-in-command at this particular guild hall, which told Terry almost n...
2024-06-14 14:41:11 +0000 UTC
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Wrapped in a cloak of shadow, Sen stared at the distant wall of the Twisted Blade Sect. A traitorous part of him whispered that it wasn’t too late to turn back. He supposed that whisper was stric...
2024-06-14 05:59:56 +0000 UTC
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Sen had used a bit of earth qi to make a miniature replica of the Twisted Blade Sect’s compound. He walked the others through what he’d figured out about the sect’s zones of control, or lack ...
2024-06-13 05:26:24 +0000 UTC
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“You can’t come with me!” shouted Terry.
He was standing on the road, and Drumstick was standing just inside the trees of the forest. The big stupid beast was giving him sad eyes, which...
2024-06-12 04:07:58 +0000 UTC
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Sen observed the Twisted Blade Sect compound from a distance. Not that the distance meant much to him. For anything less precise than formation work, scanning the compound from a mile away was as g...
2024-06-12 00:09:04 +0000 UTC
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I'm particularly tired today and not particularly happy with how the next chapter of Unintended Cultivator is turning out. So, I'm gonna call it a night and try again in the morning. But I don'...
2024-06-11 03:39:34 +0000 UTC
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Cao Kai-Ming found herself sitting by the fire and not sleeping, again. It wasn’t so much that she needed sleep, but she liked to sleep. It made her feel sharp and that was important. Even a litt...
2024-06-10 19:57:18 +0000 UTC
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A mildly amused Sen trailed in Sua Xing Xing’s wake as she led him through the town. She was giving him detailed explanations of everything that was currently underway. Most of the repair in the ...
2024-06-10 02:19:45 +0000 UTC
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Okay, the great house-sitting adventure has come to a close. While the grill was nice, I'm glad to be back in my tiny little cramped apartment. Home is home, after all, no matter how shoebox-sized ...
2024-06-09 22:15:06 +0000 UTC
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The interior of the blacksmith’s shop was hot. That was, no doubt, an effect of the forge that took up most of the space, even if it was hidden from view. Sen idly looked at the weapons and shiel...
2024-06-07 17:56:51 +0000 UTC
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Sen stepped into the building he’d named the Spider’s Lair in a moment of poor decision-making. The name had stuck, mostly due to Glimmer of Night’s immediate approval. The building itself wa...
2024-06-06 16:14:50 +0000 UTC
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So, I'm house-sitting this week. It's not all bad. There's a grill here, and I love grilled food. That being said, it's not fantastic for writing. I'm trying to write on a laptop while sitting at a...
2024-06-05 08:00:27 +0000 UTC
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While the first part of the trip through the forest has been like some kind of awful nightmare that just refused to release its grip and let him wake, things changed after the foliasaur. His recogn...
2024-06-05 07:24:26 +0000 UTC
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That boy takes too much on his shoulders, thought Ma Caihong. Not that it was entirely a bad thing. She shifted her gaze to the darling little girl who was playing with that flock of birds...
2024-06-04 21:23:48 +0000 UTC
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It took three days before Sen was satisfied that they’d collected enough beast cores. Rather, it would have taken them a handful of hours to collect what he thought he’d need for the assault on...
2024-06-03 10:06:36 +0000 UTC
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Sen brought his jian down in a casual swing and lopped off the stone boar’s head. His foot lashed out to connect with body of another. The spirit beast seemed to cave in around his foot, bones sn...
2024-06-03 06:33:24 +0000 UTC
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While he hadn’t expected it, Bahn Huizhong surprised Sen by saying that he would consider Sen’s offer to join the sect. It was a few days later that Sen found himself at the gate of the compoun...
2024-06-02 09:48:11 +0000 UTC
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Sen took a deep breath as he stared out into the wilds beyond the edges of his sect compound. He’d take up station on the wall that would be the second line of defense if the place ever came unde...
2024-06-01 14:01:21 +0000 UTC
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Sen felt Fu Ruolan’s unhappy gaze trying to bore a hole into the back of his skull. Given that he was working on poisons that were, he was pretty sure, three times as dangerous as the ones he use...
2024-06-01 07:43:16 +0000 UTC
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Sen’s first reaction was to say yes, emphatically. What better help could there be with destroying a sect than a nascent soul cultivator who hated sects? That notion was immediately foll...
2024-05-31 09:06:32 +0000 UTC
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“So, where were you while all of that was happening?” Sen asked.
Uncle Kho looked up from the scroll he was reading. They were waiting for Auntie Caihong to finish up with Li Hua. Sen was...
2024-05-31 06:10:37 +0000 UTC
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Sen simply watched with an impassive expression, even as the rage roared inside of him. He would kill these people. There most certainly would not be a duel. But there would be suffering. Wu Xiao D...
2024-05-30 06:19:52 +0000 UTC
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Sen tapped the top of the table in his office pensively. He’d spent more than a few idle minutes wondering if he’d made a terrible mistake passing off some of the things on his list to Sua Xing...
2024-05-30 04:45:50 +0000 UTC
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So, after I posted yesterday's chapter in the morning, I went about my day. Then, I got a migraine. That isn't unusual enough to warrant a post by itself. What was unusual was that it came out of n...
2024-05-29 02:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Exciting news! The Volume Two audiobook is officially live over on Audible!
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Sua Xing Xing did her best to stay composed as she left the Patriarch’s office. It was a struggle. Her hands were shaking and her heart refused to stop pounding. A year. She had stayed here for a...
2024-05-27 14:48:24 +0000 UTC
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